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Article : 47 wordsJapan is raising an additional loan of 1,500,000 yen (£150,000), not bearing interest, on the railway from Seoul to Fusan, Korea. ...
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Article : 18 wordsThere have been a review of the Russian troops at An-shan-tian (An-san-chan) and two days' festivities to celebrate the birth of the Czarevitch (heir to the Czar). ...
Article : 52 wordsThe annual report of the Crown Lands Department shows that the total of Crown lands opened for lease and sale amounted to 2,570,816 acres. If the estates acquired under ...
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Article : 39 wordsThe Port Arthur garrison has again been called upon to surrender. Although the Japanese have been silent lately regarding the land operations, there is no doubt that the ...
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Article : 26 wordsThere has been two days' severe fighting in German South-west Africa, principally in thick bush, between the forces under General von Trotha and the revolted ...
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Article : 55 wordsThe report of his torpedo boat destroyers has convinced Admiral Togo that the Russian cruiser Pallada was sunk in the battle on the 10th inst. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe final of this winter sories of subscription concerts arranged under the direction of Mr. W. G. Bentley, bandmaster of the Fourth Regiment Band, was held in the Central Hall ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Denham stated to-day that he had very strong hopes of being able to put the Dairy Bill through the next session. From recent observations he had little doubt as to its ...
Article : 57 wordsEarly this afternoon a rumour gained currency that Senator Drake would be offered a position in the Ministry. It became known by some mysterious means that he and ...
Article : 210 wordsThe massacre of the Japanese on board the sealing cruiser Teuchima by Russian soldiers at Kamschatka is found to be exaggerated. A crew of 12 men in a boat, ...
Article : 76 wordsArrangements have been made whereby railway employees will be able to record their votes at the general elections. ...
Article : 28 wordsOfficers of the crippled Russian battleship Cesarevitch, which is at Kiao-chau, assert that they saw a Japanese battleship sink during the battle on Wednesday, the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe annual meeting of the above was held to-night, Mr. J. D. Beeston presiding. The report of the committee did not contain any matter of special interest. The ground and ...
Article : 168 wordsThe Huon fruitgrowers, at a meeting held at Huonville on Tuesday, decided to form a co-operative company to protect their interests in shipping and marketing orchard ...
Article : 45 wordsReuter's correspondent staltes that the Russian warships at Kiao-chau have been dismantled. LONDON, Aug. 17. ...
Article : 109 wordsOwing to trouble on the non-unionist question the Tyrergyd colliery, at Aberdare, Wales, was closed recently. Yesterday the surface machinery and the outhouses were ...
Article : 49 wordsThe hearing of the case Parker v several defendants, including Brisels, Brothers Home, Garibaldi, and the Pioneer mining companies, being a claim for £500 from each for damages ...
Article : 93 wordsThe House of Representatives met to-day at 2.30 p.m., and after the briefest Federal sitting on record, adjourned until to-morrow. The SPEAKER announced that he had ...
Article : 373 wordsThe labour caucus met this morning to discuss the advisability of a conference with the protectionists who voted with them on Friday's division. An affirmative resolution ...
Article : 253 wordsAn important action relating to the effect of the interim tariff agreed to by the Commonwealth Parliament and the collection of duties thereunder before the passing of ...
Article : 193 wordsThe steamer Carpentaria, built for the Gulf Line's Australian trade, has been launched. She has a lefrigerating capacity of 300,000 cubic feet. ...
Article : 328 wordsMr. J. M. Sinclair, formerly Government Agent in London, was further examined by the Butter Commission to-day, his evidence occupying the whole of the sitting. One of a ...
Article : 443 wordsThe Tao-tai of Shanghai is still wobbling concerning the dismantling of the Russian cruiser Askold and the destroyer Grosovol. His indecision is interpreted at Tokio to ...
Article : 96 wordsMaud M' Bride, 25, a teacher at the Hursiville Public School, met with a shocking death at the Carlton Railway Station shortly before 9 a.m. yesterday. She resided with her ...
Article : 158 wordsWhen the Labour caucus was discussing the question of a conference with the Lyne-Mauger protectionists to-day an attempt was made to commit the party to the policy of ...
Article : 92 wordsReuter's correspondent states that the announcement that Rear-Admiral Matussevitch, who was second, in command of the Port Arthur Squadron, had died of his ...
Article : 66 wordsAlready the prospects of the new Government are coming up for discussion. No one, even in the inner circles of politics, professes to be able to give a forecast which he ...
Article : 563 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" suites that 15 negroes have been lynched in one batch at Statesboro, Georgia, United States, for murdering whites. ...
Article : 56 wordsNo opportunity is being lost by the Lyne-mauger party to raise the fiscal issue with a view to creating a diversion in the coalltion ranks. Mr. Mauger, when the House of ...
Article : 273 wordsShortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning a storeman named William Lyon, 28 years of age, was knocked down by a train at Evelelgh and fatally injured. He was employed in the ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Russian cruiser Novik, which escaped from the Japanese in the battle with the Port Arthur squadron, has passed southward of Kiu-shin, the southernmost ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 18 Aug 1904, Page 7
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