The restriction on the passage of warships through the Dardanelles imposed by the Treaty of Paris are again being discussed in Russia in a tone which indicates a ...
Article : 305 wordsOn Friday the Port Arthur garrison sought a partial armistice to allow of the removal of the dead and the wounded, the result of the fieree fighting of the last few ...
Article : 224 wordsSome of the Russian newspapers are writing in a pessimistic strain about the despatch of the Baltic fleet to the Far East. ...
Article : 119 words"I am in the place where I am demanded of conscience to speak the truth, and therefore the truth I speak, impugn it whose list." TO CORRESPONDENTS. ...
Article : 7,450 wordsThe underground works which have been constructed by the opposing armies on the Sha-ho are of a very extensive character. It is stated that there are now five miles ...
Article : 103 wordsNeither the numerical strength nor the personnel of the Tariff Commission has yet been finally determined. At first Ministers proposed to appoint six federal members of ...
Article : 843 wordsBALLARAT, Sunday.—The proudest men in Ballarat yesteday were the gold-fields veterans who were associated with the historic fight at the Eureka Stockade, and were ...
Article : 1,096 wordsWith reference to the statement in "The Argus" on Saturday regarding the appointment of a professor of geology at the Melbourne University, in succession to ...
Article : 1,251 wordsIn the House of Peers Tokio yesterday a vote of thanks to the army and navy was carried unanimously. References to the exploits of the two branches of the service ...
Article : 46 wordsThe colliers from which Admiral Rozhdestvensky's squadron coaled at Dakar Bay, in Senegambia, are stated to have included nine German and two English vessels. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe portion of the Baltic fleet, under the command of Admiral Foelkersahm-Enkrist, which recently passed through the Suez Canal, has arrived at the French port of ...
Article : 67 wordsLast evening there was an influential assemblage at Devonshire House, in Pi[?]adilly, the town residence of the Duke of Devonshire, in connection with the recently[?]formed ...
Article : 181 wordsIn Wednesday's issue of "The Argus," under the heading of "Sunday Train Arrangements," it was stated that Mr. Keast, M.L.A., was met by Councillors Walker and ...
Article : 121 wordsAdvices from Vladivostock state that the number of Russian troops there is 26,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsWith grim satire, the following professed "items of news" were posted up on October 24 (says the "Financial Times") in the London Stock Exchange, on the board ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Porte has stopped the French steamer Merthyic from going through the Dardanelles. It was conveying 21 cases of explosives to Batoum, the Russian port in the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe British steamer Calchas, 6,748 tons, owned by the Ocean S.S. Co., which was scized by the Russians and taken to Vladivostock in July, with a cargo of flour ...
Article : 354 wordsThe railway Commissioners returned to Melbourne on Friday from Sydney, where they had been holding a conference with the New South Wales commissioners on the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe reference in the cable messages this morning to the treaty of Paris of 1856, by which the exclusion of foreign war-ships from the Daedanelles and Bosphorus was ...
Article : 907 wordsThe Beni Sawer tribesmen have attacked the house of Mr. Walter B. Harris, the correspondent of "The Times" at Tangier. One of the guards was killed, but Mr. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Milado has expressed himself in favour of the holding of a peace conference, as suggested by President Roosevelt. [President Roosevelt intimated a day or ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Railway Commissioners explain taht the alteration in the departure of the train for Healesville from 7.37 to 8.52 a.m. was made because the former time was ...
Article : 131 wordsThrough drinking poisonous brandy 20 persons, who were participating in a marriage feast at the village of Katelinki, in Germany, lost their lives. ...
Article : 52 wordsA largely[?]attended congress of discontented ex-burghers of the Orange River Colony has been opened at Brandfort. The Object of the meeting is to discuss the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe agreement of the Admiralty with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, by which the company receives a subvention for the use by the admiralty in time of war of the ...
Article : 92 wordsMuch distress has been caused in Spain by a snowstorm of unusual severity. Great interruption to business has been caused, and 20,000 persons have been thrown out ...
Article : 39 wordsGEELONG, Friday.—The South Barwon Shire Council on Friday decided to draw the attention of the Railways Commissioners to the fact that trains stopped at every station on the line except ...
Article : 62 wordsThe following report has been supplied to us:— At the meeting of the Melbourne Labour League on Wednesday the following ...
Article : 853 wordsThe prospectus of the proposed New Zealand loan of £1,000,000 at 4 per cent, for seven years has been issued. The debentures will be convertible into ...
Article : 145 wordsSir,—I have to be at my work at 9 a.m. Having a 20 minutes' train ride after reaching Melbourne, I cannot get to my place of business till 10 minutes past 9—or 10 ...
Article : 93 wordsThe estate of the late Field-Marshal Sir Henry Norman, formerly Governor of Queensland, is valued at £11,[?]74. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe High Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in the case of Burgoyne v. Godfree. The defendants Godfree and Co., wine ...
Article : 339 wordsThe following sales of mining shares were recorded on the London Stock Exchange yesterday:— Associated Gold Mines, Great Boulder, 22/ ...
Article : 47 wordsA demonstration, under the auspices of the Political labour Council, to celebrate the jubilee of the Eureka Stockade incident, was held on the Yarra—bank yesterday ...
Article : 171 wordsSir,—The Gippsland train due in Melbourne at 10.20 p.m. now stops only at South Yarra, after leaving Caulfield. If the Railway department altered it to Richmond ...
Article : 105 wordsThe following are the Frozen Meat Trade Association's market quotations, based on actual sales of not less than 100 careases of mutton or lamb or 25 quarters of beef of ...
Article : 567 wordsRecent investigations have disclosed a deficit of £21,000 in the accounts of the Argentine Meat Preserving Company Limited, whose offices are at 57 Charterhouse-street, ...
Article : 158 wordsSir,—No one has yet written on behalf of those who desire to come from the country to spend Christmas in Melbourne. there are very many shop-assistants, elerks, &c., ...
Article : 98 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.—The Melbourne express, which arrived this morning, had a curious experience. A few miles from Adelaide a womanm holding a child, waved a ...
Article : 131 wordsBROKEN HILL, Sunday.—The Eureka Stockade celebrations last night opened with a smoke social at the Trades-hall, which was attended by members of the Social ...
Article : 237 wordsSir,—Perchaps a classical schilar may give your readers some information about the signatures of bishops of the English Church. To a Christian man, his baptismal ...
Article : 405 wordsThe I.G.M.S. Oldenburg, from Australia, arrived at Southampton on December 2. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe London and Paris Exchange Limited, general bankers, whose failure was reported a few days ago, has made arragements with its creditors, The company's debts, a large ...
Article : 75 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Re Dickenson and re Potter, Harrington v. Gane, Trustees of Queen's College v. Mayor, &c., of Melbourne. Practice Court. ...
Article : 188 wordsThe United States Government's estimate of the cotton crop this season is 12,162,000 bales, or 900,000 bales more than the record yield. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe following private advices have been received:— By G. B. Appleton:—"At Friday's sales of sheepskins 100 per cent. were sold of quantity offered; ...
Article : 75 wordsThe great international exhibition at St. Louis has been closed. It has been visited by 20,000,000 persons. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn the appeal case Municipal Council of Sydney v. Austral Freezing Works the Privy Council has reserved judgment. [The plaintiffs [?]ued to recover £826/19/9. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Mon 5 Dec 1904, Page 5
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