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  2. THE HOLIDAY.

    The trying north-westerly wind which swept over the city for an hour or two on Sunday gave a strong premonitory warning of the heat wave predicted by the ...

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  3. SECOND EDITION

    According to the Russian press the inner lines of Port Arthur will enable the fortress to resist for several weeks yet. ...

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  4. THE WAR.

    After the success of the Japanese besieging Port Arthur in capturing a hill [?]ast of Ho-yang-shu-kao, a mile and a half south of 203-Metre Hill, the Russians ...

    Article : 194 words
  5. SPECIAL CABLES.

    The Germans in South-west Africa engaged a force of 200 Hottentot Witbois and others in an entrenched camp at Hudup, and after ten hours' fighting dispersed ...

    Article : 251 words
  6. TRAIN AND TRAM TRAFFIC.

    There was a large increase in the number of pasengers carried on the railways yesterday, as compared with the record for Boxing Day, 1903. The passengers booked at the ...

    Article : 451 words
  7. SEDITION IN RUSSIA.

    The secret police have seized at Kieff a private printing press with 300O copies of a seditious proclamation addressed to the leading officials of Kleff, Podolia, and ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. DEATH OF M. SYVETON.

    Madame Syveton, widow of M. Syveton, the deputy who commited suicide following upon his arrest for an assault upon General Andre, declares that her ...

    Article : 95 words
  9. RAILWAY DISASTER IN FRANCE.

    The B[?]ne express train with London passengers, in proceeding to Paris yesterday, was travelling 39 miles an hour, when during a fog it came into collision with ...

    Article : 89 words
  10. P. AND 0. STEAMER P00NAH.

    The steamer Poonah, of 10,000 tons, built to the order of the P. and O. Company for the Australian trade, has been launched at Glasgow. ...

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  11. PERSONAL.

    News of the dealth of Dr. Groves, Government medical officer at Broken Hill, on Saturday afternoon, although anticipated, came as a great shock to his friends and the ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. SEVASTOPOL UNDER FIRE.

    The fire from the Japanese advanced batteries at Port Arthur now reaches the battleship Sevastopol, lying in the outer roadstead, and shots have taken effect on ...

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  13. IN THE COUNTRY.

    The holiday to-day passed off quietly. All the picnic resorts were well patronised. The Woonaona Bowling Club, in a 4-rinks match, beat the Redfern Club by 95 points to 90. Bulli Oddfellows held ...

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  14. THE BLOCKADE REORGANISED.

    Vice-Amiral Togo, commanding the Japanese fleet, reports that the parts of the blockade of Port Arthur found by experience to be unnecessary have been removed. ...

    Article : 69 words
  15. UNEASINESS IN MOROCCO.

    In consequence of the disturbed state of the country, Mr. M'Leod, the British Consul at Fez, the capital of Morocco, and all other Europeans are quittiag the city. ...

    Article : 39 words
  16. TARIFF COMMISSION.

    Dr. Woilaston, the Comptroller-General of Customs, has forwarded to the State collectors a circular relating to the inquiry which the Tariff Commission is to hold, and ...

    Article : 341 words
  17. HIBERNIAN SOCIETY'S DEMONSTRATION.

    Fully 6000 persons were present yesterday at Sir Joseph Banks Pleasure Grounds, Botany, the occasion being the annual demonstration and sports of the Hibernian ...

    Article : 617 words
  18. THE CAPTURE OF A KI-KWAN FORT.

    Details of the capture of the north fort of East Ki-kwan-shan slowly come to hand. It appears that in response to the appeal of General Samejima, who conducted the ...

    Article : 243 words
  19. RIOTS IN POLAND.

    After midnight yesterday a mass of workers paraded the town of Radom, Russian Poland, carrying red flags, and singing. Police patrols, on arriving on the ...

    Article : 61 words
  20. GERMANY'S POLICY.

