Nominations of candidats for the extraordinary vacaney in the City Council, created by the death of Mr. Alderman Duncan, will be received between Janu ...
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Advertising : 674 wordsMararoa, s.s., 2,5[?]8 tons, J. V. Bentley, from Sydney. Passengers: — Saloon: Mesdames Fletcher, Prevost, Lymington and child, Kerr. T. Pye, Poynting. Feldwick, E. Vickery, ...
Article : 397 wordsA proposal for securing the co-operation of the various churches and societies engaged in foreign missionary work for the more effective evangelisation of the world ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Hobart City Council will hold its first meeting this year at 4 p.m. to-day. Only a few items appear on the business paper. viz., consideration of the report ...
Article : 209 wordsTo-day the system of local government created by the Act of 1906 comes into Operation. The members of the new municipal councils will meet for the ...
Article : 1,221 wordsThe Commonwealth Government has completed arrangements with the Government of New South Wales for the construction of a trawler, to be utilised ...
Article : 244 wordsA notice posted at teh Launceston Telegraph Office yesterday stated that Mr. Chiruside, of Werribee-park, Victoria, had been informed that there was ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Commonwealth. Statistician gives figures showing the areas of land in the various States used for orchards and vineyards, and a comparison between ...
Article : 327 wordsRelic, sch., 99 tons, W. Bradley, for Melbourne, via Adventure Bay. Agents—Gray Bros. ...
Article : 17 wordsOur Middleton correspondent writes:— "Captain Thomas jones, an old resident, passed away on New Year's Day, aged 74 years. The deceased had been laid aside ...
Article : 146 wordsHow much dependence can be placed on the guarantees of the Labour Unions has been shown by the developments in the Newcastle coal-mining ...
Article : 713 wordsMMariner, sch., from Melbourne—90 tons general Mararoa, s.s., from Sydney—3,248 bgs sugar, 85 css spirits, 120 css soap, 150 bgs cement, ...
Article : 442 wordsThe eclipse of the sun, which took place on Thursday last, was observable at only two places in the world, viz., Flint Island and Hull Island, both of ...
Article : 255 wordsSir Wm. Lyne, reverting on Saturday to the question of the federal capital site (writes our Sydney correspondent), expressed the opinion that the agitation for ...
Article : 71 wordsThe "Argus" says:—"Anyone willing to wager that the number of people who would go by railway to the Flemington racecourse yesterday would be within one ...
Article : 125 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, C. Suffern, for Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Heath, Martin, Ratten, Annells, Herm, Watkinson, Gibson and child, W. H. James, ...
Article : 230 wordsThe English mails per R.M.S. Himalaya, which left Tasmania on November 26, arrived in London on the evening of the 27th [?]ult. They were due on ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Commonwealth torpedo boats Countess of Hopetoun and Chliders arrived at Hobart late on Saturday. The vessels have called at Hobart in the course of their trip made ...
Article : 228 wordsDuring the past season several very striking cases came under the notice of the Victorian Agricultural Department of seed being [?]own with a disease which ...
Article : 219 wordsThe Immigration League of Australia has marked out Scotland as one of its chief spheres of influence. Fifty thousand emigrants are leaving Scotland ...
Article : 236 wordsThe President of the Senate (Senator Gould) is at present in Hobart, and is spending a few days with Senator Ma[?]farlanc at Newlands. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe newly-elected municipal councils will meet for the first time at 11 a.m. to-day. After members have signed the prescribed declaration, they will proceed ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 94 wordsThe Mahinapua, from Strahan, arrived at Hobart at 8 a.m. yesterday, after a fine passage. She left Strahan at 11.20 a.m. on Saturday, and cleared Macquarie Heads at 1 p.m. ...
Article : 84 wordsA satisfactory season, high prices, and trifling losses from disease combined to make the year 1997 (says the "Argus") a profitable one in every way for the ...
Article : 184 wordsNubeena—Port Arthur, and Eaglehawk N. Huon—Huonville, Geeveston, Huon River. Dover—Port Esperance. Excelsior—Huonville. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe varying phases of Saturday's play in the second test cricket match at Melbourne aroused the speculative spirit of the many who foregathered at "The ...
Article : 144 wordsA combined meeting of the wheelers and shiftmen employed at the Newcastle collieries was held yesterday. Mr. L. McWilliams, acting president of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsCarin. bgtine, from Port Pirie. Childers and Countess of Hopetoun, torpedo boats, from Melbourne. Helen, bq., from Port Pirie. ...
Article : 47 wordsLalra, bq., P. Esperance, for N. Zealand. Mataura, Nor. bq., Southport for Europe Ocean, ship. Esperance, for Singapore Zephyr, bqtine, P. Esperance, for P. Pirie. ...
Article : 28 wordsLOW HEAD.—Arrived—January 4, 7.27 a.m., Loongana, t.s., from Melbourne; 10.45 p.m., Fram, bq., from Sweden. January 5, 6.22 p.m., Wareatea, s.s., from Melbourne. Sailed ...
Article : 96 wordsIn a spell of hot weather, when one of the few pleasures of the moment is a long cool drink from the other end of a straw, it is interesting to learn (says ...
Article : 221 wordsBefore the sermon at St. David's Cathedral, yesterday morning, the Deun of Hobard said:—"We all heard last week with the greatest sorrow and regret of ...
Article : 133 wordsArrived.—January 5, 5.15 a.m., Loongana, t.s.,. from Launceston; 10.45 a.m., Oonah, s.s., from Devonport. Sailed.—January 4, 5.50 p.m., Wareatea, s.s., ...
Article : 32 wordsBush fires, occasioned by the excessive beat, are burning around Zeehan. Fire at Moonah yesterday destroyed shed and hay, etc., to the value of £260. ...
Article : 312 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, C. Suffern, fr[?]o Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon; Mesdames Connclly, McKenzie, Holbrook, Coffey, Burbury, Howden, Curnow and 3 children, ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Brady lightkeeper at Fingal Heads, lighthouse late on Friday came to the Tweed Heads with the report that distress signals bad been burning in ...
Article : 139 wordsAt about 5 o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out in the loft of a she[?] upon the property of Dr. Benjafield at Moonah. Smoke was first noticed ...
Article : 199 wordsThe Preferentists at Home are propounding some theories about the effect of protective duties, which we find ourselves quite unable to accept. It is ...
Article : 567 wordsEarly in the session the FEderal Parliament passed a Transcontinental Railway Bill, authorising the expenditure of £20,000 in the survey of a route for the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 6 Jan 1908, Page 4
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