Between a quarter to 2 and 2 o'clock this morning the P. and 0. Company's fine mail steamer Australia was wrecked at Port Phillip Heads. No lives were lost, and after six hours ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,708 wordsMajor-General the Earl of Dundonald, who has been retired from the command of the Canadian Militia, declares that he was aware beforehand of the gravity ...
Article : 172 wordsDetailed particulars have now been received of the battle of Telissa, north of Fu-chau, in the Liao-tung, fought on Tuesday and Wednesday last. ...
Article : 581 wordsAt to-night's meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures, the president, Mr. C. Atkins, said he considered the chamber should express its sympathy with the P. and O. S. N. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe steamer Maiko Maru, 856 tons, of the Osaka Company, was attacked on Wednesday by the Russian cruiser squadron, but escaped, and reached Tsu Shima. ...
Article : 68 wordsArrangements have been made by the P. and O. Company by which through passengers for Sydney are to be conveyed to that city by rail to-morrow at the company's expense. ...
Article : 53 wordsBy 10 a.m. nearly all the passengers and all the crew were on board the pilot steamer Victoria. Ono of the most cheerful passengers on the little boat was Miss J. H. Reid. She ...
Article : 634 wordsParticular interest attached to the matter of treating the lascar seamen. Mr. O'Brien, tide inspector at Williamstown, under instructions from the Collector of Customs, ...
Article : 195 wordsIt has been ascertained that the Russian cruiser squadron, under Vice-Admiral Skrydloff, sank the transport Idzuml Maru on Wednesday morning, when the Hitachi ...
Article : 123 wordsAdmiral Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, First Sea Lord of the Board of Admiralty, will retire in October. He has been promoted Admiral of the Fleet. ...
Article : 96 wordsAmong the saloon passengers was a Japanese. He was at once taken to the Customs House, where, after passing the required test, he received an exemption certificate. ...
Article : 43 wordsVice-Admiral Kamimura has been severely criticised in Japan in connection with the Kinshiu Maru and the latest raid. He was at Tsu Shima, in the Straits ...
Article : 64 wordsMr Campbell is a passenger who is going to the South Sea Islands to take up a Consular appointment. He came through from London with his wife and little son, and was extremely ...
Article : 278 wordsThe British torpedo-boat destroyer Sparrowhawk struck an uncharted rock at the mouth of the Yang-tsze-kiang and sank No lives were lost. ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Russians transferred to a merchantman, which they released, the English second mate of the Sado Maru. Seventy-three of the men from the Sado ...
Article : 184 wordsCaptain Geo. Dennis, who was in charge of the Australia when she struck, has been in the Port Phillip pilot service for nearly 26 years, having joined in September, 1878. In ...
Article : 121 wordsThe death is announced of General Sir John Alexander Ewart, K.C.B., at the age of 83 years. General Sir J. A. Ewart, K.C.B., was born ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsArrangements were completed this evening for salving the cargo. The salvage lighter Endeavour and two other ordinary lighters are being despatched from Melbourne for the ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Cambrian Warrior, barque, 1383 tons, bound from Liverpool and Glasgow for Fremantle, May 23, Captain Robins, has been wrecked off the port of Natal, in ...
Article : 38 wordsBoth the Treasurer and the Home Secretary stated to-day that there was on truth in the rumours that certain retrenched officers would be rotained in the service after ...
Article : 36 wordsVice-Admiral Bezobrazoff, in command of the Russian cruiser squadron, consisting of the Rossia, Rurik, and Gromoboi, is still at sea. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe voyage of the Australia, which terminated so unhappily, was otherwise devoid of incident, and made so rapidly that the vessel was 36 hours ahead of her appointed time ...
Article : 43 wordsCaptain Wymark, Lloyd's surveyor, who was questioned as to the position of the wrecked steamer, states that she is lying on her side, with a decided list to starboard. Her head is ...
Article : 440 wordsKing Edward, in reply to a letter from the chairman of the Society of London Correspondents of Foreign Newspapers, says that he highly appreciates the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe gold shipped by the R.M.S. Britannia to-night amounted to 25,000 sovereigns for Colombo, 13,584oz of gold bullion, valued at £47,500, and 2850 tons box bullion valued at ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Russian cruiser squadron, after hurriedly searching two merchantmen on Saturday, disappeared off the coast of the Aomori Prefecture, in the north of the ...
Article : 44 wordsThere are about 2170 tons of general cargo on board, which, at a rough computation, is valued at £25,000. Of this 600 tons are for Melbourne, 1500 tons for Sydney, and 70 tons ...
Article : 41 wordsA number of passengers arrived in Melbourne from Queenscliff by train to-night, and all the cabin baggage, which had been transhipped from the vessel to a tug, was also ...
Article : 66 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Lord Ranfurly, was accorded an enthusiastic send-off on his departure from Wellington this morning. In the course of an address at the ...
Article : 115 wordsGeneral Kuroki, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese forces in Manchuria, is awaiting the result of the fighting in the Liao-tung. ...
Article : 51 wordsLord Tennyson, formerly GovernorGeneral of Australia, in addressing the Freshwater (Isle of Wight) Artillery Volunteers, said that when she was ...
Article : 53 wordsThe entire parcels post by the vessel from London, comprising betewen 150 and 200 bags, was recovered and handed over to the mail officer at Queenscliff to be forwarded to ...
Article : 39 wordsEleven hundred wounded Russians, including 55 officers, have arrived at Liaoyang from the battle of Telissa. The officers state that the Russians had ...
Article : 97 wordsCitizens were startled yesterday morning When the news gained currency that one of the finest of the mail steamers running between London and Australia had been totally ...
Article : 323 wordsAdmiral Alexeieff, the Russian Viceroy, reports that the damaged warships at Port Arthur have been repaired. [The above appeared in a portion of yesterday's ...
Article : 32 wordsThe coroner held a magisterial inquiry to-day, touching the death of Albert Jeffrey Orchard, who was found dead in the bush near the rifle range this morning. He was 30 years ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Marriage With a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill has been dropped for the present session. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe cable messages to-day largely consist of further details of the battle of Tolissa and the disasters to Japanese merchantmen. Kamimura is under a cloud. This circumstance ...
Article : 969 wordsThe cost of the Coronation of King Edward VII. was £359,289. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe chief engineer of the Australia, Mr. Gordon, looked back sorrowfully from the Victoria at the ill-fated mail steamer while she remained in sight. ...
Article : 525 wordsIt is stated that Vice-Admiral Skrydloff did not take part in the raid of the Russian cruiser squadron, but remained at Vladivostock. Vice-Admiral Bezobrazoff ...
Article : 234 words"We passed Point Lonsdale beacon at about two minutes to 2 o'clock," said Captain Cole, in describing the occurrence. "A few minutes previously we had taken a pilot on board ...
Article : 403 wordsThe Rev. J. A. Dowie has returned to England, and has crossed the kingdom surreptitiously. He has embarked at Liverpool for America. ...
Article : 40 wordsJ. Iremonger yesterday put up a score of 272 for Notts in a match against Kent. W. Rhodes, who was a member of the Marylebone cricket team which recently ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe P. and O. Company has very considerately undertaken to defray all the expenses to which passengers may be put in reaching their destination, and instructions were ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 21 Jun 1904, Page 7
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