The Prime Minister the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, who has been suffering from a severe attack of influenza, is now convalescent, and has proceeded to Brighton. ...
Article : 37 wordsAdmiral Alexeieff reports that the Russian transport Yenissei, while engaged on the 11th February in laying a line of submarine mines in Taltenwan Bay (Dalny), ...
Article : 120 wordsThe return match, England v. New South Wales, was concluded to-day, and resulted in an easy victory for the visitors. The features of to-day's play were the ...
Article : 1,108 wordsThe statement that retrenchment throughout the public service generally is contemplated by the Government has been contradicted. ...
Article : 249 wordsLord Stanley. Postmaster-General, at the request of the New Zealand Government, has assented to a penny postage rate on all newspapers posted in New Zealand ...
Article : 45 wordsThe return, of Mr. Slack, the Liberal candidate for the St. Albans division of Hertfordshire, who defeated the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, the late Conservative ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Egyptian authorities have given permission for absolutely essential repairs to be made to a Russian torpedo boat destroyer, which has arrived at Alexandria. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Russian warships, it is now announced, were afforded harbour coaling facilities at the French port of Jiboutil, near the entrance to the Red Sea. on the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Milverton Tram Company having agreed to a substantial reduction in freights to the Broken Flill Proprietary Company, the latter will not proceed with the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe neutrality of China, Germany, and France in connection with the present war has now been proclaimed. ...
Article : 21 wordsAdvices received at New York give further details of the recent incident at Chemulpho. The Russian warships Varyag and Koreitz, which were ordered by the ...
Article : 156 wordsSir Thomas Fitzgerald, the eminent Australian surgeon, is reported to be seriousely ill. M'CRACKEN'S CITY BREWERY. ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Japanese Government have notified the Government of Korea that Japan has begun free action against Russia in order to save Korea from the preasure of Russia, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, is publishing the report on the Congo Free State recently drawn up by Mr. Casement, the ...
Article : 394 wordsJapan, landing troops in Korea, has three points to which her transports could be directed—Masampho, on the south-east coast; Mok Po, on the south-west; and ...
Article : 208 wordsBaron Von Rosen, the Russian diplomatic representative in Japan, has left Tokio, and the Russian Minister to Korea has left S[?]oul. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn accident in which William, M'Ca[?] had a marvellous escape happened at the [?]wood railway crossing, near Perth, on Saturday night. M'Cann was driving a ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Chinese L[?]gation in Paris states that fighting is proceeding on the Yalu River, and that the Russians, have taken eighty Japanese prisoners. ...
Article : 30 wordsGeneral [?]g, chief of the staff to Admiral Alexeieff, has telegraphed that the Japanese have landed 19,000 troops at Chemulpho, the port of Scoul, the capital ...
Article : 67 wordsIt is reported at Chifu that the Russian cruiser Askold, one of the vessels damaged in the Japanese attack on Port Arthur, sank on Friday last in 30ft. of water in ...
Article : 43 wordsMr. Andrew Carnegie, the American [?], [?]arre is making a donation of £[?] to establish a public library at Westport. ...
Article : 26 wordsA Russian transport, accompanied by warships from Vladivostock, is now c[?]sing off the Hokkaido coast, in northern Japan, and it is reported that the warships ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Bennet Burleigh, the war correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," in a report to that journal implies that the objective of the Japanese [?]ies is ...
Article : 82 wordsMuch interest attaches to the military position of Russia and Japan. Russian, with the enormous length of her land communications passing through hostile territory, by ...
Article : 1,361 wordsDuring A thunderstorm at Canterburry Mr. Donald Ross, an officer of the Department of Agriculture, was killed by lightning. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe guard of the train which left, Brisbane at 10.55 p.m. on Saturday, and was due at Caboolture at 12.30 a.m., reported that serious, bush fires were raging in the ...
Article : 357 wordsInformation is to hand that 300,000 men of the army reserves in European Russia and Siberia have been summoned to join the colours. ...
Article : 28 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—Arrived: M[?] burg, s. from Hamburg; Surrey, s., from London; Wyandra, s., from Melbourne; Guthrie, s., from Adelaide. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe St. Petersburg "Novoe Vremya," in an article just published, cynically admits that, with a view to gaining time, Russia merely played with Japan throughout the ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Naval Commandants separated on Saturday, having complete drafting the naval regulations. Captain Creswell is expected back in Melbourne in three weeks, when he ...
Article : 583 wordsAccording to the " Times" correspondent at Tokio, it is stated that Port Arthur has now been sealed by the Japanese squadron. ...
Article : 32 wordsNews from Pretoria states that the Transvaal Legislative Council has finally [?]nted to the labour importation ordinance. ...
Article : 28 wordsAdvices received at Chifu state that Admiral Alexeieff, the Russian Viceroy and Commander in-Chief, has gone to Harbin, in Manchuria. ...
Article : 28 wordsA widespread revolutionary proclamation against the war with Japan has been issued in Russia. The proclamation declares that, the war ...
Article : 63 wordsAdvices from Khabarovsk state that General Linievitch has been appointed to the supreme command of the Russian army in Manchuria. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Strelitz hat been gazetted as Consul for Sweden and Norway at Fremantle, Western Australia. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Russians state that the firing of the first shot in the war by the Russian gunboat Korietz was an accident. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe bugler boys in the Second Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, now stationed in Egypt, have been tried by court martial, and sentenced to eighty-four days' hard ...
Article : 42 wordsBoth telegraphic and railway communication between the Russian naval ports of Port Arthur and Vladivostock is now interrupted. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe [?]tial defeats in the war with Japan have had the effect of profoundly stirring the national spirit in Russia, and many demonstrations by the people have taken ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 330 wordsThe tenth annual meeting of St. Mary's Cordon Club was held in St. Mary's schoolroom, Kangaroo Point, last evening There was an excellent attendance of ...
Article : 373 wordsThe French cruiser Assai, the torpedo-boat destroyers Pistolet and Javaleine, and several submarine boats, with a quantity of melinite shells, are leaving Brest for ...
Article : 37 wordsA telegram from Narrabri states that bush fires have been raging in various parts of the district during the past week, and thousands of acres of grass have been ...
Article : 248 wordsPublic prayers for the success of Russia in the war with Japan were offered yesterday in the Orthodox Greek, Churches at Athens, and at Sofia and Belgrado, the ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Premier has received a telegram from Mr. Deakin, stating that he has received a further telegram, through the Governor-General, from the Secretary of ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Socialist Congress now sitting at St. Etienne, in France, has adopted a resolution protesting against the war between Russia and Japan, and expressing regret ...
Article : 49 wordsInformation is to hand that 10,000 Chinese Imperial troops nerw at Pao-ting-fu, to the south-west of Peking, have been ordered to Shan-hai-kwa[?], to proceed ...
Article : 39 wordsThe world expectantly awaits the next development in the struggle between Russia and Japan, knowing well that the future is big with possibilities which none may ...
Article : 1,497 wordsIt is stated at Tientsin that, an amicable arrangement has been come to, by which the French will remain [?] charge of the fort at Shan-hai-kwan, on the Gulf of ...
Article : 47 wordsJohn Levland in a recent article in "The King," gives some interesting infomation concerning the Russian navy, which, taken together with the fact that ...
Article : 939 wordsThe Austrian collier J[?]va, which, was chartered by Russia to proceed to Port Arthur with coal, was treated as a belligerent vessel by the Egyptian authorities ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsThe Chinese New Year was celebrated at midnight last night by the Chinese residents of Brisbane, and at the hour mentioned a fusillade of crackers was ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tue 16 Feb 1904, Page 5
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