    The Berlin correspondent of the "Times" in analysing the criticisms passed by the "Cologne Gazette" upon the policy of M. Delcasse, the French ...

    Article : 484 words
  21. VENEZUELA IN A WAR MOOD.

    President Castro has planted guns in position at La Guayra, the seaport of Caracas, his capital, and Puerto Cabello. He fears that a revolution may take place, ...

    Article : 134 words
  22. AT NEWCASTLE.

    To-day was observed—as a close holiday, and as the weather was fine it was observed out of doors. All the places of amusement were crowded, particularly the picnic grounds up the river and the ...

    Article : 109 words
  23. CASUALTIES.

    The police discovered a man named william Stewart in the Domain last evening in an unconscious condition. He was taken to the Sydney Hospital, where it was found that ...

    Article : 74 words
  24. TORONTO REGATTA.

    The Toronto annual regatta was held to-day on Lake Macquarie, and, as usual, it was one of the Principal attractions of the holiday, and crowds of people went there by train from the city and ...

    Article : 308 words
  25. FRENCH PARLIAMENTARY PENSIONS.

    Members of the French Chamber of Deputics are paying 15 fra[?] a month out of their salaries towards the establishment of a pension fund for ex-members of the ...

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  26. ON THE SHA-HO LINE.

    General Kuropatkin, in reporting skirmishes on the Sha-ho line, states that several detachments of his troops, on the night of December 22, attacked Ben-tsia-pu-tse. ...

    Article : 92 words
  27. TWO CHILDREN POISONED.

    Early last evening two children named Lily, and Sidney Sullivan, aged 9 and 7 years respectively, were admitted to the Sydney Hospital in a serious condition. The ...

    Article : 70 words
  28. MR. A. J. BALFOUR.

    Mr, A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, who has been suffering from a severe cold, is better. ...

    Article : 27 words
  29. FOUND IN THE HARBOUR.

    The body of a man who was found floating in the water in Darling Harbour on Sunday was yesterday identified as that of Charles Woodward, 36, a commercial traveller, who ...

    Article : 40 words
  30. CABLES TO THE CONSUL.

    The following cablegram was received yesterday by the Acting Consul-General for Japan (Mr. K. Iwasaki) from Baron Komura, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs:— ...

    Article : 64 words
  31. NATIVITY PLAY DENOUNCED.

    Dr. Abraham Brownrigg, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory, has denounced, the production at the Kilkenny Theatre of a Nativity play as an unwarrantable and ...

    Article : 59 words
  32. IN THE EASTERN SUBURBS.

    The various picnic resorts and pleasure grounds embraced in the area of the eastern suburbs were well patronised yesterday by crowds of holiday-makers, who at times taxed ...

    Article : 107 words
  33. RESCUED FROM DROWNING.

    Whilst attempting to board the steamer Woy Woy at Clontarf at 9.30 last evening Mrs. Moore, who was carrying her son, aged 7 years, slipped and fell into the water. On ...

    Article : 76 words
  34. NEWCASTLE HIGHLAND GATHERING.

    At the Highland gathering sports to-day the 100yd handicap was won by J. J. Jones, 7yds, D. Stove, 9½yds, being second. A protest was entered against Jones. ...

    Article : 119 words
  35. COAL FOR THE BALTIC FLEET.

    The British colliers Yeddo, 4563 tons, and Claverley, 2986 tons, have unloaded 10,000 tons of coal at the Port Said depot of the Hamburg-American line. The ...

    Article : 58 words
  36. VICTORIA.

    "L'Aiglon," with which Miss Tittel Brune and those associated with her achieved a great success in Sydney, promises to prove equally successful in Melbourne, for when the ...

    Article : 105 words
  37. A FATAL FALL.

    Thomas Campbell, 45, a coallumpcr, who fell down the hold of the steamer Kaffir, at Woolloomooloo Bay, on the 14th inst, and injured his spine, died in the Sydney Hospital ...

