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INCUMBENTS

Prime Minister - Alfred Deakin (until April 27), Chris Watson (until August 18), then George Reid

Governor General - Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (until January 21), then Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote

Premier Of New South Wales - John See (until June 14), Thomas Waddell (until August 29), then Joseph Carruthers

Premier Of South Australia - John Jenkins

Premier Of Queensland - Arthur Morgan

Premier Of Tasmania - William Propsting (until July 12), then John Evans

Premier Of Western Australia - Walter James (until August 10), then Henry Daglish

Premier Of Victoria - William Irvine (until February 16), then Thomas Bent

EVENTS

Ipswich, Queensland is proclaimed as a city

The P&O ship ''SS Australia'' is wrecked at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay . There is no loss of life

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ARTS AND LITERATURE

Hans Heysen wins the Wynne Prize with ''Mystic Morn''

SPORT

''Acrasia'' wins the Melbourne Cup

New South Wales wins the Sheffield Shield

Two Australians, Corrie Gardner and Leslie McPherson, compete in athletics at the 1904 Summer Olympics . They do not return with any medals

BIRTHS

DEATHS

January 8 - Alfred Felton (b. 1831), entrepreneur and philanthropist

January 25 - Graham Berry (b. 1822), Premier of Victoria

February 2 - Edward Braddon (b. 1829), Premier of Tasmania

August 5 - George Dibbs (b. 1834), Premier of New South Wales

December 17 - William Shiels (b. 1848), Premier of Victoria

SEE ALSO

1904

1900s