Sensational falls of rain have occurred over a very large area of the north-eastern quarter of the State. It is many years since such heavy falls were recorded, ...
Article : 648 wordsThe arrangements for the opening of Parliament on Wednesday have been completed. Members of each House will assemble at 2.30 p.m., and the proclamation calling the Houses ...
Article : 162 wordsIt now transpires that the man balled up at the Croesus South mine was Archie Learmonth, employed at the tailing dump. The story told to the police by him is that about ...
Article : 186 wordsThe committee appointed to advise as to the method of reform of the War Office, consisting of Viscount Esher, Admiral Sir John Fisher, and Colonel Sir George ...
Article : 367 wordsJapanese infantry encountered a detachment of Russian cavalry to the north of Ping-yang, in Korea. After a sharp f[?][?]llade on both sides the Russians retired. ...
Article : 69 wordsFugitives in Siberia are crowding all the trains for Europe. Their aspect is most pitiable. There are long stoppages en route. ...
Article : 38 wordsA dull grey tropical day, with a dirty-coloured sea and sky, with the streets of Singapore rocking with mud and slush which spatters the very cosmopolitan crowd who are ...
Article : 1,072 wordsThe Chief Electoral Officer advises that Mr. Austin Chapman, in reply to a communication enclosing a letter from the Bega Vigilance Association, urging that Bega should be made ...
Article : 81 wordsRussia has agreed to the conditions for the release on parole of the survivors of the cruiser Varyag and gunboat Corcetz, rescued by H.M.S. Talbot and the French ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Frank Thom, a prospector, was lost in the bush on Tuesday, and was brought into Waratah Hospital last night in a very emaciated condition, having slept in hollow logs ...
Article : 78 wordsFrance has warned 2000 men of her Colonial Infantry Division to be ready to start for Indo-China by March 15. [The above appeared in a portion of yesterday's issue.] ...
Article : 39 wordsThere is absolutely no speculation as to who will probably be the Speaker in the House of Representatives, as members of all sides appear to be agreed that Sir Frederick Holder ...
Article : 403 wordsEnglish newspapers comment upon the behaviour of the crowd at the fourth test match at Sydney on Saturday. "Sporting Life" says: "It is a pity the ...
Article : 265 wordsA Russian warship in the Red Sea, north of Perim, stopped and searched the British steamer Benalder, 3044 tons (W. Thomson and Co.), bound for Yokohama. ...
Article : 42 wordsAn inquiry into the death of Frederick Occleshaw, who was killed at the reducing works on Saturday, was held to-day, when the jury returned[?]verdict that deceased met with ...
Article : 161 wordsRussians attacked Korean soldiers in the neighbourhood of Ham-heung, on the north-east coast of Korea. The Koreans were dispersed. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Japanese Acting Consul-General yesterday received the following cablegram from Baron Komura, Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Tokio:—"At 9 o'clock on Sunday ...
Article : 60 wordsThe trial of the Macdonalds, who are charged of the wilful murder of Grace Macdonald, aged 15, at Longreach, commenced at the Supreme Court, Rockhampton, to-day. The ...
Article : 341 wordsIn North Korea the Russians have extended their front from sea to sea, for they are now heard of at Ham-heung, on the Pacific. Here they have mishandled some Korean troops on ...
Article : 746 wordsRussian and Japanese scouts in Korea have sighted each other at Sun-chen, 35 miles north of Ping-yang. [The above appeared in a portion of yesterday's issue.] ...
Article : 42 wordsThe treaty concluded a few days ago between Japan and Korea has been published. The treaty definitely guarantees on the part of Japan the independence and ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Sydney Cricket Ground, which on Saturday was attended by 35,000 people, presented yesterday a beggarly array of empty benches. Intermittent rain fell Immediately stumps ...
Article : 458 wordsThe estimates of the War Office for 1904-5 were laid on the table of the House of Commons on Friday. The estimates amount to £28,900,000, and provide for ...
