At a meeting of the state Cabinet yester day, it was decided to advise His Excellency the Governor to dissolve Parliament on Tuesday, May 10. The writs for the ...
Article : 91 words"I am in the place where I am demanded of conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whoso list." TO CORRESPONDENTS. ...
Article : 5,747 wordsSome 300,000 persons have already visited the St. Louis Exhibition, which was opened on Saturday. The display is a magnificent one, and it is considered that it is equal to ...
Article : 192 wordsYesterday the King and Queen paid a visit to Waterford, in Ireland. Subsequently Their Majesties went to Lismore Castle, the Irish seat of the Duke and Duchess of ...
Article : 44 wordsIn dealing with the marine collision case now approaching its end in the Vice-Admi[?]ally Court, Sir John Madden, as president, has had the opportunity of putting ...
Article : 915 wordsA meeting of the Railways Standing Committee was held at Parliament-house yesterday. There were present Mr. Craven (chairman), Mr. Morey, and Mr. Melville, ...
Article : 809 wordsThere has been no additional fighting on the Yalu since Sunday, but further particulars of last week's engagements have come to hand. ...
Article : 253 wordsLittle new information has reached the Commonwealth authorities about the nine Chinese who have been arrested at Port Darwin as prohibited immigrants, while in ...
Article : 479 wordsThe Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the decision of the Circuit Court at Indianapolis regarding the application for the extradition of J[?]mes Lynchehaun ...
Article : 141 words"I see," said Mr. Bent yesterday, "that Senator Findley hns been saying at Ballarat that I helped to put him out of the state Parliament. He said Peacock and I did it. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe mayor of Bendigo has invited Mr. M'Lcod, Minister for Mines, to unfold the Government mining policy, at a meeting to be held in the Bendigo Town-hall on ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Japanese transport Haginoura Maru, a small screw steamer of 180 tons burden, which was bound for Geasan, on the cast coast of Korea, is long overdue. It is ...
Article : 59 wordsA question of great importance to Government supporters, in view of the contests for Melbourne City, is the choice which they have of voting either in the city ...
Article : 145 wordsCopper.—Monday's closing quotations were as follows:—Spot, £58/18/9, or an advance of 3/9 since last Friday; three months, £58/17/6, or an advance of 5/. ...
Article : 198 wordsThe delegates who are to attend the Republican National Convention, which meets in June to select a Republican [?]andidate for the Presidency, have now all been ...
Article : 63 wordsEarly on the morning of the 28th the Japanese, screened by a string of blazing rafts, contrived to lay mines near the sunken battle-ship Petropavlovsk. The ...
Article : 61 wordsA regulation has been framed relating to the use of state school-buildings for election meetings. It has been decided that the charge in cities, towns, and boroughs shall ...
Article : 63 wordsA bill to provide for the exclusion from Cape Colony of indentured Chinese labour has been read a second time by the Cape House of Assembly. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Russian battle-ship Orel, 13,600 tons, which has just been built at St. Petersburg, has grounded on a sandbank in the Nevr. The ice-breaker Yermak has been sent to ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. James Balfour, who has for many years past been one of the representatives of the South Yarra Province in the Legislative Council, will be a candidate for the East ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Minister for External Affairs, in a statement about the nine Chinese at Port Darwin, said:—"It appears from the press telegrams that the South Australian Premier ...
Article : 404 wordsThe casualties resulting from Sunday's operations have not yet been determined with any accuracy, but the Japanese estimate is that their own amount to 700, while ...
Article : 176 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General left by the Sydney express yesterday on a private visit to the Goulburn weir, the Waranga basin, and the Rodney Irrigation ...
Article : 505 wordsA Berlin socialist newspaper asserts that one of the largest German shipyards is building night and day torpedo boats and destroyers for the Russian navy. In order ...
Article : 60 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are reported:— Arrivals.—Turakina, s.s., from Wellington March 17; Everton Grange, s.s., from ...
Article : 122 wordsMr. J. X. Merriman, the well-known Bond leader, who was defeated at the recent general elections, has now been elected to th House of Assembly. A member of the ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Port Melbourne branch of the Political Labour Council met last night for the purpose of appointing three delegates to attend a conference of other branches in the ...
Article : 108 wordsA shocking railway disaster occurred yesterday at Kimmswick, a town in Jefferson County, Missouri. By some means, not stated, a passenger train ran off the rails, ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Japanese Governmeent offer no objection to Mr. Davidson—who was recently appointed Consul-General at Antung for the United States, but about whose ...
