Advices from Somaliland report that a big engagement has taken place between the British forces and a large body of dervishes, or followers of the Mullah. ...
Article : 303 wordsMr. Seddon cannot confine his great energies to the colony which he rules. He considers it his mission to exercise general supervision over the affairs of ...
Article : 5,601 wordsAlthough the will of the late Mr. Alfred Felton has not yet been filed for probate, it has been ascertained from the Trustees, Executors, and Agency Company Limited ...
Article : 582 wordsThe Prime Minister addressed his constituents at Manchester last night. Referring to the fiscal issue, he said that he considered the beginning of wisdom upon the ...
Article : 653 wordsFine weather, with a moderate breeze, were the conditions to-day, when the third and conclusive event in the series of races between Sayonara and Bona was sailed. ...
Article : 753 wordsA serious development has occurred in connection with the situation in the Far East. Yesterday, at the request of the Japanese ...
Article : 129 wordsWhen opening a fancy fair in Hobart on Monday evening Sir Arthur Havelock said his reasor, for resigning the Governorship of Tasmania was that he felt the time had ...
Article : 1,116 wordsThe retirement of the Duke of Devonshire from the position of president of the Central Liberal Unionist Association is foreshadowed by the Conservative and Liberal ...
Article : 134 wordsThe survey of the Anglo-French frontier in West Africa, from the Niger to Lake Chad, is nearly completed. It will be of great benefit to Great Britain. ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. William Cooper, chairman of the cattle and meat trades section of the London Chamber of Commerce, has been appointed a member of the Tariff Reform ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Science Congress, which has been meeting at Dunedin, has practically finished its business. Recommendations have been made that ...
Article : 178 wordsThere are two candidates in the field for the vacancy in the representation of Gateshead, caused by the death of Sir William Allan (Liberal). Viscount Morpeth ...
Article : 106 wordsThe older statesmen and Ministers of Japan are at present conferring with the naval and military chiefs at Tokio. ...
Article : 30 wordsAn important statement respecting the situation in the Far East appeals in the Berlin "Lokal Anzeiger." The Czar, it says, has directed Count ...
Article : 198 wordsThe first series of London wool sales this year opens on the 19th inst. The arrivals comprise 190,000 bales, of which 58,000 have been forwarded direct to ...
Article : 53 wordsA narrow escape from a serious fire is reported from one of the theatres in the town of Grosswardein, in Hungary. It occurred at the back of the stage, and was ...
Article : 81 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company Limited, from their London office, dated the 11th inst.:— ...
Article : 265 wordsBALLARAT, Tuesday.—A miner named James Geddes, 54 years of age, was killed by a fall of earth at Magpie, two and a half miles from Sebastopol, this afternoon. The ...
Article : 214 wordsThe Duke of Portland, Master of the Horse to His Majesty the King, addressing the Young Men's Christian Association at Mansfield, advised all young men to give a ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Victorian und New South Wales members of the Australian Eleven, with the Englishmen, who joined them at Ballarat, arrved this morning by the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" states that Russia has assured the powers that all treaty rights acquired by them in Manchuria will be ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Chamberlain made another important speech on the fiscal question at Birmingham last evening, when he was the guest of the Birmingham Jewellers' and ...
Article : 888 wordsThe mail companies have reduced their rates of freight to Australia to 20/ for rough and 30/ for fine measurement. ...
Article : 27 wordsAnother shocking domestic tragedy took place near Sydney to-day. A tailor named Alexander William Bedford Sly, cut his wife's throat with a razor, and then ...
Article : 771 wordsAt the Adaminaby Police Court to-day, six shearers were prosecuted for breach of contract. They had engaged to shear sheep belonging to Charles Woodhouse at 20/ per ...
Article : 184 wordsThe Tientsin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that Russia has threatened China that she will immediately occupy Peking if China joins Japan against her. ...
Article : 31 wordsBar silver is quoted at 27 3-16d. per ounce standard, being an advance of 1/2d. since Friday last. ...
