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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 06, 1902
Page
5
Cable service roundup reproduces brief items from city papers with short notices, listings, and market updates. Highlights include station schedules, program notes, and local business mentions presented in concise telegraph style.
Boer forces under Commandant Smuts destroyed rail sections west of Cape Colony and demanded Ookiep survey on April 4. Colonel Shelton with 2000 troops faced resistance from Meskitp and Mababeep garrisons and Concordia town guard, which reportedly surrendered. Springbokfooten garrison capitulated after a fierce engagement. blockhouse crews endured dynamite attacks. Naval reinforcements arrived at Port Nolloth in Namaqualand.
A Daily Telegraph correspondent notes emissaries from Provident Stein and Acting President Schalk Burzer delivering despatches to agree on peace terms. The Standard Durban correspondent says Sir A H Hime proposed annexing new territories to hasten peace, a plan newspapers widely condemn as premature.
London reports the Cape House of Assembly member Pieter De Wet was tried at Aliwal North and found not guilty. The May 4 verdict ends the case with an acquittal for De Wet.
London reports in the Daily Express that Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley has returned from South Africa in a possibly somber mood, weighing prospects and lamenting the battles and challenges faced on the veld.
London May 5 A decree by the President of Argentina grants Boer settlers land in the Ububut Valley for colonisation purposes.
London May 3 an epidemic of red water has destroyed whole herds of cattle very suddenly in Rhodesia.
ANOTHER GOLD FIELD, LONDON. May 3. 225 p.m. A promising gold field has been discovered in the Verheid gud Utrecht district in the south east of the Tramavaal.
A telegraphic despatch to Lieutenant-Governor reports a death by dysentery on 3 April at Standerton. The casualty concerns the Third New South Wales Mounted Infantry, unit 1602 W. Montgomery.
Reports in the Evening News state the Namaqua land column has nearly relieved O okiep in Namaqualand, Cape Colony, after repeated Boers attacks. Colonel Shelton commands local defense with Shel ton's Mounted Scouts. a warship HOSS Maaple aids通信 between Port Nolloth and the colony’s capital. Local town guards form four companies as telegraph lines fail.
A Cape Times correspondent details ongoing Boer raids and district defence in Namaqualand. Telegraph lines are often cut, repairs by linemen struggle to keep pace, and raiders burn property while seeking recruits and horses. Colonel Shelton’s force contends with 25 men and 600 horses, maintaining fortifications at Okiep and surrounding towns as the region braces for further attacks.
A disastrous May gale off Yozo coast wrecked a Japanese herring fleet with ships driven ashore and casualties reported. Japan seeks compensation from Korea for Japanese deaths in recent years amid regional tensions.
May 5 report from London states Pekin’s Minister of Powers demands instant suppression of the uprising at Oting-riung-ta on the Chil border. The rebellion spans 64 miles of territory as anger over universal duties for Catholic missions grows. A French priest was killed, his head displayed on a pole, and another priest was also murdered. M. Beau, French Minister at Pekin, asked the Secretary of the Legation to investigate the outrage against the French missionaries.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is described as in critical condition in a London bulletin dated May 5. The notice notes the queen’s condition is not hopeless, while a weathered regional list of western districts then hints at harsh conditions and a remedy claim involving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
London reports the Imperial Tobacco Company, in conflict with the American Tobacco Trust, threatening to split factories in the United States as retaliation. The move signals mounting cross border pressure in the long running dispute between major tobacco interests.
London May 5 reports The Navigation Syndicate also known as the Morgan combine debates survival or new steamers after selling ships. Advisability of building quays near Holyhead is discussed to avoid light charges at Liverpool.
London reports Morgan interests threaten the Willie Bear line with Australian ventures. The Standard correspondent notes Morgan Shinning Trust curmpere plans, signaling a shift in maritime and financial strategies affecting transatlantic shipping.
A terse London dispatch reports Cunard Line discussions on profit and shipyard work. References to investors, executives, and plans for future vessel work appear amid ambiguous notes, with Morgan and other figures cited in a terse, incomplete summary.
At the U S Naval Academy in Annapolis on May 8 1939 President Roosevelt told cadets that wrongdoers would be punished but the flag would remain and that the Navy is responsible for national safety, signaling concerns over potential war and the presidency returning amid scrutiny.
London May 5 2 24 p m Mr J D Lang the retiring Secretary of the Navy says the governments naval programme is inefficient though it would keep the United States up to Germans.
A report recounts the capture of a fort in the Philippines with heavy native casualties. An American force advanced under fire, and details mention significant clashes, fort breaches, and Allied actions contributing to the victory.
London dispatch reports a German effort to organize a resistance movement against American forces. The message notes plans for military and civil action to slow the advancing allied units and protect key infrastructure.
May 1 report from Landos notes that Jacob Sutin faces trial on murder charges in So Coleus Woodruff. Jurors hear a volatile defence as jurors weigh the deations of several Javol Butte. Culuurt Woodend criticizes hysteria in the American public. Timing shifts and a reference to Senator Lontae Deevbailiting appear in the court narrative.
The government seeks to remind the public of Britain’s naval strength and aims to unite the colonies behind a cooperative plan to maintain maritime dominance. Supporters pledge to back any well considered scheme to prevent Britain’s loss of sea power.
London May B. Siasfer of the Pagweh Rett Bunkers Association reports that American beef trust men are plotting to influence the Smithfield meat market.
London dispatch reports a large protest at Bkuperinort near Galtat Finkand. Guards faced a 20 and out assault as 150 arrests were made amid the upheaval.
OAL IN THE SOUDAN reports two midday wireless notes from London dated May 5 noting good coal discoveries at Ronciris and Alt Horas on the Soudan while Roseires on the Blue Nile and Ato Hares near Et Obeid are cited. Disturbances in Portugal include university expulsions and a siege atmosphere amid protests against foreign bondholder conventions. Bar silver remains steady around 24 0d per sunce tumdand.
James Sinclair, a pensioner, testified in the Dental Police Court that on Monday he had 3 to 4 pence in his possession when he was knocked down by a thief attempting to steal from him. The culprit, a tent resident at Ramsay's Bush, claimed he lived nowhere. An order was made for repayment of the pension to the pensioner. The death of Mrs Hewlett, wife of ex Mayor A C Hewlett of Waverley, was noted. Cadbury's Cocoa and peppermint remedies were advertised.
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