Beautiful weather favoured holidaymakers yesterday for the celebration of King's Birthday. Outside the IXL sports at the cricket ground, there was ...
Article : 353 wordsThe second annual show, combining the established poultry exhibition with that of farm stock, etc., was held at Port Cygnet yesterday, the poultry being ...
Article : 1,544 wordsEvery seat was sold for Madame Melba's farewell concert, which took place in the Albert-hall, London, on Saturday evening. Our London cablegrams state that ...
Article : 712 wordsThe list of birthday honours to-day included no now Peers. Six Baronets were created, and twenty Knighthoods were conferred. ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Crown Prince of Servia, who visited the Czar at St. Petersburg last week, has returned to Belgrade. The Prince was rapturously ...
Article : 121 wordsSir Andrew Fraser, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, narrowly escaped assassination on Saturday. As Professor Burton, of the Chicago ...
Article : 141 wordsThe three days' military operations of the troops of the "Southern division were ooncluded yesterday, and, on the whole, can be pronounced successful. In the ...
Article : 294 wordsThe trial of Abe Ruef, the notorious "grafter boss," of San Francisco, is proceeding. Ten weeks were occupied in the task ...
Article : 360 wordsIt is generally accepted in Federal political circles that the fate of the Deakin Ministry will be settled to-morrow. How that settlement is to be ...
Article : 645 wordsThe Collingwood, a battleship of the Dreadnought type, the construction of which was commenced at Devonport in January of this year, was christened by ...
Article : 69 wordsMr. Henniker Heaton, M.P., in a letter to "The Times," forwards messages he has received from Mr. J. Chamberlain, Sir Joseph Ward, several ...
Article : 297 wordsAt noon yesterday a Royal salute of 21 guns was fired from the Queen's Battery. A guard of honour under the command, of Major R. C. Lewis. D,S.O., V.D., ...
Article : 883 wordsThe Senior Cadets paraded at the military barracks at 10 o'clock, and were marched off to the Sandy Bay rifle range, where the lads went through a course of ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Crown Prince of Germany, Friedrich Wilhelm, went far a cruise in Count Zeppelin's airship on Saturday. There were altogether fourteen ...
Article : 91 wordsThe weather to-day was ideal for a holiday The sky was clear; but the rays of the sun were tempered by a cool, gentle breeze The townsfolk were astir early, ...
Article : 462 wordsInterest was a wakened in local yachting circles last evening by the arrival of the 30-ton cruiser Spindrift, which took up her moorings off Williamstown, upon ...
Article : 236 wordsSpeaking at Bradford on Saturday evening, the Under Secretary for the Colonies (Colonel Seely) said it was impossible to have a bit of freetrade and ...
Article : 74 wordsA number of female suffragists took part in a demonstration in London yesterday, dressed in prison garb. They paraded a number of streets, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Kaiser dined with Emperor Josef of Austria at the Royal Palace at Schoolbrunn yesterday. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir ...
Article : 86 wordsThomas O'Farrell, an employee at the Melbourne General Cemetery, this evening attempted to cut his wife's throat, and then cut his own. A neighbour ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Lancefield Gold Mining Company, whose property is situated in Western Australia, is issuing 66,666 preference shares. Present ...
Article : 66 wordsDetective-Inspector Weston arrived at Zeehan from Hobart to-day in connection with the investigation into the Heemskirk tragedy. There are no ...
Article : 40 wordsThe first of the Orient Royal Mail line of steamers under the contrnct with the Federal Government has been launched at Clyde Bank. ...
Article : 72 wordsA White Paper shows that since October, 1905, the British regular army has been reduced by 18,653, the militia by 23,349, and the volunteers by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 320 wordsKing's Birthday was observed, as a holiday by only the banks and Government offices here. The general public have the holiday on Wednesday. ...
Article : 27 wordsMessrs. Dalgety and Co. report having offered a good catalogue of over five thousand bales to-day. There was a crowded attendance of buyers, and ...
Article : 119 wordsThe annual bazaar in aid of the local Methodist Church was held in the Public-hall at Port Cygnet yesterday, and was opened by the Premier (Hon. J. W. ...
Article : 323 wordsThe Shah of Persia, who recently undertook to grant a new constitution without further delay, has not yet fulfilled his promise. ...
Article : 81 wordsWhen the Kaiser was in Norwegian waters some time ago he was interviewed on behalf of the American "Century Magazine" by William Bayard Hales. ...
Article : 96 wordsHis Excellency the Governor gave an official dinner at Government House last evening, to celebrate His Majesty's Birthday. The following is a list of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 154 wordsThe tone of the German press towards France in regard to the Casablanca incident is calmer, and an early friendly settlement is expected. ...
Article : 36 wordsA scapegoat has apparently been found for the recent carelessness that resulted in the publication in the London "Daily Telegraph" of an interview ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Board of Trade returns for the United Kingdom for October show decreases in imports of £6,911,178, and in exports of £5,311,934, as compared ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 10 Nov 1908, Page 5
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