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  2. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS TASMANIA

    On Monday next, the boat train is to leave Hobart at 8.25 a.m., and pass stations about 25 minutes in advance of usual times. The Fingal line train will ...

    Article : 350 words
  3. NORTHERN NOTES Bullock Suffocated

    Four bullocks out of a consignment of 40 landed at the cattle yards, Town Pier, Launceston, from the s.s. Tambar from Flinders Island early on ...

    Article : 136 words
  4. CLAIM AGAINST COUNCIL

    The claim by R. H. McEwan, of West Tamar, against the municipality of Beaconsfield for £300 damages, which was to have come on for hearing in the ...

    Article : 172 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 459 words
  6. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE LICENSING ACT.

    I see that in Friday's issue of your paper Inspector C. Ellis, of the Tasmanian Police Force, who has retired after 32 years service in Tasmania, states ...

    Article : 276 words
  7. AFFORESTATION

    It has long been considered that King Island offers a most suitable field for afforestation. The island possesses soil and climate eminently adapted for the ...

    Article : 790 words
  8. SOUTH ESK RIVER

    The approximate height of the South Esk River at Fingal at 5 p.m. yesterday was 6ft. 5in. above summer level, a ...

    Article : 33 words
  9. DAIRYING INDUSTRY

    Mr. H. E. Fowell, managing director of the Tasmanian Cool Stores Co., gave an address to dairy farmers at the Pyengana branch last week. Mr. G. ...

    Article : 248 words
  10. DISTRICT NEWS GEEVESTON.

    The Druids' ball, held in the Geeveston Town Hall, was a success. There was a large attendance, including visitors from Hobart. The hall had been ...

    Article : 1,431 words
  11. Dummy Policemen

    The civic authorities have decided to erect dummy policemen on two of the most dangerous intersections in Launceston, viz., the corner of York and St. ...

    Article : 90 words
  12. ISLANDS SHIPPING

    The s.s. Tambar sailed in the teeth of a raging gale, with a load of 130 fat stock, on Saturday afternoon, and arrived at Launceston at 8.30 on Sunday ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. TASMANIA'S ISLANDS

    Tasmania is always crying out to establish new industries. There are many capitalists in the State, but they let the good whaling proposition pass, ...

    Article : 802 words
  14. SUPERANNUATION.

    A proposed Public Service Superannuation Bill has been drafted, and at least one Union representing a section of the Public Service has indicated to ...

    Article : 710 words
  15. KING ISLAND NEWS THE WEATHER.

    During August there were only three days on which rain did not fall, the total registrations for the month being 435 points; the highest falls being registered ...

    Article : 1,025 words
  16. MAINLAND

    Sydney, September 10.—After nearly a week of spring weather, Sydney had a return to winter to-day. Heavy falls of snow occurred on the Blue Mountains, ...

    Article : 75 words
  17. AMUSEMENTS "THE VALIANT."

    Commencing next Saturday there will be shown at the Prince of Wales Theatre "The Valiant," described as another Fox Movietone 100 per cent, ...

    Article : 545 words
  18. ROMA OIL

    The directors of the Roma Oil Corporation Ltd. state that, although they have ample funds in hand to sink a further hole, they do not feel disposed ...

    Article : 134 words
  19. VETERAN'S DESCENDANTS

    Occasionally one hears of sturdy veterans whose direct living descendants number "nearly one hundred" (remarks the "New Zealand Herald"). Mr. ...

    Article : 397 words
  20. KNOW TASMANIA

    In my first article on Wattle Hill referred to the original John Walker, who settled there in the early days, and married a daughter of Samuel Wiggins, ...

    Article : 508 words
  21. MENTAL DISEASES HOSPITAL THE ANNUAL REPORT.

    Dr. G. B. Aitkin, medical superintendent of the Mental Diseases Hospital, New Norfolk, in his annual report for the year ended June 30, states:— ...

    Article : 370 words
  22. TIMBER TOLL.

    In your issue of 4th inst. you gave me space on the above subject, but the number of sawmills operating in the St. Leonards municipality was not ...

    Article : 201 words
  23. SCOTTSDALE HOSPITAL

    At the monthly meeting of the Scottsdale Hospital Board, held at Scottsdale on Monday night, the proposal to alter the main entrance by widening was not ...

    Article : 146 words
  24. ST. DAVID'S CATHEDRAL.

    In the report of the laying of the foundation stone of the tower and cloisters of St. David's Cathedral last week by Mrs. Snowdon Hay it is stated that ...

    Article : 189 words
  25. WHO IS TO PAY?

    On behalf of myself and twenty other ratepayers I would like to ask the Town Clerk what was the actual cost of the Facy municipal election recently held ...

    Article : 75 words
  26. CRIMINALS SENTENCED

    Same Lampard, alias John Blackmore, who absconded from Sydney in June on a charge of conspiracy to cheat and defraud, was sentenced in the ...

    Article : 134 words
  27. GENERAL

    N. Oldham considers that the time has arrived when some proper censorship should be exercised in regard to the bleating and howling that is sent out ...

    Article : 211 words
  28. MENIN GATE AT MIDNIGHT.

    In the report of the Glenorchy Council meeting published in "The Mercury" of September 4, under a paragraph headed "A War Picture," reference is made to the ...

    Article : 177 words
  29. BREACH OF PROMISE

    Alma Maude Sparnon, nurse, of Rosetta Street, West Croydon, was awarded £75 damages by Mr. L. H. Haslam, S.M., in the Adelaide Local Court ...

    Article : 145 words
  30. CARS IN COLLISION

    A motor-car driven by Mr. R. L. Bell, of Richard Avenue, Elphin Road, and one driven by Mr. T. L. Hammersley, of [?]nvermay Road, came into collision at the ...

    Article : 125 words
  31. MATHINNA.

    The weather at Mathinna during the last week has been very changeable. Commencing with a light fall of snow the week continued cold and windy, with ...

    Article : 63 words
  32. TO COURT BY AIRPLANE

    On Friday morning Mr. G. W. Halcombe, S.M., will leave by airplane for Kingscote, Kangaroo Island, where he will preside at a court on his arrival. ...

    Article : 78 words
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