To-day has been proclaimed a holiday in Russia, the occasion being the promulgation of an Imperial ukase establishing a national Duma, or State ...
Article : 40 wordsHoping that Admiral Rojestvenski would recover the command of the sea, the Russians at Port Arthur did not explode their ships, but merely sank ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,296 wordsThere was a little change in the political situation on Saturday. It was known on Friday, as already stated in these columns, that the Premier intends to ask ...
Article : 624 wordsMr. Hugh Watt, who figured prominently some time ago in the Divorce Court, was charged at the Marlborough-street Police Court yesterday with ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) has prepared the following memorandum with regard to the Trans-Australian Railway Survey Bill:— ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. Hugh Watt who was charged yesterday, at the Marlborough-street Police Station with attempting to induce a third party to murder his wife, ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Czar's ukase to be promulgated to-day establishes a representative Duma for the preliminary study and discussion of legislative proposals which ...
Article : 181 wordsAll the New York Papers report that Thursday's session of the Peace Conference was stormy and embittered. It is stated that M. Witte declared ...
Article : 62 wordsHerbert Maxwell, the private detective, who gave evidence in connection with the Watt case, alleged that Watt offered him £5,000 if he would induce ...
Article : 52 wordsAn anarchist named Jori was arrested yesterday at Botzen, in the Austrian Tyrol, on suspicion of meditating an attempt on the life of the Emperor ...
Article : 66 wordsProfessor de Martens, the famous jurisconsult, has been interviewed on the subject of Japan's claim for an indemnity. ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Treasurer (Sir John Forrest) expects to be from two to three hours in delivering his Budget Speech in the House of Representatives on Tuesday ...
Article : 277 wordsThe English newspapers consider that the Imperial ukase promulgating the new Russian National Assembly maintains the Czar's will unimpaired. ...
Article : 28 wordsArrangements have been made by the Prussian Minister of Railways for special trains to run to those German ports that will be visited by the ...
Article : 66 wordsMany bombs have been discovered in an Armenian house at Smyrna, in Asiatic Turkey. Numerous Armenians in ...
Article : 28 wordsThe first-class cruiser Powerful will, it is announced relieve the Euryalus as the flagship on the Australian Station. ...
Article : 30 wordsA slight hitch has occurred in connection with the settlement of the wages question—a hitch that was not thought likely until a few days ago. ...
Article : 362 wordsThe French newspapers are urging the Government to adopt coercive methods on the Moroccan frontier in connection with the recent capture and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Peace Conference has agreed to the Japanese demand for fishing rights on the Siberian littoral from Vladivostock to the Behring Sea. ...
Article : 92 wordsFive thousand three hundred persons visited the New South Wales produce exhibition, at the Guildhall, on Friday. The London Corporation have offered ...
Article : 60 wordsOwing to the failure of the monsoonal rains, hundreds of villagers are starving in the Chingulput district of the Madras Presidency. ...
Article : 42 wordsAt President Roosevelt's invitation, Baron von Rosen, M. Witte's colleague at the Peace Conference, has arrived at Oyster Bay, to consult the President. ...
Article : 52 wordsExperiments are being conducted in the Devonport dockyard with Australian teak (? jarrah) and New Zealand moa wood. ...
Article : 56 wordsResponding to the toast of "Parliament" at the annual smoke social of the Kalgoorlie branch of the Western Australian Government Railway ...
Article : 2,548 wordsThe Turks, advancing steadily against the Yemen insurgents, have captured Sukelkhamis, and have occupied Buan, 22 miles south of Sana, the rebels' ...
Article : 32 wordsThe proceedings in connection with the extradition of W. N. Willis were continued to-day. Mr. Lamb (for Willis) took objection to the admission of ...
Article : 112 wordsThe prevailing opinion at Portsmouth, U.S.A., where the Peace Conference is sitting is pessimistic. It is believed that Russia is prepared ...
Article : 63 wordsBar silver is quoted at 2s. 4d. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe natives in German East Africa report that the Roman Catholic Bishop and two male and two female missionaries were murdered while travelling ...
Article : 59 wordsThe annual report of the Savings Bank shows that during the last year the deposits increased by £89,870, and the depositors by 4,784. The sums at ...
Article : 264 wordsYesterday the surface works of the Wolhuter mine, at Johannesburg, were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £70,000. ...
Article : 33 wordsOn Thursday afternoon a lumper, named John McDonald, engaged in timber-loading on the wharf, while in the act of uncoupling some trucks which ...
Article : 122 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Bedford will witness the first performance of "The Darling of the Gods" at His Majesty's Theatre to-night. ...
Article : 266 wordsAn infernal machine was delivered yesterday at the office of Mr. Jacob Henry Schiff of the New York banking firm of Kuhn. Loeb and Co., and a ...
Article : 64 wordsLinseed Oil.—Linseed oil is quoted at 1s. 8½d. Wolfram.—Wolfram is dull at £22 to £25, with little offering. ...
Article : 149 wordsSir Michael Hicks Beach, as umpire for the Conciliation Board, has reduced the Welsh colliers' wages to the sliding scale minimum, owing to the fall in ...
Article : 37 wordsA robbery took place some time last night at the old Seabrook battery, about three miles from Northam. Messrs. Hatt and Long, of Southern ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. E. Conger, late American Minister at Peking, is returning to China on a semi-diplomatic mission, to allay the boycott of American goods. ...
Article : 34 wordsUpon the arrival of the Governor-General, Lord Northcote and his suite at Bunbury, His Excellency is to be presented with a formal address of welcome ...
Article : 68 wordsFull Court.—At 10.30 o'clock in No. 1 Court, before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice McMillan, and Mr. Justice Burnside: 1. The Proprietors of the ...
Article : 142 wordsIt has transpired that recently the name of Cardinal Moran was forged to a cheque on the City Bank for £300. The signature was so good that the ...
Article : 49 wordsFollowing are the latest quotations for the undermentioned colonial mining shares:—Associateds (W.A.), 52s. 6d. b. 65s. s; Great Boulders (W.A.), 25s. b. ...
Article : 70 wordsLeonora Howard Drummond Baker, who was convicted of bigamy, was, in the Criminal Court to-day, sentenced to two years' imprisonment. ...
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The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Mon 21 Aug 1905, Page 5
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