Article : 41 wordsThe annual session of the Presby terian General Assembly of New South Wales was opened to-day. The moderator-elect (the Rev. R.H. Waugh, M.A.) gave an address. ...
Article : 862 wordsThe Acting Consul-General of Japan has received the following cable message from the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs:— ...
Article : 146 wordsA remarkable fatality occurred yesterday near Paris. A motor cor, laden with passengers was passing over the level crossing at La Ferriere, some 30 miles out of the city, ...
Article : 80 wordsMr. J. M. Pratt, a candidate for the North-Western Province in the Legislative Council, addressed the clectors in the Mechanics'-hall to-night. The maroy ...
Article : 591 wordsGeneral Kuroki, who commanded the Japanese assault, states that, the heavy field guns did very effective work in dislodging the Russians. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe death is announced of the famous musical composer, Pan Antonin Dvorak. He was born in Bohemia in 1841. He was for some time director of the Conservatoire ...
Article : 88 wordsIt is the intention of the State Government to go thoroughly into the question of the adulteration of foods, drinks, fabrics, and gold jewellery. The Premier (Mr. ...
Article : 415 wordsThe Attorney General (Mr. Von Doussa), speaking with reference to the excluded Chinese at Port Darwin, said:—"I cannot conceive of exemption certificates being ...
Article : 3,592 wordsAt St. Petersburg no official news of the final result of the operations on the Yalu has yet been received, though alarming reports are current. Much uneasiness is felt ...
Article : 96 wordsA feeling of profound unrest, an obvious anxiety in official circles, and a remarkable and inexplicable absence of information in regard to warlike operations on land—these ...
Article : 338 wordsA plague rat has been found in the grist mill near Darling Harbour. This is the first infected rat found since April 28. TWO MORE BRISBANE CASES. ...
Article : 79 wordsA case involving an international difficully his cropped up it the Newcastle Police Court. Six seamen belonging to the Spanish school ship Ama Begonakoa were ...
Article : 337 wordsThe fighting on the Yalu has naturally excited the keenest interest throughout the civilised world. Military critics are inclined to take a serious new of the fact that ...
Article : 219 wordsThe man named John O'Brien who was shot in the stomach at the Royal Exchange Hotel, Boonah, during an altereation, died after being taken to the hospital. The ...
Article : 400 wordsMr. George Edwardes's London Gaiety Company, who open under the auspices of Mr. J. C. Williamson at the Princess's Theatre on Saturday week, arrived at ...
Article : 207 wordsOne case of small-pox and several suspected cases of the same disease are reported from the steamer Sultan, which arrived at Broome from Singapore yesterday. The ...
Article : 43 wordsCouncillor James Grigg, of Fitzroy, has decided to become a candidate for the Fitzroy constituency. ...
Article : 24 wordsRichard Duckwell, of Priuce's-street, Footscray, carpenter. Causes of insolvency—Being unable to repay money borrowed on mortgages in 1890, depreciation of ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following are the saloon passengers by the R.M.S. Orient, which arrived from London today:— For Sydney,—Messrs. O. Bishop, T. S. B. Wilson, ...
Article : 124 wordsThe P. and O. Company's R.M.S. Mongolia srrived at Suez, from Australia, on the 2nd inst. F.M.S. Oceanien left Port Said for ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. G. M. Prendergast met his friends and supporters at North Melbourne last evening, Mr. R. Wright in the chair. The candidate said he did not intend to make ...
Article : 157 wordsThe election for the Legislative Council took place to-day, and resulted as follows:— For Sir Adye Douglas's Seat. ...
Article : 95 wordsAnother illustration of the resourcefulness of the Japanese is afforded by the fact that when the attack on the Russian position was in preparation and in progress the Japanese ...
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Article : 165 wordsThe Drainage Board has decided to give the late engineer (Mr. Wilkinson) a bonus of two months' salary, in addition to the month's leave already granted him, thus ...
Article : 154 wordsAt Monday's meeting of the Brighton Council the mayor said that the ti-tree was dying out, and something would have to be done to beautify the reserve. In Manly, ...
Article : 96 wordsVice-Admiral Eamimura reports that on two occasions within the past few days his squadron passed close to the vessels of the Vladivostock squadron, which recently came ...
Article : 133 wordsMr. W. J. George, the West Australian Railway Commissioner, arrived by the R.M.S. Orient to-day, en route for Sydney, to attend the confeicnce of the ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. E. J. Russell, the selected Labour candidate for Prahran, addressed a meeting of about 300 electors, at the corner of Argo and Little Albion streets, last night. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wed 4 May 1904, Page 5
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