The new second-class cruiser Challenger (11 guns, 5800 tons, 12,500 h.p.) has been commissioned for the Australian station by Captain Frederick C. T. Tudor, who has ...
Article : 42 wordsTrouble from within is already threatening the new Cabinet authentic information showing that its supporters are far from being a happy family. The ...
Article : 479 wordsDuring the hearing yesterday in the Court of King's Beach of the action for damages brought by the Lake GeorgeMines, Limited, against Gibbs, Bright, & ...
Article : 198 wordsThe nominations for the Riverina Federal seat are R. O. Blackwood and J. M. Chanter. A poll will be taken on 18th May. ...
Article : 518 wordsThe ninety-second concert of the Brisbane Liedertafel, which was given in the Centennial Hall last evening, attracted, as usual, a large audience. The occasion was ...
Article : 760 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin in a despatch to the Czar, expresses his satisfaction that the Japanese have crossed the Yam River, as they have thereby lengt[?]d their lines ...
Article : 60 wordsThere is an easier tendency in the market for apples at Liverpool, and the balance of the shipment by the steamer Runic has been sold at 6s. to 11s. per case. ...
Article : 37 wordsAs the steamers of the New Zealand line will be unable to call further at Fanning Island (a cable station in the mid-Pacific), the Pacific Cuble Board has arranged, ...
Article : 69 wordsReports have been received in St. Petersburg of a striking episode in connection with the fighting on the Yalu. A Russian regiment, without artillery, ...
Article : 75 wordsMr. Lever, an Australian artist, has had three pictures accepted for exhibition at the New Salon, in Paris. ...
Article : 26 wordsA seene occurred in the House of Lords last night through Mr. R. M'Kenna, Liberal member for Monmouthshire North, suggesting that a great quantity of ...
Article : 128 wordsA member of the Russian General Staff states that the engagements on the Yalu were merely skirmishes, and that General Kuropatkin will not accept a serious ...
Article : 54 wordsThe picture by Mr. Bunny, now being exhibited in the Salon of the Societe Nationale, in Paris, has been purchased by the French nation for the Luxembourg ...
Article : 53 wordsRussian statements with regard to the Yalu engagements attribute the success achieved by the Japanese to the quality of their artillery, and especially to their ...
Article : 33 wordsReports from Russian resources received at Tientsin state that Admiral Togo has again endeavoured, without success, to "bottle up" Port Arthur by ...
Article : 44 wordsThe German Emperor, in opening a bridge over the Rhine at Mainz said that if the bridge should be used for traffic more serious than that of peace-time, it ...
Article : 49 wordsGeneral Kuroki, the Japanese commander, has reported that the stabborn resistance maintained by the Russians during the pursuit after the engagement on the ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Council of the Central Association of Chambers of Agriculture is pressing the Government to expedite the bill dealing with the adulteration of butter. ...
Article : 30 wordsAdmiral Alexeieff has reported that on Monday night eight Japanese fireships, carrying quick-firing guns, made a determined attempt to block Port Arthur, but ...
Article : 78 wordsFurther information regarding the collision between the express train from Bale to Paris and a motor-car on a level crossing at La Ferriere states that the ...
Article : 79 wordsThe candidates nominated for the Croydon electorate to-day were: Mr. Murphy (Labour). Mr. Threzedar (Labour in politics), and Mr. Rogers (formerly a ...
Article : 103 wordsThe third series of colonial wool auctions for the present year opened to-day. Competition was brisk, and prices ruled from par to an advance of 7½ per cent. ...
Article : 152 wordsThe inquiry into the cause of the recent gun explosion on the American battleship Missouri has resulted in a finding that the explosion was due to the blazing of ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Chifu correspondent of the London "Daily Chronicle" states that a Japanese force was landed at Kin-chau on Sunday, and captured Niu-chwang on Monday ...
Article : 45 wordsThe annual meeting of the Bank of Adelaide was held to-day. The report stated that the balance to credit of proftt and loss was £49,077, which was appropriated ...
Article : 212 wordsThe sittings of the Presbyterian General Assembly were resumed in Toowoomba yesterday. The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was dispensed in the morning. ...
Article : 787 wordsOne thousand five hundred men and two batteries of field artillery are to reinforce the troops now engaged in suppressing the native rising in German South-west Africa. ...
