At the invitation of Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, a significant conference of conlminers from all parts of the country has been held. ...
Article : 102 wordsThe opinion in Government circles in Washington in regard to the American Senate's action in emasculating the arbitration treaties inclines to the ...
Article : 155 wordsThe trial was continued to-day at the Old Bailey of Frederick Henry Seddon, formerly a district superintendent of the London and Manchester Assurance ...
Article : 238 wordsMr. J. S. Arkwright, the Unionist member for Hereford, who was returned at the general election in 1910 with a majority of 770 over his Liberal ...
Article : 66 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" publishes today Captain Amundsen's story of his dash for the Pole. The explorer says that he and a ...
Article : 320 wordsThe Director of Education (Mr. W. T. McCoy) returned to Hobart on Friday evening after a visit to the West Coast. The Director expressed himself as well ...
Article : 366 wordsIn connection with a number of dogs which Captain Amundsen has on board the Fram, which are to be trausferred to Dr. Mawson's Antaictic expedition, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe House of Commons read the second time to-day a bill introduced by Sir G. C. Marks, the Liberal member for Launceston, empowering the ...
Article : 161 wordsThe first day they climbed 2,000 feet, and camped the second day at an elevation of 4,500 feet. They descended the third day by the glacier dividing ...
Article : 79 wordsCaptain Amundsen was again sought out yesterdny evening, when the cablegrams arrived from London giving the story of his successful dash for the ...
Article : 435 wordsThe Monmouthshire Coal Owners' Association has reiterated that it cannot admit the principle of the minimum wage, but is willing to discuss the ...
Article : 44 wordsThe international Rugby football match between Ireland and Wales was played yesterday, and resulted in as victory for the Irish team by a goal, ...
Article : 45 wordsThere is an expectation among the delegates to last week's conferences of an early settlement of the strike. Five thousand railway clerks on ...
Article : 54 wordsHere they were compelled to kill twenty-four of the dogs, retaiuing only eighteen for the further dash south. Bad weather delayed departure for ...
Article : 101 wordsSir hundred Liberals gave a luncheon to-day at Covent Garden to Mr. Asquith6 the Prime Minister, to celebrate the passing of the Parliament Act. ...
Article : 248 wordsA lockout has begun in Germany of 45,000 tailors employed in 158 towns, and including 4,000 workers in Berlin alone. ...
Article : 25 wordsA disastrous fire broke out last night in a lodging-house in Clark-street, Chicago, and resulted in the building being gutted and six men losing their ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Locomotive Engineers' and Firemen's executive have voted against the declaring of a sympathetic strike. ...
Article : 23 wordsWhat the weather office described as a cyclonic swirl occurred in Adelaide and the country early on Saturday morning. In many instances the storm was of ...
Article : 379 wordsM. M. Decugis, Gobert, and Laurente are to represent France in the contest for the Davis Cup. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, is considering proposals for settlement of the strike, and has invited both the representatives of the coal mine ...
Article : 89 wordsMr. R. H. McPhorson, second in command of the exploring expedition under Captain Barclay, which was sent to the, Northern Territory by the ...
Article : 548 wordsThe Devil's Glacier was negotiated in three-days, quitting it on December 3. Onward the ice platean resembled a frozen sea, and the ice sounded hollow ...
Article : 56 wordsThe commanders of the warships of the British Fleet have been ordered to economise the use of coal to the utmost. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Australian Cadets, under Lieutenant Jeffreys, who are visiting England under the auspices of the Young Australian League of West Australia, ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. R. McKenna, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, conferred with the railway managers to-day regarding the protection of the ...
Article : 37 wordsFrom 88.25 degrees the plateau gradually sloped downward, and there were five days of easy travelling. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe reports, arising from United States sources, that Western Canada and the prairie provinces are particularly anxious to separate from the rest ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Pall Mall Gazette," in an article published this evening, states that Denmark has granted a concession to a syndicate for developing at St. ...
Article : 84 wordsBetween February 10 and April 11 Captain Amundsen established depots at the 80th, 81st, and 82nd degrees of latitude. The surface of the barrier ...
Article : 63 wordsThe goal was sighted on the afternoon of December 14. There was a beautiful light south-east breeze, and the temperature was minus 23 Celsius. ...
Article : 105 wordsSeven men were killed yesterday in a fire-damp explosion at the Merritt mine, in British Columbia. At the Diamond Vale collieries eleven ...
Article : 61 wordsIn December last Dr. Robert Browne, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne, and six of the prieste of his diocese, entered an action against the "Dundee ...
Article : 96 wordsAfter fixing the depots, they returned to the base, and found that the From bad departed, after sailing furthest south, namely, to 78.41 degrees. ...
Article : 62 wordsAn extraordinary tragedy took place at a circus performance last night at Fiume, in Hungary. Two German performers, Josef ...
Article : 83 wordsThey erected a little tent on the precise spot, and surmounted it with the Norwegian flag and the Fram's pennant, and named the place Polheim. ...
Article : 28 wordsCaptain Amundsen said he had received large numbers of congratulatory telegrams. Amongst these were messages from King George of England, ...
Article : 221 wordsThe distance from the Pole to the winter camp is 1,400 kilometres about 860 miles). The return was accomplished under favourable conditions, and ...
