The allegation that a British ship was shadowing the Baltic fleet with a view to informing Japan of its movements is denied. ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral Stoessel is ill abed. The surrender of Port Arthur was arranged by General Smirnoff, with his commander-in-chief's approval. ...
Article : 32 wordsGeneral Nogi reports that the transference of war material and Government property at Port Arthur from the Russians to the Japanese began to-day. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, on behalf of the Labour Representative Committee in London, has written to Mr. J. C. Stewart, a ...
Article : 234 wordsThe position in connection with the strike of colliery wheelers at Newcastle in consequence of a reduction of wages remains unchanged. The manager of ...
Article : 331 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Carruthers) stated to-day that reports were reaching him from every quarter to the effect that the very alarming reports as to the ...
Article : 214 wordsThe epidemic of typhoid fever which has occurred so early in the present summer was the subject of further inquiry by a "West Australian" reporter ...
Article : 499 wordsWith the object of arriving at a solution of the difficulty that has arisen in connection with the proposed alteration of the Fremantle tramway route from ...
Article : 894 wordsThe Federal Navigation Commission sat at Parliament House to-day, and took evidence from the President of the South Australian Board of Health (Dr. ...
Article : 541 wordsFour Japanese warships are cruising near the east coast of Sumatra. ...
Article : 25 wordsGeneral Stoessel, cabling to the Czar on Sunday, states:—"The Japanese on Saturday, after tremendous explosions under Fort 3, ...
Article : 206 wordsThe British cruiser Andromeda has sailed from Wei-hai-wei to Port Arthur. She has taken two surgeons, a hospital staff, 100,000lb. weight of provisions, ...
Article : 55 wordsMany more Russian municipalities are demanding reforms. A protest against the brutality of the St. Petersburg police and of the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe statement recently published that 800 soldiers had escaped from Port Arthur to Kiao-chau is contradicted. ...
Article : 27 wordsIn the Broken Hill Police Court to-day on Afghan named Marajah Gool, was charged with having attempted to shoot Gunny Khan on the night of ...
Article : 144 wordsThe gloom cast over Russia by the news of the surrender of Port Arthur is growing. General Stoessel is universally ...
Article : 53 wordsThe new Liberal journal, "Our Land," published at St. Petersburg, in a remarkable article, denounces "the bureaucratic war," and invites the people to ...
Article : 57 wordsThe reorganisation of the British fleet has been completed by the formation of nucleus crews out of reserve divisions of Portsmouth, Devonport, and Chatham, ...
Article : 79 wordsIt is believed in Adelaide that Mr. C. J. Dashwood, Government Resident of the Northern Territory, who is at present in the South Australian capital on ...
Article : 658 wordsReuter's correspondent at Chifu states that there is very little booty at Port Arthur, except 80,000 tons of coal and two months' supply of rice rations. ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is now thought that four deaths which recently occurred in the Grafton district were due to bubonic plague. Miss Wilcox, a resident of Lower ...
Article : 104 wordsIt is supposed that the Czar informed General Stossel that he and his officers were at liberty to choose whether they should accept release on parole or ...
Article : 39 wordsThe "Russ," a St. Petersburg journal, declares that if the Russian Press had not been gagged a national agitation would have compelled the despatch of ...
Article : 85 wordsA young woman, named Mrs. Arthur Villiers, who was married only a fortnight ago, and who had just returned from her honeymoon, received fatal ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Paris "Temps" announces that Russia has asked France to transmit to Japan a formal protest against the Japanese bombardment of the Port ...
Article : 37 wordsThe surrender of Port Arthur surprised General Nogi's army, who expected another month's fighting. After the capitulation was signed, the ...
Article : 41 wordsPrince Trubetzkoi, who presided over the Congress of Zemstvos which was held last month at Moscow, recently warned Prince Mirski, the Russian Minister of ...
Article : 106 wordsFollowing upon the report of the City Health Officer (Dr. Davy) and the City Analyst (Mr. H. Rowley) as to the quality of the milk supply of Perth, a ...
Article : 653 wordsIn the general advance made by suburban municipalities during the past few years Victoria Park has not played a leading part, but with the extension ...
