A sensational announcement has been received from Tokio. In that city a report is current that Admiral Skrydloff, Commander-in-chief of the Russian fleet in Far ...
Article : 179 wordsThe mission of the Rev. J. A. Dowie in London has closed abruptly. Mr. Dowie, on reading in the newspapers on Monday of Mrs. Dowie's exclusion from ...
Article : 125 wordsLieutenant-Colonel Sir Edouard Percy Girouard,who has been Commissioner of Railways for the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony since 1902, has resigned that ...
Article : 337 wordsWith the exception of a few small polling places in remote parts of the state, the returns of the Scriptire referendum vote have been completed. The few outstanding ...
Article : 435 wordsLord Plunket, the new Governor of New Zealand, arrived in the s.s. Gothie at Hobart yesterday. His Excellency will be the guest of the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir John ...
Article : 610 wordsThe arbitration Bill.—Further consideration in committee. Award of Court to be binding on all organisations and persons under the jurisdiction of the Court. ...
Article : 2,897 wordsA letter was published yesterday by the Paris "Temps" which throws some light on the allegations of bribery and corruption that have been made in connection with the ...
Article : 344 wordsThere has been a renewal of activity far down the Liaotong Peninsula, and the Russians are apparently endeavouring to send a force to the lelief of Port Arthur. ...
Article : 310 wordsTwo Spaniards and an Irishman, or a colonial, have been arrested at Johannesburg on suspicion of having designs on the life of Lord Milner. One of the men was ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,—The coounting of the referendum voting, has now been practically completed, and there appears a wide discrepaney between the number voting for the referendum and ...
Article : 154 wordsThe position of the British force in Gyangtse is by no means satisiactory. It is estimated that 8,000 warriors occupy villages at the foot of the monastery, opposite ...
Article : 92 wordsSir,—With due respect to the views put forth in your leader of to-day, I venture to think that the way of complying with the desires of the electors of Victoria, as ...
Article : 188 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Waddell completed the task of forming a new administration this morning, and at noon handed the names of the Ministers to the ...
Article : 908 wordsThe Sultan of Morocco has decided to comply with the demand of the brigand chief Raisuli, and release some of the tribesmen in prison in Tangier. A nominee of ...
Article : 89 wordsOUTTRIM, Wednesday.—Five men, all of whom are strangers in Outtrim, were arrested this afternoon by Detective-sergeant D. G. O'Donnell, Detective W. Johnson, ...
Article : 539 wordsA remarkable series of occurrences took place at the Auburn railway station last night. An elderly woman, named Mary Mungovan, in some way got on to the ...
Article : 607 wordsProfessor Koch, the eminent German bacteriologist, has been interviewed regarding the report of the English Royal Commission on Tuberculosis. The professor admits that ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—Evertone must admit that, after the votes on the Scripture referendum have been counted they still have to be interpre ted but, a very earnest protest may be ...
Article : 745 wordsThe Japanese are strongly entrenching then positions at Feng huang-cheng and Sia-yen. A report has been received from General ...
Article : 48 wordsPrior to her arrival here the steamer Beckenham, Captain John Raeburn, was engaged in the hazardoous enterprise of carrying contraband of war, namely, 250 tons of ...
Article : 801 wordsThe Czar has recently issued an order that many additional officers and men of the reserve force are to be summoned for active service in the Far East.This step ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Admiralty his issued a design for a new tvpe of battle-ship which will be adopted in future. It is a marked departure from conventional standards. It ...
Article : 70 wordsCuptain Lake, the United States officer who designed the submarine Protector at Newport News, Virginia, has sailed for Europe, and it is understood that he leaves ...
Article : 108 wordsThe "Osservatore Romano," a Roman newspaper, which, while not in official Vatican organ, is yet used by the Vatican as the channel for public official ...
Article : 61 wordsInvestigations made by the authorities lead them to estimate that the total loss in money and supplies caused by the fraud and peculation of employes on the ...
Article : 93 wordsA complaint has been made by Vice-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron, that many British merebantmen neglect to answer the ...
Article : 68 wordsThe ball in aid of the St. Vincent's Hospital took place last night in the Townhall, a very large number of gueste being present. The decorations were light and ...
Article : 399 wordsThe recklesness displayed by the Rus sian Port Arthur squadron in the sowing of mechanical mines is shown by the fact that Vice-Admiral Togo has destroyed thirty of ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. W. Hall Jones Minister of Public Works in New Zealand, who has been on a visit to England, sails for home by the R.M.S. Orontes, which leaves London next ...
Article : 202 wordsA warrant has been issued for the arrest of Albert Edward Purdue, recently a clerk in the employ of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agenty Company, Collins-street. ...
Article : 198 wordsWhile the Japanese transport Taihoku Maru, a steel serew steamer of 2,796 tons, was engaged in laving mines in the vicinity of the entrance to Port Arthur an explosion ...
Article : 75 wordsSir,—It is a common ruse de guerre in the warfare of words to assume that everyone sees you are victorious. It is, however a trick only, and wholly unworthy of ...
Article : 721 wordsIf the country were level, the positions now occupied by the opposing forces in Southern Manchuria and the Liatung Penin sula would be incomprehensible. It is so ...
Article : 838 wordsBRISBANE, Wednesday.—The debate on the Address is Reply was continued in the Legislative Council to-day, and again adjourned. ...
Article : 74 wordsJohn Madole Harcourt, formerly of [?] late of Brighton, who died on May 25, [?] dated March 26, 1894, left estate [?] bate at £3,396, including realty ...
Article : 105 wordsWilliam John Morgan, labourer, of Framlingham. Causes of insolvency—Losses made in purchase of stock and want of remunerative employment. Liabilities, £83 ...
Article : 36 wordsThe hon. secretary (Mr. H. T. Hayman) has received the following additional subscriptions:— Proceeds of football match between St. Kilda and Moorabbin............ £10 4 9 ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 16 Jun 1904, Page 5
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