The ceremony of opening the second Federal Parliament was performed this afternoon. All parts of the floor of the chamber were reserved for the Federal members, passages ...
Article : 449 wordsIn the House of Commons last night the Navy Estimates were further considered in committee of supply. Captain Gibson Bowles (Conservative), ...
Article : 308 wordsThe territory in East Africa in dispute between Great Britain and Portugal comprlses a portion of Barotseland, and Involves the ownership of 75,000 square miles ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Japanese have occupied and fortified I-chen-yang, Korea. Russian troops are in the vicinity. Renter's correspondent at Tientsin states ...
Article : 86 wordsH.M.S. Katoomba left to-day for Sydney. She will go to Jervis Bay for gun practice and torpedo running. The Tauranga will leave tomorrow for Sydney, calling at Jervis Bay, She ...
Article : 70 wordsMajor Estorff's forces in German SouthWest Africa fought for 10 hours with a strong force of Hereros at Omaruru on February 25, and eventually stormed the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Great General Staff of the Japanese army has embarked at Nagasaki for Cuemulpho. ...
Article : 27 wordsAlfred S. L. Rellim was convicted at Launceston to-day for practising as a physician, without being registered. He exhibited a brass plate at his residence, which was called ...
Article : 149 wordsM. Combes, the Premier of France, maintains his majorities in the Chamber of Deputies, but the Budget committee accuses him of shielding M. Pelletan, the ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Japanese, in accordance with the [?]tipulations of the alliance with Korea, propose to build forthwith a railway from Seoul to Wiju, for military purposes. ...
Article : 33 wordsIt formerly took vessels half an hour to [?]nter Port Arthur, but now, owing to the entrance being partially blocked, it takes, them two hours. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta, 12,550 metric tons, shortly after starting on what was intended to be a 36 hours' trial from Brest, grazed some rocks, ...
Article : 137 wordsRussians declare that there was found inside Port Arthur, at low tide, a Japanese torpedo boat destroyer, which was sunk in the attempt on the warships last week. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Prime Munster lost no time after Parliament assembled in bringing forward the Conciliation and Arbitration Bill in the House of Representatives this afternoon. He moved the first reading of the measure, ...
Article : 1,297 wordsField-Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has been gazetted Inspector-General of the Forces, and President of the Army Selection Board. ...
Article : 31 wordsThere is an impression that the Japanese are concentrating troops at the Miaotao and Elliot Islands, preparatory to making a descent upon the Liaotong Peninsula. ...
Article : 33 wordsLord Tennyson, formerly Governor-General of Australia, has arrived at his home, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, where he has received an ovation. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Admiralty has introduced the premium system of payment for machine work at dockyards, enabling workmen, besides obtaining ordinary wages, to earn ...
Article : 50 wordsVice-Admiral Makaroff, Commander-inChief of the Russian Naval Forces in the Far East, has reached Port Arthur. ...
Article : 23 wordsSenator PLAYFORD, Vice-President of t[?] Executive Council (S.A.), reminded senators that the time had come for the election of President. ...
Article : 2,079 wordsMany Russian spies in Japanese seaports have been captured. Tartars, disguised as coolies, have been found aboard a transport filled with ...
Article : 41 wordsWhat will be the result of the blockading and isolation of Port Arthur? Is perhaps the most important question at the present stage of operations between the combatants in the ...
Article : 957 wordsThe deficit in the finances of the Transvaal amounts to £250,000. The works loan of £30,000,000, raised in January, 1903, has been expended. ...
Article : 33 wordsA Bluebook which has been issued shows that the majority of the colonies favour the metric system of weights and measures. ...
Article : 29 wordsFive Russian torpedo boats have started from Port Said for Algiers. While cruising [?] the Mediterranean they will watch for steamers carrying contraband of war. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe election to fill the vacancy in the representation of Normanton Division (Yorkshire, West Riding) in the House of Commons, due to the death of Mr. ...
Article : 72 wordsConsols were quoted yesterday at £86, an advance of 3s 9d on the price of the previous day. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Russian armoured cruiser Dmitri Donskoi, 5882 tons, has asked to be allowed to stay for a fortnight at Suez to allow of repairs being effected. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsThe dispute between the shipping ring and some of its former members with regard to freights to Australia has been practically settled on the basis of the ...
Article : 73 wordsFrost bite, among Russian troops in the Baikal region has rendered 1000 soldiers permanently unfit for active service. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe owners of the sailing ship Fortunate Figari recently issued a writ against the owners of the steamship Coogee, claiming £6000 damages for injuries sustained in a ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Japanese mail service to Shanghai has been resumed without escort. ...
Article : 17 wordsRussia has declined the offer of the Cnited States of medical assistance for the wounded, on the ground that [?]er own is sufflcient, though Russia accepted the offer ...
Article : 41 wordsKing Edward, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Cambridge University yesterday, and inaugurated the Law and Medical Schools and the Sedgwick ...
Article : 30 wordsAt the Boulder Court yesterday Joseph Varran, miner, was committed for trial on a charge of having stolen a small quantity of tellnrido ore from the Lake View Consols ...
Article : 48 wordsA general impression provalls that the Japanese mean to have Port Arthur as soon as possible Hence any move in that quarter is token to mean some form of preparation ...
Article : 1,016 wordsThe Federal Chief Justices sat to-day for the first time in the Court of Disputed Roturns, to deal with petitions arising out of the recent Federal elections. ...
Article : 315 wordsIn a dim, unreasoning sort of way one expects, when nearing the scene of future hostilities, that there will be some outward and visible sign that matters are likely to become ...
Article : 1,403 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, intends before the end of the session to move in the direction of checking irregularities and promoting better discipline in ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Earl of Glasgow has been appointed chairman of the New Zealand Fisheries Company. The Royal Academy of Music has invited ...
Article : 106 wordsBar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 2 11-l6d per ounce standard, an advance of ½d since yesterday. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 3 Mar 1904, Page 7
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