Probably driven to desperation on account of the terrible rain of shells to which the Japanese are subjecting the town and harbour, the remuant of the Russian Port ...
Article : 123 wordsAnother battle in Manchuria is impending. An announcement has been made by the general staff at St. Petersburg that the Japanese fronting the Hun River, on the ...
Article : 76 wordsThe attitude of the Australian Labour party towards Mr. Chamberlain's scheme of preferential trade is causing a great amount of discussion among the working ...
Article : 283 wordsLady Curzon passed a fairly good night, and yesterday's improvement was maintained. ...
Article : 20 wordsA meeting of the Boers has been held at Brandfort, in the Orange River Colony, to promote a national congress for the purpose of discussing Boer grievances. ...
Article : 34 words"These personal explanations are becoming a perfect scandal," said Mr. M'Donald (Q.), when the third for the day was being listened to in the House of ...
Article : 1,818 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 : 4,775 words"I am inclined to think that there will be a dissolution," Mr. Cameron (T.) remarked yesterday afternoon. He belives that be still holds the key to the situation but when ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury (the Most Rev. Dr. Randall Thomas Davidson), who is visiting America, has been "slumming" in New York. He was accompanied by ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Ulster (Unionist) members of the House of Commons are promoting a convention to protest against the proposals put forward by the Irish Reform Association, ...
Article : 43 wordsThe fifth series of wool sales this year closed to-day. The market was firm, and prices were the highest of the series. The following rates were realised for the fleece ...
Article : 191 wordsWhen Melbourne first learned the possibilities of comic opera in 1879, and Mr. and Mrs. Horace Lingard produced "H.M.S. Pinafore" at the old Bijou Theatre, or ...
Article : 1,553 wordsThe new Japanese conscription regulations increase the strength of the army by 200,000 men. The term of service of reservists of the ...
Article : 45 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Lady Talbot, accompanied by Miss Grosvenor and Captain Fitzpatrick, will visit Healesville and the Blacks' Spur from Saturday until ...
Article : 1,122 wordsThe St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris "Matin" cables that General Stoessel has sent a gloomy report regarding the position at Port Arthur. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe late M. de Plehve, Russian Minister of the Interior, prohibited the establishment by the Zemstvos, or provincial Assemblies, or an organisation for the relief of the sick ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Victorian revenue returns for the first quarter of the financial year 1904-5 were completed by the Treasury officers last night. They show a satisfactory ...
Article : 292 wordsThe well-known Labour member of the House of Commons, Mr. John Burns, cabled to Mr. Watson in the following terms:— "I adhere to the facts and the appeal in ...
Article : 198 wordsThe following private advices have, been received:— By Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company Limited.— "The sales closed firm, and the market shows no ...
Article : 581 wordsThe two Japanese naval officers, employed by a commercial house at St. Petersburg, who were arrested about a fortnight ago, on the charge of being spies, have been ...
Article : 39 wordsCaptain De Cuverville, French attache, who with Li[?]nant vou Gilgerheim, German military attache, was said to have left Port Arthur by junk on August 17 for ...
Article : 55 wordsTwo pistons of the Russian cruiser Oleg, 6,500 tons., one of the vessels of the Baltic squadron at Liban, have burst. The accident has postponed indefinitely the ...
Article : 43 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. O. C. Beale, who presided to-night at the annual dinner of the Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales, in submitting the toast of the ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Imperial Government has demanded from the Sultan of Morocco the surrender of the confiscated property of Kaid El Menebhi, formerly War Minister in ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. John Redmond, the leader of the Irish Nationalist partly in the House of Commons, who is on a visit to America, referred to the fiscal question in a speech at ...
Article : 108 wordsSeveral valuable oil paintings belonging to the Czar, which are exhibited in the Russian section at the St. Louis Exhibition, have been mutilated. ...
Article : 32 wordsMr. Ernest Terah Hooley, the well-known company-promoter, and an associate, Mr. J. Lawson, who were arrested in May last on warrants charging them with ...
