Last evening, in the Legislative Council, the Attorney-General, in response to a motion by the Hon. A. Morrisby, tabled a return s[?]owing the increases of salary ...
Article : 57 wordsTide table, November 17 (approximate):— High water, 3.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.; low water, 9.30 p.m. ...
Article : 20 wordsRimac, 4-masted schooner, 946 tons, Wm. Johns, from London. Agents—W. Crosby and Co. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe New Zealand S.S. Co's Orari, 7,000 tons, is now lying in the stream at Beauty Point, having arrived at 6.40 a.m. to-day. She brings a quantity of rails for the ...
Article : 98 wordsMembers of Parliament returning to town last evening stated that the country is in an abnormally dry state, not only due to the recent light rainfall, but ...
Article : 160 wordsWestralia, s.s., 2,[?]84 tons, H. J. Kell, for Sydney. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Bowden, Mr. and Mrs. Finster; Mesdames Mortimer, Dardell, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe employees of the Hastings sawmill invited Mr. John Hay (general manager of the Huon Timber Company) to attend a public meeting, and explain the cause ...
Article : 368 wordsArrivals.—Hessen Perfect, bq., from Bunbury; Durham, Rutherglen, Fitzpatrick, Terje Viken, Australic, Patroclus, Polyphemus, Tropic, Wakool, steamers, from ...
Article : 41 wordsEx Rimac, sch., from London—17 css paper: Mercury Office. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 wordsWestralia, s.s., for Sydney—2,952 css fruit, 280 ½-css fruit, 1,725 css jam, 12S css evap., 325 css pulp, 37 css fish, 48 bls hops, 54 hhds, 6 ½ hhds ale, 12 bgs hides, 100 bgs ...
Article : 493 wordsThe secretary of the General Hospital (Mr. F. Oldham) has received, through Mr. Nevin Hurst, a cheque for two guineas from the Football League for the ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Tasmanian Hardwood Corporation's sawmills at Port Esperance are to be portially closed down in about ten days' time. About 70 hands will be ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 479 wordsA petition, asking the Government to reserve Long Beach, is at present being freely circulated, and being very widely signed by representative citizens. This ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. Burbury, of Glen Morey, Woodbury, writes us as follows:—"It may interest some of the sheepowners who saw the champion Merino ram at the late ...
Article : 46 wordsA suggestion was made to the Queenborough Municipal Council last evening by the caretaker of the Sandy Bay baths that she was willing to grant the use of ...
Article : 101 wordsThe police were notified yesterday that Mrs. Rachael Sarah Harris, who resides in Norfolk-lane, off Melville-street, had died suddenly. She had been ailing for ...
Article : 56 wordsBetween 7.45 p.m. of November 11 and 10 a.m. of November 12, the Royal Tennis Court in Davey-street was broken into, and a quantity of clothing and sundries, ...
Article : 164 wordsMr. J. D. Wood, M.H.A., writes to complain that in our "Gallery Notes" on Saturday last we made him appear to have said something against the religion ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following sailing vessels are daily expected to arrive in the Derwent:— Days Out Marechal Suchet, ship, New York... 115 ...
Article : 42 wordsThe four-masted schooner Rimac, 964 tons, Capt. Wm. Johns, from London, with general merchandise, was taken in tow by the steamer Dover off Variety Bay at 2.35 p.m. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 352 wordsA conference between the Tasmanian Tourist Association and delegates from various sporting bodies and other public organisations will be held at the Tourist ...
Article : 156 wordsTo enable lovers of flowers of the choicer varieties to see to what perfection the specimens can be brought under judicious cultivation, the Speaker (Hon. J. G. ...
Article : 118 wordsThere do not appear to be many persons who are really conscious of the stage at which we have arrived in our public affairs. Yet, the ...
Article : 476 wordsLast year the Tyne Pilotage Commission inaugurated a new system of putting pilots on board incoming steamers. The old practice was for the pilots to ply off the ...
Article : 146 wordsIn continuance of the policy of removing the fences from the public parks, the Acting Minister of Lands in Victoria has decided to have the fences of the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe crew of the schooner Mystery, lost in the North Atlantic in a heavy gale, arrived at Liverpool on October 6 to take steamer back to St. John's, Newfoundland. ...
Article : 545 wordsIn the House of Assembly last evening, a return was tabled, on the motion of Mr. Bennett, showing the number of adult teachers who retired from the Education ...
Article : 215 wordsAmong the applicants for work at the Government Labour Bureau in Melbourne (says the "Age") are many lads and young men who, though without ...
Article : 147 wordsIt seems to be high time that the nonsense about Labour legislation was brought to an end, and that the undeniable facts of the case were ...
Article : 1,278 wordsIn the House of Assembly last evening, a return was asked for by Mr. Bird showing the classification of children attending schools under the Education ...
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Advertising : 892 wordsMr. Osborne, Government House gardener, brought to this office last evening a jar containing several insects which have been found attacking the extreme ...
Article : 70 wordsBefore the session closes a proposition will come before Parliament to give certain concessions to a company which is prepared to utilise some portion of ...
Article : 817 wordsGetting rid of flies is a problem often set the householder, and many more or less effective methods are employed. The authorities at one of the Continental ...
Article : 118 wordsAbout 150 mill [?]ands are to be discharged from the Huon mills. Alfred Hooper found not guilty at Launceston criminal sessions of issuing a ...
Article : 646 wordsHull as a port for the landing of Australian goods in England possesses a number of advantages (says an exchange). It is claimed that through the magnitude of ...
Article : 234 wordsThe long-looked for Free Education has at last come to pass in Tasmania. Both Houses of Parliament have agreed to the Bill, which provides for the ...
Article : 313 wordsThe Mongana, from Hobart, arrived at Swansea at 6.35 p.m. yesterday. The Wainui, for Melbourne, elcared Macquarie Heads at 4.25 a.m. yesterday. ...
Article : 27 wordsMarana.—New Norfolk. Lottah.—New Norfolk. Waldemar.—Channel ports, Port Cygnet. Reliance.—Port Cygnet, Lymington, etc. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsAbout the queerest antic the wind played on Saturday night (says the "Sydney Morning Herald") was in taking full possession or an old lady, whom it upset ...
Article : 157 wordsGermaine, barque, from Rotterdam. Natal Queen, bq., from Melbourne. Rimac, 4-masted sch., from London. ...
Article : 18 wordsKarori, s.s., Port Huon for Adelaide, Zephyr, bqtine, Esperance, for Port Pirie. ...
Article : 20 wordsRotomahana, s.s., 1,777 tons, C. Suffern, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon[?] Mesdames J. W. Roxburgh, Williamson, Russell Clarke, Scotney, Lakin, T. W. Grubb, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 18 Nov 1908, Page 4
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