Article : 73 wordsPlay was resumed on Saturday at Brisbane in the cricket match Queensland v. New South Wales. New South Wales concluded their first innings for 228, or ...
Article : 366 words"The Times" announces to-day that the British Navy estimates for 19121913 will amount to £43,250,000, as compared with £44,882,047 for ...
Article : 69 wordsThey spent four months of the winter changing their outfit, which they had found too clumsy on the depot trip. ...
Article : 61 wordsSixteen people were injured, two of them fatally, owing to a car being derailed yesterday on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Varney. The rail ...
Article : 94 wordsYesterday a gang of men, who were clearing a snowslide on the tracks of the Rio Grande and Southern Railway at Denver, in Colorado, were ...
Article : 64 wordsThe expedition into King Edward's Land confirmed, Captain Amundsen reports, the discoveries of Captain Scott's first expedition. ...
Article : 21 wordsOn September 8th the journey south was commenced, but they were forced to return, owing to the continuous fall of the temperature affecting the dogs, ...
Article : 29 wordsOwing to reassuring news received in Peking as to the restoration of order the immediate despatch of the southern Republican troops northward has ...
Article : 61 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" congratulates the Pacific Cable Board on its expeditious and excellent transmission of Captain Amundsen's cablegram, which ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Colonial Wool Merchants' Association has fixed the second series of the sales, which were postponed owing to the strike, for April 11. The limit ...
Article : 72 wordsSpring came in earnest in the middle of October, and a party of five, with four sledges and 52 dogs, and four months' provisions, started south, and ...
Article : 65 wordsAccording to a report issued by the, Department of Home Affairs on Saturday, the trial fiurvey for railways between the Federal capital site and the ...
Article : 51 wordsGaus McGovern of Boston, drew a ten-round fight yesterday with Willie Canole, the San Francisco featherweight. ...
Article : 23 wordsMessrs. Guy Bowman and Benjamin Buch, the printers of the Socialist organ the "Syndicalist," have been charged with publishing treasonable ...
Article : 38 wordsAn official dinner in honour of Captain Amundsen is to be given this evening by the Consul for Norway (Mr. James Macfarlane). The Admiral, the ...
Article : 45 wordsThey reached the 82nd degree on November 5, where the dogs got their last full meal. Here they rested three days. ...
Article : 63 wordsDuring the discussion in the Federal Parliament on the Kalgoorlie-Port Augusta Railway Bill a new route was suggested between Port Augusta and ...
Article : 71 wordsSir Ernest Shackleton, in an article, says that Captain Amundsen undoubtedly reached the geographical Pole with the aid of easy travelling in fine ...
Article : 51 wordsOveruden, an Englishman, knocked out Raphael Bolli, a Frenchman, in the twelfth round of a boxing match at Montmartre yesterday. Bolli ...
Article : 60 wordsYesterday rebel soldieis, who were drunk, raided the vaults of the National Bank at Juarez, in Mexico They blow up the structure with dynamite, ...
Article : 77 wordsMr. Kinsey, the Australian representative of Captain Scott's polar expedition, stated in a press interview that he believed that if Captain Amundsen ...
Article : 83 wordsThe ship Illawarra. 1,972 tons, which was abandoned whilst on the voyage from Leith to Valparaiso, is reported to be still afloat. She was last seen ...
Article : 45 wordsAt San Francisco yesterday Tommy Murphy defeated Abe Attell, the world's featherweight champion. There was a big crowd of onlookers. The ...
Article : 73 wordsIt will be about three weeks before the new arrangements for the distribution of the Australian note currency are in full operation. A special furnace for the ...
Article : 50 wordsThey arrived at the 85th degree on the 17th, having marched due South, and reached the place where the land and the ice barrier connected. ...
Article : 29 wordsKing Haakon of Norway, the Norwegian Government, and the Geographical Society have cabled congratulations to Captain Amundsen. ...
Article : 42 wordsLieutenant-General Sir R. S. Badenpowell, who is visiting America en route to New Zealand and Australia, addressed a Boy Scout gathering at ...
Article : 102 wordsOn account of the threatening state of the weather last evening, the boxing contest between Sam Mcvea and Jim Barry was postponed till next Saturday ...
Article : 73 wordsThe State Treasurer (Mr. Watt) anaounces that the drafting of a scheme for the holding of an Empire Exhibition in one of the principal capitals has ...
Article : 103 wordsA few big crevasses indicated the limits of the barrier. Here Captain Amundsen established the head depot, and, with sixty days' provisions, ...
Article : 58 wordsAdvices received in New York from Hayti announce that General Coiceru, an ex-military tyrant of Hayti, has been sentenced to death, a jury in ...
Article : 105 wordsAs the parties to the compulsory conference of the representatives of the steamship owners and waterside workers had not received replies to the ...
Article : 79 wordsProfessor Osborne, the head of the Museum of Natural History in NewYork, says he believes that Captain Amundsen would not make the claim ...
Article : 76 wordsIn connection with the threatened strike on the Ruhr coalfields, the German Government has conferred with the miners. It is understood that the ...
Article : 80 wordsThey encountered a few steep glaciers, where the going was hard, and they were forced to make detours owing to big crevasses. ...
Article : 25 wordsSir Ernest Shackleton, who commantled the British Antarctic expedition in 1909, said at the Mansion House last night that it is very likely that ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 11 Mar 1912, Page 5
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