The report of the Royal Commission on "the decline of the birth-rate and on the mortality of infants in New South Wales," which became available yesterday, is a very valuable ...
Article : 853 wordsKing Edward, on account of his suffering from a chill, did not attend the horse show to-day or the Philharmonic Society's concert yesterday evening. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 7 wordsWith the consent of Korea, LieutenantGeneral Inouye, who is commanding the Japanese forces at Seoul, has proclaimed martial law. ...
Article : 74 wordsSenator Henderson (W.A.) resumed the debate on the Vice-regal speech to-day. He proved himself an acquisition to the debating power of his party, as he has the faculty ...
Article : 127 wordsAnticipating an animated speech from Mr. Watson on the Address-in-Reply, there was a good attendance of members in the House of Representatives this morning. Yesterday ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Russians, who have a force of 2000 men at Antung, are entrenching there. They have 14 guns. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn Committee of Supply in the House of Commons last night the vote for works, buildings, and repairs in the Navy Estimates was considered. ...
Article : 104 wordsTwo thousand five hundred Japanese landed without artillery at Song-chin, Plaksin Bay, on the north-east coast of Korea, about 120 miles from Wonsan, on February ...
Article : 79 wordsA British gunboat has been ordered to Song-chin Bay to embark the missionaries and their families. ...
Article : 22 wordsA Russian torpedo-boat yesterday came into collision in the Suez Canal with an Egyptian revenue cutter, which sank. The crew of the cutter was rescued. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the "Times" reports that two kilometres (about l¼ mile) of the Siberian railway between Harbin and Nikolst, a town where it ...
Article : 44 wordsBefore the Conference of Treasurers adjourned Sir George Turner promised to compile a precis of the debates, showing the points of difference and of agreement between ...
Article : 59 wordsEarl Beauchamp, in the House of Lords last night, raised a short debate on the fiscal policy of the Government. He elicited from the Marquis of Lansdowne, the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe newspapers are jubilant at the victory of Mr. Warner's team in the fourth test match. The "Westminster Gazette" says the ...
Article : 202 wordsAn impression prevails that three Japanese expeditionary forces have been organised, and that one is moving upon Port Arthur, another on Vladivostock, and the ...
Article : 67 wordsA return has been laid before the House of Representatives showing the numbers of persons admitted to and excluded from the Commonwealth under the Aliens Restriction Act. ...
Article : 117 wordsNaturally at this early stage the Japanese do not intend to revcal their plan of campaign. They recognise the fact that they are engaged in a life and death struggle. They ...
Article : 1,030 wordsThe negotiations between Turkey and Bulgaria, which promised to result in an amicable settlement of the difficulty in regard to Macedonia, have been suspended ...
Article : 57 wordsIt transpires that General Dragomirroff, er-Governor of Warsaw, advised the Czar to withdraw the Rusian fleet and army from Port Arthur. While the advice was ...
Article : 59 wordsA paragraph in the Governor-General's Speech at the opening of Parliament states that in order to keep pace with trade developments in the Western Pacific a considerable ...
Article : 135 wordsThe steamer Macquarie, formerly known as the Duke of Sutherland, will be despatched by Messrs. W. and A. M'Arthur, Limited, to-day for Yokohama direct. The principal lines ...
Article : 75 wordsSir Frank Swettenham, formerly Governor of the Straits Settlements, in a letter to the "Times" in defence of Chinese, stated that Australians having got rid ...
Article : 72 wordsThe "Standard" reports that Mr. Deakin's announcement in the Federal Parliament regarding reciprocal preferences represents the highwater mark of the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Council of Ministers at Cairo decided on February 12 that belligerents would not be permitted to escort their prizes through the Suez Canal or into Egyptian ports and ...
Article : 117 wordsThe closing test match of the tour of the Marylebone Club team in Australia will commence on the Melbourne ground to-day. It is scarcely necessary to say that four of these ...
Article : 351 wordsMr. Deakin has received a communication from the Geneva Convention, which was formed to secure the suppression of indecent or immoral literature and advertisements, asking ...
