Commandant Fouche, whose commando of 600 men was severely defeated on July 14 near Aliwal North by a force of Connaught Rangers under Major M. G. Moore, ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following arrangements in connection with the funeral of the late Empress Frederick have been announced:— To-morrow a funeral service will be held ...
Article : 177 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says it understands that the Governorship of Victoria has been offered to Colonel Sir George Sydenham Clarke, R.E., K.C.M.G., ...
Article : 107 wordsA sensational accident occurred to-night at Quirindi. The annual tournament of the Quirindi Polo Club concluded to-day, and the prizes were being presented to the ...
Article : 378 wordsFor some days an excise officer, acting under instructions from the Board of Public Health, has been in the district, and a sensation was caused among vignerons ...
Article : 507 wordsOnly the House of Assembly sat today. Mr. Dixson intimated that on Tuesday he will ask for the suspension of the ...
Article : 316 wordsIt will be learned with general regret that Mr. W. H. Groom (Q.), M.H.R., died at the Manse, Parliament-place, yesterday morning. All last week Mr. Groom was absent ...
Article : 773 wordsFrom remarks now and again made in members' speeches it is very clear there is growing uneasiness in regard to the present agitation against the wages board ...
Article : 1,201 wordsColonel Jarvis, with a party of Queenslanders, recently pursued a Boer force north-west of Botha's hoek, capturing in a day 15 of them, together with 150 horses ...
Article : 38 wordsIt was recently reported that General Gilbert Hamilton had surprised Commandant Potgieter's laager at Wolmaranstad, in the Transvaal, capturing all his ...
Article : 63 wordsWhen informed of this cable message last night, the Premier said that Sir George Sydenham Clarke had accepted the position of Governor. He stated that some few ...
Article : 214 wordsThe death of Mr. Groom was received in Brisbane with widespread regret. Flags were hoisted at half-mast on many buildings. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Court will go into mourning for the late Empress Frederick from to-day until the 29th inst., when the half-mourning for her late Majesty Queen Victoria will be ...
Article : 53 wordsSir Henry Rawlinson and General G. G. Cunningham attacked a force of 250 Boers on a farm at Parys, on the Vaal River, expelling them from the farm. The British ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a resolution was adopted condoling with the King on the death of the Empress Frederick, and requesting His Majesty to convey ...
Article : 92 wordsInformition has been received concerning the operations of the German war-ship Kormoran, which was recently despatched to Matthias Island to punish natives for the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe acting Commissioner of Railways claims that it is unfair that he should be blamed for not removing the anomalies in connection with suburban fares. He points ...
Article : 495 wordsMr. W. T. Stead, editor of the "Review of Reviews," and a strong sympathiser with the Boers, has strongly urged Herr Brenner, the President of the Swiss ...
Article : 110 wordsSir George Sydenham Clarke, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., the eldest son of the Rev. W. J. Clarke, was born on July 4, 1848. He was educated at Rossall and Haileybury, and ...
Article : 779 wordsThe Premier received information to-day that four additional cases of plague had occurred at Noumea on the 7th inst. Mr. See has given instructions that every ...
Article : 118 wordsBy the desire of His Majesty the King the programme of the tour of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York will not be modified in ...
Article : 72 wordsA workman named John O'shea, employed on the barbour works at Macleay River, was literally blown to pieces to-day. He was fixing a charge of dynamite in a ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Kruger has written to the Irish Nationalist members of the House of Commons, thanking them for their condolences and the help they have given to what he ...
Article : 43 wordsThe young man Joseph Minton, one of those concerned in the attempted robbery of the Bank of New South Wales at Henty, was charged at the police court ...
Article : 176 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Balfour proposed that in order to facilitate business, the closure by guillotine should be applied to the debates, and that the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Narandera show was continued to-day, the weather being fine and the attendance large. Mr. Culley secured the honours for the champion horse in the show, and ...
Article : 84 wordsThe following casualties are reported:— Private William John Healy, of the Fifth Victorian Contingent, died of enteric fever at Pretoria; Private Neil M'Pherson, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Legislative Council, which passed the Legitimation Bill last session, to-night ordered that the bill should be sent to the Legislative Assembly. ...
Article : 466 wordsThe ship King David, which arrived at Newcastle from Melbourne this afternoon, had a most exciting experience and a narrow escape from serious injury, if not total ...
