At Port Douglas a gale has been raging for the past few days. A number of buildings were partially unroofed, and there was a fall of 22[?] inches of rain in three days. ...
Article : 499 wordsVice-Admiral Makaroff, in command of the Russian naval forces at Port Arthur, reports by telegraph that on Thursday last, 10th inst., a naval engagement took place outside Port Arthur. His despatch states:-- "At 3 o' clock in the morning six Russian torpedo boats went out of the ...
Article : 345 wordsMr. Bent, the Premier, arrived here by train yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. Hutchinson, M.L.A. Mr. Bent was acting as substitute for Mr. Murray, the ...
Article : 1,038 wordsA sensational crime was committed yesterday by a young girl at Capetown. The victim was Mr. Piet Marais, a South African millionaire, and the perpetrator was ...
Article : 174 wordsIt is a commonplace amongst lawyers that if only a prevaricating witness is allowed latitude enough he will sooner or later contradict himself or his friends. This ...
Article : 766 wordsThe Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce has, by 61 votes to 11, passed a resolution urging the Imperial Government to immediately ratify the ordinance passed by the ...
Article : 203 wordsWhile the English press has been steadily counselling a well-bred restraint as the proper attitude to observe on the subject of the Russian naval reverses, the English people ...
Article : 1,138 wordsThe Telegraph department has received advices notifying the stranding of the A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Aramac as follows:-- ...
Article : 223 wordsThe committee of the Sussex County Cricket Club has requested Mr. C. B. Fry, the famous cricketer, who at Oxford captained both the University Cricket Club ...
Article : 71 wordsLord Milner, Governor of the Transvaal, in forwarding to the Colonial Office the resolution presented to him on Thursday by the Johannesburg deputation in favor of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Government of the colony of Natal has cabled to Mr. Lyttelton, Secretary for the Colonics, that unless the tension due to the shortness of labor in the Transvaal ...
Article : 47 wordsReuter's correspondent at Rome reports that Italy is negotiating with England for the possession of a strip of coast country near Kismayu, south of the River Juba, ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Antonio Basto, junior, of Antonio's Hotel, Flinders-street, fell from the head of an iron staircase early yesterday morning, and was killed. Nobody saw the ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Lyttelton, has cabled Lord Milner that King Edward's pleasure is not to disallow the labor importation ordinance, but that it ...
Article : 106 wordsThe French newspapers hotly repel the efforts which the German press is making to sow discord between France and England. The French newspapers consider that ...
Article : 68 wordsThe "Daily Mail" publishes a statement that Russia is mobilising two army corps in Turkestan, for what immediate purpose is not yet known. ...
Article : 32 wordsAt yesterday's wool sales prices for me[?]noes were without change, and good cross-breds had a hardening tendency. The following rates were realised for Australasian ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Society of Friends (Quakers) has forwarded to the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary for the Colonies, a memorial protesting, on humanitarian grounds, against ...
Article : 101 wordsA sensational bolt, fortunately unattended with serious consequences, occurred at Coppermine yesterday. A four-horse coach, driven by William Bain, containing ...
Article : 170 wordsNews has been received of another shipping disaster on the coast, the A.U.S.N. Co.'s steamer Aramac having struck Break-sea Spit early this morning, and, according ...
Article : 873 wordsVice-Admiral Makaroff, the new naval Commander in Chief of the Pacific squadron, who has just arrived at his station, reports a severe torpedo destroyer action ...
Article : 409 wordsFollowing on the report that Russia is accepting foreign volunteers for service with her troops against Japan, Russian newspapers state that 100 young Boers have ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 543 wordsYielding to the pressure of public opinion in Johannesburg, the Commissioner of Police has revived the old Boer street regulation, and prohibited colored people ...
Article : 62 wordsThe New Zealand firemen, who became very popular during their sojourn in Geelong, left on Saturday afternoon for Ballarat, where they will be the guests of the ...
Article : 98 wordsJohn Masters, chief mate of the New Zealand Shipping Company's Waiwera, has been committed for trial for the manslaughter of the steamer's boatswain. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Japanese-Korean treaty, by which Korea is debarred from making an alliance with any other power than Japan, annuls all the concessionary rights which Russia ...
Article : 91 wordsThe Durban correspondent of the "Standard" declares that the refusal of the Imperial Government to release Lieutenant Witton, of the Bushveldt Carbineers, a ...
Article : 109 wordsA young man named Toomey had a narrow escape from serious injury whilst driving a horse and creamery cart near the North Shepparton Hotel on Friday night. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe members of the Eaglehawk brigade, which won the Champion Shield at Geelong demonstration, on returning to Bendigo on Saturday evening were heartily cheered by ...
Article : 366 wordsA young man named Charles Davies, living at Fryerstown, while cutting timber in the bush on Friday met with a painful accident. His axe caught in the limb of a tree, ...
Article : 83 wordsAdmiral Virenius, commanding the Russian squadron which was recalled when in the Red Sea en route for the Far East, after the Japanese successes at Port Arthur, has ...
Article : 54 wordsDiscussion is proceeding here concerning the condition of the boot trade. It is generally admitted that the trade is flourishing under the Federal tariff, but manufacturers ...
Article : 300 wordsAn elderly woman named Isabella Stewart, employed as housekeeper to Mr. W. Curtis, of Dale-street, Port Adelaide, was discovered on the floor of her bedroom on ...
Article : 49 wordsAt. St. Paul's Cathedral last night the Bishop of Melbourne preached the third of a special course of Lenten addresses on the Sermon on the Mount. There was a very ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Russian gunboat Mandjur, which was at Shanghai when the outbreak of war occurred, still remains in that Chinese port, with Japanese war ships waiting for ...
Article : 116 wordsIt is hardly a fair thing to be always recalling the unhappy incident of 1804-95 at Port Arthur against the Japanese. Such unfortunate incidents as the Storm of Badajos ...
Article : 513 wordsA pathetic case of suicide on the part of a woman who had suffered great distress of mind through losing a limb has been reported to the authorities. Mrs. Wheeler, ...
Article : 97 wordsAn officer of the steamer Empire, which arrived on Friday night from Japan, states that everything was tranquil at Kobe when the steamer left. The people were quiet, ...
Article : 374 wordsDennis Martin, who was thrown from a butcher's cart in Chapel-street, St. Kilda, on Thursday, died in the Alfred Hospital yesterday from severe head injuries. The ...
Article : 71 wordsThe St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris newspaper "L'Aurore" reports a new development of anti-Semitism in Russia. The correspondent states that an enormous ...
Article : 84 wordsBoth Sir William Lyne and Mr. Chapman to-day stated that the question of the Federal capital site would be treated as an individual one, and not as one for ...
Article : 172 wordsA man named Thompson, in the employ of Mr. David Mitchell, met with an unfortunate accident on Saturday afternoon, whereby both of his hands were cut off. He ...
Article : 182 wordsThe coal miners' demonstration at West Maitland yesterday was a great success. In the course of speeches, Mr. J. Curley, the miners' general secretary, stated that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 238 wordsALLANDALE.--A fire occurred at Kingston on Saturday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, when a two storied brick dwelling, with six wooden rooms attached, the property of Mrs. Mary Saville, was ...
Article : 319 wordsThe Japanese internal loan of £10,000,000 for war purposes has, it is officially announced, been covered fourfold by the subscriptions received. ...
Article : 29 wordsTwo accidental shooting accidents are reported, one from Channel and the other from New Norfolk, and in both instances the people concerned did not know the gun ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 14 Mar 1904, Page 5
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