Liberal demonstrations in the provinces continue, opposition to the Government being centred on the drink question, the question of Chinese labour ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Russian cruiser Aurora and other Russian warships brought to Suez three British colliers, which they had seized in the Red Sea. ...
Article : 43 wordsThe position of Admiral Togo, who commanded the Japanese fleet on the occasion of the earlier attacks on Port Arthur, is a mystery. He is supposed, ...
Article : 136 wordsParliament House presented a busy appearance this afternoon. A large number of members arrived from Adelaide and Sydney during the day, amongst ...
Article : 839 wordsM. Combes, the French Premier, speaking yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, said the French navy was equal to the country's defence. ...
Article : 46 wordsYesterday, as all Welshmen know, was St. David's Day, and in celebration of the event a smoke social was held last night at the Hotel Fremantle, at the ...
Article : 497 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association of South Australia has been in communication with similar bodies in the other States, and the London Institute of ...
Article : 154 wordsThe inquest touching the death of Alexander Solomon, who died in somewhat sensational circumstances at the Boulder Police Station last Thursday, ...
Article : 349 wordsGreat Britain and Spain have signed an arbitration treaty on the lines of the Anglo-French agreement. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "Times" is utilising the De Forrest system of wireless telegraphy between the Corean port of Chemulpho and the British station at Wei-hai-Wei. ...
Article : 146 wordsMilitary experts and all political parties commend Lord Esher's Committee's scheme of army re-organisation, particulars of which were published yesterday. ...
Article : 33 wordsSir Samuel Gillott, who resigned his seat in the Legislative Assembly on his acceptance of a Cabinet portfolio, has been re-elected unopposed. ...
Article : 61 wordsSir William Harcourt, Liberal M.P. for West Monmouthshire, announces that, owing to uncertain health, he does not intend to seek re-election to the House ...
Article : 37 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. E. G. Pretyman, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, in justifying the naval estimates, said Great Britain's ...
Article : 226 wordsA conference of inter-State employers, promoted by the Employers' Federation of New South Wales, was opened yesterday, delegates being present from all the ...
Article : 106 wordsBritish Consols were dealt in momentarily yesterday at £85 10s., and closed at £85 16s. 3d. The "Daily Mail," commenting on ...
Article : 57 wordsThe strike of Dundee engineers, which had run for 14 weeks, has ended. The strikers have accepted a reduction of 1s. per week in the case of all workmen ...
Article : 49 wordsLord Tennyson, the ex-Governor-General of the Commonwealth, has had an audience with the King. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Premier (Mr. James) and the honorary Minister (Mr. Nanson) are returning from the Eastern States by the G.M.S. Friedrich der Grosse, which is ...
Article : 437 wordsSir Philip Fysh has had several interviews with Mr. Keep, of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, who is now in Australia. He has told this ...
Article : 483 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Kin-chan, telegraphing on Monday, reports:— "Fifteen Japanese warships ...
Article : 88 wordsThe arrivals in connection with the March-April colonial wool sales, in Londrio, number 272,000 bales. The number of bales brought forward from last ...
Article : 95 wordsThe "Standard's" correspondent at Tien Tsin says that if the Japanese flanking movement, in the direction of Kirin, is unchecked, it promises to be the ...
Article : 44 wordsTo-morrow night will be the last night of the present season of Mr. Rickards's company at the Theatre Royal. The final appearance of the deft "handcuff ...
Article : 504 wordsLord Henry Francis Pelham Clinton Hope was married yesterday to Miss Olive, youngest daughter of the late Mr. George Thompson, banker, of ...
Article : 76 wordsSix Japanese batteries of artillery have been landed at Chemulpho, the principal port of Corea. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe warmer weather, now setting in in Corea, is breaking up the roads and rendering the marching of the troops laborious. ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. Hay, United States Secretary of State, expresses the view that foodstuffs are contraband of war only if intended for either army, but if they are intended ...
Article : 56 wordsAt the fortnightly meeting of the Coastal Trades and Labour Council last night reference was made to the telegram appearing in yesterday's issue of ...