Article : 32 wordsA long report, giving details of the fighting on the Yalu River, has been received by the Russian Government from General Sassulitch. He states that the 12th and ...
Article : 693 wordsThe Commissioner for Railways; who is attending the conference in Sydney, is expected back in Brisbane on Monday. Mr. W. Moore, M.L.A., has just ...
Article : 336 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin has requested that ordinary goods traffic on the Manchurian railway should be stopped, and more troops and transport sent immediately. ...
Article : 29 wordsA new regulation has been adopted on the New York Cotton Exchange prohibiting members from speculating beyond the amount of the capital they control. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe decision of the High Court, in which the Deputy Postmaster-General of Tasmania raised the question whether the receipt for the salary of a Commonwealth ...
Article : 282 wordsThe abandonment of Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu River, by the Russians, was preceded by fierce fighting with the Japanese, which lasted for twenty-five ...
Article : 34 wordsLatest news regarding Colonel Younghusband's mission in Thibet states that a reconnaissance made from Gyantse, where the mission is now located, has shown ...
Article : 57 wordsFugitives who have arrived at Chi-fu report that the Russians are preparing to evacuate Dalny, the commercial port near Port Arthur. ...
Article : 29 wordsNews received from the West Coast of Africa states that the British column under Major Trenchard, numbering 350 men, has defeated the Choho natives, in Southern ...
Article : 62 wordsAt Fremantle to-day, Minoor Mahomet, a Mahommedan, was executed for the murder of a countryman named Meer Singh at Menzies on the 10th November ...
Article : 34 wordsIt is stated that the Japanese soldiers on the transport Kinchiu Maru, which was sunk by Russian warships, burnt all the documents in their possession, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe decision of Sir William Lyne, when Minister for Trade and Customs, to impose a duty on magazines which carried more than 15 per cent of advertisements ...
Article : 435 wordsIn his address to his constituents at Townsville last night, the Hon. R. Philp condemned the Treasurer's attitude to wards the local authorities in regard to ...
Article : 339 wordsMr. Twasaki, the Consul-General for Japan, has received from Baron Komura, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, the following cablegram, embodying a report ...
Article : 165 wordsThe London "Daily Express" states that the Russian Treasury has assigned a sum of £15,000,000 for the purchase of cruisers and submarine boats in France and ...
Article : 36 wordsThe farcical comedy now being played at His Majesty's Theatre by Messrs. Willoughby and Geach's combination has been greeted nightly with hearty approval by ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Japanese claim that in the Yalu engagement they captured, besides twentyeight quick-firing guns, twenty field-pieces. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 wordsSo far as the territory in the vicinity of the debouchment of the Yalu is concerned, the Japanese are masters of the situation on both banks of the river. The Russians ...
Article : 1,471 wordsThe Theatre Royal continues to enjoy public patronage, and the advent of new artists will be welcomed, though the disappearance of old favourites is not always ...
Article : 115 wordsThe committee in connection with the Spragg memorial fund have decided, after very careful consideration of the various designs and tenders submitted, to accept ...
Article : 72 wordsA popular concert will be given in the Centennial Hall on Thursday evening, 12th instant, in aid of the funds of the Hospitals Village Fair. An attractive ...
Article : 76 wordsThe fourth annual outing of the employees of Finney, Isles, and Co. took place last Monday at Melrose's paddock, Eagle Junction. A cricket match was played, and some interesting play ...
Article : 339 wordsA meeting of the Toombul Shire Council was held yesterday afternoon, when there were present:—The chairman (Councillor J. F. Maxwell). Councillors J. Lane, G. ...
Article : 192 wordsHis Excellency the Governor left by special train for Normunton about 12.30 p.m. to-day. A large and representative gathering of townspeople assembled at the ...
Article : 170 wordsAt the North Brisbane Licensing Court yesterday, before Messrs. H. A. Ranking, P.M., T. Budd, G. Agnes, K. Wilson, J. F. Horsley, JJ.P., James Darragh, licensee of the Kangaroo ...
Article : 250 wordsA concert and dramatic entertainment was given in the Kangaroo Point School of Arts last night by Mr. Garnet Agnew's Concert Company, in aid of the funds of ...
Article : 104 wordsAt yesterday's auction sales of Australasian tallow the quantity offered was 1088 casks, and the quantity sold 660 casks. The Price realised for mutton tallow, fine, was ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thu 5 May 1904, Page 5
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