Article : 107 wordsBRISBANE, Friday.—Speaking in the Legislative Assembly last night, the Premier, with reference to the resignation of the Governor, said:— ...
Article : 192 wordsTenders for the proposed new fortnightly mail service from Australia to England, on the White Australia basis, closed yesterday. Only one company—the Orient Steam ...
Article : 169 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.—At the annual dinner of the New South Wales Chamber of Manufactures to-night, Mr. O. C. Beale, who presided, read the following reply from Mr. ...
Article : 254 wordsHungarian notables are urging the Minister of War (General Heinrich Ritter von Pitreich) to summon a Court of Honour to try Prince Philippe of Saxe-Coburg, on a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsMr. J. F. Wallace, the chief engineer of the American Panama Canal Commission, claims to have solved the problem of diverting the Chagres River towards the Pacific, ...
Article : 161 wordsThe butter market is quiet, but firm. The shipments by the Orontes, which left Sydney on August 13, and Melbourne on August 16, and by the Mbrayshire, which ...
Article : 99 wordsSYDNEY, Friday,—The four-masted steel barque Adolphe, 3,204 tons, owned in Paris by Bordes and Son, is a total wreek at Newcastle. The vessel, which came from ...
Article : 480 wordsKALGOORLIE, Friday.—The Boulder Perseverance commission resumed its sittings at the School of Mines this morning. Mr. W. J. Loring, recalled, stated that ...
Article : 640 wordsThe open market discount rate for three months' bank bills is 2¼ percent., or 3¾ per cent, below the Bank of England rate of 3 per cent. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Association of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom has at its meeting at Manchester appointed a committee to approach the shipping companies ...
Article : 49 wordsSYDNEY, Friday.— Mr. Watson, M.H.R., when informed of Mr. Burns's statement as contained in the cable, said:— "There is no desire on the part of the ...
Article : 210 wordsKORUMBURRA, Wednesday.—The presnt unsettled state of federal politics is causing the local branch of the Farmers. Property-owner', and Producer' ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 227 wordsTho death is announced of Mr. Colin Hunter, associate of the Royal Academy, painter of sea and fishing pictures, aged 63 years. ...
Article : 364 wordsBar silver is quoted at 26[?]d. per ounce standard, being a decline of l-16d, since Yesterday. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Dominion Parliament has been dissolved. The elections have been fixed for November 3. ...
Article : 24 wordsOne of the young ladies at 452 Lonsdalcstreet—the house of Mr. Samuel Nathan— opened the door at 9 o'clock last night, to find a three-months old girl baby Iving on ...
Article : 96 wordsThe quotations given below are Thursday's closing quotations:— Wool.—The Bradford market is dull, with little business, but holders are firm. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 wordsAn English missionary society has, as a matter of principle, refused to accept from the Chinese Government an indemnity for the murder of two missionaries. Great ...
Article : 66 wordsRichard M'Grath, of Mclton, carter. Causes of insolvency—Loss of horses and heavy interest on barrowed money. Liabilities £156/10/5; £assets, daficiency, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 wordsMessrs. Graham and Styles.—At Canterburyroad, East Camberwell—Mansion and villa sites. Mr. J. C. Adams.—At Canterbury road, Canterbury, and Yarrabat avenue—Villa residence. ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Association of Chambers of Commence of the United Kingdom has unanimously passed a resolution expressing the opinion that the shipping regulations of the ...
Article : 142 wordsAh Chow, late of Koroit, livery-stable keeper, who died on August 9, under a will dated five days earlier left estate valued for probate at £3,107, including realty £2,100 and personalty £1,007, to his ...
Article : 87 wordsThe following arrivals and departures are announced:— Arrivals.—Offenbach, s.s, from Adelaide June 27; Geelong, s.s., from Sydney, July ...
Article : 89 wordsP. and O. Company's R.M.S. Macadonia left Suez for Australia on the 20th inst. R.M.S. Omrah, homeward bound, arrived at Port Said on September 28. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Sat 1 Oct 1904, Page 15
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