In the House of Representatives to- day the Speaker took the chair at 3 o'clock. ALLEGED OVERLOADING. ...
Article : 512 wordsThe annual report of the Chief Inspector of Machinery (Dr. E. S. Ross) was presented in the Assembly last evening. Mr. Ross reported that the ...
Article : 900 wordsThe other day I had the good fortune, or, rather, the misfortune, to receive a parcel from a friend of mine residing in Tasmania, who, thinking me worthy of ...
Article : 1,293 wordsAfter the Chamber of Deputies at Paris had adopted the first clause of the Electoral Reform Bill, with proportional representation M. Briand intervened and ...
Article : 81 wordsIn the House of Lords the Finance Bill was read a first time yesterday. "The Times" says that on the second readings stage an official Opposition ...
Article : 98 wordsThe star attraction for the first week's programme of the season of vaudeville and animated pictures to be inaugurated on Saturday evening next will be the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe cruiser Lion and a sister ship are about to be commenced at Devonport Each vessel will cost two millions, will be seven hundred feet long, and of 26,350 ...
Article : 49 wordsRight Hon. D. Lloyd-George. M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer, states that beer paid duty in London n 52,992 barrels in October, 1908, and on 55,680 ...
Article : 37 wordsA preliminary report has been submitted on the 15th cruise of the Commonwealth trawler Endeavour by the Director of Fisheries, Mr. H. C. ...
Article : 98 wordsSpeaking in New York, Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., declared that no combination of parties could prevent the Irish party, with 82 members, being ...
Article : 107 wordsThe World's Picture Company, having just concluded a successful season in the Mechanics' Institute, will revisit Launceston at the end of this week, and ...
Article : 106 wordsThe mineowners have organised a Miners' Labour Exchange, with 12 branches, besides a head office at Essen. The excitement among the miners has ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Commissioner for Old Age Pensions has decided to initiate a prosecution against a pensioner said to have been guilty of making a false ...
Article : 118 wordsReuter understands that the council of the Suez Canal Company has rejected Egypt's latest conditions for a renewal of the concession, and the matter, will ...
Article : 38 wordsIt was originally intended to hold in the Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday, the 24th inst., a fair organised as a means of assisting the project of ...
Article : 93 wordsThe special correspondent of "The Times" at Buenos Ayres declares that, apart from what maize and cattle Argentina sent to Great Britain in 1903, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe coroner held an enquiry to-day into the circumstances connected with a motor car accident at Elwood swamp on October 31, which resulted in the death ...
Article : 72 wordsIn the Assembly to-night, on the motion of the Minister of Lands (Mr. Hean), the Frogmore Purchase Facilitation Bill was read a first time. ...
Article : 30 words"Madge" takes exception to our comments on British suffragettes, and contends that the methods adopted by the authorities are Russian in their severity. ...
Article : 101 wordsA conference between the marine board, Queenborough council, and Minister for Lands was held to-day concerning the scheme of continuing the Sandy ...
Article : 87 wordsOwing to America under the new tariff, imposing a tonnage tax on the Great Lakes, Sir W. Laurier is about to retaliate. ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Premier has agreed to pay £30,000 for the ship Loch Ryan, to be used as a training ship for boys. The Premier said, generally speaking, it was ...
Article : 76 wordsSir,—I would like to back up the effort of Mr. Leitch in trying to convince the local council that £200 per year is not enough to tempt the sort of man needed ...
Article : 305 wordsThe House of Representatives to-day went into committee on the Constitution Alteration (Finance) Bill. The Prime Minister intimated that it ...
Article : 821 wordsA cyclist named Percy Scolyer had a narrow escape from a serious accident this afternoon. He was riding down Stewart-street, and just missed coming ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Honduras gunboat Tatumbla captured a party of rum smugglers. On the way to gaol the sailors and smugglers fraternised, and the captain ...
Article : 63 wordsThe small motor boat Fay and Bowen, which left Queenscliff on Tuesday of last week, has arrived at Eden. Some stormy weather was met with, but the ...
Article : 36 wordsMessrs. Geard and Wells, of the Board of Advice, visited the state schools to-day, on the occasion of the King's birthday. The visitors granted the scholars ...
Article : 35 wordsA disastrous fire occurred at Brighton last night, when the local cement works were completely gutted. It is surmised that the fire was caused by spontaneous ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the hospital board to-night the finance committee reported that the receipts for the month had been 242, and the ...
Article : 91 wordsSir Arthur Vicars, late Ulster King at Arms, writes to "The Times" respecting the theft of the Crown jewels at Dublin. He declares that both the Government ...
Article : 56 wordsAn accident occurred at the Adelaide railway station this morning. The train from Port Adelaide did not pull up at the right place, and ran into the dead ...
Article : 99 wordsA new theatre has been inaugurated in New York by 30 millionaires on an uncommercial basis, similar to the Comedie Francaise. It cost £600,000 sterling ...
Article : 41 wordsBefore Mr. Commissioner L. E. Chambers yesterday morning, H. R. Wright sued J. Fitzallen for 11s 10d for work done, hire of bullocks, and negligence of ...
Article : 297 wordsSir,—Kindly allow me, through the medium of your valuable journal, to draw the attention of the public to the way in which a number of the ...
Article : 372 wordsMr. William Anderson's No. 1 Company repeated "The Man From Outback" last evening, when once more the Academy was filled with a large and delighted ...
Article : 228 wordsH.M.S. Challenger has returned to port after an unsuccessful search in the vicinity of the Kermadec islands for traces of the missing steamer Clan ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Admiralty is establishing a new base at Seapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands, with secondary bases at Wick and Cromarty, and numerous wireless ...
Article : 41 wordsA public meeting was held in Thompson's Hall at St. Helen's on Thursday night, having been called by the organiser of the L.L.L. for Bass. Mr. C ...
Article : 138 wordsAmong the notifications posted at Lloyd's are the following relating to the movements of Australian shipping:— Arrivals.—From Australia to London ...
Article : 88 wordsAn interesting announcement is made in our advertising columns to-day by Mr Charles Macmahon. On Monday next (King's Birthday holiday) and ...
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Article : 74 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Company's new steamer Orvisto has made trial runs, and they have proved satisfactory. ...
Article : 37 wordsOn Monday morning, at the Longford Police Court, before Messrs. A. Whitfeld and T. C. Archer, Js.P., a number of residents were fined 2s 6d each for ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Wed 10 Nov 1909, Page 6
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