An important deputation has waited upon Mr. Balfour on the subject of the colonies contilbuting to the cost of the defence of the empire. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach ...
Article : 792 wordsOn Friday the Japanese continued the bombardment of the Russian war-ships in Port Arthur. The Bayan, which had previously taken fire, was again badly hit, and ...
Article : 65 wordsAccording to the "Standard," 18 officers attached to the Russian Black Sea fleet have started to join Admiral Rozhdestvensky's squardron, which is on its way to the ...
Article : 41 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 : 6,014 wordsThe final meeting for the year of the St. Kilda branch of the Austrian Women's National League was held in the St. Kilda Town-hall last night, when interesting ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 370 wordsYesterday morning the Prime Minister received a letter from Sir John Quick stating that he was prepared to act as chairman of the Tariff Commission, and that he ...
Article : 583 wordsThe Queensland collector of Customs (Mr. Irving) recently visited the sugar plantations in southern Queensland, and indicated in his report that white labour was ...
Article : 1,951 wordsA cable message from Wellington announces the death of Bishop Hadtield, formerly Primate of New Zealand and Bishop of Wellington, at the age of 89 years. ...
Article : 1,311 wordsThe British authorities are persisting in their resolve to prevent British vessels from acting as colliers to the Russian fleet. Whilst off Perim, at the mouth of the ...
Article : 103 wordsA later report states that the battering of the Port Arthur fleet was further proceeded with on Saturday. In reporting the sinking of the gunboats ...
Article : 87 wordsSerious noting, terminating in a charge on the populace by mounted police, has occurred at St. Petersburg. The disturbance originated in a ...
Article : 119 wordsFurther details of the fighting which preceded the capture of 203-Metre Hill by the Japanese have been supplied by the Port Arthur correspondent of the "Daily ...
Article : 125 wordsKing Carlos of Portugal, who has been on a visit to England, is now at Paris. His Majesty will there be rejoined by Queen Amelia, who a week ago left England ...
Article : 75 wordsAn additional list issued by the Japanese War Office shows that in the recent heavy fighting at Port Arthur the officers in charge of the besiegers suffered further ...
Article : 56 wordsThe British Post-office authorities are now testing an invention which, if it accomplishes all that its originators claim, will revolutionise the present system of ...
Article : 119 wordsSHEPPARTON, Monday.—A peculiar accident happened to Alexander B[?]chey, caretaker of the local post-office clock, on Saturday night. At 6 o'clock he went into ...
Article : 274 wordsInformation respecting the doings of the opposing forces on the Sha-ho is still very scanty. Several skirmishes are reported to have ...
Article : 45 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—The Reverend Father John Milne Curran, describing himself as a geologist, was examined before the official assignee in bankruptey to-day. ...
Article : 584 wordsAppalling accounts are given by Russian correspondents of the hardships and sufferings which the Russian soldiers are enduring. It is stated that the clothes in which ...
Article : 124 wordsA public fund for the relief of the unemployed was recently started at the Mansion-house at the instigation of Mr. W. H. Long, president of the Local Government ...
Article : 86 wordsA peculiar example of the modern craze for realism came under the notice of the Chief Secretary (Sir Samuel Gillott) yesterday, when he received a letter from a ...
Article : 137 wordsAfter the engagement in Chemulpo Harbour on February 8, when the two Russian cruisers, Koreietz and Varyag, were sunk, the British cruiser Talbot assisted to rescue ...
Article : 85 wordsThe death is announced, at the age of 45, of Mr. James Cranston, a well-known Gloucestershire cricketer, who played frequently against the earlier Australian ...
Article : 39 wordsThe vacancy on the Board of Public Health caused by the death of the chairmen and professional head, Dr. Gresswell, opens up the question of revising the ...
Article : 294 wordsFor many years there were to be seen on the southern side of the St. Kilda Bluff three graves with large stone stabs above them. The constant encroachment of the sea on ...
Article : 286 wordsLord Brassey, in a letter to Sir John Colomb, has expressed views diametrically opposed to those put before Mr. Balfour by a deputation which urged the Government ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel prize for physies this year to Lord Rayleigh, professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution since ...
Article : 269 wordsWELLINGTON, Monday.—John Ellis alias M'Kenzie, for whose arrest a warrant was issued in connection with the murder of Leonard Callinson on February 26, and ...
Article : 508 wordsSADNEY, Monday.—When the Legislative Assembly met this afternoon Mr. Kelly presented a petition from 1,100 unemployed, asking that work should be provided for ...
Article : 443 wordsSYDNEY, Monday.—G. L. Garnsey, a good all-round cricketer, who has been distinguishing himself this season, will take Trumper's place in the New South Wales ...
Article : 38 wordsHuddart, Parker, and Co. Ltd. announce that they have arranged for the Coogee to make special excursions at Christmas and New Year from Melbourne to ...
Article : 232 wordsSir,—As the Women's National League purposes going into recess for two months, it has been suggested that a short account of our progress may prehaps prove of some ...
Article : 192 wordsYesterday the Prahran City Council, on the motion of the mayor (Councillor Chambers) and Councillor Bangs, passed a motion of sympathy with the widow of the ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Balfour's reply to the deputation as to the responsibilities of the colonies to wards the empire has been favourably commented upon in the press. ...
Article : 157 wordsAt the Prahram City Council's meeting last night, a letter was received from the Malvern Council, statingL:—"The matter of the tramway business was debated at some ...
Article : 324 wordsThe Crown law authorities have decided not to proceed with the retrial of Albert Osborn, the solicitor charged with conspiracy in the divorce case Pollard v. ...
Article : 175 wordsGEELONG, Monday.—At the meeting of the committee of the town council this evening sympathetic reference was made to the death of Dr. Gresswell. The mayor said ...
Article : 134 wordsADELAIDE, Monday.—Speaking at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Manufactures to-night, the Premier (Mr. Jenkins) stated that he had been to-day visited ...
Article : 135 wordsAt Half-past 10 a.m.—Darbyshire v. Darbyshire, Shaw v. Shaw, Connor v. Connor. Practice Court. Mr. Justice Hodges will at 10 a.m. deliver ...
Article : 114 wordsMrs. Alice M. Davis, late of Kangaroo Flat, near Bendigo, widow, who died on October 19, under a will made three weeks earlier left estate valued for probate at £2,100, including realty £150 and ...
Article : 221 wordsMr. Henry Grainger, Agent-General for South Australia, has, in an interview, declared himself opposed to any Australian contribution to the British navy. Australia, ...
Article : 41 wordsFREMANTLE, Monday.—The German mail steamer Gneiseman arrived from Bremen and ports this morning. Passengers: For Melbourne—Messrs. Wather and Meyer. For Sydney—Mrs. Harvar, ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Tue 13 Dec 1904, Page 5
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