Article : 40 wordsThe adjourned inquest concerning the deaths of Captain Carrington and Francis John Golley, A B., of the steamer Coogee, was resumed this morning, The taking of evidence was concluded, and the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe conclusions of the commission are summed up as follows:— We desire to reiterate our opinion that there has been a very serious decline in the birth-rate of New ...
Article : 1,403 wordsA report favourable to ex-Captain Dreyfus has been presented by the Conseiller Raporteur to the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation at Paris. ...
Article : 299 wordsIn relation to naturalisation, certificates issued during February show that 96 were issued to men, and four to women. Of these 72 were to married people. New South Wales ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the Court of General Sessions to-day the trial was concluded of Walter Payne, John C. Rosborough, Arthur Peece, William Moore, and Peter Tullent, who were charged with inflicting grievous bodily ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, answering a question asked by Mr. J. G. S. MacNelil (Nationalist) in the House of Commons yesterday, denied that he ...
Article : 75 wordsRear-Admiral Wirenius, whose flagship is the battleship Oslabya, has been ordered to sail with his squadron to the Red Sea, to capture vessels carrying contraband ...
Article : 71 wordsProbably the debate on the Address-in-Reply will be concluded in the Senate during the next two sitting days, The House will most likely then adjourn until the following week, ...
Article : 84 wordsA fire broke out last night at Ballarat in the warehouse of Mr. John M'Leod, general merchant. The warehouse is a two-story building adjoining the Ballarat railway station. The top story with the stock ...
Article : 87 wordsThe little fore-and-aft schooner Venture, in command of Captain Charles Lloyd Gittins, founded off the Heads in about 30 fathoms of water at an early hour yesterday morning. The Venture had loaded ...
Article : 373 wordsCardiff is shipping 150,000 tons of coal for the Far East, ordered in February. Japan has ordered an additional 70,000 tons to be shipped in March and April. ...
Article : 67 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 7-16d per ounce standard, a fall of 3-16d since yesterday. ...
Article : 24 wordsIn connection with the referendum on religious instruction in State schools, the Premier, Mr. Bent, said to-day that he had drafted three questions which, if approved of, would be submitted to the ...
Article : 116 wordsHeavy rain has caused serious floods in Southland, where railway traffic is interrupted. At Balclutha the river rose 11½ft, flooding many houses and necessitating the removal of several ...
Article : 130 wordsThe report that the third-class cruiser Bonaventnre, 4360 tons, of the Pacific squadron, had gone ashore on the coast of South or Central America is incorrect ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, in a letter to the Hull Corporation, said that coal for Russia or Japan would be considered ...
Article : 38 wordsAn offer to collect information on the question of the conversion of the suburban steam and railway service to the electrical system has been received by the Premier. It seems that Mr. S. R. Palmer, ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. John Brown, a former resident of Carlton, has made a claim on the Rev. J. A. Dowie for £75, alleged to be due on a promissory note given in December, 1886. He has intimated that failing a ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. There was a good attendance, but there was little animation in biddings. Prices were five centimes below January ...
Article : 65 wordsFifty-three foreign newspaper correspondents will be allowed to accompany the Japanese forces. The number includes 29 English and 17 American correspondents. ...
Article : 55 wordsWhile a number of employees of the Colonial Sugar Company were engaged to-day breaking down a large stack of raw sugar in bags at the company's works, Chelsea, the stack collapsed, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe prospectus for the loan about to be placed on the market by the Metropolitan Board of Works will be issued next week. The amount will be something over £400,000 for a short date, with ...
Article : 136 wordsThomas Oxley and Henry Tregaskis were charged to-day before the police magistrate with inflicting grievous bodily harm on the prisoner Ah Chink, who stands committed for trial for the murder of William ...
Article : 83 wordsSydney Mills, a boy whose parents reside at Brunswick, was drowned at Port Melbourne this morning while gathering mussels off one of the piles of the town pier. The ...
Article : 48 wordsThe British military, authorities at Tientsin have deported the editor of the "China Times," published at that town, for publishing statements disparaging the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 5 Mar 1904, Page 11
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