A shocking accident occurred last night off Portsmouth in connection with the naval manocuvers which have been proceeding there during the week. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe failure of Mr. Daniel J. Sully was ananounced in the New York Cotton Exchange on Friday morning. The failure has not only had the effect of ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany, who has gone on a yachting cruise in the mediterranean, put in to Vigo, on the west coast of Spain, yesterday. The young King ...
Article : 182 wordsA telegram from St. Petersburg published in Paris states that General Kuropatkin, the Russian military commander-in-chief, has telegraphed to the Russian capital that ...
Article : 76 wordsA meeting of public servants for the purpose of raising funds in connection with the contemplated appeal to the Privy Council in the case of Williames v.the Railway ...
Article : 1,145 wordsThe Navigation Bill was circulated generally on Friday last, and on saturday it was in the hands of the representatives of the shipping companies in Melbourne. ...
Article : 2,525 wordsAs soon as the Minister of Defence feels firmly settled in his department, he proposes to make some notable departures in matters of policy. Mr. Chapman is firmly ...
Article : 431 wordsDetails of the painful occurrence off Portsmouth on Friday night show that, in connection with the manceuvers, the submarine A1 was ordered to wait for a ...
Article : 181 wordsThe failure of Mr. Sully angered the cotton exchange in New York, and led to a most remarkable scene. The exchange became a surging frenzied mass, in which the ...
Article : 155 wordsWidespread regret is expressed at the death of the veteran Duke of Cambridge. Hundreds of telegrams and letters of condolence have been received by the members ...
Article : 52 wordsBaron Suematsu, the Japanese envoy sent to England to present Japan's case to the public, has given an interesting interview to a press representative. ...
Article : 152 wordsSir Reginald Talbot, the Governor designate of Victoria, left London to-day. He was accompanied by Lady Talbot and suite, and the party sailed in the P. and O. ...
Article : 132 wordsA bomb outrage was perpetrated yesterday at Leige, in Belgium. A dynamite bomb was placed at the door of the residence of M. Laurent, the chief ...
Article : 96 wordsThe receipt of an allowance of 2/6 per "efficient" member, as provided for by the regulations which came into force on Febrary 22, has (writes "marker") been an ...
Article : 264 wordsEven in what may be called the civilised side of war, the so-called barbarians are teaching the other side a lesson in bumanity. Recent cable messages describe the hospital ...
Article : 482 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that Mr. Armour's seven months' wheat corner in the May option at Chicago, involving the holding of 25,000,000 bushels, has yielded a ...
Article : 44 wordsA simple and apparently trivial fall down four steps at the Flinders-street station led to the death of Mr. John Matthew Hervey, a reader in "The Argus" offices, ...
Article : 130 wordsBaron von Rosen, who was Russian ambassador at Tokio until the recall of the ambassadors of the belligerent powers, has been interviewed by a French ...
Article : 213 wordsThe wool sales to-day' were postponed, owing to an exceptional ly heavy fog. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Minister for Education (Mr. Sachse) has been asked by the Government to make arrangements in connection with the arrival of the Govenor. Mr. Sachse has had a ...
Article : 96 wordsThere was a good catalogue at the wool sales yesterday. Bidding was very animated, and prices were firm, tending puwards. The following were the average prices ...
Article : 71 wordsA man of about 30 years of age, whose name is supposed to be Gorden, was found dead yesterday at the West End Hotel, Spencer-street. The deceased engaged a ...
Article : 158 wordsThe scheme which the Minister is clabonating for the constitution of an advisory council, on the lines already mentioned in "The Argus," is beginning to take ...
Article : 121 wordsMajor Karri Davies, a West Australian who distinguished himself in the Boer War, has written a letter to "The Times" on the question of introducing Chinese labour into ...
Article : 212 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By The Australian Estates and Morgage Company Limited from London, dated March 18:— ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday.—On Friday a man named James A. Milner, who owns land at Wattle Fiat, met with an accident which terminated fatally to-day. Milner was ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Chapman has made full use of the supplies granted by Parliament last session for the purchase of armament, ammunition, and new rifles. Orders have been placed ...
Article : 139 wordsAdvices from Port Arthur state that the Russians require 75,000 tons of coal for that port. They are, however, reluctant to pay the famine and blockade prices which ...
