At about a quarter past 1 o'clock this morning an accident that might easily have been serious, but fortunately merely occasioned the delay of a train, happened at Longwood. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe British steamship Workfield, a comparatively new vessel of 4257 tons register, came to grief in the harbour yesterday under somewhat remarkable circumstances. She was ...
Article : 1,296 wordsMr. Watson this morning saw Mr. Deakin, and handed to him a written communication containing the propositions of the Ministerial party, as agreed to in caucus yesterday, for ...
Article : 928 wordsThe Boer Congress at Pretoria was closed yesterday by General Botha, who said that the delegates were not completely satisfied with Sir Arthur Lawley's ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Hon. Charles Hardinge, who has been appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg in succession to Sir C. S. Scott, has arrived at his post. ...
Article : 277 wordsUnofficial Despatches which have been received at Tokio report that the Japanese entered Kin-chau, the narrow neck of land about 32 miles north-east of Port Arthur, ...
Article : 143 wordsSir Edward Hutton, commanding the Federal Forces, was in Sydney yesterday, on his way to Melbourne. He left again last night. In regard to statements ...
Article : 361 wordsWhen the Japanese early in May were accused of placing floating mines in Port Arthur roadstead Russia, in a circular, protested that it was an act of culpable ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Henry Copeland, Agent-General for New South Wales, on being interviewed, said that he entirely disagreed from the views expressed by Sir Frederick ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Government Analyst reports having found strychnine in tha stomach of Mrs. M'Lellan and her three-year-old son who were found dead in bed at Kerrisdale. ...
Article : 29 wordsAll parts of the Russian Empire are feeling the effects of the war. Business is at a standstill, and there are many bankruptcies everywhere. The banks are ...
Article : 43 wordsTo-day the Minister for Lands, Mr. Hopkins, received a cable from Mr. Compere, addressed from Babia, in Brazil, with the single word "successful." Mr. Compere left Western ...
Article : 73 wordsNo news has been received from Gyangtse for three days, owing to attacks being made by the Thibetans upon the postal carriers. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported that the Japanese have taken the walled city of Kin-chau. What this means can be readily understood. Above Pert Arthur and its immediate approaches ...
Article : 871 wordsMr. Montgomery, State Mining Engineer, Mr. Thomas Hewitson, mine manager, and Mr. John Carr have been appointed a commission to inquire into the immigration of allens into ...
Article : 35 wordsLord Rothschild suggests that the Jewish community is willing to guarantee that Jewish allens will not come on the poor rates for a period of two years after ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day, before Commissioner Roe, Carl Carlson, a Swedish sailor, was found guilty, with a recommendation to mercy, on a charge of the wilful murder of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe condition of internal unrest in Russia is causing the administrators great uneasiness. It is significant that the regiments in ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the course of his despatch to General Kuropatkin, Lieuteuant-General Sakharoff stated:— "Our scouts in the peninsula (Liao-tung) ...
Article : 109 wordsThe betting on the Derby to be run on Wednesday next is unchanged. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe steamer Australian, which sailed for Hongkong on Thursday, took as passengers Captain M'Gregor, nine Chinese, and one Japanese Her cargo of gold from here is ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Tait and Mr. Fitzpatrick, two of the Victorian Railway Commissioners, waited today on the Minister for Home Affairs, and placed before him the proposals made by ...
Article : 116 wordsThe rapid melting of the snows has caused numerous Alpine fatalities. May 27. The New Zealand Trust and Loan ...
Article : 68 wordsThe new Russian battleship Borodino has been badly strained in the dry dock at St. Petersburg. The Borodino is a sister ship to the Orel, ...
Article : 144 wordsThe first annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association of Southern Tasmania was held to-day. The report showed 73 members on the roll, and a satisfactory ...
Article : 102 wordsIt will be remembered that an apparatus for printing postage stamps has been established in the Adelaide General Post Office for some years, and that Sir Philip Fysh, the ...
Article : 152 wordsRear-Admirals Vitgert and Gregorovitch report that Japanese gunboats bombarded Ingentzi Bay (Yin-chen-tsui Bay), on the west coast of Liao-tung, 12 miles ...
Article : 107 wordsA large deputation, headed by the President of the Legislative Council, and comprising members of both branches of the Legislature, also of the River Murray League, and ...
Article : 247 wordsAt the half yearly meeting of the Cornwall Coal Company the report showed that the difficulties in mining the coal had been overcome and miners were now opening out new ...
