Seven steel engravings have been received for exhibition in the smaller gallery of the Museum. They are from the Raphael originals in the Vatican, and are ...
Article : 55 wordsTide table, June 10 (approximate): Low water, 9.45 a.m.; high water, 4.30 p.m. ...
Article : 17 wordsSailed.—June 9, 3 p.m., Rotomahana, s.s., for Launceston. QUEENSCLIFF. Sailed.—June 9, 3.30 p.m., Oonah, s.s., for ...
Article : 30 wordsIris, barquentine, 206 tons, E. Taylor, from Edithburg. Agents—H. Chesterman and Co. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Marine Board, the Denison Canal keeper reported that during May 93 vessels passed through, as against 88 vessels in the ...
Article : 93 wordsZealandia, s.s., 2,771 tons, J. V. Bentley for Sydney. Passengers:—staloon: Mr. and Mrs. ThacK[?]ray, Mr. and Mrs. Rex, Mr. and Mrs R[?]ato: Mesdames Taylor. Gray, J. Wise, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 79 wordsIris, barquentine, from Edithburg—40 tons flour, 242 tons salt. Doris, ketch, from Melbourne—93 tons superphosphates. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe barometer fell rapidly at Launceston yesterday, and rain set in at about 8 o'clock last evening, and there was a prospect of it continuing. ...
Article : 30 wordsZealandia, s.s., for Sydney—18.[?] css and 4[?]3 half-css fruit, 249 css evap[?] fruit, 354 css pulp[?] 1,677 css jam, 70 css fish. 32 h[?]s ale, [?] bls hops, 2,[?]7 bgs chaff, [?]3 csks tallo[?] ...
Article : 587 wordsThe Straits Island trader He[?]n Moore, after an absence of several weeks, returned to Launceston on Monday night. The master, W. B. Taylor, acting on ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 437 wordsThe revenue of the Hobart Marine Board continues in a buoyant state. At yesterday's meeting, the Harbour Trust receipts for May were stated at £1,383 ...
Article : 167 wordsAt the inquest held yesterday afternoon on the body of the ships carpenter, James McKenzie, who was found dead [?] the Sailors' Rest on the night of the 5th ...
Article : 155 wordsFordon Cup won yesterday by Surmise. Sheep judged at Midland Society's show at Campbell Town yesterday. The steeplecharser Ally Stoper has ...
Article : 517 wordsThe collections for the port of Hobart for the week ending June 6 were as follow: — Wharfage, £44[?] 14s.; harbous dues, £24 3s. 9d.; light dues, £50 3s. 9d.; ...
Article : 113 wordsFollow upon a complaint made by Alderman Atkins, at a recent meeting of the Metropolitan Drainage Board, as to steamers discharging sewage in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 404 wordsAt a social gathering at the Mariners' Church on Prince of Wales's Birthday the sum of £23 was collected for Indian famine relief. ...
Article : 29 wordsAn examination of candidates for admission to the clerical division of the Public Service is to be held at Hobart and Launceston, beginning on or about ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Launceston Council is still seeking a suitable site for a noxious trades' area. Yesterday the aldermen inspected land at Banbury-park. Quite a number of places ...
Article : 53 wordsThe barquentine Iris, from South Australia, arrived in port in spick and span order at 8.30 last evening, and took up a discharging berth at Alexandra Pier. She left Edithburg ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Sydneoy at a meeting last week informed the finance committee of the City Council that he had that day received the sum of £50 con[?]nce money ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. W. Wagstaffe, who has been a member of the London City Guardians for 43 years, as chairman of the assessment committee made a remarkable statement ...
Article : 128 wordsDuring the course of a lecture at the United Service Institute, Sydney, Colonel Foster instanced two public utterances which have proved strangely prophetic. ...
Article : 165 wordsThe ketch Hazard, which was wrecked at Smith's Boat Harbour, near Whale's Head, on Thursday, June 4, left Launceston about a month ago, with explosives and general ...
Article : 282 wordsQuite a number of people, who had abandoned themselves to the festive spirit of the holiday season, were yesterday haled before the Launceston justices. ...
Article : 156 wordsThe claborate tables prepared hy the New Zealand Statistician in connection with the last Census afford a very instructive study, especially to those who ...
Article : 426 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Hobart Marine Board a quantity of correspondence was read as to the method in which water for human consumption ...
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Advertising : 939 wordsOne of the principal aims of modern marine builders is to make ships unsinkable. The most important of the new ideas in this direction is the subdivision of the hull into ...
Article : 316 wordsRecently the inspectors at Hobart condemned fruit sent to market from New Norfolk. At a meeting of the New Norfolk Municpial Council last week, a ...
Article : 225 wordsA writer in a recent English periodical makes the suggestion, and with a fair show of argument in its support, that the Empire should be put in ...
Article : 1,221 wordsOur North-West correspondent writes: —"Last week's potato deliveries at Devonport were again on the heavy side, despite the heavy stocks that were on ...
Article : 193 wordsThe people in Tasmania who still retain their belief in Federation as it has been carried out, will need to fortify themselves against shocks. The ...
Article : 868 wordsThe Koonookarra, from Hobart, arrived in George's Bay at 1.20 p.m. yesterday. The Mahinapua, from Hobart, arrived at Strahan at noon yesterday. ...
Article : 26 wordsTaranna.—New Norfolk. Weldemar—Channel ports, Cygnet. Excelsior—Huonville. Reliance—Cygnet, Lymington, etc. ...
Article : 16 wordsDoris, ketch, from Melbourne. Iris, barquentine, from Edithburg. J. T. North, bq., from London. Natal Queen, barque, from Port Pirie. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe decision of the Melbourne secretary of the Wharf Labourers' Union to allow timber to be shipped at Port Huon will be received in Tasmania with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, C. Suffern, [?]or Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Watson, Lines, Evans, Nicholls, Brumby, Galer, Hall, Ver[?]e, Shaw, Rodd, Purdel, ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Premier will leave Hobart for Huonville either to-night or to-morrow to attend a fair which is being held to liquidate the debt on the public hall. It ...
Article : 98 wordsLOW HEAD.—Arrived—June 9, 9 a.m. Heather Belle, kt., from Boobyalla. Sailed— ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 10 Jun 1908, Page 4
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