An important military movement seems to be foreshadowed in the announcement that the war correspondents, who up to the present have been under close restraint in ...
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Article : 412 wordsFurther exciting details have been received of the capture of the Thibetan camp at Guru, and of the fighting which preceded the final rush. All the accounts ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 844 wordsThe following description of the Terra Nova's experiences in the Antarctic regions is from a reliable source:—"In company with the Morning, we left Hobart on ...
Article : 2,760 wordsTheir Excellencies the Governor-General and Lady Northcote will visit Bendigo to-day in connection with the Easter Fair, and will return to Melbourne tomorrow. On ...
Article : 925 wordsThe German newspapers criticising Lord Curzon's speech on the Indian Budget, on the eve of the fight at Guru, and before news of the conflict was received, were ...
Article : 82 wordsTrouble has arisen between the mine-owners and men in the state of Iowa, in the United States. The men demanded higher wages for the unskilled hands and a ...
Article : 62 wordsThe weavers at the important wool-manufacturing town of Roubaix, in north-east France, have gone out on strike in order to secure a concession as to hours from the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Russians have now a force of 10,000 at Niuchwang, the port of Manchuria. They have 60 cannon in position, and are mining the river, their intention being to close the ...
Article : 41 wordsLast night a medical practitioner in South Yarra communicated to the Port Melbourne police his suspicions that a woman residing in that suburb was suffering from ...
Article : 262 wordsVice-Admiral Togo has paid another visit to Port Arthur, to see the effect of the latest attempt, made on Sunday last, to block the fairway at the port by sinking old ...
Article : 67 wordsThe correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Wei-hai-wei reports a curious mishap to the Japanese. The steamer Sanci Maru was towing a junk with provisions ...
Article : 72 wordsThe principal speaker at the annual smoke concert of the People's Reform League last night was Sir William M'Millan. He said there was no man in the community ...
Article : 302 wordsMARYBOROUGH, Sunday.—A sensational incident occurred at the Main Lda North mine on Saturday night, a fall of wash occurring just as the men were ...
Article : 256 wordsThe vessels of Admiral Virenius's squadron still linger about the Mediterranean. The cruiser Aurora is at present at Ferrol, a Spanish naval base, and is proceeding to ...
Article : 58 wordsHis Holiness the Pope has appointed a commission of cardinals to co-ordinate and modernise the principles of the canon law. It is also said that His Holiness, who is ...
Article : 59 wordsThe gunboat Mandjur, which was allowed to remain at Shanghai on condition that her guns were dismantled, has complied with the condition. The Chinese and Japanese ...
Article : 53 wordsBishop Gerassimos, a Bulgarian prelate, had a narrow escape for his life at Strumitza, some 58 miles from Salonica, yesterday. He wished to build a church on a vacant site ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Russian force at Niuchwang is stated to be 10,000 men with 60 guns, and they evidently intend making a stand there, though the decision upon that point will depend ...
Article : 206 wordsMr. Deakin and Sir John Forrest reached Bombala on Thursday night from Delegate. An inspection of the proposed federal city site was made early on Friday morning. ...
Article : 138 wordsAt a conference of the Prahran, Albert— park, and Port Melbourne branches of the Labour party it was unanimously decided to contest the Southern Melbourne ...
Article : 36 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A boy named Harry Thorley was killed at Brigalow Creek, Wee Waa, yesterday. A man was engaged felling a tree when Thorley approached, and ...
Article : 38 wordsA sensational accident occurred to-day during the running of the Kalmarsh Plate at Northampton. One of the runners was the maro ...
Article : 98 wordsCRESWICK, Sunday.—A deputation from the Allendale Political Labour League waited upon Mr. Grose, M.L.A., on his return from Melbourne at the ...
Article : 86 wordsGORDON, Saturday.—A narrow escape from instant death occurred here in the main street last night to a boy 5 years old, eldest son of Mr. Richard Cantwells, of ...
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Article : 195 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—Mr. Wallace, M.L.A. for Maldon, has decided to stand for Bendigo West at the forthcoming state election. Mr. W. A. Hamilton, M.L.A., ...
Article : 64 wordsAlthough the Japanese advance, as already stated, is spread over so wide an area as to be practically a sweeping movement, the main advance is probably along the ...
Article : 322 wordsTATURA, Saturday.—Yesterday a boy about 13 years old, named William Lackie, the son of Mr. Andrew Leckie, shire inspector, was drowned in the Tatura Lake. He was in ...
Article : 127 wordsIn pursuance of a vote recently taken in the Chamber of Deputies, M. Combes, the Premier, has ordered all erucifixes and religious pictures behind the judges in the ...
Article : 48 wordsWARRACKNABEAL, Saturday.—Councillor Menzies, of Jeparit, has been asked to nominate for the Lowan electorate, and has inferred that he will accede to the request ...
Article : 37 wordsPOWLETT RIVER, Saturday.—A branch of the Farmers', Producers', and Property Owners' League has been formed at the Powlett River. Mr. C. ...
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Article : 145 wordsThe Kara Kara Shire Council to-day accorded its unanimous support and approval of the circular from the Farmers' League. The president (Councillor Reseigh) said 99 ...
Article : 318 wordsSir,—In the interests of good government, I ask insertion of the following:— The candidates so far announced include first, inside Labourites; second, outside ...
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Article : 67 words"The Times" in commenting upon the account supplied by its correspondent, refers particularly to the fact that the three generals of the Thibetans were armed with ...
Article : 69 wordsHORSHAM, Friday.—The little daughter of Mr. John Cook, of Nurrabiel, was playing with matches yesterday, with the result that she was badly burnt about the left arm and ...
Article : 32 wordsAll the leading English newspapers unite in warm congratulations to Captain Scott and to the nation at the valuable addition which the Discovery expedition has made ...
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Article : 125 wordsThe "Daily News," the leading Radical organ, and the chief exponent of the "Little England" view, denounces the forward policy now being adopted in Thibet, as ...
Article : 103 wordsOn receipt of the news of the arrival of the Antarctic ship Morning at Lyttelton, a telegram was forwarded, by permission of the Governor, from the Royal Society, as ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 4 Apr 1904, Page 5
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