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  2. THE THIBET MISSION.

    Colonel Younghusband's expedition to Thibet is receiving reinforcements of upwards of 1,000 riflemen, with four field guns and two Maxims. The auxiliary force has ...

    Article : 61 words
  3. CHINESE FOR THE RAND. DEMONSTRATION AT HYDE-PARK.

    A monster demonstration was held in Hyde-park yesterday to protest against the importation of Chinese labour into South Africa. About 70,000 persons assembled, ...

    Article : 116 words
  4. The Argus.

    The election for Melbourne which takes place to-morrow is of special importance and interest. It may have a controlling effect over the issue on ...

    Article : 5,095 words
  5. JAPANESE ARMY ADVANCING. APPROACHING THE YALU.

    A St. Petersburg telegram states that in consequence of the advance of 40,000 Japanese northward through Korea, the Russians have retired upon their entrenchments on the Yalu River. The Japanese advance guards and artillery are 40 miles south of that point. The ice on the river ...

    Article : 165 words
  6. PERSONAL.

    Lord Ranfurly (writes our Dunedin correspondent on March 21) has just concluded a flying visit to the country of the Urewern Maoris, so long closed to European. The ...

    Article : 1,128 words
  7. A JAPANESE FAILURE.

    The silence of the Japanese as to the result of their second attempt to block the Port Arthur Channel by sinking merchant men was suggestive of failure. The Russian ...

    Article : 204 words
  8. RUSSIAN FINANCES.

    The city correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" is responsible for a statement which indicates that Russia is experiencing much difficulty in financing ...

    Article : 74 words
  9. NATIONAL ALLIANCES.

    King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, in proposing the toast of the Kaiser's health at lunch on His Majesty's yacht, the Hohenzollern, yesterday, remarked that the Triple ...

    Article : 146 words
  10. LORD MILNER'S ATTITUDE.

    Viscount Milner, the High Commissioner for South Africa, in a speech at Johannesburg, referred to opinions which had been expressed in England with regard to his ...

    Article : 103 words
  11. GENERAL KUROPATKIN.

    General Kuropatkin, who left St. Petersburg on 13th inst, to assume supreme command of the Russian military operations in the Far East, has arrived at Harbin, the ...

    Article : 50 words
  12. THE RUSSIAN KITCHENER.

    Under this title the Paris correspondent of the "Daily News" refers to the present commander-in-chief of the Russian army of the East—General Kuropatkin:—"He was, ...

    Article : 316 words
  13. KAFFIR V. CHINESE.

    According to recent figures the average total cost per month on one of the large mines of the Rand of the Kaffir boy (not including the fee for recruiting) is £2/8/6½. ...

    Article : 218 words
  14. PLAGUE IN THE RAND.

    The outbreak of pneumonic plague at Johannesburg has caused the deaths of a doctor's family in the city. Dr. Marais had been attending some of the coolie ...

    Article : 89 words
  15. CHARGE OF TREASON.

    A committee has been inquiring into the case of Mr. Akeyama, a member of the Japanese House of Representatives, and the editor of a radical paper, who had been ...

    Article : 98 words
  16. STATE OF PORT ARTHUR.

    The reports which have been received through various sources of severe damage having been done to the forts and the town of Port Arthur by the several Japanese bombardments, are discounted by statements which have been made by a British merchant, who has just arrived at Shanghai ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 224 words
  17. THE IMPORTANT PENINSULA.

    It is only necessary to look at the map, with a slight knowledge of the political considerations that are likely to sway Russia, to realise what the holding of this southern ...

    Article : 322 words
  18. THE LONDON DEEMING.

    Several further facts have been brought to light by the police regarding the antecedents of Crossman, the ex-convict, who attempted to dispose of the body of his ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. WHY ARE TRAINS PACKED. DEPARTMENT'S EXPLANATION.

    That incovenience and annoyance arises from the overcrowding of suburban trains is not denied by the railway authorities, but they feel that it is almost impossible to ...

    Article : 466 words
  20. THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

    Few men are more in the eye of the world now than the Czar, who, according to many statements in leading English papers, is an autocrat who is never allowed to act ...

