A sale raged over Tasmania yesterday, and did immense damage to fruit crops. The weather was very boisterous in the city, and one or two gusts between 12.40 ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the sitting of the Food Prices Commission to-day a statement was submitted on behalf of the Trade Union Congress and Labour party ...
Article : 217 wordsThe principal Powers have been approached by the United States on the subject of a new disarmament conference. The discussions have not reached in ...
Article : 237 wordsThe power of the Legislative Council to amend Money Bills was described by Hon. Tas. Shields, M.L.C., at an extraordinary general meeting of the Tasmanian ...
Article : 771 wordsIt was notified to-night that the condition of His Majesty the King shows a district and considerable improvement. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Federal Royal Commission inquiring into the disabilities suffered by West Australia owing to Federation continued its sitting to-day, when ...
Article : 570 wordsAlthough the alleged attempt made by two men on Wednesday night to obtain the keys of the branch of the Bank of New South Wales at Swan Hill failed, it ...
Article : 229 wordsThere arrived in Hobart from Melbourne yesterday Mr. R. W. Dalton, His Majesty's Senior Trade Commissioner in Australia, representing the Department of ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,256 wordsA bulletin issued at 9.30 o'clock this morning stated that His Majesty passed a better night, and his progress, though slow, is satisfactory. ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Rosny Estates and Ferry Go.'s steamer Silver Crown ran aground in the vicinity of Rose Bay whilst on her way from Hobart to L[?]ndi[?]farne. She left ...
Article : 162 wordsThe report issued by the Navy Board on the developments of aviation has been published. It declares that while aviation is vitally important as in auxiliary to ...
Article : 131 wordsReplying in the House of Commons to Commander Kenworthy (Liberal), the First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr. Bridgeman) stated that work had not ...
Article : 85 wordsA grass fire, which endangered the homestead, crops, a large number of sheep, horses, and cattle owned by Messrs. Marshall Bros., at Green Point, [?]a[?] ...
Article : 86 wordsThe report of the Inter-Allied Commission on German disarmaments was delivered to-day to the French Prime Minister (M. Herriot), and consists of 44 ...
Article : 147 wordsThe inquest on the Croydon air disaster on December 24 was continued to-day, and a verdict of death from misadventure was returned in the cases of the eight ...
Article : 83 wordsLabour had its day at the sitting of the Food Prices Commission to-day. Three wives of working men gave the industrialists' views on the subject. ...
Article : 228 wordsA serious bush fire broke out near Huntworth a few miles south of Oatlands, today, and travelling before a strong wind, [?]pt [?]st, the town of Oatlands and on ...
Article : 157 wordsThe British Cabinet this morning considered the report of the Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the Geneva protocol, and it ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Commander Kenworthy (Liberal) asked for information with regard to the new Disarmament Conference to ...
Article : 96 wordsDr. Eugelmann, of the Children's Hospital, reports splendid results from the use of a serum against scarlet fever. He states that 45 cases of complete cure ...
Article : 61 wordsA very severe g[?]e was experienced throughout the Derwent Valley to-day, and as a result h[?]ps have received a severe buffeting, which will impair the ...
Article : 202 wordsThe workers in two more Japanese cotton mills in China have joined in the strike already involving 30,000 people and 13 mills. There were no ...
Article : 55 wordsSpeaking yesterday regarding the proposal of the Commonwealth Government to advance, through the Tasmanian Government, the sum of £84,000 ...
Article : 202 wordsThe political correspondent of the "Daily Express" understands that the Air Force estimntes which are expected to be tabled in the House of ...
Article : 92 wordsDr. Saleeby, lecturing at Southend, said he had just returned from the Mediterranean, and found that the Swiss sun cure work extended to ...
Article : 93 wordsThe House of Commons discussed at length to-day, and ultimately adopted, the private member's motion submitted by Major Harvey (Conservative member ...
Article : 327 wordsAt a late hour last evening the wind still blew in the Glenorchy district with [?]bated fury, doing [?]xtensive damage to the orchards. It was stated last ...
Article : 88 wordsThe British Sugar Subsidy Bill passed the second reading in the House of Commons to-day without division. The bill provides for the payment of a ...
Article : 138 wordsChagrined because of the evictions yesterday at Clydebank, Glasgow, the tenants have withdrawn their representatives who were to give evidence ...
Article : 152 words"The Times" Fund for the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral now amounts to £238,513. ...
Article : 28 wordsThis afternoon a heavy gale struck the Huon, causing a fatal accident at franklin, and serious damage to orchards throughout the district. The storm ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman F. D. Valentine) made the following statement yesterday on the subject of unemployment:—I have conferred with heads of municipal ...
Article : 380 wordsIt is offlciahy announced that negotiations for further consideration of the ocean mail contract and other agreements between one Government ...
Article : 78 wordsDr. Rudford Colwell, of Sydney, the surgeon on the Orient liner Orama, treated by means of wireless telegraphy during the voyage of the liner ...
Article : 62 wordsAccording to the Johannesburg correspondent of the Cape "Argus," Judge de Villiers, mediator for the Mines and Conciliation Board of ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Minister for Labour (Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland) stated in the House of Commons to-day that the number of working days directly lost ...
Article : 43 wordsThere was a revival of interest in the trial of 16 Communists for organising a rising in Germany, when the principal prisoner, Skoblevsky, gave ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Rome correspondent of the "Morning Post" anys in reference to the Albanian o[?]s, of which important concessions have been granted to the ...
Article : 189 wordsThe Health Ministry's new regulations dealing with the use of preservatives in foodstuffs strangely does not mention boric acid in relation to butter. ...
Article : 81 wordsDame Melba's opera season at Covent Garden will open at the end of May. ...
Article : 25 wordsA distressing accident occurred at Newroad, Franklin, about 4 o'clock this afternoon, resulting in the death of Reginald Pitt, 44 years of age. He was engaged ...
Article : 132 wordsA Communist Deputy, M. Strachimifoffe, was assasinated to-day in the street, the murderer escaping. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn commemoration of L[?]anelly's good fight against the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team the municipality has decided to name the street ...
Article : 43 wordsIn the House of Commons to-day, Captain Fairfax (Conservative) drew attention to the unemployed condition of disabled ex-service men, and moved ...
Article : 90 wordsRepresentatives of a number of shipowning companies and wool importers witnessed to-day a demonstration of the use of the new bands for fastening wool ...
Article : 96 wordsThough the Government of India did not participate in the Empire Exhibition at Wembley, it is learned that the Exhibition authorities have ...
Article : 72 wordsAfter hearing exhaustive evidence relating to the contract for carting for the Electricity Department of the Sydney City Council, the [?]o[?]al Commission which is ...
Article : 84 wordsThe s.s. Opawa (9. 297 tons), from Townsville and Adelaide to London, arlived at Perim with her lower cross bunker and No. 8 bunker on fire, She ...
Article : 63 wordsAn anti-tobacco movement, which it is hoped will attain the proportions of tho auti-saloon movement, will be, launched here in March, when a ...
Article : 51 wordsA Canadian steamer has been seized, and 14 members of the crew arrested by Customs officials here[?] It is estimated that the vessel carried 10,000 cases of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 20 Feb 1925, Page 7
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