Article : 205 wordsThe Rev. Francis Timoney, who went to South Africa as Roman Catholic chaplain to the New South Wales citizens' bushmen's contingent, is seriously ill in St. ...
Article : 109 wordsAfter the formal business had been disposed of in the Senate, Senator DRAKE announced, with deep regret, the death of Mr. W. H. Groom, ...
Article : 305 wordsThe Esk railway station premises were broken into last night. The safe was forced open by dynamite, and the contents, amounting to about £100, was stolen. ...
Article : 105 wordsNews from the Indian frontier shows that the tribesmen there are again causing trouble. A force of 200 men belonging to a tribe ...
Article : 95 wordsThe agitation for a reduction in suburban fares originated with the Brighton and Caulfield Councils exactly twelve months ago. Councillor Wood (Caulfield) ...
Article : 672 wordsSurgeon-Colonel W. D. C. Williams, of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, has been gazetted to the local rank of surgeon-general while in South A frica. ...
Article : 41 wordsRevised returns of the revenue and expenditure for the state were issued to-day. The revenue for the financial year ended June 30 amounted to £2,824,212, and the ...
Article : 203 wordsThe Provincial Synod continued its sittings to-day. A motion to the effect that an effort should be made in each diocese to provide a fund for giving assistance to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 342 wordsAn extraordinary gold robbery has been committed at Vallejo, a Californian port, 27 miles from San Francisco. The robbers constructed a tunnel 350ft. ...
Article : 103 wordsA more than usually large number of members assembled in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon. Having road the prayer, ...
Article : 746 wordsDavid Mathieson, engineer on the Oceana, has been committed for trial upon a charge of shooting at a fisherman during a free-fight at The Bluff. ...
Article : 30 wordsA meeting of unemployed was held at the town-hall this afternoon. About 600 were present, and the proceedings were very orderly. The mayor (Mr. Retallick) ...
Article : 127 wordsThe Minister of Lands stated in the House of Assembly this afternoon that the Government had abandoned all intention of purchasing the Emu Bay railway. The ...
Article : 221 wordsThe London and India Docks Company is unable to await the result of the inquiry by teo Royal Commission with regard to the projected dues on barges and goods, as ...
Article : 99 wordsAlexander M'Lean has been condemned to death for the triple murder at Eyreton, near Christchurch, on June 22. The victims of the tragedy were Mrs. Sarah ...
Article : 145 wordsThe following sales are reported on the London Stock Exchange:— Chillagoe, 11/3 North Lyell, £2/1/3. Mount Lyell, £4/2/6 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsCardinal Logue, Arehbishop of Armagh, has threatened to excommunicate the keepers of dancing saloons at Blackrock, a bathing resort in County Dublin, and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe early introduction of the first Commonwealth tariff invests with a special importance the ninth annual dinner of the Free-trade party, which is to be held in ...
Article : 235 wordsWheat.—The American visible supply east of the Rocky Mountains is estimated at 40,924,000 bushels, against 38,851,000 bushels a week ago, and 60,398,000 bushels ...
Article : 36 wordsEntries for the annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria, to be held from 3rd to 8th September, closed on Tuesday, the numbers in each section being ...
Article : 260 wordsCaptain Campbell, commanding the 6th West Australian Mounted Infantry, has written to the mother of the late Lieutenant Stanley S. Reid describing his death. He states that Lieutenant ...
Article : 191 wordsAt 11 a.m.—Montgomerie's Brewery Co. Limited v. Blyth (part heard), Paull v. Charlotte Plains Pioneer Mining Co. Practice Court. ...
Article : 190 wordsAnother Century score has been made by Dr. Macdonald, formerly of Queensland. Playing for Lcicestershire against the London County Cricket Club he made 109 ...
Article : 81 wordsA number of the officers and cadets of the Argentine training-ship Presidente Sarmiento arrived at Swan Island depot by the mining torpedo launch Vulean about 11 ...
Article : 127 wordsDuring a general melee at the Farmers' Arms Hotel [?] the early hours of the morning following the races, a farmer named John Looney was struck with a chair, and ...
Article : 71 wordsThe South Melbourne Cycling Club tendered a social evening to welcome Captain Gardiner and Trooper Gus Kuble on Monday, at their club-rooms, the president of the club (Councillor A. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 9 Aug 1901, Page 5
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