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  • MAIL NOTICES HOBART Inward

    Australian States, delivered daily. United Kingdom, Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays. Fiji and Honolulu, by Monowai, ... [Article] (332 words)
  • LAUNCESTON Inward

    London, by Otranto, tomorrow, 8 a.m.; by air, Fridays, Mondays, Tuesdays, 4.30 p. m. Australian States, letters, hy air, ... [Article] (204 words)
  • AIR. MAILS

    Canberra- Broken Hill- Sydney- Brisbane- Adelaide, close Hobart 7 a.m., Launceston, 8 a.m. daily (except Sundays). ... [Article] (167 words)
  • STOCK MARKETS SALES HELD IN NORTHERN TASMANIA LAST WEEK

    Herd and Co. (1920) Ltd. report that at Deloraine on Wednesday only a medium yarding of all classes came to hand. Competition for cattle was strong, and a ... [Article] (1324 words)
  • TRADE AND FINANCE MARKETS RESIST WAR OF NERVES Paucity Of Business Result Of Holidays LONDON, August 20.

    THE stock markets so far have stood up remarkably well to the repetition of last year's war of nerves and manufactured crises. ... [Article] (876 words)
  • WHEAT CARGOES London Market Quiet But Firm LONDON, August 20.

    The market for wheat cargoes was quiet and steady: Canadians were 1½d. to 3d. nuarter (8 bushels) dearer. Australians were mostly 3d. cheaper. ... [Article] (82 words)
  • Store Entered

    The store of Mr. T. S. Hickman, 386 Main Rd., Glenorchy, wns broken into between 6.30 p.m. on Saturday and 7.15 a.m. yesterday, and tobacco and sweets ... [Article] (44 words)
  • FOREIGN EXCHANGES Rates At Hobart

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  • POTATO MARKET SYDNEY DECLINE EXPECTED Nearly 17,000 Sacks Shipped

    Shipments of potatoes from NorthWestern Tasmanian. ports last week totalled 16,668 sacks. In addition to the usual destinations 30 sacks were ... [Article] (296 words)
  • TASMANIAN APPLES Market In London Quieter LONDON, August 20.

    During the week the market for apple was quieter. Tasmanian Sturmers shipped by the Middlesex and Tuscan Star, soid from 4/ to S/3 case. West Australian ... [Article] (51 words)
  • General Commodities LONDON. August 19.

    General commodities are quoted: Cotton.—Liverpool quotation for good middling American, spot. 5.l4d lb. (5.22d); September delivery, 4.45d (4.51d). ... [Article] (66 words)
  • STOCKS AND SHARES OFFICIAL BUSINESS QUIET Fluctuations Small At Melbourne MELBOURNE, August 20.

    TRADING at the official call was very quiet at the Melbourne Stock Exchange on Saturday, but an unusually long list of late vestibule sales helped to swell the total turnover to almost normal proportions.. Most fluctuations ... [Article] (482 words)
  • TRANSACTIONS ON OTHER MARKETS HOBART

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  • LAMBS AND PIGS Latest Smithfield Prices LONDON. August 19.

    Following are the quotations this week for the undermentioned classes of carcases of frozen lambs and pigs based on actual sales of wholesale quantities delivered to ... [Article] (270 words)
  • POSTAGE RATES On This Issue of "The Mercury"

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  • MINING NEWS METAL MARKET METEORIC RISE IN COPPER MELBOURNE. August 20.

    ... [Detailed lists, results, guides] (208 words)
  • Price Of Osmiridium LONDON, August 20.

