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  2. MR. REID IN SYDNEY.

    Mr. G. H. Reid delivered last night his first speech in Sydney since he became Prime Minister of the Commonwealth. The meeting, which assembled in the Protestant Hall, was ...

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  3. SECOND EDITION

    Sir Josiah Symon, continuing his statement relative to the High Court, said:- "Then, too, the practice was to compute justices travelling expenses, not from ...

    Article : 1,041 words
  4. THE HIGH COURT.

    In the Senate last session the AttorneyGeneral, Sir Josiah Symon, promised strict supervision with a view of keeping down the expenditure of the High, Court. When ...

    Article : 513 words
  5. RUSSIA.

    A man named M'Cullough, a Briton, who was staying at the Hotel Bristol, near St. Isaac's Cathedral, in St. Petersburg, has been blown to atoms. The first floor ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. RUSSIAN DEBACLE.

    The Battle of Mukden is in truth the greatest battle the world has witnessed. According to Japanese estimates the forces were about equal—350,000 men each, Now the Russians have lost in killed, wounded, and prisoners 200,000 men and 600 guns. The booty is ...

    Article : 133 words
  7. EARLIER REPORTS.

    It is reported at Tokio that the Japanese have captured 100 Russian guns and 50,000 prisoners. The Russian killed and wounded are ...

    Article : 53 words
  8. RUSSIA'S GREAT EFFORT.

    Russia has decided to send 500,000 more troops to Manchuria, and hopes to be able to transport supplies by water when the rivers are navigable. ...

    Article : 34 words
  9. RUSSIANS KEPT IN IGNORANCE.

    The military and civilians of St. Petersburg are unaware of the disaster that has overtaken General Kuropatkin's armies, and are holding a week's festivities in ...

    Article : 38 words
  10. BATTLE OE MUKDEN.

    Details of the battle of Mukden show that the retirement of the Russians from the Sha-ho to the north of the Hun-ho was orderly, though great piles of ammunition ...

    Article : 543 words
  11. ENORMOUS LOSSES.

    The Tokio correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that the victory of the Japanese is overwhelming. The number of the dead and the prisoners is so ...

    Article : 375 words
  12. RISING OF PEASANTS.

    Large bands of peasants are pillaging estates in the provinces of the Orel. Many refineries and distilleries have been sacked. The pensante declare that they ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. THE QUESTION OF PEACE.

    The "Temps," of Paris, in an article comparing the position of Russia with that of France in 1870, makes a strong appeal for peace, which, it says, will be ...

    Article : 45 words
  14. THE CZAR DEJECTED.

    The Czar is greatly dejected at the disaster which his armies have suffered. ...

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  15. BLOCKADE RONNER.

    The Japanese have captured the British steamer Saxon Prince, 3471 tons, with contraband of war on board, bound for Vladivostock. ...

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  16. PROPOSAL TO RESTRICT ITS CIRCUITS.

    In connection with the controversy that is proceeding as to whether the cost of the High Court cannot be usffully curtailed. it is pointed out to-day that the Court is ...

    Article : 343 words
  17. STRIKERS SENT HOME.

    'Owing to the persistent strikes General Tropoir, the Governor-General of St. Petersburg, is deporting to their villages all the unemployed. ...

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  18. THE BALTIC FLEET.

    It is understood at St. Petersburg that Admiral Hozhdestvensky, with the Baltic Fleet, is not returning, as the battleships would be unable to pass through the Suez ...

    Article : 36 words
  19. BRITISH CABINET.

    The resignation of the Earl of Onslow, President of the Board of Agriculture, now Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords, and of Mr. George Wyndham, Chief ...

    Article : 133 words
  20. CABLES TO THE CONSUL.

    Mr. K. Iwasaki, Acting Consul-General for Japan, has received the folloxving cables from Tokio:- "Report received from Marquis Ovama on ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. A RUSSIAN OFFICER'S HONOUR.

    "Report received on the afternoon of the 12th inst:- "'One Russian officer who surrendered at Port Arthur came to Hsin-min-tun from ...

    Article : 46 words
  22. H.M.S. PROMETHEUS.

    H.M.S. Prometheus, third-class cruiser, 2135 tons (Commander Woolcombe), relieving on the Australian station H.M.S. Pylades, now on her way home, is coaling ...

    Article : 37 words
  23. RIGHT OF APPEAL.

    At the High Court to-day, in a case, Parkin v Watson Lester, in which the question of the right of the litigant to appeal direct from the decision of one of the State Judges to ...

    Article : 161 words
  24. OVER 40,000 PRISONERS.

    "According to the report of our armies of the Sha-ho quarter the approximate figures of the Russian losses and the prisoners and booty taken by us in that quarter ...

    Article : 142 words
  25. THE CHADWICK MILLIONS.

    Cassie Chadwick, the wife of a doctor of Cleveland, Ohio, has been convicted of forging a promissory note for £1,000,000, and also on other charges. ...

    Article : 546 words
  26. SILVER.

    Bar silver is quoted to-day at 2s 3 3-10d per ounce standard, an advance of 3-16d since Saturday. ...

    Article : 26 words
  27. RUSSIAN STRENGTH.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 words
  28. A PROLONGED VOYAGE.

    The French barquentine Fanny, which left Sydney on December 30 last, arrived' at Noumea yesterday in command of Captain Johansen, a resident of Raratonga, where the ...

    Article : 464 words
  29. QUEENSLAND.

    A man named Wm. Henry Fern, aged 34 years, died at Longroach under peculiar circumstances. He left Darr River Downs, where he was engaged shearing, in order to ...

    Article : 88 words
  30. THE JAPANESE CASUALTIES.

    "The report received in the afternoon on the 11th inst is to the effect that our various detachments, hotly pursuing the enemy from all directions and inflicting ...

    Article : 169 words
  31. JAPAN'S SPOILS.

    Field-Marshal Oyama, on Sunday evening, reported: "In connection with the operations on the Sha-ho alone the prisoners exceed 40,000. ...

    Article : 167 words
  32. THE DISASTER IN WALES.

    The explosion which occurred in the Cambrian collieries, Llwynpia, Wales, caused the mine to take fire. Nine of the miners are dead. Seventeen ...

    Article : 85 words
  33. THE BUTTER TRADE.

    A deputation representing the recent conference of buttor manufacturers to-day interviewed Mr. Thompson, of the Aberdeen [?]ne, who is at present in Brisbane, relative to a ...

    Article : 248 words
  34. HOPELESS CONFUSION.

    A Russian newspaper correspondent describes the retreat as a rout. Everywhere there was panic owing to the furious firing of the Japanese artillery. The whole ...

    Article : 166 words
  35. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    The Pretender in Morocco, with a view to terrorising his enemies, caused seven prisoners to be thrown into the sea in sacks, with only their heads exposed. ...

    Article : 177 words
  36. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    It is almost beyond the mind to grasp the facts or the significance of the appalling battle that has all but shattered the military strength of Russia in the East. The Japanese ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  37. TASMANIA.

    H.M.S. Psyche arrived from Auckland this afternoon after 6½ days' run. The Presbyterian elders of this city met Mr. M'Gilllvray, deputy from the Victorian ...

    Article : 128 words
  38. BUSH FIRES RELIEF.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 words
  39. JOY IN JAPAN.

    The cities of Japan are celebrating the victory of their troops quietly. They are devoting what they save by the quiet celebration to war charities. ...

    Article : 66 words
  40. Y.M.C.A.

    According to advices received from Adelaide yesterday, where Mr. Fred. B. Smith commenced his mission to men on Sunday, the meetings have been attended with great ...

    Article : 52 words
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