Mr. Nicholson, one of the war correspondents at Port Arthur, characterises the capture of Metre Hill as an unprecedented feat of arms. ...
Article : 38 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day the Prime Minister (Mr. Reid) resumed the discussion on Mr. Deakin's preferential trade motion. He said ...
Article : 1,762 wordsThree regiments of soldiers at Vitebsk, a town in West Russia, recently rebelled, and plundered the citizens. When reprimanded in connection with ...
Article : 157 wordsThe new British battleship Britannia, 16,350 tons, was successfully launched on Saturday at Portsmouth. ...
Article : 465 wordsTo-day Mr. Justice a'Beckett (sitting as a Royal Commission) further investigated the charges made against J. W. Taverner before the Butter Commission. ...
Article : 223 wordsThe hearing of an action for alleged slander—Seddon v. Taylor—was commenced at Christchurch to-day. The plaintiff is a son of the Premier, and he ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Estimates for 1904-5 were further considered in Committee of Supply in the Legislative Assembly yesterday. On the vote "Mines, £270,912," ...
Article : 4,095 wordsDuring the attack on Metro Hill the Russian reserves shot all their comrades who tried to evade the Japanese attacks. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeneral Nogi, the Japanese officer directing the siege operations at Port Arthur, reports that four Russian battleships, two cruisers, a gunboat, and a ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the Senate to-day Mr. Pulsford (N.S.W.) moved—*(1) That any policy, however good the motive behind it, which restricted ...
Article : 868 wordsFurther interesting particulars continue to come to light in connection with the recent gigantic bank frauds in America. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe final meeting of the Nemesis Relief Fund committee was held to-day. The Lord Mayor, who presided, said that the effort had proved very ...
Article : 307 wordsThe Russian smaller craft at Port Arthur have been warned not to shelter behind hospital ships. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Russians' wireless telegraph station at the foot of Golden Hill, Port Arthur, has been damaged, and their arsenal in the same neighbourhood has ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. A. J. Wilson, M.L.A., addressed meetings of his constituents at Waterous and No. 5 Mill, Yarloop, and Mornington on Saturday last. ...
Article : 834 wordsMr. Arnold-Forster, Secretary of State for War, speaking last night at Newcastle, quoted from a letter recently written by General Sir Ian Hamilton, ...
Article : 77 wordsA German named Frendeberg, his wife and three children were murdered yesterday. Their house was then burnt. ...
Article : 49 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in reply to a letter from the editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette," regarding Imperial Defence and the projected Colonial Conference, says ...
Article : 143 wordsLord Iveagh and the trustees of the late Mr. George Peabody, American merchant and philanthropist, have each contributed £5,000 to the Mansion ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking last night at Spark Hill, dwelt on the falling revenue and the loss of British prosperity, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Federal Navigation Commission took further evidence to-day. Mr. Thompson, superintending engineer for the Newcastle and Hunter River ...
Article : 136 wordsSir Donald Currie, the well-known shipowner has given £25,000 to the Edinburgh University. This sum is to provide lectureship ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. H. A. Grainger, Agent-General for South Australia, in the course of an interview yesterday, said that, personally, he considered the Australian ...
Article : 104 wordsThe matter of the Rev. John Ferguson's visit to the Pope again came before the Presbytery of Sydney to-night. It was brought forward by Rev. Dill ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Earl of Elgin, Lord Kinnear (Judge of the Court of Sessions, Scotland), and Sir Ralph Anstruther have been appointed a Royal Commission to ...
Article : 52 wordsA party of Chinese on the Rand yesterday attacked the Kaffirs' location. In the affray which ensued three Kaffirs and a Chinese were killed, and ...
Article : 46 wordsHerr Barkeneyer, one of the managers of Krupp's Germania Shipbuilding Yards at Kiel, who was arrested in October last on a charge of selling naval plans, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe French vintage for 1904 amounts to 66,259,877 hectolitres (about 1,755,886,740 gallons). ...
Article : 23 wordsThe King has replied to a message from the Newfoundland Government, in which the latter heartily acknowledge the great boon conferred on the colony ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Rev. Father Milne Curran was further examined in bankruptcy to-day. He said that Father Robinson invested £500 for Miss Amy Castles in a mine at ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Anglo - American Arbitration Treaty has been signed at Washington. ...
Article : 20 wordsWheat.—The Australian cargo of wheat ex Marechal Devillars, and 24,000 quarters of New South Wales January-February shipments, have been sold at ...
Article : 83 wordsCount von Bulow, the German Chanceller, has accepted an offer from the missionaries in German South-West Africa, to induce the rebel Hereros to ...
Article : 56 wordsA Bible, once the property of Burns, the poet, and containing birth entries of the poet's family, has been sold for £1,560. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Department of Ports and Harbours received information to-day to the effect that the supposed wreckage resembling the keel of a capsized vessel, ...
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Family Notices : 55 wordsThe West Australian Estates and Timber Company has been formed, with a capital of £110,000. The object of the Company is to ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 14 Dec 1904, Page 7
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