A strong agitation is in progress throughout the district to obtain a greater depth of water in the navigable portions of hte harbour, and also to have the entrance on the ...
Article : 1,707 wordsBy the Union Company's steamer Moana, which arrived here yesterday, a full account was received of the sensational experiences of the officers and crew of the fine new ...
Article : 906 wordsWhen the debate on the Ministerial policy was resumed in the House of Representatives this morning, Mr. Robinson delivered, a speech which was a distinct contribution to the ...
Article : 1,270 wordsInteresting particulars have been received of the speaking of the Russian Volunteer cruisers Peterburg and Smolensk by the British cruiser Forte (Captain C. H. ...
Article : 444 wordsIt has been discovered that the grave of Prince Christian Victor, of Schleswig-Holstein, who died from enteric fever at Pretoria on October 29, 1900, while on ...
Article : 166 wordsA vague message which has been received at St. Petersburg from General Kuropatkin at Mukden is interpreted to mean that he is threatened on both flanks. ...
Article : 161 wordsThere is difficulty in estimating the cost of the Russian retreat. A two-days rainfall is quite sufficient to make the roads practically impassable—the tracks in the hills are better ...
Article : 848 wordsThe Prime Minister referred to-day to the, action of Mr. Isaacs, who when speaking in the House on the previous evening used a quotation from a speech of Mr. Reid's, and ...
Article : 487 wordsReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that Lieut.-General Prince Sviatopolk-Mirski, Governor-General of Vilna, has been appointed by the Czar Minister ...
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Article : 103 wordsThe Home Secretary, Mr. Akers-Douglas, has appointed Sir Richard Henn Collins (Master of the Rolls), Sir Spencer Walpole, and Sir John Edge, K.C. (a member of the ...
Article : 623 wordsIt will be within the recollection of readers of the "Herald" that a number of Federal officers resident in Melbourne strongly objected to their salaries being subject to ...
Article : 310 wordsWhile the main force of General Kuropatkin is hurrying to Tich-ling, 40 miles north of Mukden, the 1st Russian Army Corps, under the command of General ...
Article : 160 wordsIn addressing the officers after reviewing the German fleet at Hamburg, the German Emperor emphasised the necessity for increasing the German Navy to that of ...
Article : 267 wordsThe enginedriver, Nicholson, who was scalded in the railway accident at Mokine, on Tuesday, died at Northam Hospital to-day. ...
Article : 30 wordsA visitor to Rockhampton from Mount Morgan last night stated that Nunn and O'Brien found a nugget weighing 270o" at the Dee rush, and took it [?] Mount Morgan. ...
Article : 40 wordsAn American who was an eye-witness of what he describes as the stampede of the Russian troops from Liao-yang testifies to the heroism of the Sisters of Mercy in ...
Article : 89 wordsThe strike at the Potosi mine, in the Morgans' district, ended yesterday. The management notified that if the men did not return to work at the reduced wages exemption would ...
Article : 70 wordsThe depreciation of the Great Boulder shares to 18s 9d at London yesterday came as a sock to local investors, by whom a large number of shares are ...
Article : 356 wordsBishop Stone-Wigg, of New Guinea, arrived at Brisbane by the steamer Arawatta on Thursday. In the course of an interview regarding affairs in New Guinea, he said that ...
Article : 276 wordsColonel Hoad, the Federal attache with the Japanese forces, has wired as follows to the Commonwealth Government:—"Was with the second army in all actions from August 26 to ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Japanese are trying to undermine the forts at Port Arthur. Sept. 9. Unofficial news which is circulated at ...
Article : 74 wordsA deputation to-day waited on the Minister for Agriculture, bringing under his notice the question of providing cold storage accommodation in South Brisbane. Mr. Denham, ...
Article : 83 wordsThe premier, Mr. Bent, is in receipt of a cable from the Agent-General as follows:— "London, September 7.—Leave England tomorrow via Canada. Catch first steamer ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Richard Teece, general manager and actuary of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, has started for the United States, where he will inquire into matters ...
Article : 264 wordsThe annual report of the Commissioner for Railways was made available to-day. It shows that the total mileage open to traffic to the end of the year was 2928, an increase of 217 as ...
Article : 161 wordsThe "Novy Krui," the newspaper published at Port Arthur, in a recent issue which has reached a Chinese port, stated that an electrical land mine near Port ...
Article : 61 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Howard Smith Company, Limited, was held yesterday. Mr. H. B. Howard Smith presided. A report was presented stating ...
Article : 162 wordsThis evening the Prime Ministor said:—I do not understand the history of the count-out this afternoon. Mr. Isaacs and several other members of the Chamber, icluding ...
Article : 488 wordsThe action in which P. O. Sol[?] and Co., book agents, claimed £1000 damages for alleged libel from the "Sunday Times" Newspaper Compnay, was concluded before Mr. Justics M'Millan in the ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Japanese have repaired the Russian dry dock at Dalny, and are repairing one of their destroyers there. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Norwegian bargue Skomvaer cleared at the Customs to-day for Valparaise with 2570 tons of Messrs. Brown's coal; the steamer Banniayong, for Melbourne, with 2300 tons of coal; the steamer Barwon, for ...
Article : 101 wordsAt the South Brisbane Police Court to-day Louisa Collingwood was committed for trial on a charge of endeavouring to conceal the birth of her child. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Russian cruiser Novik, which escaped after the battle of August 10, and which ten days later was driven ashore at Korsakovsk, Sakhalin, off the coast of ...
Article : 151 wordsA forward step has been taken in the movement begun about two years ago to devise means to secure the conferring of divinity degrees in the State by the action of the Council ...
Article : 87 wordsThe returning officer for Cook to-day declared Mr. Graves elected to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Leveaux intends to appeal on the ground that eight votes claimed to be ...
Article : 48 wordsThe weekly smelting return of the Sulphide Corporation shows that 95[?] tons of ore were treated, producing bullion and matte containing 241oz gold, 23, 669oz silver, and 402 tons of lead. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Legislative Council met to-day. The Chief Secretary expressed regret that he had no business to submit owing to the entanglements in the Assembly over the Ability Tax ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. S. W. Moore, Ministor for Mines, last night addressed one of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings over held here. At tho close of his speech a vote of confidence in ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 10 Sep 1904, Page 11
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