Advices from the Far East state that a Russian fleet is cruising off Masampho, in the south of Korea, in sight of the Japanese fleet. Neither power has yet landed ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Miners' Federation of Great Britain, which is sitting in Glasgow, has, by 89 votes to 5, adopted a resolution condemning Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy. The five ...
Article : 202 wordsThe official announcement has been made of the terms offered to bondholders for the conversion of the Victorian 4½per cent. loan of £5,000,000, which is repayable on ...
Article : 278 wordsUnitil members of the Senate are finally canvassed to-morrow it will be impossible to say whether they will declare for Tumut or Bombala as the federal capital. Members ...
Article : 454 wordsIt is improbable that the Federal Parliament will be prorogued until Friday week. Ministers and members alike are anxious to begin the election campaign, but they ...
Article : 358 wordsEarl Percy, eldest son of the Duke of Northumberland. and Conservative member for South Kensington, has been appointed Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in ...
Article : 134 wordsEvery man and woman is entitled to vote at the federal elections in December. A very large number of electors are uncertain whether or not their names are on the roll. ...
Article : 514 wordsThe Governor-General and Lady Tennyson will attend the Attorney-General and Mrs. Drake's garden party at Parliamenthouse this afternoon, and in the evening ...
Article : 847 wordsMr. Chamberlain bade farewell to his colleague's at the Colonial Office to-day, when he thanked them for the assistance they had 80 zealously given him. He expressed his ...
Article : 98 wordsAdvices from Manchuria state that no movement has been made by the Russians towards then promised evacuation of the country on the 8th inst. The Russian ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. Chamberlain's scheme is regarded with coolness and suspicion on the Continent. The Paris journal "La Patrie" declares ...
Article : 201 wordsColonel Mashin, brother in-law of the late Queen Draga of Servia, who took a prominent [?]rt in the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, has been ...
Article : 91 wordsIt has become known that, when the United Stated shipbuilding Company was formed. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and Mr. C.D. Sehwab, late president of the Steel ...
Article : 108 wordsFrom the above cable message it will be seen that the arrangements for the Victorian conversion loan have been completed, and that the result is assured by the usual ...
Article : 697 wordsCandidates for cither of the Federal Houses should carefully study sections 169 to 172 of the Electoral Act, as follows:— "169.—No electoral expense shall be incurred or ...
Article : 299 wordsThe New South Wales Parliament appears inclined to resent the Commonwealth resuming an area of 1,000 square miles in that state. It objects to the creation of a ...
Article : 113 wordsSir William Lyne and a party of senators arrived here last night, and with the mayor (Alderman R.M. Wilkinson) and Mr. T. H. Griffith, M.L.A., they visited Tabletop this ...
Article : 119 words"The Times," referring to the assertion by the New York press that an arbitration treaty for the settlement of disputes between England and France has been ...
Article : 77 wordsA return has been issued showing the immigration into Canada during the first nine months of this year. The figures are as follows:—From Great Britain, 43,187; ...
Article : 80 wordsA hundred thousand copies of Mr. Balfour's pamphlet, "Economic Notes on Insular Free Trade," have been sold. [This pamphlet consists of 32 pages, and ...
Article : 43 wordsIn response to an invitation from Mrs. Grimwade, a number of ladies assembled at Harleston, Caulfield, on Saturday afternoon, to hear addresses on the subject of ...
Article : 278 wordsThe feeling in Sydney yesterday in regard to the federal capital was one of ulter disgust at the action of the House of Representatives. It is considered that if the bill ...
Article : 145 wordsA German tutor named Dippold has been sentenced at Bayreuth to eight years penal servitude and loss of civil rights for ten years for having caused the death of a boy ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Benjamin Kidd, author of "Social Evolution" and other works has contributed a powerful letter to "The Times," exposing what he calls "free-trade fallacies." ...
Article : 209 wordsIn New York heavy rain has fallen incessantly for 30 hours, 9in. 90 points being registered. Portions of the goods yards of the Central Railway were submerged to a ...
Article : 70 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27 9-16d. per ounce standard, being a decline of 1-16d. since yesterday. ...
Article : 26 wordsSir—My family, resident in a Melbourne suburb, consists of myself, my wife, a son, and daughter, all entitled to votes. The local constable called and obtained the ...