Article : 186 wordsA fiscal reform Bill has been instroduced into the States General at The Hague. It is proposed to admit raw materials ...
Article : 91 wordsLord Selborne's denials, in the House of Lords, of Great Britain's alleged breaches of neutrality have been received with derision in Russia. ...
Article : 79 wordsThe "Matin." a Paris journal, states that the ordinary train service to Port Arthur has been discontinued, the inference being that Port Arthur is ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Japanese are building a line of blockhouses extending from the port of Chin-nam-po, on the west, to the port of Won-san, on the east, coast of Corea. ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Henry Copeland and Mr. H. B. Lefroy, Agents'-General for New South Wales and Western Australia respectively, attended the King's levee yesterday, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe weather was beautifully fine and clear in Sydney early this morning. There was further rain yesterday over the country covered by the heavy ...
Article : 121 wordsForeigners at Kin-chau, a post immediately north of and close to Port Arthur, report that the Japanese have been ordered to storm ...
Article : 44 wordsThe "Times" states it has been announced at Ottawa that Great Britain has effected a new contract with the Canadian-Pacific Railway Company, under ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Sir George Turner) to-day issued the following Customs and excise revenue return:— New South Wales.—February, 1904, ...
Article : 111 wordsIn the Central Police Court to-day, Mr. Macfarlane S.M., gave his reserved decision in the cases in which John Leahy, secretary of the Machine Shearers' ...
Article : 153 wordsThe "Svjet," a St. Petersburg journal, mentions the fact that Jewish agents at Russian fairs have purchased 3,000 remounts for the British Army, and ...
Article : 46 wordsAdvices from British Columbia state that the British second-class cruiser Bonaventure, 7,000 tons, is stranded on the south of the Central American coast. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Russians affirm that a body of Cossacks with quick-firers from Ussuri, near Vladivostock, are advancing along the east coast of Corea, and that a Russian ...
Article : 52 wordsTo-day the police made one of their periodical raids upon betting shops conducted by Kalgoorlie bookmakers. Five shops were visited, and the names of the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe dead body of an elderly man was found in Hyde Park early this morning. There was a large wound on each side of the throat, and near the body was a ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Bill which Sir Robert Finlay, the Attorney-General, has introduced in the House of Commons, to amend the Company Law, makes stringent provisions for ...
Article : 69 wordsThe attitude of the North Fremantle branch of the Australian Natives' Association in connection with the Russo-Japanese war is expressed in a resolution ...
Article : 106 wordsGeneral Stoissel, the Russian military commander at Port Arthur, has warned the garrison that the Japanese intend to lay siege to the fortress. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Press representatives were excluded from the meetings held by Rev. Alexander Dowie to-day. The attendances, which were small, consisted mostly ...
Article : 53 wordsNo. 1 Court.—At half-past 10 a.m., before the Chief Justice: M. J. Plant v. Commissioner of Railways. No. 3 Court.—At half-past 10 a.m., ...
Article : 74 wordsDuring last week, six highly-experienced and skilful coal miners arrived from Scotland to supervise the underground work in the Outtrim-Howittt Colliery, ...
Article : 175 wordsRussia has declared coal and foodstuffs to be contraband of war. ...
Article : 19 wordsA German, named Schmidt, called on a doctor in Penrith yesterday, to be treated for wounds on the throat, and was sent to a hospital. He stated that he ...
Article : 106 wordsMr. Ben Viljoen, an ex-general of the Boer army, reports that Mr. Paul Kruger, the ex-President of the late South African Republic is dying at ...
Article : 41 wordsLen Collinson, a bush-feller, was shot dead at Taiwate, near Waipara, on Friday last, while measuring a bush which he and his companion (Ross) had felled. ...
Article : 109 wordsThe police have not yet made an arrest in connection with the robbery of gold slimes from the extraction boxes of the Croesus South mine. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Czar declares that a neutral flag covers cargo for the belligerent, except contraband of war; that neutral goods under the enemy's flag, except ...
Article : 62 wordsThe "Times" correspondent at Tokio reports that the sunken steamers near the Retvisan have partially obstructed the entrance to the harbour of Port ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Wed 2 Mar 1904, Page 5
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