Article : 241 wordsSir Philip Fysh, in the course of conversation to-day, emphasised the fact that all idea of entering into a mail contract had been abandoned, and said that on February 1 next ...
Article : 270 wordsSince Friday the Russians have sent their cruisers out of Port Arthur in order to entice the Japanese fleet into shorter range, but the Japanese are too wary. The ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Acting Government Meteorologist (Mr. H. A. Hunt), upon being seen last evening by a "Herald" reporter, in regard to the extraordinary rainfall, explained that the excessive ...
Article : 301 wordsA shocking accident occurred this morning at the Forest Creek Gold Reefs mine, C[?]wton, one man being killed instantly, and two others injured. A party of eight men, ...
Article : 131 wordsThe crews of the last two vessels used by the Japanese in the attempt to block Port Arthur, and sunk for that purpose, after igniting the fuses on the vessels escaped in ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith, will sit on Wednesday to hear applications in connection with the petitions against the return of members of the Federal Parliament. In ...
Article : 217 wordsSome 250 persons, mostly women, attended the Rev. J. A. Dowie's meeting held in the Hibernian Hall this morning. Every care was taken to guard against the admission of any person likely to give ...
Article : 710 wordsThe Boers who were kept prisoners at Ahmednngar, India, and who refused to to take the oath of allegiance until persuaded to do so by Commandant Delarey, ...
Article : 109 wordsIt has transpired that the rent made in the battleship Retvizan in Port Arthur in the attack by the Japanese torpedo flotilla on February 8 is 40ft long. Patching has ...
Article : 87 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has signed a treaty between France and Spain providing for the submission to arbitration of disputes of a ...
Article : 36 wordsAn Immense extent of country has been covered by the remarkable rains recorded this morning. The monsoonal disturbance travelling south-east ...
Article : 418 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Rheinhold-Wagner, a German military expert, when originally engaged by the Chinese Government to report on Port Arthur as a naval base, pointed out what ...
Article : 240 wordsThe "New York Herald" reports that 5000 men, by travelling day and night, have reinforced Port Arthur garrison. It is asserted that the garrison now ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs, in support of his assertion made a few days ago that elected members of the Senate have obtained their seats by the votes of a minority of the ...
Article : 394 wordsDuring 1903 the Imports of the Transvaal amounted in value to £19,500,000, against imports of the value of £13,000,000 in 1902. ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Russian reverses in the war with Japan are expected to facilitate the negotiations of Colonel Younghusband, the principal of the mission to Thibet, with ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Chifu correspondent of the "St. James's Gazette" reports that a Japanese gunboat was badly damaged during the bombardment of Port Arthur, and that she ...
Article : 56 wordsA Russian officer's estimate of the enemy just before matters got to an extreme tension: —"I know the Japanese well from long intercourse with them, and it is my judgment that ...
Article : 169 wordsThe revelations made by the "Figaro" of the part played by Russia in the Fashoda negotiations between Great Britain and France have caused differences among ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following 11 have been chosen to train for the interstate eight-oar race, to be rowed on the Brisbane River on May 7:—J. Deovy (Rockhampton), W. Eddy (Maryborough), D. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Tokio correspondent of the "Times" reports that 100 Japanese women, mostly the wives and daughters of respectable men, have arrived at Nagasaki from Port ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. St. John Brodrick, ' the Secretary of State for India, speaking at Manchester on Saturday, promised to stimulate cottongrowing in India. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Glasgow authorities have decided that from April next they will close public-houses at 10 p.m. The late Mr. Edward Brook, sewing ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Marine Underwriters" Association of South Australia has, in common with similar bodies in other States, adopted, on advice from the London Institute of Underwriters, a ...
Article : 91 wordsD. Gailey has been selected as the representative of Queensland at the Australasian swimming championships, to be decided in Sydney. F. W. Springfield will also be selected ...
Article : 60 wordsWhile steaming across the rails laid on the ice at Lake Baikal, Eastern Siberia, a locomotive of a train broke the ice, and fell through. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 1 Mar 1904, Page 5
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