    Article : 424 words
  21. A DISASTROUS CYCLONE.

    The French island of Reunion, in the Indian Ocean, 500 miles cast of Madagascar, with a population of 210,000, has been devastated by a cyclone. Thousands of the ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. THE MARSEILLES STRIKE.

    The strike of dock labourers at Marseilles, which was believed to have been settled, has been renewed. In consequence of the authorities ...

    Article : 96 words
  23. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    At the annual University sports Cambridge won eight events and Oxford two. LONDON, Match 28. Lord Plunket, the newely-appointed ...

    Article : 213 words
  24. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    The Russian torpedo-boat destroyer Burni, 350 tons, 6,000 h.p., struck on a rock while entering the Mediterranean port of Algiers, and was extensively damaged. ...

    Article : 81 words
  25. BOYS IN SMOKING CARRIAGES.

    With reference to the annoyance which results from boys availing themselves of the accommodation in smoking carriages, it is pointed out that a by-law designed to ...

    Article : 172 words
  26. A RUSSIAN RECONNAISSANCE.

    A report received from Vice-Admiral Makaroff, the commander of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, indicates that the attempts of the Japanese to "bottle up" the fleet in the harbour have not met with success. Vice-Admiral Makaroff states that, on the 26th inst., he left Port ...

    Article : 104 words
  27. THE REV. J. A. DOWIE.

    At a meeting of the Adelaide City Council to-day the mayor (Mr. Cohen) remarked: —"You will share with me the deepest regret that there should be found any ...

    Article : 424 words
  28. NOTES ON THE CABLES.

    After many false alarms it seems certain that at length the Japanese forces are closing in upon the Yalu River, where the Russians are strongly entrenched, under ideal ...

    Article : 293 words
  29. ROOM FOR THE LADIES.

    Sir,—I read with interest your leader in this morning's paper referring incidentally to the crowding in of ladies into a conpartment already full. As one who suffers ...

    Article : 105 words
  30. EXTENDED COURT HOURS.

    Yesterday morning, in the Insolvency Court, Mr. Montagu Cohen, who was appealing in a matter before Judge Molesworth, drew attention to the inconvenience ...

    Article : 400 words
  31. BLOCKING THE PORT ENTRANCE.

    Still another attempt has been made by the Japanese to block the entrance to Port Arthur by sinking merchant vessels in the fairway. On this occasion an effort was made to take four Japanese merchant-men up to the harbour mouth. The vessels were, however, sunk by the guns on ...

    Article : 120 words
  32. UNEMPLOYED IN NEW ZEALAND.

    The Minister of Works has received a communication from the officer in charge of the Labour department in New Zealand to the effect that the unemployed difficulty is ...

    Article : 89 words
  33. PORT ARTHUR COMFORTABLE.

    A British merchant, who has known the place for years, but has left it for the present all the same, declares that the ...

    Article : 232 words
  34. THEFT BY A RAILWAY PORTER.

    John F. Dillon, formerly employed as a porter at the Elsternwick railway station, was charged at the Prahran Court yesterday with stealing a handbag containing a silver watch and gold chain, £2 ...

    Article : 293 words
  35. RUSSIAN ADMIRAL'S ACCOUNT.

    Russian accounts of the latest attempt by the Japanese to block the entrance to Port Arthur state that six Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers and sixteen other ships convoyed towards the entrance to Port Arthur four 2,000-ton merchantmen, which it was intended to use as fire-ships. ...

    Article : 302 words
  36. NEW INSOLVENTS.

    Arthur B. Clapton, of Lily-street, Bendigo, miner. Causes of insolvency—Want of employment, sickness of self and family, and pressure of creditors. Liabilities, £62 ...

    Article : 83 words
  37. LAW NOTICES (This Day).

    At Half-past 10 a.m.—Re Jones, deceased (part heard). First Civil Court. (Before the Chief Jusitce.) ...

    Article : 125 words
  38. THE JAPANESE POSITION.

    The Japanese in their approach on the Yalu cover a front of a little more than 100 miles, their right front being at Karg-ge, a town on one of the tributaries of the Yalu, ...

    Article : 453 words
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