The situation in the Far East is becoming more and more critical. The mobilisation of her forces by Japan is interpreted on the Continent as a prelude to the ...
Article : 108 wordsGermany is trying to secure a whaling station on the Danish West Indian island of St. Thomas. The United States Government is main ...
Article : 61 wordsGhastly details are published this morning of the awful fire at the Iroquois Theatre, Chicago. The dreadful disaster, it appears, occurred ...
Article : 1,029 wordsOn Thursday the Prime Minister sent a cable message to Mr. Chamberlain inviting him to visit Australia in the interests of his preferential trade campaign. Last evening ...
Article : 295 words"Playing for keeps" is the only way in which one can describe yesterday's play in tho second test match between England and Australia. Warner's batsmen got in, and ...
Article : 2,746 wordsThe Federal Treasurer is spending a very unhappy New Year, because he has been attacked by sciatica, and has been unable to obtain much relief from the pain which ...
Article : 605 wordsThe Lord Mayor of London (Sir James Thomson Ritchie) has called on the ambassador for the United States (Mr. Joseph Choate), and expressed to him, on behalf ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Iroquois Theatre is said to have marked the very highest pitch of American theatre buildings. It was erected for the biggest syndicate of American theatrical ...
Article : 586 wordsSiam having accepted the bases of an additional convention with France, M. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has extended the period for the ...
Article : 55 wordsA few davs ago the Odessa correspondent of "The Times" stated that the Russian transport Ekaterinoslav (of the Volunteer fleet), 10,500 tons, had sailed ...
Article : 82 wordsThe vote in the Transvaal Legislative Council on Sir George Farrar's motion in favour of an experimental trial of 10,000 Chinese in the mines ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Chinese Imperial railway authorities have withdrawn the rolling-stock from the northern railway in the event of the present situation resulting in serious trouble ...
Article : 45 wordsSeveral of the London newspapers comment on Mr. Deakin's invitation to Mr. Chamberlain to visit Australia. "The Times" says that Mr. Deakin ...
Article : 163 wordsIt is expected that the Mullah will fight the British at Jedbali, believing it to be the key of the Nogal Valley. There is little hope of capturing the Mullah, or of dealing ...
Article : 73 wordsM. Pavloff, the Russian Minister at Scoul, is straining every nerve to induce Korea to lease to Russia Masampo and Chinhai, to be used as naval stations. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe revenue of the United Kingdom for the past quarter amounts to a total of £33,540,884 against £36,172,831 for the corresponding period of 1902. Customs revenue ...
Article : 53 wordsAmong the few Englishmen who have visited Port Arthur since it became a Russian naval station is Mr. Joseph Walton, M.P., and in his "China and the Present ...
Article : 700 wordsSir,—I fully agree with the drift of your article on Mr. Deakin's cable message to Mr. Chamberlain inviting him to come to Australia to promote an agitation for a ...
Article : 232 wordsCommander Ernest F. A. Gaunt, of H.M.S. Mohawk, who had his thigh fractured in the fighting at Fort Durbo, on the coast of Somaliland, is making good ...
Article : 71 wordsThe descriptions of the terrible scene recall the memory to the great file in the Ring Theatre, in Vienna, on the night of December 8, 1881. The fire broke out on the ...
Article : 587 wordsThe yacht Sayonara arrived at Sydney at 5 o'clock this morning, and brought up at Careening Cove, where moorings had been provided for her by the Royal Sydney ...
Article : 147 wordsThere is a steady demand for butter, but the heavy arrivals are dipressing prices. Choicest Australian is selling at 96/ to 98/ per cwt., and New Zealand at 98/ to 100/. ...
Article : 102 wordsMrs. Mary Jane Patterson, an old lady, who lives with her son-in-law, Mr. Robertson, of Fawkner-street, St. Kilda, was knocked down by a cyclist in St. Kilda ...
Article : 103 wordsThe reserve of notes and coin is £18,574,000 against £17,669,000 for the previous week the proportion to liabilities being 32.89 per cent., against 36.90 per cent. ...
Article : 147 wordsA little girl 11 years of age created considerable excitement amongst a number of persons residing along the Brunswick railway line yesterday morning. The child, ...
Article : 195 wordsMary Elizabeth Miller, 6 years of age, was, with her elder brother, playing with a gun at Cooparoo to-day, when the weapon exploded, and the bullet entered the girl's ...
Article : 37 wordsHORSHAM, Friday.—A sad fatality occurred here this afternoon, the victim being a youth named Otto Paul Seeliger, son of the late Mr. E. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills is 3? per cent., or 5/8 per cent. below the Bank of England rate. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe loop line connecting Burrumbeet-park with the main line of railway was supervising the construction branch of theformally opened to-day by the Minister ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 303 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—A boy named Joshua Preston was drowned near Watson's Bay to-day. He was fishing with his father and brothers from the wharf at Camp Cove, and ...
Article : 60 wordsThe mail steamers have reduced their outward freight quotations to 35/ for fine, and 50/ for rough measurement. ...
Article : 25 wordsApropos of Mr. Deakin's invitation to Mr. Chamberlain to visit Australian, presumably in search of an offer, remarks made by Lord Rosebery, in his speech at ...
Article : 269 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—A serious accident happened, near the Imperial Hotel, in Humffray-street, this evening, when Mr. Theophilus Egginton, timber merchant, ...
Article : 69 wordsNo New Year's Day honours are being conferred this year. In future the honours that have hitherto been conferred on New Year's Day will be given on Coronation Day, ...
Article : 171 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—The Bradford market is brisk. Quotations for tops are 13d. per lb. for 40's, ...
Article : 187 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—A shooting accident happened on the Lal Lal racecourse to-day. As Constable Kerr, of Napoleons, was passing a shooting gallery, a splash from ...
Article : 67 wordsThe proprietors of the theatre, which had been elected on the latest designs, were confident that it was fireproof, and, through it cost £210,000, the only insurances on it ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-day the Hygela leaves Port Melbourne at 10.30 a.m. for Mornington, Dromana, and Sorrento. The Courier leaves Queen a wharf at 10 a.m and the Excelsior at 2.30 p.m. for Portarlington and ...
Article : 300 wordsBALLARAT, Friday.—Whilst watching an exhibition of buck-jumping in a tent at Burrumbeet to-day, a young woman, named Sarah Firth, was kicked with great force ...
Article : 58 wordsThe terrible fire has been the means of temporarily stopping the strike of livery stable men which has been in progress for some time, the strikers having agreed to ...
Article : 51 wordsA record load of wheat was delivered at the Old Junee railway station yards yesterday. It consisted of 141 bags, and weighed over 17 tons gross, or 14 tons 17dwt. net ...
Article : 42 wordsSir,—I was one of a party of five present at the interstate match on Monday last. The expenditure to us for railway fares and admission to stand totalled 17/6. For this we ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—I think the members of the M.C.C. have a grievance against their committee. Being present at the match to-day I observed that a very large number of ladies ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Patroclus, from Melbourne Nov. 10; Duke of Portland, from Brisbane ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 2 Jan 1904, Page 13
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