Article : 582 wordsAt Newcastle to-day a case arising out of the claim by the Coal Trimmers' Union in connection with the holiday rates of pay question was heard. Jas. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe weight of official opinion at Tokio is adverse to peace until General Kuropatkine and Admiral Rojestvenski are defeated. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe awful destruction worked by the Japanese dynamite mines at Erlungshan and Shusung-shan greatly damped the ardour of the Russian garrison. ...
Article : 43 wordsA young man, named Patrick Kennedy, who was admitted to the Kalgoorlie Hospital on Saturday last, in a weak condition, mentally and physically, ...
Article : 122 wordsGeneral Nogi reports that there are 35,000 souls in Port Arthur, including 25,000 soldiers and sailors, 20,000 being sick and wounded. ...
Article : 68 wordsHis Holiness the Pope yesterday received at the Vatican Father Feccan, of Tasmania, and has sent through him his special salutations and his photograph ...
Article : 43 wordsConstable Timperley, of the Local Police Station, has been suspended pending an official inquiry in connection with his conduct in regard to certain moneys ...
Article : 111 wordsThe entire garrison and all the noncombatants at Port Arthur will march to-day to the village of Yapathure, near Pigeon Bay. ...
Article : 61 wordsCaptain Nicholitch, a Servian officer, has been tried by court-martial and convicted at Belgrade for using foul language against King Peter. ...
Article : 46 wordsThis morning a deputation (introduced by the Mayor, Mr. N. J. Moore, M.L.A.) waited upon the Colonial Secretary (Mr. George Taylor), and asked—(1) ...
Article : 111 wordsIt is reported that Admiral Togo permitted four Russian destroyers to escape to Chifu to mark his appreciation of the brave defence of Port Arthur. ...
Article : 35 words"The Forty Thieves" was enthusiastically received at His Majesty's Theatre last evening. A feature of the performance was the clever dancing of the child ...
Article : 216 wordsThis morning Albert Wm. Bonfield was executed in the Adelaide Gaol for the murder of Caroline Elizabeth Hinds, at Kensington, on October 28. Bonfield ...
Article : 69 wordsIt is stated in financial circles in St. Petersburg that Russia has decided to spend £40,000,000 abroad during the next three years on the reconstruction ...
Article : 38 wordsGeneral Stoessel, it is stated, lost 200 officers during October and November. He promoted sergeants and non-commissioned officers to the vacant ...
Article : 39 wordsTwo hundred Japanese prisoners at Port Arthur have been released. ...
Article : 18 wordsA cashbox, containing £50, was stolen from Mr. Spurling's butchering establishment, in Boulder, this morning. Mr. Spurling left his office unattended for a ...
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Family Notices : 79 wordsThe fund started at the Mansion House for the relief of the unemployed amounts to £39,000. ...
Article : 30 wordsTen thousand Port Arthur prisoners, as well as non-combatants, are to return to Russia under the terms of the capitulation. ...
Article : 31 wordsNapoleon's birthplace, at Ajaccio, in Corsica, has been raided by burglars, and many relies, historical souvenirs, and jewels have been stolen. ...
Article : 37 wordsCopper.—Copper on spot is quoted at £69. and forward at £69 7s. 6d. per ton. Lead.—Pig lead is quoted at £13 1s. 3d. per ton. ...
Article : 60 wordsBoeg Berg, second mate of the barque Madura, who shot a sailor named Johansen, on December 26, was brought up in the local Police Court yesterday, ...
Article : 58 wordsA message from Noumea to-night states that a barque, loaded with nickel ore, is on one of the new reefs of New Caledonia, and that she is in danger of ...
Article : 39 wordsIt is reported that the Russian admirals Uchtomsky and leschinsky reached Chifu in disguise. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Treasurer has received a telegram from the Inspector of Village Settlements stating that the last heat wave did immence damage to the raisin crop of ...
Article : 64 wordsAn explosion occurred on board the United States tug defender, between Cincinatti and Pittshurg. Sixteen of the vessel's company are ...
Article : 38 wordsAn accident occurred to a miner named J. McCarthy at the Starlight mine to-day. A charge of dynamite, which had missed, was struck by McCarthy's ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Earl of Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking yesterday at Wolverhampton, paid a glowing tribute to the Port Arthur besiegers and ...
Article : 38 wordsBy a hurricane in Vanua Levu, Fiji, a cutter and other small craft were sunk. Considerable damage was caused to buildings and fruit plantations all over ...
Article : 34 words{No abstract available}
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