5 JANUARY 1901, page 1

We Have Expressed Elsewhere Our Sense Of The Gravity Of

the situation in China. Here we will only note that the Chinese plenipotentiaries are said to have agreed to the Joint Note in principle, but want to discuss it in detail. This......

News Of The Week.

T HE event of the week which has most occupied public attention has been the return of Lord Roberts, and rightly, for England never had a worthier soldier hero to honour. We......

The Inauguration Of The New Commonwealth Of Australia Was...

on New Year's Day in Sydney with the pageantry and enthusiasm befitting a great historical ocoasioe. The great procession, two miles loug, passed along a roll , . decorated with......

Lord Roberts Reached Cowes On Wednesday, And Paid His Visit

to the Queen. On the Thursday he landed at Southamp- ton and proceeded to London, where the welcome from the Prince and Princess of Wales and half the great men of the nation......

There Is Nothing Very Striking To Chronicle From South...

for we are not alarmed by the fact that the Elo■ - ■ commandos that have penetrated into the Celony have as pig been able to evade capture, and that they have even gut within......

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