Article : 52 wordsSir John Forrest has one object in lige— to obtain the onstruction of the transcontinental railway. He has many calls upon his time in his department, but seldom a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsHOBART, Sunday.—A miner named Harry Wilson was killed by falling down the shaft, a distance of 384ft., at the Golden Gate mine, Mathinna, on Friday. A fatal ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Japanese Diet, which was recently elected with a large Government following, has been opened for business. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 424 wordsIn "The Argus" of Thursday the opinion of H. G. Wells, the scientific romance writer, was quoted against submarines. In imagination he could see them do nothing. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Saturday.—A painful accident happened at Murphy and Birrell's butter factory on Friday afternoon. Whilst engaged in cleaning the butter-worker, N.. ...
Article : 87 wordsRussin has established naval prize courts at Sebastopol, on the Black Sea; at Libau, on the Baltic, at Port Arthur, and at Vladivostock. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe "Westminster Gazette," a Liberal organ, which favour the Imperial Liberal section of the party, commenting on Mr. John Redmond's remarks on the Home Rule ...
Article : 148 wordsAn open-air meeting in support of the candidature for Melbourne of Mr. W. Maloney was held on Saturday night at the corner of Victoria and Swanston streets. ...
Article : 503 wordsThe report that Mr. F. A. M'Kenzie, war correspondent of the "Daily Mail," had had both legs broken by his pony falling on him at Chinampo, in Korea, proves to have ...
Article : 59 wordsAt a sacred concert held in the Prahran City-hall yesterday afternoon in aid of the local stall at the Melbourne Hospital Bazaar, addresses were delivered by Miss vida Goldstein and Mr. Donald ...
Article : 302 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—John Miles, porter at Golden Square, met with a painful accident to-day while assisting to shunt some wood trucks. He was standing on one of ...
Article : 84 wordsBaron Rosen, the Russian Minister to Japan, who left Tokio after the Russian fleet had been crushed at Port Arthur, was paid a high compliment by the Japanese on ...
Article : 345 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—A Chinese child named Henry Young, living at Myrtle Creek, got his left hand caught in the cog of a horse pumping-plant last evening. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe dock labourers at Marseilles have gone out on strike owing to the fact that non-unionists have been allowed to work amongst them. The sten has been taken at ...
Article : 44 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.—A young man named Leslic Hollinshead was killed at Newcastle yesterday afternoon. He was riding a bicycle along Watt-street, when ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Prime Minster has, through His Excellency the Govenor-General, received the full text of a circular letter addressed by the Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of ...
Article : 328 wordsA case of plague is reported at Port Said. The Financial Indemnity Bill, to provide for losses suffered by colonists during the ...
Article : 139 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—[?]Jones, deceased (part heard). practice Court. Mr. Justice A'Beckett will delivered judgement in ...
Article : 147 wordsBENDIGO, Sunday.—W. Kendall, fruit merchant, of Hargrenves-street, was riding u bicycle from Cherry Tree to Bendigo today, when he fell and sustained concussion ...
Article : 31 wordsBAIRNSBDALE, Friday.—John Tomlin, whilst riding in one of the heats in the bicycle race at the hospital carnival on Thursday, collided with a post on the ...
Article : 89 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By Dalgety and Company Limited.—"London Leather and basils Sales.—Leather—At the auction ...
Article : 122 wordsFOSTER, Satuurday.—A fatal accident happened on Mr. George Wills's property, on the Mirboo-road, on Friday, where Alexander Harris and William Paton had ...
Article : 117 wordsColonel Younghushand, who is in command of the military expedition which is being sent to Thibet, is in no way deterred by the fact that the lamas at a ...
Article : 78 wordsThe German mail steamer Nera arrived at midnight, and sailed at 11 a.m. passengers for Melbourne—Miss Gondrand, Mr. P.E. Langhan, M. Mouran. For Sydney—Messrs. Ryan, ...
Article : 70 wordsDr. Cole held an inquiry at Whittlesea yesterday concerning the death of Mrs. Oats, who was murdered by her husband on Friday, and of the husband, who ...
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Advertising : 64 wordsThe manager of the Telegraph Office (Mr. W. Croft) has received the following mesage from Busselton, W.Q.:— "Ketch Electra sprang leak off Cape Naturalist on ...
Article : 45 wordsThis attitude of the Russians now is the more amusing since really the first threatening act of the war was on her side. When the Japanese bought the Niselun and the ...
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Article : 17 wordsST. ARNAUD, Saturday.—A young man named Thomas Dickie was admitted to the St. Arnaud Hospital yesterday. He was working on a thrasher at Donald, and felll ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 21 Mar 1904, Page 5
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