The opening of November has witnessed the remarkable coincidence of each of the three English-speaking countries in North America simultaneously seething in the ...
Article : 2,086 wordsMr. W. H. James, in a letter to the "Times" in reply to the recent letter of Sir Frank Swettenham on the subject of colonial contributions to Imperial defence, ...
Article : 219 wordsMuch discussion has recently taken place in the Federal Parliament concerning a subsidy of £12,000 to be paid to Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., Limited, ...
Article : 643 wordsThe New South Wales cricket team to meet Queensland in the match beginning to-morrow has been selected as follows:— L. O. S. Poidevin, A. Diamond, A. E. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe member of the Commission of Inquiry into the North Sea incident have elected as fifth commissioner Admiral Baron von Spaun, the Austrian naval ...
Article : 46 wordsWith a view to capturing a fort 130 yards west of Kikwan-shan, the Japanese are now sapping through a steep declivity. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe captures made by the Japanese at the Kikwan-shan fort included 2000 shells, 15,000 cartridges, and eighty grenades. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the "Standard" states that an important wireless message from the Russian fleet, which was intercepted during the North Sea incident, ...
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Article : 56 wordsWith the view of establishing an adequate and regular service in the Western Australian trade five large interstate shipping organisations have entered into an ...
Article : 94 wordsWith regard to the admission made by the boatswain of one of the Dogger Bank traw[?]ng vessels of having made a statement after being given drink and money ...
Article : 153 wordsGeneral Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander-in-Chief in Manchuria, is making an urgent demand for reinforcements. A general mobilisation of the Russian ...
Article : 47 wordsArrivals.—Scharnhorst, s., from Sydney, via Australian ports; Athenic, s., from New Zealand ports; Surrey, s., from New Zealand ports, via South Africa; Clan ...
Article : 88 wordsA fire occurred in the Singer Manufacturing Company's premises, in Rundle-street, late last night. Owing to the alarm being given promptly, the firemen were ...
Article : 60 wordsTwo Japanese warships, which are apparently converted cruisers, are reported to be off Singapore. LONDON, Friday. ...
Article : 94 wordsAdmiral Rozhdestvensky, commander of the Baltic fleet, has sent to Paris three officers of the cruiser Dmitri Donskoi, and also Lieutenant Valroud, of the transport ...
Article : 96 wordsA young daughter of Mr. H. Harris, a settler in the Wagin district, has been burned to death through her clothes becoming ignited. ...
Article : 33 wordsM. Chernigor, who was president of the Congress of Zemstvos, recently held at St. Petersburg to discuss the question of reforms, and who is a nobleman, has ...
Article : 86 words"Sir,—Knowing the spirit of fairplay you have always been credited with, and the undoubted desire for the public weal you have ever displayed in your columns, I on ...
Article : 798 wordsThe doors of the little gray hall in Charlotte street were opened yesterday morning before the city had settled to its day's work, and through the doorway, morning ...
Article : 1,110 wordsThe Japanese are now fortifying the port of Dalny, near Port Arthur, against an attack from the sea. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe students of the Columbia University made an attempt to "rag" Mr. Kingdom Gould, who is a freshman at the University, and is a grandson of the late ...
Article : 56 wordsA prisoner captured by the Japanese has informed Admiral Togo that the Russian battleship Sevastopol (which was recently attacked by Japanese torpedo boats ...
Article : 72 wordsNews from Paris states that the father of the late M. Syveton (who was found asphyxiated in his study, and was supposed to have committed suicide) has sent ...
Article : 126 wordsFor the first time in history, a member of a vigilance committee in the Southern States of America, who was implicated in cases of lynching, has been convicted and ...
Article : 56 wordsThe steamer Speranza, which is carrying a cargo of meat for the Russian Baltic fleet, has arrived at Durban, in Natal, but she has not been allowed to take in bunker ...
Article : 42 wordsThe following is a copy of an autograph letter, addressed to the treasurer of the Brisbane General Hospital, which indicates that the visit of their Excellencies the ...
Article : 656 wordsIn connection with the case of Mrs. Chadwick, wife of a physician at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., who is alleged to have obtained advances of enormous sums of ...
Article : 78 wordsThe dense fog in London, which practically stopped all traffic last night, still continues, and a great loss in Christmas trade is in consequence being experienced. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe ex-Crown Princess Louise of Saxony (who eloped with M. Ciron in December, 1902, and was subsequently divorced by her husband, who is now King of Saxony), has ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Postmaster-General says that everything possible is being done to make satisfactory arrangements for the conveyance of the mails to England when the Orient ...
Article : 425 wordsInformation is to hand that the Moorish tribesmen have surrounded Alcazar, on the northern coast of Morocco, and demand the surrender of the French Consul and ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Duke of Argyll, in a letter to a Manchester Unionist, states that the question at the next general election will be our defence against foreign rings. ...
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Article : 107 wordsThe eldest son of the Ameer of Afghanistan, who is on his way to India to visit the Viceroy, has arrived at Peshawar, on the Indian frontier. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Canadian Government propose to create a naval militia, which will at first consist of 2000 men, and ultimately 5000. The force is to be recruited from among ...
Article : 69 wordsThere are now 9000 men unemployed in West Ham (on the north-east of London), and these represent 50,000 persons who are practically on the verge of starvation. ...
Article : 113 wordsIt is understood that the list of officers who are to retire at the end of March on the ground that they are over the age limit includes Mr. J. G. MacDonald, Police ...
Article : 213 wordsMessrs. Crisp, O'Brien, and Co. invite the public by advertisement to inspect the new "Defiance" flour-mill, in Constance-street, Valley, from next Tuesday ...
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Article : 88 wordsOur Wellington correspondent telegraphed last night:—The Government has decided to close the Waitata Inebriates' Home. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Sat 24 Dec 1904, Page 5
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