Article : 161 wordsSir,—Will you allow me[?]to-suggest that the name of the new capital should be that of the Queen of England—Alexandra.— yours &c., W. E. HARCOURT. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsA singular story reached the Fairefield police on Saturday evening concerning a plucky resident and a murderous housebreaker. A young married couple named ...
Article : 818 wordsSir,—Kindly permit me to offer a few words from a tropical Auatralian on the question of the "Federal Capital Site." The money frittered away already runs into ...
Article : 144 wordsThe federal rolls as delivered here seem to be one mass of errors. For the Portland proper polling-booth there are no fewer than 14 mistakes in the first 50 names. ...
Article : 225 wordsThe following are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's market quotations, based on actual sales of not less than 100 careases of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef of ...
Article : 328 wordsSir Albert Hime, late Premier of Natal, has sent the following cable message to England with reference to Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Glasgow:— ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. C. F. James has announced his intention of contesting the seat for the Bendigo electorate at the forthcoming federal elections in the free-trade and liberal ...
Article : 38 wordsA young man named Charles Fietcher, 19 years of age, who lived with his parents in Brunswick-street, North Fitzroy, was drowned yesterday morning in the part of ...
Article : 296 wordsThe stage reached by the Defence Bill in the Federal Parliament makes it highly probable that if the House of Representatives declines the Senate amendment as to the ...
Article : 858 wordsMr. G. H. Reid was spoken to last night in reference to contesting the Hume at the forthcoming elections. It was gathered from what he said that there is very little ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr. Irvine) made the following statement last night in connection with this cable message:— "I have not as yet received any official ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Imperial Parliament has been further prorogued until December 11. Mr. Sydney Allen, of Melbourne, has passed the examination for a fellow of the ...
Article : 321 wordsSir.—I would like to read in the columns of "The Argus" some reasonable explanation why the selection of a federal site should not be made a matter of decision by ...
Article : 69 wordsThe local branch of the Reform League has decided to recommend the executive to convenc a conference of delegates from branches in the Wimmera electorate to ...
Article : 88 wordsA sensational incident occurred at the railway station this afternoon. About 2 o' clock the ordinary afternoon train for portland was being made up, and two ...
Article : 288 wordsThe mails by the R.M.S. Oceana left Adelaide by special train yesterday afternoon. The Melbourne portion should be available to-day. ...
Article : 25 wordsOn Wednesday evening several delegates from the Geelong branch of the Victonan Employers' Federation visited Portarlington and addressed a public meeting in the ...
Article : 83 wordsThe inquest on the body of Ada Jane Boyton, who died in the Wagga Hospital from poisoning, was resumed yesterday. The father of the girl, further examined, ...
Article : 489 wordsA young man named Edward Dunn, who lived in Buckingham-street, Richmond, was drowned in the swimming-baths in that suburb yesterday afternoon. He went into ...
Article : 108 wordsThe following telegram was to-day forwarded to Mr. Dean, general secretary of the Citizens' Reform League:— "On behalf of agriculturists and ...
Article : 68 wordsFor some time past the police have suspected that large sly grog trade has been carried on at a house in Castlereagh-street, which was formerly an hotel. The ...
Article : 280 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday:—The Moama arrived yesterday from Vuncouver, and left for the south at midnight. The passengers are:—For Sydney:—Mr. and Mrs. Whalley and infant, Mr. and Mrs. Gray, ...
Article : 166 wordsThe action of Mr. Field, M.L.A., in abandoning his notice of motion for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into forest alienation, because of the Premier ...
Article : 261 wordsSir,—In "Pericles" Act 3. Scene 2, Occurs this passage. when the body of the Queen is discovered in the chest that has been washed ashore. "The music there! I pray ...
Article : 286 wordsNumber of cases relieved weekly by the commitee of the Melbourne Ladies' Benevolent Society for the fortnight ending October 6:—Cases, 578 (numbering 1,689 individuals), Comprising— ...
Article : 173 wordsA girl named Harriett Newton, aged 16 years, daughter of Harry Newton, committed suicide at her parents' house at Redcap Creek, 16 miles from Casterton, last ...
Article : 146 wordsAt Half- past 10 a.m.—The sisters G.M. Co. No Liabllity v. Cotton (part heard); the Mayor,&c., of Richmond v. Gray; re Ward.Cole; Williams v. the Victorian Raillways Commissioners. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 12 Oct 1903, Page 5
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