The annual meeting of the Britiah Association for the Advancement of Science was opened at Cambridge yesterday, when the presidential address was delivered by ...
Article : 137 wordsIt is stated on apparently trustworthy authority that the Russian troops in Port Arthur are reduced to the necessity of eating their horses, owing to the shortness ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. John Leahy, who has still the honour of representing the Bulloo electorate in the Queensland Parliament, returned to Brisbane on Wednesday night, ...
Article : 1,718 wordsMr. Reid has announced that his Cabinet is composed as follows:— Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs, Hon. G. H. Reid (New South ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Bishop-elect of Brisbane, the Rev. St. C. G. A. Donaldson, M.A., is a son of the late Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, who was a member of the first Legislative ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 83 wordsMr. Reid early this morning issued notes to his new colleagues to meet at the Commonwealth Offices at 11 o'clock. The first to put in an appearance was Mr. M'Lean, ...
Article : 266 wordsThe Government of Venezuela has commenced to blackmail the foreign companies established in that country, and has seized the asphalt lake and the Guanoco ...
Article : 169 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, the Hon. G. H. Reid, who occupied the seat at the table of the Leader of the Government, was loudly cheered on rising to ...
Article : 1,343 wordsAdmiral Togo's latest report on the battle with the Port Arthur squadron on the 10th instant stales that the Japanese casualties totalled 225. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Russian, cruiser Rurik, which was sunk in the engagement between Admiral Kamimura's fleet and the Vladivostock squadrum on Sunday last, lost all her ...
Article : 72 wordsAs only forty-eight out of seventy-five members put in an appearance to-day, changes may occur in the manner in which seats were selected. The benches were ...
Article : 252 wordsThe naval sortie from Port Arthur yesterday, in which the battleships Retvisan, Peresveit and Poltava, and the cruiser Diana took part, is stated to have been ...
Article : 78 wordsIn connection with the geological work of Queensland no name is better known and more generally esteemed than that of Dr. Robert L. Jack, who was for many ...
Article : 992 wordsThe Musgrove-Stewart Dramatic Company has sailed for Australia by the R.M.S. Oroya. Mr. George Musgrove has engaged M. ...
Article : 321 wordsThe Japanese newspapers, in dealing with the Rechitelni incident, state that Japan has no intention of allowing a repetition of the Mandjour farce. Japan ...
Article : 92 wordsNews received regarding the siege of Port Arthur states that the right wing of the Japanese force is in the vicinity of Pigeon Bay, on the western side of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe steamer Decima has arrived at Chifu, and graphic reports have been received from those on board of the Japanese bombardment of Port Arthur. The ...
Article : 112 wordsWith regard to the question of Russian ships taking refuge in neutral ports, the Russian Government contends that the twenty-four hours' grace granted to ...
Article : 110 wordsThe new Ministers took possession of their offices after being sworn in, and were introduced to the heads of their departments; but actual work will probably not ...
Article : 62 wordsMajor Yamaka, under a flag of tru[?]e, delivered to the Russian Governor of Port Arthur the offer made by the Mikado to remove all non-combatants, and also a ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Chinese Taotai of Shanghai has allowed the Russian cruiser Askold and the destroyer Grosovoi a reasonable time to effect the necessary repairs. On the ...
Article : 43 wordsDiscussion was, of course, rife in the lobbies regarding the prospects of the new Ministry. With one exception it is agreed to be an exceptionally strong team, ...
Article : 239 wordsReuter's correspondent at Peking states that the authorities of the Chinese railways have been asked if they have sufficient rolling stock to transport 40,000 Chinese ...
Article : 54 wordsThe British authorities have granted a cum of £2000 to Adolph Beck as a solatium for his wrongful conviction and imprisonment. ...
Article : 108 wordsFurther news from Port Arthur states that after two nights' desperate fig[?]ting the Japanese captured Wolf's Hill, a short distance north of Port Arthur. The crest ...
Article : 85 wordsGerman shipowners propose to double their present services to the Far East, and also lower the freights. They anticipate that this will enable them to capture the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Acting Consul for Japan has received a cable message to the effect that on the 16th instant the commander of the besieging forces at Port Arthur s[?]nt a ...
Article : 86 wordsGeneral Von Trotha, the Military Commander in German South-west Africa, has inflicted a further defeat on the Herrero insurgents at Omuramba. The natives are ...
Article : 47 wordsIn the lobbies to-day Sir William Lyne was loud in his denunciation of the new Ministry, which, he maintains, will not live three months. Talk, however, is ...
Article : 420 wordsMany of the registered letters for Japan among the mails by the German steamer Prince Heinrich, which were seized in the Red Sea by a Russian volunteer cruiser, ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Federal Press representatives to-day presented Mr. Watson, the retiring Premier, with a silver tobacco-box and matchbox as a token of the esteem in ...
Article : 112 wordsNineteen hundred cattle, the property of the Q.N. Bank, are leaving Roxmere. The bullocks are going to Adelaide in charge of Cambell, and the mixed cattle ...
Article : 392 wordsReports are to hand that heavy rains have begun in Manchuria, causing serious floods, and the bridges over the Taitse Ho River, to the eastward of Lia[?]yang, have ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is believed that the strong protest addressed by the Marquis of Lansdowne to the Russian Government on the contraband question and the rights of neutrals will ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Alfred Dampier and his popular dramatic company will arrive in Brisbane this morning, and commence their season of two weeks in His Majesty's Theatre ...
Article : 196 wordsReuter's correspondent telegraphs that the Japanese troops have occupied Tsianthan, on the extreme left flank of General Kuropatkin's force, and they are also ...
Article : 39 wordsInformation has been received that the cruiser Ural, which was formerly a German steamer, and was purchased by Russia after the present war began, stopped the ...
Article : 89 wordsEvery officer on the Russian battleship Tsarevitch was either killed or wounded in the naval battle on the 10th instant, and a midshipman eventually took command. ...
Article : 86 wordsThe proclamation which was issued at Malta at the outbreak of the war, dealing with the coaling and provisioning of belligerent ships was rescinded yesterday, and ...
Article : 75 wordsA special meeting of the Windsor Town Council was held last night. All the aldermen were present except Alderman Graham, who was unable to attend through ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Kinetoscope pictures presented in the Centennial Hall last night were loudly applauded, and the humorous films were provocative of much mirth. The ...
Article : 43 wordsCommander Ogura, of the Japanese battleship Mikasa, has given a description of the battle with the Port Arthur squadron on the 10th instant. He states that ...
Article : 160 wordsMr. George Houston Reid was born in 1845, in Renfrewshire, Scotland. His father, the Rev. John Reid, brought his family to Victoria in 1852, settling in ...
Article : 1,205 wordsMr. M. Joseph, advance agent for the Anderson Dramatic Company, arrived in Brisbane last night en route for Charters Towers, where the company will open on ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Fri 19 Aug 1904, Page 5
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