Extensive bush fires continue to rage throughout the district. The town to-day was enveloped in smoke. A conflagration is extending for miles about Belford, a few ...
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Article : 99 wordsIt has transpired that the recent extraordinary action of Germany in excluding Australian vessels from trading in the Marshall Group of islands by the imposition of ...
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Article : 88 wordsAt the Australasian Club yesterday the Earl of Jersey presented Sir Horace Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, who is about to visit the State, with an address. ...
Article : 241 wordsCount von Bulow, the German Imperial Chancellor, speaking in the Reichstag, dwelling upon the military expenditure, urged that it was an insurance premium ...
Article : 59 wordsReports from Mukden are to the effect that General Rennenkampf, on the extreme left (cast) of the Russian line, ambushed a force of Japanese who were ...
Article : 56 wordsM. Deroulede, a leader of the Nationalists, and M. James, a leader of the Socialists in France, fought a duel yesterday at Hendaye, near the Spanish frontier. The ...
Article : 64 wordsRussian colliers are coaling Rear-Admiral Foelkersahn's squadron of the Baltic fleet at the Musha Islands, between Jibutil and Obok. ...
Article : 103 wordsThe bumper cotton crop in the United States has caused wild excitement at Liverpool. The market fell 40 points. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe death is announced of Lord Hobhouse, for 20 years a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, aged 85 years. ...
Article : 149 wordsThe New Zealand loan of £1,000,000, bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent., with a currency of four years and issued at par, has closed. Applications exceed ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British Government is experiencing great difficulty in proving the destination of coal shipped from Cardiff. It is believed that 18 ships have been chartered to take ...
Article : 40 wordsAt the sales of Australian tallow to-day £31 casks were offered and 590 were sold. Prices were:—Mutton, fine 29s 6d, medium 26s; beef, fine 27s 6d, medium 26s per cwt. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following cablegram has been received by Mr. K. Iwasaki, Acting Consul-General for Japan, from Baron Komura, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:— ...
Article : 192 wordsAt the instance of the public prosecutor the Earl of Desart), the Hon. James Roche, who took the torpedo boat Caroline from the Thames to Libau, and Mr. ...
Article : 114 wordsA plea for a permanent reservation of 91,000 acres of land at Wilson's Promontory as a national park for the preservation of indigenous plants and animals was put forward ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. G. C. Russell, a New Zealander, has won the Whewell Scholarship for international law at the Cambridge University. Mr. Sydney Hankey, late of the Imperial ...
Article : 378 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Sir William Lyne (N.S.W.) asked the Prime Minister whether his attention had been drawn to a statement in the press in connection with ...
Article : 412 wordsMiss Dolly Castles, who recently returned to Australia under engagement to Mr. J. C. Williamson, made her debut this afternoon in a special porformance of the opera "Patience" ...
Article : 113 wordsTo grasp the state of affairs at Port Arthur, it is to be noted that the Japanese have fought their way across the Shul-shi Valley—which is two miles wide—and have captured some ...
Article : 1,296 wordsFive of the North Melbourne hotelkeepers whose houses are to be closed under the local option poll have notified the Premier that they are prepared to accept his offer to take ...
Article : 45 wordsA deputation, representing the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, waited on the Minister for Agriculture to-day to place before him the recommandation of a sub-committee, ...
Article : 149 wordsOn the motion for adjournment, Senator Smith (W.A.) brought under notice a copy of the agreement between Germany and Great Britain in 1886, showing that ...
Article : 81 wordsThe chief feature of the wool sales to-day was the large choice selection of scoured merino wools, of which about 3000 bales were offered. The demand was exceedingly good, ...
Article : 149 wordsThe State Government has decided to institute further prosecutions against members of the Federal Parliament for non-payment of income tax at the due date. The first ...
Article : 132 wordsQuotations:—Volunteer, s 10d; Volunteer Consolidated, b 11d, s 1s; Magnet, a 18s; Hercules, b 2s 9d, s 3s 6d; Tasmanian Copper, s 2s 8d; North Mount Farrell, b 1s 10d; Pioneer, ...
Article : 71 wordsA meeting of Queensland Public Servants was held at the Albert Hall last night to discuss the draft outline of the bill to provide a Public Service superannuation fund. It ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 8 Dec 1904, Page 7
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