The ravages of the fires in the southern districts, and especially about Wagga and Gundagal and the intermediate and surrounding districts, have been of the most devastating ...
Article : 833 wordsThe Treasurer stated yesterday that the present position of the finances will be well and simply understood from a memorandum of the Chief Accountant of the Treasury, ...
Article : 429 wordsMr. J. Ramsay Macdonald, the secretary of the Labour Representation Committee of Great Britain, on behalf of that body, has written to Senator Stewart, of ...
Article : 189 wordsGeneral Stoessel, cabling to the Czar from Port Arthur, on Sunday, stilted:—The Japanese on Saturday, after tremendous explosions under Fort No. 3, maintained for ...
Article : 215 wordsThis fund is controllod by a committee under the presidency of the Lord Mayor of Sydned (Alderman Allen Taylor). The honorary treasurers are the Lord Mayor and Messrs. ...
Article : 411 wordsFour Japanese warships are cruising off the east coast of Sumatra. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe allegation that British warships are, shadowing the Baltic Fleet is denied. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe "Russ" of St. Petersburg, in lamenting the fall of Port Arthur, declares that if the press was not gagged national agitation would have compelled the despatch ...
Article : 286 wordsPrince Troubotzkol, President of the Congress of Zemstvos of the Moscow Government, has warned Prince SviatopolkMirski, the Minister of the Interior, ...
Article : 89 wordsH.M.S. Hero, third-class battleship, at Portsmouth, was discovered yesterday to be sinking through the breaking of a valve allowing an inrush of water. Seven ...
Article : 41 wordsMany more municipalities in Russia are demanding reforms. A protest against the brutality of the St. Petersburg police and house porters, ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. George Maiden informs us that he has received several communications from the country, in which the writers have tendered practical help for the sufferers by the bush ...
Article : 272 wordsThe birthplace of Napoleon at Ajaccio, Corsica, has been entered by burglars, and many relies, historical souvenirs, and jewels have been stolon. ...
Article : 30 wordsGeneral Nogi, commanding the Japanese forces now in possession of Port Arthur, reports that there were 35,000 people in the fortress when the surrender ...
Article : 288 wordsIt is believed that Mr. C. J. Dashwood, Government Resident of the Northern Territory, South Australia, who is at present in Adelaide on leave of absence, intends to resign ...
Article : 141 wordsThere is more than a touch of pathos about the despatch in which General Stoessel informed the Czar of his enforced surrender of Port Arthur. In a few words it places ...
Article : 1,145 wordsThe reorganisation of the Fleet has been completed by the formation of the nucleus of crews for the reserve divisions at Portsmouth, Devonport, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe New South Wales Railway Commissioners, Messrs. Oliver, Kirkcaldie, and Fehon, accompanied by the Chief Traffic Manager, Mr. Harper, arrived in Melbourne ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is stated in financial circles at St Petersburg that Russia intends spending £40,000,000 abroad during the next three years upon the reconstruction of the ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Public Works Department has propared plans and estimates in connection with the proposal to open up the Swan River so as to allow the oversea vessels to come to Perth. ...
Article : 97 wordsAlthough the railways will be considerable sufferers by the extensive bush fires, principally in the way of fencing destroyed, It is a matter of congratulation that the results ...
Article : 872 wordsHarry Groth, strong man and wrestler, after being thrown by George Hackenschmidt in 8 minutes 2 seconds, at the Opera House on Wednesday night, expressed himself as not ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Antwerp wool sales will be held on Janunry 10 and 11. 4705 hales of La Plata wool will be offered. ...
Article : 26 wordsDr. Solf, Governor of German Samoa, arrived from Apia by the Manapouri to-day. In the course of an interview, he said the labour problom was most difficult. Two hundred ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Mansion House Fund for the relief of the London unemployed has reached £30,000. An explosion occurred on the tug ...
Article : 154 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways [?] ceived a telegram stating that a heavy storm occurred at Richmond yesterday afternoon, carrying away half the roof of the ...
Article : 99 wordsGeneral Stoessel was ill in bed when the surrender of Port Arthur was made. General Smirnoff, with the approval of General Stoessel, arranged the ...
Article : 115 wordsWhen the flames threatened the town several of the residents buried jewellery and documents, others began to get out their furniture. The establishment of a fire brigade ...
Article : 576 wordsAt the Police Court this afternoon Marajah Gool, an Afghan, was charged with attempting to shoot Gunny Khan on December 26. Mr. P. J. Honson appeared for the ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Premier stated yesterday that reports were reaching him from every quarter where the fires had been raging. The reports showed, without exception, that the very ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 613 wordsThe silver market weakened considerably to-day. Bars showed a decline of ½d, the price being 2s 3 15-l6d. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe "Daily Express" states that the Czar has informed General Stoessel that the officers of the surrendered garrison are at liberty to choose to return home on ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, formerly member for Rylstone, in the New South Wales Assembly, was a returning passenger by the steamer Eastern, which arrived at Pinkenba last ...
Article : 290 wordsAlbert William Bonfield, 23 years of ago, was executed at the Adelaide Gaol this morning for the murder of his sweetheart, Caroline Elizabeth Hinds, at Kensington Park, on ...
Article : 193 wordsIt is reported that Vice-Admiral Togo permitted four torpedo-boat destroyers to escape from Port Arthur to Chifu as a mark of appreciation of the defence of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Premier, in the course of a conversation yesterday with several members of the Lord Mayor's relief committee, stated that he had nominated to that body as the representatives ...
Article : 122 wordsA barque loaded with nickel ore is on one of the main reefs, off New Caledonia, and is in danger of breaking up. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Daniel Murray, an old man who lived by himself two miles down the river, was found dead, this morning. Evidently he had succumbed to the excessive heat of the past ...
Article : 66 wordsThe weight of official opinion in Tokio is averse to peace being signed until General Kuropatkin in Manchuria, and Admiral Rozhdestvensky with the Baltic Fleet, ...
Article : 80 wordsThe charred remains of a man named Michael Dowdell were discovered yesterday on the other side of Adelong Crossing. He had been fighting the fire on Monday, and left ...
Article : 103 wordsA visit round the Gundagai, Adelong, and Tumut district reveals a scene of desolation, and shows how the fire raged. In some places fires from opposite directions met, and the ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Fri 6 Jan 1905, Page 7
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