Article : 97 wordsThe republican Mayor and corporation of Bologna will entertain King Victor Emmanuel III. shortly. The Pope has consented to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 391 wordsMr. Watson, the Prime Minister, left for Sydney to-day, and will return by Sunday night's express. Mr. Batchelor, Minister for Home Affairs, ...
Article : 37 wordsDespite the stubborn resistance offered by the Russians the Japanese have reached San-shi-li-pu, 25 miles to the north of Dalny. ...
Article : 53 wordsIt has been ascertained that the fire in the Kronstadt arsenal two weeks ago had its origin in some officials who desired to prevent their corrupt practices being ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Postmaster-General says that the new offer for the conveyance of mails on a fortnightly service to alternate with the P. and O. mails to England has been received. It ...
Article : 71 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, Limited, was held this afternoon. Mr. Knox, M P., presided, and in moving the adoption of the report ...
Article : 643 wordsThe reply of the Government to Dr. Ham's recent communication has been forwarded to him. It will be remembered that Dr. Ham offered to waive all personal considerations, ...
Article : 136 wordsLieutenant-General Sukharoff reports that the Japanese are constructing fortifications around Feng-huan-cheng, where there are 30,000 Japanese infantry, 2000 ...
Article : 132 wordsThe Postmaster-General states that there have been many cases of peculation in the Postal Department. They are nearly all for very small amounts, and most of them are in ...
Article : 80 wordsThe test ordered by the Acting Coron[?]r (Mr. Rabbish) to determine whether last Wednesday's accident at the Great Boulder was due to a defect of the winding engine or to a ...
Article : 385 wordsAnother case of plague was reported in Brisbane to-day. The patient is a boy 14 years of age employed at a produce store at Woolloongabba. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Viceroy of Canton has sent four gunboats and two torpedo-boat destroyers to Macao to enforce the extradition of a fugitive from justice. ...
Article : 187 wordsThree hundred and forty-seven points of rain has been registered. The river is over the wharfs, and is rising slowly. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe steamer Miltiades, which sailed from Brisbane to-day, for London, via South Africa, has as cargo 7000 boxes of butter, 1600 bales of wool, and large lines of general cargo. She ...
Article : 39 wordsThere has been continuous rain during the past 18 hours. The river is up, and rising everywhere. There is a 9ft rise here. The weather shows signs of clearing to-night. The roads are in a deplorable condition, ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night, during the debate on the motion for the adoption of the Address in Reply, Mr. Storey referred to the MacDonald case, and ...
Article : 370 wordsGeneral Kuroki reports that a detachment of Japanese on attacking found a force of Cossacks at Pa-tao-shi, near Tatieu-tse, a town 30 miles north-west of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following are the principal rainfalls for the 24 hours ending at 9 a.m. to-day:— North.—Mackinlay 33 points, West Leichhardt 20. Central.—Alice 70 points, Alpha 87, Aramac 163, ...
Article : 243 wordsMr. Justice Hood to-day concluded the hearing of the injunction motion in the action brought by the "Evening Herald" and "Weekly Times," Limited, against Jas. T. ...
Article : 274 wordsLord Ranfurly will leave Wellington on June 20 on his way to England. Lord Plunkett the new Governor, is expected to arrive the same day. ...
Article : 105 wordsReports have reached Lieutenant-General Sakharoff that 50,000 Japanese have landed at Taku-shan, to the westward of the Yalu, and are marching on ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Presbyterian General Assembly, sitting at Buffalo, New York, by a majority of two to one has adopted a resolution prohibiting ministers from marrying ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Australian Estates and Mortgage Company, Ltd., report having received the following further advices of rainfall:—"Kynuna Station, Winton (Q.), 25th May[?] Two inches splendid, soaking rain. Appeared ...
Article : 181 wordsEarly yesterday morning information was received by the president of the Board of Health that a man named George Conwell, 49 years of age, manifested symptoms of plague ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Japanese Prize Court at Saseho has dismissed all appeals for the restitution of neutral cargoes carried aboard captured Russian vessels. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe announcement in yesterday's issue of the "Herald" that the E. and A. Steamship Company's steamer Empire had arrived at Thursday island on Thursday with two cases ...
Article : 99 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 1 11-16d per ounce standard, a fall of 1-16d since Wednesday. IF YOU WANT TO BORROW MONEY go to ...
Article : 47 wordsHauroto, s, 1983 tons, Captain Chrisp, from Newcastle. F. W. Jackson, agent. ...
Article : 17 wordsIf taken in time, this is simple. WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS hot with lemon at bodtime is a sure preventive.—Advt. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 28 May 1904, Page 9
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