News has been received from Colombia, South America, of the sensational escape and ultimate recapture of a large body of convicts. ...
Article : 113 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday a motion opposing the fiscal policy of the Government was moved by the Earl of Crewe (Liberal). Lord Crowe's attack drew in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,097 wordsA public meeting was held at St. Arnaud on Saturday evening to consider the situation with regard to conflicting candidates for Kara Kara at the forthcoming State ...
Article : 1,191 wordsNews of a terrible and sensational disaster to a large body of Russian troops is conveyed in a telegram published by the "Narodni Listy," a daily paper at Prague, in Austria. The telegram states that the ice on the surface of Lake Baikal, on the ...
Article : 129 wordsThe position of affairs in the Far East is being heatedly discussed by the Russian newspapers, many of which accuse Great Britain of causing the disasters which have been experienced by Russia. Reuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg makes the assertion that in ...
Article : 69 wordsAn official notification from Tokio states that the Japanese Government has decided that contraband of war shall be regarded as belonging to two defined classes. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe grain market at Chicago is strong owing to the fear that the war will not be confined to Russia and Japan, the scarcity of cash wheat for milling ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the debate on the Address in Reply to the King's Speech was concluded. An amendment moved by Mr. Keir ...
Article : 136 wordsThe export of Russian wheat by rail to Germany has ceased owing to the diversion of rolling stock, due to the special requirements resulting from the war. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe presence of a Japanese cruiser in the Sea of Okhotsk, off the eastern coast of Russian Siberia, is indicated by the capture in the small seaport of Okhotsk of the ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. George Brookman, the well-known mining investor, of Adelaide, and other colonists this morning inspected the bronze equestrian statue executed by Captain ...
Article : 57 wordsA correction of the sensational report of a disaster on Lake Baikal has been received. From this it appears that instead of the ice cracking, a train conveying troops dashed into a snow drift, and several casualties resulted. ...
Article : 51 wordsMr. W. Warren, the manager in Australasia of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company Limited, reports:--The Japanese Government notifies that in view of the ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Chefoo correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports that only three of the Russian war ships at Port Arthur are intact. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe captain of the barquentine La Belle, which arrived from Surprise Island on Saturday, reports that on Tuesday last, when about 30 miles on this side of Jervis ...
Article : 234 wordsOur cablegrams to-day indicate no change in the view which is taken throughout Europe and America with respect to the Czar's official announcement, that Russia ...
Article : 1,024 wordsA comparison between the effectiveness of the shells used by the Japanese and Russian war ships is made by the Tokio correspondent of the "Times," who states ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Chinese Government has formally notified that its attitude in connection with the Russo-Japanese war will be one of armed neutrality. The Japanese Government has replied stating that the Chinese mausoleums and palaces at Mukden and H[?]ing-King, in Manchuria, will be secure ...
Article : 78 wordsThe agreement for the sale of the South Australian Government wine depot in London to a private syndicate has been signed. The syndicate consists of Messrs. Blandy ...
Article : 72 wordsThere was an enthusiastic demonstration at Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday, when the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. Twasaki, appeared in one of the boxes ...
Article : 69 wordsThe accompanying map shows all the centres of warlike operations up to the present, and gives an idea of the rugged conformation of the Manchurian country which the Japanese troops will have to negotiate if, as indicated by the Russian official communique, the Czar's troops mean to withdraw to the northward. It is 600 miles from Port Arthur, which Russia proposes to leave confidently to stand a siege, to Harbin, at the junction of the Vladivostock and South Manchurian lines, which the Russians are reported to be preparing to make their base for the land campaign. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 530 wordsJohn Holland, a groom employed by Mr. W. H. Croker, of Albert-street, East Melbourne, had on exciting fight with a burglar on Saturday night, and had the satisfaction, after a struggle of 15 ...
Article : 195 wordsOn Saturday morning, Detectives Bannon and Mercer bad an exciting chase through the city streets in pursuit of a young man whom they were anxious to interview regarding certain ...
Article : 186 wordsThe following sales of Australian wheat are reported:--8500 quarters Victorian, for shipment 15th January; 11,000, 16,000 and 19,000 quarters, January and February ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. J. H. Butler, hon. secretary of the Irvine testimonial fund, reports that the amount of subscriptions received to date is £1856 10. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. John Gray, who was a candidate for the Wimmera seat at the last Federal election, intends to contest the vacancy in the representation of Donald and Swan Hill in ...
Article : 55 wordsAccording to the correspondent of the "Daily Mail," the recent disaster to the Russian transport Yenesei while laying a line of submarine mines in Talienwan Bay resulted in much greater loss of life than was at first reported. The correspondent states that 100 men, including the commander and two ...
Article : 165 wordsAdmiral Alexieff has been very liberal in bestowing decorations on the military and naval officers engaged under him in the Far East. In conferring the decorations ...
Article : 49 wordsA meeting of the Lowan electors was held on Saturday in regard to the Irvine testimonial. Resolutions were carried that a subscription list be opened in aid of the ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Jabez Coon, a member of the Collingwood city council, and an ex-president of the Collingwood branch of the A.N.A., has intimated his intention of standing for ...
Article : 190 wordsThe steamer Warrimoo, from New Zealand, reached the quarantine station at daybreak on Saturday. As inspection by the health authorities showed that the ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Russian Government has refused to grant an exequatur to Mr. Morgan, the United States consul at Dalny. Colonel Hay, the United States Secretary of State, ...
Article : 85 wordsA mass meeting held at Christchurch has carried resolutions protesting against the admission of Chinese to the Transvaal, and urging a referendum of the white ...
Article : 41 wordsThe official communique issued at St. Petersburg, stating that the distance of the territory "treacherously attacked" and the Czar's desire to maintain peace were causes which rendered it impossible for Russia to make preparations for war a long time in advance, has been sharply criticised by the ...
Article : 225 wordsA public meeting, called by the shire council, was held in the shire hall on Saturday evening in support of the Cran-bourne Farmers and Property Defence ...
Article : 182 words[?] Through the medium of your columns may I call the pressing wants of the above institution? Since the opening ...
Article : 126 wordsIn a report to the Minister of Agriculture, the Government commercial agent at Kobe states:--"It is generally considered that the prospects of an increased trade ...
Article : 79 wordsSir,--In your issue of to-day appears a statement to the effect that the daily paid men, presumably the Daily Paid Union, would not join in the conference of unions ...
Article : 133 wordsThe naval cadets of the Williamstown and St. Kilda Presbyterian Sunday Schools, who arrived at Swan Island on Friday in pouring rain, were favored on Saturday ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is announced that M. Pleske, the Russian Minister of Finance, has been transferred to the Council of the Empire. M. Kokovzov, tho Imperial Secretary, has been ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 22 Feb 1904, Page 5
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