Mr. Watson has at least succeeded in forming his Ministry, and late this afternoon he announced its constitution to the Governor-General, who expressed his approval of it. ...
Article : 1,609 wordsGeneral Botha, speaking at a meeting of the Dutch held at Johannesburg for the purpose of electing delegates to attend a Boer congress, which is to be held ...
Article : 107 wordsYesterday the unprotected Japanese colony at Geusan, on the east coast of Korea, 115 miles north-east of Seoul, was alarmed by the arrival of three of the ...
Article : 94 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Sir Charles Dilke submitted the following amendment to the Allens Bill(designed to restrict the immigration of ...
Article : 203 wordsMr. Reid declines to-night to in any was discuss the personnel of the new Ministry. "I shall reserve anything I have to say," he remarked, "until the House meets ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is undoubted that a coalition between Mr. Reid and Mr. Deakin can be brought about. Indeed there are already mutual friends acting as go-betweens, but how long ...
Article : 576 wordsMr. Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has upheld the instructions that all Transvaal departmental supplies of articles not produced in South Africa ...
Article : 67 wordsRussian troops are guarding the Yalu at Ta-tung-kau (below the mouth of the river) and also at Chang-song (which is about 35 miles to the north-east of Wiju). ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in replying to a correspondent who wrote to him in reference to the importation of Chinese into the Transvaal, assumes that the Government ...
Article : 228 wordsKing Edward VII., Queen Alexandra, and the Princess Victoria are at Holyhead, and are proceeding to Ireland. The Prince of Wales and the Princess ...
Article : 41 wordsA prominent constitutionalist in the House of Representatives, when discussing to-night Mr. Watson's having consented to form a Ministry, said:— ...
Article : 530 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander-in-Cliief, reports that two companies of Japanese infantry and some cavalry have crossed the Yalu, near ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Daily News" states that the German Emperor, finding that the railway revenue is £5,000,000 above the amount received for the 1903 year, has ordered the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe recent reports of the presence of Cossacks between Gensan and Puk-chong (on the east coast of Korea) for the purpose of creating a diversion on the ...
Article : 50 wordsBaron von Stengel, the German Imperial Treasurer, speaking in the Reichstag, said that he anticipates that there will be a chronic Imperial deficit of £5,000,000 until ...
Article : 46 wordsThe action of Count Tisza, in summoning the military reserves, withdrew 1000 men from the strikers, and this precipitated the collapse of the strike. ...
Article : 103 wordsThis was the day of farewells amongst retiring Ministers They attended their last Executive this morning, and then hastened back to their offices to superintend packing ...
Article : 186 wordsForeign military attaches at Tokio have been warned to be ready, to proceed to the front. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Turks, contrary to the existing treaty, imposed upon a Greek tradesman at Smyrna, Asia Minor, a license duty, and closed his shop in default of payment. ...
Article : 125 wordsIn military circles at Kieff it is asserted that 10,000 troops are in the Mancharian hospitals, and that they are suffering Chiefly from typhoid fever. ...
Article : 37 wordsTwo Japanese, who were disguised as Chinese beggars, approached General Kuropatkin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian forces in Manchuria, at ...
Article : 86 wordsIn the speeches at the dinner given by King Victor Emmanuel III. to President Loubet at the Quirinal, the traditions of affinity, friendship, co-operation, and peace ...
Article : 43 wordsAlready a more reasonable feeling is taking possession of ex-Ministerialists in regard to the front Opposition bench. A couple of days ago they threatened to clash, and meant to ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Dalai Lama has provided the Chinese Amban at Lhassa with an escort to proceed to Gyangtse to confer with Colonel Younghusband. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Pope has thanked, M. Deicasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, for preventing the Capuchin monks from being expelled from Abyssinia. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe captains and officers of the Association of the Mercahtile Marine at Marseilles have struck, owing to some officers having been put ashore at the instance ...
Article : 56 wordsSeven young Indian Princes, who are members of the Imperial Cadet Corps, will shortly receive commissions in the regular army. ...
Article : 30 wordsRussia has negotiated with a Paris synflicate for a loan of £32,000,000 on 5 per cent. Treasury bonds at £98. The syndicate guarantees £10,000,000. ...
Article : 37 wordsWhen the Barton Government was formed the Minister for External Affairs was head of the Ministry. Then came the Attorney-General and the Minister for Home Affairs. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe dominant feature of the Labour caucus held this afternoon was the general recognition of the extremely precarious hold which Labour has on the Treasury benches. There ...
Article : 608 wordsThe war continues, of course, to attract great attention here, although there are many other questions which have a serious hold on the interest of the public. For the ...
Article : 340 wordsAn arrangement has been arrived at by the Railway Departments of Victoria aud South Australia to resume the running of express trains between Melbourne and Adelaide on Saturdays, commencing on ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Chinese propose for the sake of ensuring greater security to remove the arsenal from Shanghai to Wu-hu. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Chinese cruiser Hai-tien, 4300 tons, struck a rock at the Elliott Islands, off Dalay, during a fog, and suuk. ...
Article : 26 wordsA small force of Japanese has succeeded in crossing the Yalu not far distant from the mouth of the river, where, until the last few weeks, great blocks of ice had been drifting ...
Article : 1,350 wordsMr. Chamberlain, in the course of a speech at Birmingham, stated that there would be no general election in 1904. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe State Governor, Sir Reginuld Talbot, held his first Executive Council to-day. At this meeting Mr. Swinburne was sworn in as Minister for Water Supply. ...
Article : 86 wordsIn a billiard match between C. Dawson (the retired billiard champion) and H. W. Stevenson (the ex-champion) the former beat the latter by 870 in a game of 18,000 ...
Article : 38 words"If Watson is satisfied, we are," or words to that effect, was the answer that was generally received in labour circles last night in reply to the questioning observations relative ...
Article : 544 wordsAt 5.45 o'clock this morning Coustable Nation, who was on his beat in Gilles-street, noticed a young man walking without coat, but, or boots along the footputh, and carrying a candlestick. Concluding ...
Article : 150 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. Fred. MacCabe, the comedian. The late Fred. M'Cabo was an entertainer who belonged almost to a former generation ...
Article : 90 wordsAn action has been commenced by the Lake George Mines against Gibbs, Bright, and Co., Anthony Gibbs and Co., F. A. Keating, and C. E. Bright, to recover ...
Article : 75 wordsThe oversea arrivals of wool to date are 297,553 bales, of which 128,500 bales have been forwarded direct to manufacturers, leaving available for the ...
Article : 34 wordsAnother case of plague occurred in Brisbane to-day, the patient being a boy 16 years of age, working in a producw store near Roma-street markets. The two patients at present ...
Article : 66 wordsThe price of bar silver to-day is 2s 0 15-16d per ounce standard, a fall of 1-16d. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 27 Apr 1904, Page 9
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