The first session of the twentieth Parliament of New South Wales was opened yesterday by commission under the hands of his Excellency the Governor. The proceedings were ...
Article : 120 wordsMr. J. C. Watson had something to say yesterday concerning the manifesto issued by Mr. Reid and the speech delivered by Mr. Deakin at Ballarat on Monday evening. ...
Article : 1,140 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Northcote will leave this evening for Yanko, where they will spend a few days as the guests of Mr. S. M'Caughey, M.L.C. ...
Article : 1,104 wordsThe Ministerial organs scathingly criticise Lord Rosebery for his condemnaton of the Anglo-French Convention. Liberal organs are no less severe. ...
Article : 463 wordsThe Japanese have captured the northernmost fort of the western line of inner defences of Port Arthur. The fire of the Russians, however, prevents it ...
Article : 226 wordsRear-Admiral Yates Sterling, commanding the Philippines squadron of the United States Asiatic Fleet, has determined that the Japanese shall not ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Japanese willingly admit that the past record of the Novik, driven ashore at Sakhalin, is the one bright feature in Russian seamanship. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe President took the chair at 12 noon. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. The Clerk road the proclamation of his Excellency the Governor convening ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and other bodies in the United Kingdom have passed urgent resolutions, whose keynote is the ensuring of the safety of ...
Article : 65 wordsIn consequence of the wide definition given to contraband by Russia, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and other steamship companies will not accept ...
Article : 46 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the construction of the Walhalla railway line, as partially provided for in the Surplus Railway Bill, found a strong opponent in Sir H. ...
Article : 560 wordsA Russian cruiser, supposed to be the Volunteer Fleet steamer Smolensk, stopped the British steamer Comedian near Durban. After her papers had been examined ...
Article : 116 wordsReports have been received at Chifu to the effect that eight Russian torpedo-boat destroyers have escaped from Port Arthur, and that seven Japanese destroyers are ...
Article : 37 wordsThe progress at Lhassa of the negotiations between the Thibetans and the British for the drawing up of a treaty, though slow, is smooth, but the Buriat Lama ...
Article : 71 wordsThe members assembled at noon. The Clerk announced that he had received a communication from the Governor stating that Messrs. Waddell, Perry, and O'Sullivan ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsThe proclamation issued at the outset of the war regarding the coaling and provisioning of belligerent ships was altered at Malta recently, so as to exclude from ...
Article : 78 wordsThe "Morning Post" reports that some of the rifles distributed among the friendly natives of Somaliland by the British for their own defence have been ...
Article : 129 wordsCaptain MacCauley, the United States [?]che at Port Arthur, has arrived at raisin, and is proceeding to Vladivo[?]. ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Justice a'Beckett dealt to-day with the action instituted by Frank B. Sewell, owner of the racehorse Earl of Carrick, against Patrick Decley, R. E. Ellis, and John ...
Article : 154 wordsThe machinery of the Russian armoured cruiser Rossia (12,130 tons), of the Vladivostock squadron, which recently had an engagement with Admiral Kamimura, has ...
Article : 35 wordsH.M.S. Columbine, special service vessel for the Newfoundland fisheries, has gone on the rocks at Green Bay, Newfouudland. It is feared that she will become a ...
Article : 79 wordsKorsakovsk, the town in the south of Sakhalin, where the Novik took refuge, and where she was stranded and partly sunk as the result of Japanese fire, has ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Shanghai correspondent of the "Times" reports that the Tao-tai sought to induce the Consuls in the city to adopt collective measures so as to avoid the ...
Article : 171 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-day the Local Option Extension Bill was passed. The Commissioner for Public Works moved the second reading of the Brands Bill. It is chiefly, ...
Article : 282 wordsThe retrial of the action brought by Messrs. F. W. Niven and Co., printers, against George Musgrove, was concluded in the Second Civil Court this afternoon, before ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Kaid Amada of the Beni Buzzuga tribe treacherously murdered 83 horsemen who had been sent by the Moorish Pretender, Bu Hamara, to ask for the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe sickening details of the Japanese losses by the explosion of mines at Port Arthur is modern warfare beyond the pale realm of theory. Nothing could be more demoralising ...
Article : 1,213 wordsSpeaking at a dinner given by Mr. Mackenzie to his committee in the Canterbury Town Hall on Monday evening, Mr. J. Stinson, president of the People's Reform League, said that in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsIn the District Court, Brisbane, yesterday, a writ was issued by the Collector of Customs against the Engineering Supply Company of Australia, Limited, Brisbane. Plaintiff claims ...
Article : 74 wordsLancashire is assured of the county cricket championship. Yorkshire and Kent are engaged in a keen struggle for second place. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe "Kreuz Zeitung," of Berlin, though pro-Russian in its views, declares that the demand made by Japan that the Russian war vessels at Shanghai should either ...
Article : 112 wordsAt a meeline, of the local branch of the Political Labour League last night the secretary reported having written to the branches at Burrowa, Harden, Bungoo[?]a, [?]lan, and ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the annual meeting of shareholders of Walker's, Limited, held at Maryborough tonight, Mr. W. F. Harrington, the managing director, said that there appeared to be ...
Article : 122 wordsIn the House of Assembly this evening the Treasurer, Mr. Charles Lennox Stewart, delivered the financial statement. The estimated expenditure for 1904-5 totals £317,195, ...
Article : 347 wordsThe troubles with the miners at Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States, have been resumed. The citizens are expelling sympathisers with the unionists. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe annual report of the Industries and Commerce Department states that this colony does not progress as it should in the direction of cultivating trade with the Far East, and to ...
Article : 113 wordsAfter the refreshment hour this evening the Due d'Abruzzi was introduced to the Legislative Council, and accommodated, as a distinguished visitor: with a seat on the floor of the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe British fleet is expected off Shanghai to-day. ...
Article : 12 wordsA man named Thomas Turnbull attempted to commit suicide by cutting his threat at Ulverstone yesterday. He had been charged with wife desertion, having been traced to ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Tao-tai of Shanghai has extended the time of the Russian cruiser Askold and the torpedo-boat destroyer Grosovoi at Shanghai till noon of the 23rd inst. ...
Article : 103 wordsAt the police court to-day Herbert Born was committed for trial on a charge of having broken into Colonel Stuart's house and stolen valuable jewellery. ...
Article : 79 wordsOn the 23rd inst the lighthouse keeper at Macguari[?] Heads found in the water a bottle containing a United States hydrographic paper. It had been thrown overboard from ...
Article : 63 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2[?]d per ounce standard, a fall of ¼d since yesterday. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe French warship Protet, Commodore Adigard, arrived from Sydney this morning. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 24 Aug 1904, Page 7
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