    Osmiridium Is quoted: Buyers, £16 oz.; sellers, £18/10/. ... [Article] (14 words)
  • Managers' Reports

    Hercules.—960ft., 48ft. up rise: Intermediate level south driven 15ft.. End of level practically all crushing: material. Quartz for 2ft. on eastern side highly ... [Article] (547 words)
  • Journalists' Annual Dinner

    THE annual meeting and dinner of the Tasmanian District of the Australian Journalists' Association were held at Hadley's Hotel, Hobart, on ... [Article] (69 words)
  • LEFROY GOLDFIELD Operations Of Prospectors

    On the Lefroy goldfield a quantity of gold continues to be won from tho dump heaps of old mines. The stone ls treated by small batteries. Good results are being ... [Article] (199 words)
  • SEDAN CAR COMES TO GRIEF

    The sedan car which got out of control on the HobartLaunceston highway at St. Peter's Pass on Thursday evening, and capsized into the Kurrajong Creek. The vehicle careered along the bed of the stony creek for about 15 ... [ILLUSTRATED] [Article] (57 words)
  • IN DAYS GONE BY 25 YEARS AGO (From "The Mercury" of August 21, 1914.) PROGRESS OF THE WAR

    A BRITISH army is in France ready to go to thc front and take its part with the Allies of the Empire in the war which has ... [Article] (142 words)
  • ANGLERS MEET Better Fishing Wanted In Derwent

    The need for better restocking of the River Derwent with trout was stressed at the annual meeting of the New Norfolk branch of the Southern ... [Article] (255 words)
  • PREMIER SUPPORTS COLLEGE APPEAL Sunday Concert For St. Virgil's

    About 1,500 persons attended a concert at the Theatre Royal yesterday afternoon in aid of St. Virgil's College appeal fund. The Premier (Mr. E. ... [Article] (156 words)
  • POLICE COURT NEWS HOBART Struggle After Singing

    There was a discordant sequel to community singing at the City Hall, Hobart, on Friday, when, at the Hobart Police Court on Saturday, Eric ... [Article] (116 words)
  • Fractured Leg

    Phoebe Liddle (14), of Snug, was admitted to the Hoyal Hobart Hospital yesterday with a fractured left leg. Tho injury was the result of a fall. Her ... [Article] (32 words)
  • 50 YEARS AGO (From "Thc Mercury" of August 21, 1889.) HOSPITAL BOARD

    THE bill lo provide for the ' election of a board of management for thc Hobart General Hospital is intended to come into ... [Article] (118 words)
  • OBITUARY MR. J. A. McKENZIE Formerly Mayor Of Hobart

    Mr. James A. McKenzie, of Ameila St., West Hobart, formerly Mayor of Hobart and a member of the Legislative Council, died during the ... [Article] (177 words)
  • MR. F. H. CLEAVER Launceston Business Man

    Mr. Frederick Herbert Cleaver, a prominent Launceston business man, died at a private hospital at Launceston on Saturday. He was aged 63 ... [Article] (157 words)
  • MR. G. W. MORGAN Funeral At Launceston

    Mr. Gomor William Morgan, second son of the late Mr. Edward and Elizabeth Morgan, died at Launceston on Saturday in his 55th year. ... [Article] (150 words)
  • MR. O. GEEVES Funeral At Hospital Bay

    The funeral of Mr, Osborne Geeves, of Hartz View, Hospital Bay, was held in the Congregational cemetery on Friday. The Rev. J. C. Harkln ... [Article] (150 words)
  • MRS. G. C. NICHOLAS Funeral At Ouse

    Tribute to the memory of Mrs. Minnie Nicholas, one of the best-known residents of the Ouse district, and wife of the late Mr. G. C. Nicholas, who was ... [Article] (245 words)
  • Mr. Henry L. Dean

    Mr. Henry Leslie Dean, Warden of Spring Bay, died at Hobart last night, in his 68th year. Mr. Dean carried on farming at Levendale for more than 30 ... [Article] (59 words)
  • MR. LAUCHLAN WEIR Wrote Critical Biography Of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald LONDON. August 20.

    Mr. Lauchlan MacnelU Weir, Labour M.P. for Clackmannan, and author of a hostile biography of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, died in a Glasgow ... [Article] (70 words)
  • Gretna

    There was a large attendance of members ot the Gretna State School Parents and Friends' Association at a meeting at the school. Mrs. K. H. George ... [Article] (132 words)

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