A conference of sugar-growers was held at Townsville to-day to consider the practicability of carrying on with white labour, with a view of laying before the Federal ...
Article : 907 wordsPrior to the commencement of business at to-day's meeting of the University Council the chairman, Dr. M'Farland, announced that he had received the following letter from ...
Article : 278 words'A' survey party with an escort of 140 men were caught in a blizzard at Romba Pass, in Southern Thibet. They experienced an awful night. The guides lost ...
Article : 77 wordsThe besiegers of Port Arthur on the 16th Inst. captured the Russian trenches adjacent to Er-lung-shan, about five miles northeast of the harbour's entrance, also an ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Gamecock Fishing Fleet reached Hall on Sunday night from the Dogger Bank. It reports that it was shelled by the Baltic Fleet, and suffered serious loss. The trawier Crane was sunk, her captain and a sailor were killed, and nine of her crew were injured. The ...
Article : 1,063 wordsTokio reports that on Saturday the Russians were concentrating against General Kuroki, and that a detachment of Russian cavalry had crossed the Tai-tze-ho east of ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. H. H. Asquith, M.P., speaking at Inverness last night, said that the fiscal campaign was a mischievous crusade undertaken with the connivance of the ...
Article : 93 wordsCount Cassini, the Russian Ambassador at Washington, declares that Vice-Admiral Rozhdestvenski, commanding the Baltic Fleet, has been ordered to allow no vessel ...
Article : 79 wordsA proposal to establish a joint board of the various Universities of Australia, similar to that of Scotland, was brought before the University council to-day by Dr. Leeper. He ...
Article : 105 wordsThe King met Queen Alexandra on Sunday evening at Charing Cross railway station on her return from Denmark. Field-Marshal Sir Henry Norman, ...
Article : 77 wordsThe first meeting in connection with the annual conference of the Congregational Union of Victoria, which precedes that of the Congregational Union of Australasia, was hold ...
Article : 93 wordsIt is the custom of trawlers on the east coast of England to fish in huge fleets, and they come mainly from Hall. Grimsby, Yarmouth, Lowestoft, and Ramsgate. The ground ...
Article : 216 wordsTwo Russian submarines destined for Viadivostock have been shipped in sections from New york to Hamburg. A number of other submarines are building for Russia ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Great Boulder Perseverance Commission resumed its sittings to-day, when further evidence was taken. Louis Callen, formerly accountant and ...
Article : 928 wordsThe Russian Admiralty Council at St. Petersburg has ordered the release of the British steamer Alla[?]on, which was seized on June 16 while on the voyage from ...
Article : 86 wordsThe trial of Edward Septimus Moulton, exsecretary of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society, on three charges of larceny of the funds of the society, took place ...
Article : 211 wordsWhat are the prospects of the Baltic Fleet changing the course of the campaign? The fleet has moved along the English coast with startling results, but the details of that ...
Article : 1,482 wordsThe second Australasian Roman Catholic Congress was opened to-day at the Cathedral Hall, Brunswick-street. There was a representative gathering of prelates, clergy, and ...
Article : 616 wordsA French firm bought the steamer Maori King, 3807 tons, formerly well known in the Australian trade, and her cargo. On arrival at Liverpool they removed her to ...
Article : 245 wordsThe seventeenth anniversary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union was celebrated this evening by a public meeting in the Melbourne Town Hall. There was a ...
Article : 109 wordsThe committee dealing with the Nemesis Fund met to-day. It was reported that the fund at present amounted to £2997, and that between 1100 and 1200 subscription lists had ...
Article : 77 wordsConsols were quoted to-day at £88 6s 3d, a fall of 6s 3d since Thursday. (The fall in Consols is probably due to the fear of complications between Great Britain ...
Article : 47 wordsThe police are prosecuting inquiries into the cause of the fire at the Tasmanian Soap and Candle Company's factory on Sunday night. There seems little doubt that it ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 337 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 13-16d per oz, a fall of 1-16d since Friday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe reserved judgment of the Full Court in the appeal of the City Mutual Life Assurance Company against the judgment of the Chief Justice in an action brought by Mrs. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Electric Construction Company has been fined £160 at the Wellington Magistrates' Court for carrying on business in New Zealand for eight months without a license. The ...
Article : 103 wordsShortly before 9 o'clock last evening Herbert McArthur, 21, a clerk, residing at Double Bay, was the victim of a tram accident in George-street, near Martin-place. With a ...
Article : 89 wordsAt the first meeting of the Political Labour League a heated discussion ensued, one member describing the proposal to form an independent Labour party as most disgraceful. The ...
Article : 53 wordsThe "Times," in speaking of the outrage to the trawlers, surmises that the Russians were the victims of a disgraceful panic owing to the spreading of Continental ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Grand Hotel, Rotorua, one of the largest and best equipped hotels in the colony, was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fire originated in a small recess under ...
Article : 222 wordsA deplorable accident occurred this evening whereby Horace Walpole was killed instantaneously. He was working with two mates at 240ft level at the British mine when ...
Article : 270 wordsA telegram received to-day from Charters Towers states that the conditions are even more favourable to-day, and that every mine, except the Brilliant P.C., is either working ...
Article : 266 wordsThe two principals in the sensational shooting case which took place in King-street on Sunday night are not likely to remain in the hospital very long as the result of their ...
Article : 248 wordsIn the case Fairburn v. Stead, in which a bookmaker appealed against a conviction for trespass on the Canterbury Jockey Club's course, the Court of Appeal held by a majority ...
Article : 120 wordsAdmiral Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle, interviewed on the action of the Russians, conjectured that the Russians were Hable to panic owing to their fearing torpedo ...
Article : 227 wordsBetween closing time on Saturday night and the re-opening yesterday morning of the piano warehouse of Mr. James Gordon, at 379 Bourkestreet, Darlinghurst, burglars effected an ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 25 Oct 1904, Page 5
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