Mr. W. H. Irvine, late Premier of Victoria, was entertained at a banquet at the Trocadero Restaurant yesterday by the Australian mercantile organisations ...
Article : 499 wordsSeven hundred Jews in Whitechapel are taking advantage of the present cheap steamship rates to proceed from London to America. ...
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Article : 1,864 wordsReuter's correspondent at Tokio reports that, after five days' fighting, the Japanese captured Kin-chan on Thursday evening. The Russian stronghold at Hand-shan ...
Article : 132 wordsThe death is announced of MajorGeneral Sir John Clarke Carstairs M'Neill, V.C., G.C.V.O., at the age of 73 years. ...
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Article : 37 wordsA shooting affray, the outcome of a disturbance at the Ultimo Hotel, occurred yesterday afternoon. Two men, one of them named Thomas Kenny, visited the ...
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Article : 646 wordsFurther particulars of the storming of Kin-chau state that the lighting lasted continuously for sixteen hours. The Japanese were originally posted on Mount Samphon, ...
Article : 383 wordsThe Japanese have announced that they are maintaining an effective blockade of the coasts of the Liao-tung Peninsula southward of a line between Pi-tsz-wo, on ...
Article : 41 wordsA telegram was received yesterday from the police in Sydney, stating that Hugh K. Jamieson, formerly accountant in the Melbourne office of the Vacuum Oil Company, ...
Article : 271 wordsThe continuous training of the Commonwealth military forces has been systematised, and is no longer uniform as to term. The Light Horse Regiments ...
Article : 1,959 wordsGeneral, Kuropatkin has reported that the Japanese have landed several heavy guns at Taku-shan, each drawn by eighteen horses, and also some troops, who are ...
Article : 38 wordsThe women and children at Port Arthur are being sheltered from the Japanese bombardment in dugout caves within the inner line of fortifications. ...
Article : 31 wordsLloyd's have been officially warned that some fast steamers which Russia has recently purchased are being equipped as privateers. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Royal Commission appointed in March last year, under the chairmanship of the Duke of Norfolk, "to inquire into the pay, terms of service, and efficiency of ...
Article : 177 wordsThe following gentlemen having undertaken to conduct experiments with the seed wheat supplied by the Department of Agriculture, have received the necessary ...
Article : 876 wordsSir Edwin Smith, president of the Commercial Travellers' Association, yesterday laid the foundation-stone of a building on the North-terrace, which is being erected ...
Article : 45 wordsThe rainfall for the twenty-four hours ended 9 a.m. yesterday, as registered at the pumping station of the Ipswich Waterworks, was 40 points, and for the ...
Article : 629 wordsThe Russian nobles and public bodies are subscribing largely to a patriotic fund to provide a new fleet. It is intended to construct a large ...
Article : 54 wordsNo developments in the political situation are expected until Wednesday, when there will be caucus meetings of all the three parties. Mr. Watson's proposals to ...
Article : 604 wordsAlthough very little has been heard regarding the discovery of tin at Port Darwin, it appears that a huge alluvial field is now being opened up in that district. ...
Article : 221 wordsAn officer of the Russian gunboat Korictz, which, with the cruiser Variag, was sunk by the Japanese at Ohemulpho in February last, declares that the bulk ...
Article : 57 wordsAn official report states that Captain Hayashi, of the Japanese gunboat Chokai, was killed in the engagement at Kinchau, and there were nine other naval ...
Article : 33 wordsSpeaking during a debate in the Chamber of Deputies, the French Premier, M. Combes, stated that owing to the recent protest of the Pope in connection with the ...
Article : 176 wordsMr. Iwasaki, Acting Consul-General for Japan, has received the following cablegram from Baron Komura, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:—The ...
Article : 729 wordsIt is announced that, in view of the danger from drifting mines, the British fleet on the China station will not proceed further north than Wu-sung, on the ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. G. C. Willcocks returned from a visit to the Chillagoe district to-day. He states that Mr. Gibb, who accompanied him, met with an accident through falling ...
Article : 294 wordsSome interesting details regarding the position in the East were obtained from Mr. C. W. Taylor, of Tientsin, a passenger on board the China Steam Navigation ...
Article : 927 wordsOur cable messages to-day convey particulars of another severe battle in the Liao-tung Peninsula this time, and another victory for Japan. The engagement ...
Article : 1,415 wordsA terrible balloon fatality occurred yesterday. An aeronaut named Zanchi made an ascent at Paternopolo, and had reached a height of 7000ft., when he fell to the ...
Article : 42 wordsA bill to exclude Chinese from Cape Colony, unless they are British subjects, has passed its third reading in the Cape House of Assembly. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Bill has passed its third reading in the Dominion House of Commons by a majority of 46. ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe weather is still unsettled. Very little rain fell during the day, and the wind changed to the west, blowing fairly strongly. Fine weather is anticipated. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 30 May 1904, Page 5
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