    Article : 37 words
  38. UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY.

    Mr. Elihu Root, formerly Secretary of War for the United States, is regarded as a probable candidate for the Presidency in 1908. ...

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  39. THE COMMONWEALTH.

    It is not yet known when the Postal Department will be in a position to issue pictorial postcards of its own. A new machine for printing them will be obtained and ...

    Article : 101 words
  40. PARRAMATTA.

    The day throughout was uncomfortably hot and unpleasant There were no local attiractions, and most of the residents went out of town, either to the seaside or to the ...

    Article : 57 words
  41. ACCIDENT AT THE CIRCUS.

    In endeavouring to porform a feat known as "leaping the chasm" at Wirth Brothers' Circus yesterday aftornoon, Chefalo met with an accident through miscalculating the ...

    Article : 55 words
  42. IN OTHER STATES.

    To-day was observed as a close public holiday, The weather was splendid for picnicking, and large numbers travelled by excursion steamers and trains to the various pleasure resorts. So far the holidays ...

    Article : 52 words
  43. MR. BENNET BURLEIGH.

    The return of Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," to Wei-bai-wei has been arranged. ...

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  44. GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

    There has been an outbreak of plague at Bangkok, Siam. Mr. James Buchanan, head of the Whisky Distilleries Company, Edinburgh, ...

    Article : 67 words
  45. AT THE THEATRES, ETC.

    In spite of the overwhelming heat, Boxing Night was celebrated with all the accustomed enthusiasm, and upwards of 15,000 people must have attended the various theatres and ...

    Article : 331 words
  46. KNOCKED DOWN BY A TRAIN.

    Francis Rodler, 75, a resident of Green'sroad, Kogarah, was found lying on the railway line near the Hurstville station last evening. His left leg was crushed, his hip ...

    Article : 109 words
  47. COMMENTS ON THE SITUATION.

    The grim determination of the Japanese to take Port Arthur at all costs is meeting with a slow but sure reward. Yesterday the cables told us of the capture of another important ...

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  48. A QUESTION OF DEFINITION.

    The holiday-maker had a difficult task to define the day he celebrated yesterday. "Look here," one commenced, "if this is Christmas Day No. 2 I am prepared to observe ...

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  49. MURDER OF AN INFANT.

    The body of a newly born male infant was recovered last night from Merri Creek, Northcote. The remains appeared to have been in the water about 10 days. An examination ...

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  50. BENDIGO GOLD YIELD.

    The yield of gold in the Bendigo district for the year now closing totals 248,000oz. The dividends declared aggregated £307,806, and the calls reached £108,094. ...

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  51. MILITARY STAFF RIDES.

    A new regulation on the subject of staff rides have been issued by the Defence Department. It onjoins on State Commandants the duty of making such arrangements as will ...

    Article : 122 words
  52. A FATAL CAPSIZE.

    A seaman named Hansen Evansen, belonging to the Norwegian ship Hovding, was drowned this evening through the capsize of a boat in which, with three other sailors, he ...

    Article : 63 words
  53. ALLEGED UTTERING OF FORGED CHEQUES.

    Five forged cheques have just been passed on business people by an individual, who also tried, but failed, in several other similar cases. He evidently relied on the forgeries ...

    Article : 141 words
  54. QUEENSLAND.

    Nine employees of the Brisbane Tramway Company were dismissed to-day, receiving two days pay. It appears that the tramway I employees held meetings last Wednesday ...

    Article : 66 words
  55. MOTOR EXPERT KILLED.

    Charles Mayman, a motor expert, employed by E. Beauchamp, of Prahran, was killed on the racing track at Eaglehawk to-day. He had arranged to take part in the sports ...

    Article : 80 words
  56. SYDNEY TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT.

    Applications are invited by the Public Service Commissioner for the position of Assistant Manager of Telegraphs, Sydney. The salary runs from £420 to £500 per year, and ...

    Article : 43 words
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