Article : 26 wordsWAHGUNYAH, Tuesday.—During yesterday's thunderstorm a man named James Stephens was riding near a tree, which was struck by lightning. The man and the ...
Article : 68 wordsAt their meeting last night, Mr. James Aitken presiding, the Victorian Cricket Association had under consideration the offer recently made by the Lord Mayor (Sir ...
Article : 467 wordsThe Siberian railway administration claims to be able to transport from Russia to the Far East 75,000 soldiers, with their equipment, a month. ...
Article : 92 wordsCopper.—Monday's closing quotations were as follows:—Spot, £59, or an advance of 10/ since last Friday; three months, £58 5/, or an advance of 7/6. ...
Article : 53 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Tuesday.—A railway ganger named John Boyle, aged 46, was admitted to the hospital this evening suffering from a fracture of the right collar-bone, ...
Article : 44 wordsBRISBANE, Tuesday.—A serious accident occurred to a young married man named Charles Thompson, who was working underground at the Hector mine, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe appointment of Mr. H. A. Grainger, the Agent-General for South Australia, has been extended for another year. The Hottentot rebellion in German ...
Article : 123 wordsNARANDERA, Tuesday.—A magisterial inquiry was held this afternoon touching the death of Thomas Bell, aged 71 years, whose body was found yesterday in the ...
Article : 64 wordsJapan has ordered 100 15-centimetre Krupp howitzers for immediate delivery. ...
Article : 15 wordsIn an address to his constituents at Manchester last night, Mr. Balfour said he declined to discuss the possibilities of war in the Far East, beyond stating that whatever ...
Article : 58 wordsDUNOLLY, Tuesday.—A peculiar accident happened to a young carpenter named Thomas Thiswell at Mount Hooghly. With a mate he was covering a house with iron, and ...
Article : 63 wordsWAGGA, Tuesday.—Much indignation has been expressed at the fisheries regulations. The Murrumbidgee was kept closed till the 21st December. Next day its waters ...
Article : 108 wordsSir,—Mr. J. Holt, in your issue of to-day, questions whether I know what I am talking about, especially in reference to meat. My knowledge of these things is ...
Article : 491 wordsA correspondent writes:— "Now that typhoid fever is once more prevalent, it would be of great service to know two very important things, of which the ordinary mortal seems ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsThe followiug arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Ruapehu, from Wellington November 29; Wakanui, from Auckland ...
Article : 44 wordsSir Malcolm M'Eacharn, Consul for Japan, is receiving such a number of letters relative to service in Japan that he desires it to be known that there is no opening for any ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Denham the Minsiter of Agriculturre, returned to Brisbane to-day from a visit to Chinchilla and the surrounding district, for the purpose of inquiring into the prickly ...
Article : 235 wordsHitherto the cable messages have not given any authoritative information concerning the progress of the negotiations between Russia and Japan. Nothing official ...
Article : 338 wordsThe threatened trouble between the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council with respect to the Redistribution of Seats Bill, the Constitution Amendment ...
Article : 157 wordsThe fifth death due to the explosion on the Wallaroo occurred to-night. Walter J. Sandow, who was so fearfully scalded, and whose condition from the first was very ...
Article : 59 wordsIn view of the critical situition in the last the movements of war-ships are watched with more than ordinary interest at present. The unexpected appearance in ...
Article : 348 wordsIn June last the miners at the Rhondda and Northern Extended Collieries, Newcastle, applied to the Arbitration Court for payment on a tonnage basis, instead of by a ...
Article : 145 wordsDr. Anderson, who was deputed by the Government to carry out a series of inquiries in India into the occurrence and treatment of the bubonic plague, has ...
Article : 201 wordsThe attention of the commissioner of police has been called to the advertisements relating to the benevolent societies' annual charity fete and art union to be held in ...
Article : 207 wordsST. KILDA.—The fortnightly meeting was held in the town-hall on January 11. Mr. Levi in the chair. The motion carried at the previous meeting (arising out of the installation of officers of the branc[?] ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 13 Jan 1904, Page 5
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