It is well to be a Federal Minister; it is better to be Acting Minister for Defence; and best of all to be that Minister when the torpedo-boats are run off the slips at ...
Article : 891 wordsBy the King's wish the first-class cruiser Good Hope, 14,100 tons, 23 knots, has been commissioned to convey Mr. Chamberlain to South Africa. ...
Article : 287 wordsThe steamer Ventnor, which left Wellington on Sunday last, with the corpses of nearly five hundred Chinese on board, for Hongkong, has foundered off the New ...
Article : 919 wordsItaly has granted to great Britain permission to pursue the Mullah to whatever distance the latter may penetrate within her territory. Erego, the scene of Colonel ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Federal Government are definitely taking up the question of the protection of Australian coastal shipping from the unfair competition of foreign lines. On ...
Article : 207 wordsYuan-shih-kai, the Governor of the Chinese province of Chantoung, whose headquarters are at Tsinan, has been appointed Minister of Commerce for the whole ...
Article : 100 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company was held to-day. The report showed that the profits made during the period, after ...
Article : 626 wordsAt the instance of Sir Langdon Bonython an interesting return, showing the number of applications for patents received and granted up to the end of 1901 for the ...
Article : 232 wordsKing Edward attended the opening of the Newmarket Houghton meeting yesterday. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe sudden outbreak of a fire in the forest country near the Spanish seaport of Castellon, 40 miles from Valencia, caused a terrible panic among a company of 10,000 ...
Article : 81 wordsSir Antony Patrick Macdonnell, late Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces of India, has been appointed Under-Secretary for Ireland, in succession to ...
Article : 33 words"Pending future notice shipping telegrams will be received and published as heretofore," was the statement made by the Prime Minister, after the meeting to-day ...
Article : 324 wordsMr. Augustus Frederick has accepted the "Chiltern Hundreds," the equivalent of retiring from the House of Commons, where he represented the Toxteth division of ...
Article : 36 wordsEleven hundred Kaffir dock laborers, employed on the quays at Cape Town, have struck work as a protest against the threatened reduction of their wages to 3/6 ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Mininer of Defence is going into the whole retrenchment question de novo, and will, it is stated, in consultation with the G.O.C., produce an entirely new scheme ...
Article : 70 wordsThe American Government, who have just received from Mr. Knox, the Attorney-General, who has been visiting Paris, an assurance that the title of the Panama ...
Article : 113 wordsThe boot and shoe manufacturers Canada have consolidated their businesses into a trust, which has a capital of 8,000,000 dollars (£1,600,000). ...
Article : 28 wordsKing Victor Emmanuel of Italy has announced his intention of paying an official visit to England some time in September next. ...
Article : 167 wordsAction has been taken by the British and German Governments with reference to the future control of wireless telegraphy. Mr. Chamberlain has sent to the Federal ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Australians played the fourth match of their South African tour against a Natal Fifteen at Durban (Port Natal) this week) but it was not completed, owing to the ...
Article : 103 wordsA deputation, representing tens of thousands of workers, waited on the Solicitor-General (Mr. J. M. Davies) to-day. The men, to the number of about 300, together ...
Article : 411 wordsAlthough Mount Polee, in Martinique, is now calm, the immense opening on the south-west slope occasioned by the recent eruptions, has grown to formidable ...
Article : 60 wordsA rumor has been circulated to the effect that the railway employes are so disgusted with their lot since the retrenchment policy of Mr. Bent came into operation that they ...
Article : 295 wordsThe War Office has decided in future to provide each officer attached to a cavalry regiment or to the Royal Horse Artillerywith two chargers free of cost. All other ...
Article : 64 wordsBy the end of this week a second cable will connect Australia with London via the Pacific Ocean, and it is expected that on Friday or Saturday the Secretary of ...
Article : 146 wordsWith regard to America's newly-ordered armored cruisers, the Board of Naval Construction have decided that it is better that they ...
Article : 75 wordsThe directors of the Paris newspaper established by the Polish National Party, have again been foiled in their attempt to secure a circulation for the journal in ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Hague arbitration tribunal, which lately gave judgment in the first case submitted to it, that of the United States versus Mexico, has been asked by Great ...
Article : 66 wordsWithin the next few weeks a marked change in the character of the Federal Customs Administration is to be effected. The Federal Cabinet spent some hours to-day ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Prime Minister will attend the King's Birthday banquet, to be given by the Mayor of Melbourne at the Town Hall on November 10. It is understood that Sir Edmund ...
Article : 63 wordsIn answer to Sir Nicholas O'Conor's complaint as to the repeated violation of the Aden frontier by the Turkish soldiery and his threat that if such violation were ...
Article : 97 wordsMr. R. Sievier denies the "Sportsman's" report tliat his racehorse Sceptre has been sold to Sir Tattdn Sykes. The filly, which has been scratched for the Cambridgeshire ...
Article : 50 wordsRegulations for the travelling of the military and naval forces over the Victorian railways were issued to-day from the district headquarters. They also affect ...
Article : 126 wordsThe members of the Adelaide Loco., Gawler, Benalla, Mechanics', Launceston, Ballarat City, Newcastle, and Queenstown bands were entertained by the Mayor of ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Parker enquiry was continued to-day. Mr. Hackett, M.L.C. (editor of the "West Australian") was examined regarding the Garden Island affair. He said Mr. ...
Article : 415 wordsSara Bernhardt, the celebrated French actress, received a great ovation last night on the occasion of her first appearance on the tragic stage in Berlin. The actress had ...
Article : 53 wordsThe following are the latest quotations for the shares of the Land, Mortgage, and Agency Companies:- Oct. Oct. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Inter-State Royal Commission on the Marray waters resumed its sittings this morning. Mr. C. J. McMaster (Chief Commissioner ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Federal postal authorities have taken up the position that their department must not compete with private enterprise. But, writes the Melbourne "Argus," ...
Article : 135 wordsA statue of Elias Lonnrot, known as the father of Finnish literature, was yesterday unveiled at Helsingfors, the capital of Finland. The Russian Government, having ...
Article : 217 wordsOn Saturday next the new Post and Telegraph Rates Act comes into operation. Its provisions make no alteration in the ordinary letter rates as they at present exist, ...
Article : 123 wordsBreadstuffs.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,140,000 quarters, as against 2,140,000 quarters last week. The quantity afloat for the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company has declared a dividend for October of £12,500, equal to 3d. per share. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Federal Cabinet today decided to take the formal steps necessary to constitute the Parliamentary Committee on the Bonuses for Manufacturers Bill a Royal ...
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