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Sonoma left for . ~; X Further successes. ; Hospital inquiry proceeding > / ■ lwo Russian: generals k'iUed. , \ Japs ten miles south of Mukden.} Fatal accident .irivKarangahake tunnel, bteamer Dorset on fire at Fremantte. Japs are said.to have, captured 98 guns. . ~... ■ • -*•■■ _ Twenty three r thousand wounded at ' Mukden. . . Scottish Church; dispute proved unsuccessful, ,; ~' v .' -.->•■■■■■.■■■ Kuropatkin admits that his right -was. almost turned. ~.'■: ? : - Kuropatkin reports'that he is retreat. ' mg m good order. ' ;/ Russian regiment once 4600 strong is' now reduced to SOO. , ""■■■'•' • '■■ Auckland "Water"gill passed all ''its : ' stages in the House. " : Sha River .Russians dismantlingpuna pr:or to abandonment." k e TJ o^u arid are driving back the Russian cavaliry. Cut grass is to be obtained iii th*Albert • Park free of charge. Kuropatkin says that the resistance ofVttuj troops was magniticent:' ; '> ' ni , i ?l an atte mpt to outflank Generat ' Oku s left was speedily defeated: Kuropatkin narrowly:escaped from-a;-shrapnel shell' wHich fell near iuu.. Tauranga fishing party reported miss- ■ ing yesterday were found on Plate Island. ■ .. " It appears that Kuropatkin advanced under definite inetruefcons from" theCzar. ■ , .-... .- .:- t .. , , Japanese drove .Russians right across V I the Sha River, the: line of which they..." [now h01d..., ij .' ~ • I « Russian paper deMes the'-bra- j tal ..treatment, of Russian prisoners Jby I the Japanese. ' .' J ;.;St.j Petersburg newspapers "recognise , |tli3 gravity reverse, and urge fox , - ' I ti.tude and courage. :. j One Russian/regiment is commanded by,>aucaptain, battalions by lieutenants, '.' I and companies by. privates. . ' ■ The English mail, via [\ 'Vancouver, * which left here on September" 8, arrived , in L-oridon pri the Wthinst. ' , , V . The cause of.deathiof Mr Thomson, of Dunedin, who died: suddenly on . the Sonoma, was' heart failure. f//'\' I ! The-attempt to"; obtain a ruling that jthe Auckland Water Bill Was i public y measure proved , unsuccessful."' ' " "*• : " : ' Mr Caldwell, M;P.y wlid is visiting j ?few Zealand, is anxious to J 1 study the "labour legislation -of . the ' colony. . . ''■;■"-'■ '■"■■ ' ■■-" ■: ■;["■■ ,/:.. >■ ' The crew of the Addenila are'still at : Wharepfipa: They have oc- ; casional -.visits"/"ln' the ship to regain their belongings.4.-- ; - ■,'■■ • - r During Wednesday's artillery duel batteries^were: blazingVfrdm ; eve"iy. liill. r > Regiments of both iides incessantly; poured into the plains, and were hurled back shattered. -, ;. : : ;l > , .I..■■".' .It is said that-there is riot much likelihood of the Addenda being rVfloat- .*- ---ed::• The beach around'Pallißer ■ Bay '•. Ie ' strewn with wreckiige and the. deadr; bodies -of; sea birds kiued in ; A r Frenchnjatt jnamed j; Gl)(ird«vouie ' „ tat'ltet " tße ef--1 fects of a self-ittfliriied :.in- the head. His '- condition serious.' ; ■ Seven hundred sheep, purchased in. v New Zealand for Lord Delamere's station in? East r ta l be t sent by the Banffsbire, whiclr is to leave Wellington to-day for>Durban by way* 1 . of Adelaide arid :; Freniantie. ■ *" ; "■' - s- ... Force.: of. have caused: Mr r f W. Swarbrjck, a solicitor, to address His v « Lordship the Bishop of Auckland ■* as ' "Your Worship." A roar of laughter • .greeted this .phrase from 'the Court at the Synod last nignt. ■>'"« ':*
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 249, 18 October 1904, Page 1
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