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 ...
Article : 478 wordsAccording to the Russian press the inner lines of Port Arthur will enable the fortress to resist for several weeks yet. ...
Article : 33 wordsAfter 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThere 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMadame 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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 247 wordsNews 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 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 33 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 463 wordsVice-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 wordsIn 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 wordsDr. 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 wordsFully 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 wordsDetails 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 wordsAfter 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 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Times" in analysing the criticisms passed by the "Cologne Gazette" upon the policy of M. Delcasse, the French ...
Article : 484 wordsPresident 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 wordsTo-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 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsMembers 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 ...
Article : 43 wordsGeneral 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 wordsEarly 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 wordsMr, A. J. Balfour, the Prime Minister, who has been suffering from a severe cold, is better. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe 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 wordsThe 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 wordsDr. 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 wordsThe 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 wordsWhilst 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 wordsAt 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 wordsThe 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"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 wordsThomas 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 wordsMr. Elihu Root, formerly Secretary of War for the United States, is regarded as a probable candidate for the Presidency in 1908. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsIn 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 wordsTo-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 wordsThe return of Mr. Bennet Burleigh, the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," to Wei-bai-wei has been arranged. ...
Article : 22 wordsThere has been an outbreak of plague at Bangkok, Siam. Mr. James Buchanan, head of the Whisky Distilleries Company, Edinburgh, ...
Article : 67 wordsIn 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 wordsFrancis 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 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 1,205 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 719 wordsThe 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 ...
Article : 42 wordsThe 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. ...
Article : 43 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsFive 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 wordsNine 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 wordsCharles 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 wordsApplications 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 ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 27 Dec 1904, Page 5
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