A Bill has been introduced by the Minister for Justice which, Mr. Hastie will allow us to say, should have received more consideration than appears to have ...
Article : 674 wordsAn attempt by the Russians to recapture 203-Metre Hill at Port Arthur was heavily repulsed. The Japanese found a number of sailors ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Porte has stopped the French steamer Imerthie while traversing the Dardanelles. The Imerthie was conveying, in ...
Article : 257 wordsThe Legislative Assembly sat on Friday afternoon, when the Premier made a statement regarding the action of the Legislative Council as to certain ...
Article : 207 wordsA meeting of the newly-formed Unionist Freetrade Club was held yesterday at Devonshire House. The Duke of Devonshire presided, and ...
Article : 140 wordsJust before we went to press, news was received from Fremantle to the effect that the extensive warehouse of Messrs. Harris, Scarfe, and Co., situated at ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Bunbury Railway Station is on fire. The building is already practically gutted. The flames are still raging, a strong breeze is blowing, and no hopes ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. Reid has now decided that the Tariff Commission is to consist of only eight members. Sir John Quick has signified to Mr. Reid that he will accept ...
Article : 677 wordsIn the House of Representatives on Friday, Mr. Edwards (N.S.W.), who was chairman of the Decimal Coinage ...
Article : 368 wordsSeventeen Japanese officers were killed and 64 were wounded recently at Port Arthur. Most of these casualties occurred ...
Article : 37 wordsThe British Admiralty has decided not to renew its cruiser agreement with the P. and O. Company. [According to the Navy List of 1903, ...
Article : 95 wordsOn Saturday night, at the Theatre Royal, Miss Kate Howarde's company revived the well-known drama, "For the Term of His Natural Life." Marcus ...
Article : 1,109 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that as the Russians are determined to retake 203-Metre Hill at all hasards, the Japanese are piling company upon ...
Article : 40 wordsVice-Regal.—On Tuesday (to-morrow) Lady Bedford will open a bazaar, at North Fremantle in aid of St. Mary's Parish. On the following day ...
Article : 2,380 wordsA Reuter's message states that the Russians at Port Arthur are further fortifying the Liao-ti-shan district. ...
Article : 24 wordsA large congress of discontented burghers of the Orange River Colony has been opened at Brandfort. The object of this gathering of the ...
Article : 50 wordsHerbert Mott, secretary of the Argentine Meat Preserving Company, was committed for trial yesterday, at the Guildhall, on a charge of embezzling ...
Article : 54 wordsOur Melbourne correspondent telegraphs that the Cabinet has decided to appoint Mr. J. G. Eagleson to the vacancy on the County Court Bench caused ...
Article : 437 wordsRussians, with flags of truce, approaching the Japanese left wing at Port Arthur, arranged for a partial armistice of six hours' on Friday for ...
Article : 38 wordsChina has increased the transit duty on goods conveyed to and from her treaty ports. The Powers have protested against the ...
Article : 35 wordsThe London and Paris Exchange, Limited, which suspended payment last week, has made an arrangement with its creditors and will re-open on ...
Article : 34 wordsFive miles of continuous Russian and Japanese underground works from Liu-Shin-Pu enable the troops to move about unseen. ...
Article : 41 wordsSome Benimsauer tribesmen in Morocco attacked the house of Mr. Harris, the "Times" correspondent at Tangiers, and killed one of the guard. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe prospectus of the New Zealand issue of £1,000,000 4 per cent. Treasury bonds has been published. The bonds are to have a currency of ...
Article : 181 wordsThe debate was resumed in the Senate on Friday on the second reading of the Papua Bill. Mr. Smith (W.A.) said that proper ...
Article : 338 wordsThere are, it is stated, 26,000 Russian troops at Vladivostock. ...
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Family Notices : 48 wordsThe Marquis Oyama's reports claim that the recent skirmishing on the Russians' left flank favoured the Japanese. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe St. Louis Exhibition was formally closed yesterday. During the five months the Exhibition was open it was attended by 20,000,000 ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Japanese House of Peers has acclaimed the exploits of the Japanese army and navy, and has tendered both services its thanks for their conduct ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Mikado of Japan has expressed himself in favour of President Roosevelt's proposal for the holding of a second Peace Congress at The Hague. ...
Article : 34 wordsA breach of promise case, in which damages are laid at £10,000, was begun before Mr. Justice Pring and a jury on Friday. The plaintiff is Isabella Helen ...
Article : 521 wordsA great snowstorm in Spain has so dislocated industrial affairs that 20,000 persons are rendered idle. ...
Article : 29 wordsFollowing on the granting of bail to R. W. Bennett and the reduction of the sureties fixed by Mr. W. A. G. Walter, Acting Police Magistrate in the cases ...
Article : 154 wordsThe British steamer Calchas, which was seized some months ago by Russia, and taken to Vladivostock, where she was confiscated on the order of the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe American Government estimate of the cotton crop is 12,162,000 bales. This is 900,000 bales beyond the previous record. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe estate of the late Field-Marshal Sir Henry Norman has been valued for probate at £11,574. ...
Article : 28 wordsA remarkable tangle has occurred in connection with the arrangements for deepening the harbour. The dredge finished work at midnight on Tuesday, ...
Article : 390 wordsThe colliers from which Admiral Rojestvenski's squadron coaled in Dakar Bay, on the west coast of Africa, included nine German and two English ...
Article : 37 wordsKauri.—At yesterday's sales of kaurigum 1,414 packages were offered and 250 packages were sold. Prices were unchanged. The stock at the end of ...
Article : 233 wordsThe Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has reserved judgment in the case of the Municipal Council of Sydney v. Austral Freezing Works. ...
Article : 61 wordsLeederville Tent Mission. — In the Churches of Christ mission tent, opposite the Post Office at Leederville, there were two services held yesterday. In the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe "Moscow Russian Gazette" condemns the policy of sending the Baltic fleet to almost certain destruction. The "Novoe Vremya's" military critic ...
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Family Notices : 20 wordsFollowing are the latest quotations for the following colonial mining stocks:— Associated (W.A.), £11 6s. 3d.: Broken Hill Proprietary (N.S.W.), 43s. 6d.: ...
Article : 46 wordsThe canal dues which Admiral Foclkersahm's squadron had to pay on passing Suez amounted to £14,700. ...
Article : 29 wordsNisi Prius.—At half-past 10 a.m.. before Mr. Justice Parker: W. R. Mell and others, as trustees of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows (plaintiffs), ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Russian squadron, under Admiral Foelkesahm, has arrived at Jibutil, a French port in the Gulf of Aden. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 5 Dec 1904, Page 7
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