FURTHER particulars of the bombardment of Ladysmith by the Boers under General Joubert have been received. On the 9th instant the enemy's guns were silenced after ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. J. [?] [?]nd met with an accident on Saturday evening whilst riding his bicycle It is not known how the accident happened, but the rider was struck on the head and rendered unconscious. He was ...
Article : 51 wordsSir. G. W. Des Vœux, formerly Governor of Fiji, and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific, in the course of an interview said that Australia would be a gainer by the Anglo-German agreement in ...
Article : 53 wordsTHE above rough sketch shows the proposed federal area as adopted by the local Federal Capital Committee for submission to the commissioner. It will be seen that the boundary line runs along the Town Common, leaves out the asylum, passes in the direction of Kingsdale, and then on the western side goes within a short distance of Yarra platform and takes in Bangalore in the south-west corner, and on the south it goes within half-a-mile of Sprinfield homestead to ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 89 wordsTHE attendance at the stock sales on Wednesday was not as large as usual. Fat Cattles About 80 were yarded, principally cows. Bullocks sold from About 500 forward, The market was very firm, ...
Article : 162 wordsThe French Budget Committee favours a large increase in the navy. M. Pelletan, the Budget Committee reporter, who has hitherto been a champion of economy, has been ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Paris police have raided the head-quarters of a religious sect known as the Assumptionists for evading payment of the monastery tax, and have seized £72,000 belonging to their weekly newspaper, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe British Government has received an offer of a volunteer corps for South Africa from Servians. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of ...
Article : 38 wordsTHERE was a splendid attendance at the Liedertafel smoke concert in the Oddfellows' Hall on Tuesday evening. The gallery was crowded with ladies, who bore the smoke without a murmur. As ...
Article : 668 wordsThe port of Twochaufu, at the entrance to Tungting ting Lake from the Yangtse-Kiang, in the province of Hutnan, China, has been thrown open to foreign trade. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Emperor and Empress of Germany will, on the occasion of their approaching visit to London, lunch with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House in semi-state. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe War Office has ordered through the Agents General 1000 tons of Victorian Algerian oats, 150 tons of Victorian tinned meats, and 200,0001b of New South Wales ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Marquis of Salisbury (the Premier) and Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley (the Commander-in-Chief) are on a visit to her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe plague has broken out at Lisbon. The barquentine Oberon, 1054 tons, while proceeding from Liverpool to Glasgow to load for Fremantle, Western Australia, went ashore in ...
Article : 61 wordsTHE Goulburn to Crookwell Railway Bill was read the second time in the Assembly this morning. Early Closing Bill. ...
Article : 61 wordsSpeaking at Bristol last night, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, referred to the situation in South Africa in the following terms:—"This war has ...
Article : 59 wordsShe lies with the dreams of the days that were golden. 'Neath wattle bloom faded, she lies a dead quean; While o'er her still rest, night the eucalypts olden. ...
Article : 180 wordsThe proceeds from the opening performance at Mr. Charles Wyndham's new theatre in Charing Cross road on Thursday were devoted to the wives and families of soldiers ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Cecil Rhodes is employing thousand of persons in roadmaking at Kimberley. SLOW TROOPSHIPS. The Majestic has been chartered for the ...
Article : 134 wordsIN the Assembly on Tuesday the Government was questioned in regard to the recent Anglo-German agreement. Mr. A. Griffith adopted a form of interrogation which enabled him to assert that ...
Article : 1,087 wordsMajor-General French, when seen on Tuesday with reference to the transfer of the headquarters of the Southern Rifle Association from Moss Vale to Goulburn, said that there were several reasons why ...
Article : 93 wordsTHE second night of the Wesleyan flower show, Friday, proved to be a highly successful one. The attendance was again very large and all the stalls did good business. ...
Article : 439 wordsWhen Kimberley was threatened a month ago its defenders announced their ability to hold out until reinforcements arrived. There were then in the garrison about 3000 troops, including Imperial troops ...
Article : 1,079 wordsMORUYA, Tuesday.—The men who was arrested here is alleged to have made a full confession, admitting he was the perpetrator of the assault on a school mistress at Wellesley. When arrested he had ...
Article : 90 wordsIT has been decided by the Public Works Department that the work of constructing the railways authorised by Parliament from The Rock to Green's Gunyah and from Koorawatha to ...
Article : 141 wordsSHORTLY before 9 o'clock on Tuesday night the driver of a tram travelling from the city to St. Peters noticed an unusual cheek to the motion when between Newtown-road and Cleveland-street. The ...
Article : 161 wordsIT is gazetted that Mr. G. M'Rae, principal assistant architect, Department of Public Works, Mr. O. Blackett, lecturer in mechanical engineering Sydney Technical College, and Mr. F. A. Coghlan, ...
Article : 63 wordsWagga, Tuesday.—An adjourned meeting of the recently-formed Southern District Racing Association was held to-night. There were present—Messrs. E. W. Donuelly (in the chair), D. R. ...
Article : 139 wordsAT the Police Court, yesterday, before Messrs. S. Meyer and J. Oliver, Js. P., James Pickles remand for protection was discharged, an order having been received for his admission to an asylum. ...
Article : 72 wordsIN Mr. William Scott's evidence in the above case Friday 100 appeared in our report instead of 1000. Mr. Scott stated that he knew there were over 1000 sheep on defendant's land at one time. ...
Article : 513 wordsCromwell's statue at the House of Commons has been unveiled without any ceremony. ...
Article : 16 wordsMR JOHN BURCHILL, of Mount Dixon, died at his home on Tuesday at an advanced age. The same day Mr James Benn died, aged 87, and on the proceding day Mrs. Foley of Cullarin died at 89. All ...
Article : 61 wordsCaptain's Flat, Tuesday.—Some excitement was caused here to-day by the reported discovery of a new copper lode in the direction of Tumble Down Bob, and about a mile to the east of Newtown. A ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 53 wordsTHE townspeople were inexpressibly shocked on Saturday evening between 7 and 8 o'clock when it was announced that Mrs James Larmer, an old and highly esteemed ...
Article : 236 wordsDURING Mr. Rose's trip to Melbourne he took every opportunity of consulting leading men on the proposed site of the federal capital. The replies he received tended to show a very liberal spirit on the ...
Article : 113 wordsA SOMEWHAT unusual spectacle was presented on Monday afternoon, when the engine of the paper train arrived in Junee with only two trucks attached to it. Enquiries elicited the fact that about three ...
Article : 256 wordsQUEANBEYAN, Friday.—Mr. Trewenack has been here lately inspecting a mine close to the town, which carries silver, lead, and gold, in payable quantities. The lode is only ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Thu 16 Nov 1899, Page 4
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