Considerable damage was done by the flood wafers yesterday. The weather has been cool to-day, windy, and threatening. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe wheat market is irregular, at 2s 11d to 2s 1½d. About 2000 bags sold in various parcels at 2s 11d, and small lots on spot sold up to 3s. New flour sold at ...
Article : 251 wordsRev. Wellesley Smith, rector of St. Martin's, Church of England, was presented yesterday with a purse of sovereigns by his parishioners as a New Year's gift. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe picnic in connection with the New River State School, which took place on New Year's Day, proved a great success. All outdoor games were indulged ...
Article : 96 wordsMr. Charles Booth, F.R.S., a partner in Alfred Booth and Co., Liverpool, and a member of the Tariff Commission, has an article in the "Nineteenth Century" upon ...
Article : 98 wordsThe revenue for the six months of the financial year aggregated £4,715,305, or £203,000 less than for the same period last year. Sir G. Turner, however, ...
Article : 106 wordsNew Year's Day passed off very quietly here. A dance was given in the Fordon Hall by the committee of the Nile sports, and was the only amusement we ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. E. Mlidwood, who accompanied Mrs. Benson's choir to Bathurst, has won the gold medal in the banjo competition with the highest possible marks. ...
Article : 26 wordsBush fires raged furiously all yesterday along the Queen River Valley, destroying some woodcutters' camps, a lot of firewood, and framlines. Intense heat ...
Article : 52 wordsDuring Sunday fairly heavy rain fell here, and it has done a great amount of damage to the grain crops. It has also been bad for the early-cut hay, but it ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Dewis, who is leaving this part for the Sheflield district, was tendered a social, prior to his departure. Mr. T. J. A. Fitzgerald presided, and spoke in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe flagship Royal Arthur arrived tonight from Sydney. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Minister for Defence states that Vice-Admiral Fanshawe has obtained the approval of the Admiralty to his scheme for creating a naval reserve of 700 men ...
Article : 97 wordsSir Robert Giffen, N.C.B., F.R.S., the eminent economist, is also represented by an article on the tariff question in the "Nineteenth Century." He describes ...
Article : 154 wordsMr. A. Clark, the manager of the Comet mine, has been granted three months leave by his directors owing to ill-health. He leaves for Launceston and Hobart ...
Article : 65 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the centenary celebrations was held tonight, the Mayor presiding. Amongst the correspondence read was a ...
Article : 187 wordsThe annual sports were held at Beulah in a paddock kindly lent by Mr. Fred. Duncan. There was a fair attendance, all the events going off well. The ...
Article : 269 wordsA ball in aid of the funds of the Jubilee Hall, Porattah, was held in that building on New Year's Night. A very, fair attendance was in evidence, the sum ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Customs and Excise collections for the month of December amounted to £747,350, or £63,000 less than for the same period last year. The receipts for ...
Article : 53 wordsA fearful tragedy was committed early this morning at Redfern. The victim is a young married, woman named Florence Minahan, who resided at Botany-street ...
Article : 255 wordsProbably the last white man to hear of the death of Pope Leo will be the Rev. James Peck, an Anglican missionary labouring among the Esquimaus in ...
Article : 862 wordsOur holidays have passed off as quietly as usual, so many young people making an exit for regatta, races, etc. We have had most perfect weather. A pleasant ...
Article : 87 wordsWith reference to the suggestion of the Prime Minister as to the consideration of the question of immigration at the Treasurers conference, the South Australian ...
Article : 90 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," in a leading article on the correspondence between Mr. Deakin and the ex-Colonial Secretary, expresses the opinion that Mr. Chamberlain ...
Article : 330 wordsThe following probates have been issued:—Charles Sidney Richardson, to the Tasmanian Permanent Executors Association, £608; John Edward Rotinwell, to ...
Article : 61 wordsWe had another soaking rain during Saturday night and all lay Sunday, which has done a good deal of damage by, laying the crops and wetting some ...
Article : 187 wordsIt is as an owner of horses that Sir John Blundell Maple will be best remembered, the victories of the white and gold stripes and claret cap ...
Article : 763 wordsThe following notifications will appear in to-morrow's "Gazette":—Auctioneers licences, are granted to W. Burn, Hobart, and Henry Boxhall, Launceston. Mr. W. ...
Article : 114 wordsThe New Year holidays passed off very quietly here. The band turned out on New Year's Eve and enlivened the township with selections. A watch night ...
Article : 96 wordsA sensational poisoning case is reported from Doyle's Creek, in the Singleton district. The wife of James Bennett, a farmer, administered poison to her three ...
Article : 53 wordsOn New Year's Eve a distinct earth shock was felt travelling from the north-east to the south-west. The tremor was fairly severe, and was felt by a ...
Article : 72 wordsDr. Welsh Branthwaite, the Home Office Inspector under the Inebriates Acts, has, says the "London Daily Telegraph," prepared a report of the progress in ...
Article : 601 wordsThe holidays passed over without any sensational elements. The Athletic Club held its annual sports on December 28, with the results ...
Article : 416 wordsThe barque which went ashore in the vicinity of Cape Spencer has been found to be the Ethel. She stranded on Saturday night, and is high and dry on a sandy ...
Article : 56 wordsThe weather on Sunday was most unseasonable. Heavy rains fell all day, accompanied by N.E. winds. Yesterday a vast improvement took place, the day ...
Article : 182 wordsThe German mail steamer Prinz Waldemar arrived from Singapore this morning. The vessel brings news from German New Guinea of a massacre on November 14 last, ...
Article : 151 wordsThe death of Mr. Isaac Hall, says the S.A. Register," Adelaide, which occurred at his residence, Cumberland Park, near Mount Pleasant, removes a pioneer from ...
Article : 500 wordsThe steamer Eastern, which arrived today from China, reports that on December 20 a passenger named Currie suicided by jumping overboard. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe hot weather that prevailed during the whole of last week was very oppressive. On Saturday there were signs of a change, but the atmosphere ...
Article : 128 wordsThe winter session of the Royal Colonial Institute was opened at the Whitehall Rooms with a paper by Major Ross, Professor of Tropical Medicine at ...
Article : 299 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 187 wordsThe annual Presbyterian festival was held here on New Year's Day, and was a great success, both socially and financially. A profit of about £15 was ...
Article : 92 wordsThe funeral of the late Mrs. H. Polley look place on Thursday afternoon. A large number followed the remains to the grave. The deceased lady had been ...
Article : 130 wordsWhen statues are erected to military heroes, it is generally to successful generals. In France the idea has been realised of commemorating in marble ...
Article : 92 wordsThe telephone line between London and Brussels is 244 miles long. The overhead portion of the English side is 97 miles long and that on the Belgian ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Tue 5 Jan 1904, Page 6
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