The Conference of State Treasurer[?] continued its sittings in private at State Parliament House to-day, under the presidency of Mr. Watt, Premier of ...
Article : 400 wordsThe committee of miners appointed by a meeting at Beaconsfield had a lengthy interview the other day with Mr. [?]. J. Heath[?]ote, the superintendent of the ...
Article : 1,023 wordsMr. A. F. Brid, the Unionist member for Wolverhampton, raised a discussion on the question of food supplies in time of war in the House of Commons last ...
Article : 204 wordsThe State Department has received information that the Federal troops have evacuated Tampico, being unable to withstand the fury of the ...
Article : 424 wordsThe Irish Nationalist, it is reported from Dublin, are greatly dissatisfied with Mr. Asquith's announcement that he will introduce an amending bill. ...
Article : 292 wordsFurther evidence was taken to-day by the Inter-State Commission. After putting a number of questions to Mr. J. W. Alderson, secretary of the ...
Article : 350 wordsLord and Lady Denman left by express this afternoon for Adelaide to join the R.M.S. Orvi[?]to, on route to London. They were entertained at luncheon at ...
Article : 737 wordsThere has been a serious increase lately both in the number of cases of bubonic plague reported and in the virulence of the disease. During the last ...
Article : 63 wordsA most remarkable scene took place to-day at the office of the Secretary for State (Mr. W. J.. Bryan), in whose department the United States Consular ...
Article : 143 wordsFollowing the advice of his tramer, who stated that the colt's leg would not be able to stand the strain, Tetrarch's owner (Captain McCalmont) to-day ...
Article : 459 words"The Times" expresses the hope that Sir lan Hamilton's "words of newborn wisdom" regarding the value of compulsory military training will not be ...
Article : 179 wordsDr. Douglas Mawson, the leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, has arrived in London to make arrangements for the publication of his book ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Minister of Mines (Hon. J. E. Ogden) leaves for Launceston this morning, in order to discuss matters in connection with certain proposals for tributing the ...
Article : 880 wordsThe hearing of the plaint of the Federated Felt Hatting Employees' Union of Australasia against the Denton Hat Mills and other respondents was ...
Article : 364 wordsA commission of investigation appointed to investigate the charges of corruption made about the Muroran steel foundry's transactions in regard to ...
Article : 67 wordsMay Ansell, the suffragist, who hacked Herkomer's portrait of the Duke of Wellington about with a batchet at the Royal Academy, was to-day sentenced ...
Article : 107 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies (Mr. L. Harcourt), replying last night to a question by Mr. Joynson Hicks. Unionist member for ...
Article : 103 wordsR. E. Foster, the leading Worcestershire cricketer, died in London to-day, at the ago of 36. He had been ill for some time of consumption, following on ...
Article : 340 wordsAt noon on Thursday two Victorian cyclists, J. A. Fahey and E. F. Reichenback, left Adelaide G.P.O. to ride to Port Darwin, a distance of 2,066 miles. ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Japanese Privy Council has ratified the United States-Japanese arbitration treaty. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe practice of "tipping" is exerc[?]sing attention in Canada, as elsewhere, and to-day the Senate had before it a bill brought in by Senator Davis to ...
Article : 115 wordsMr. Roosevelt, who is now on his way back from South America, stated, in the course of an interview here to-day, that he could not say whether ...
Article : 123 wordsWriting in the "Neueste Nachrichten," Rear-Admiral Witsch[?]l recommends that Austria-Hungary should increase her navy in the Mediterranean ...
Article : 111 wordsIn connection with yesterday's tragedy at Pyrmont, where two little boys were found lying dead in a lane with their throats cut, while their father[?] ...
Article : 146 wordsA fatal motor-car accident occurred at Terang to-day, the victim being Mr. Elliott Strachan Shannon, of Geelong. Mr. Shannon, who was only ...
Article : 107 wordsA profound sensation has been caused by the publication of a telegram which the Bulgarian General Savoff sent to the Prime Minister of Bulgaria from ...
Article : 100 wordsAt the close of play to-day in the match of 18,000 up between Melbourne Inman and Tom Reece, the scores stood as follow:- ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Pacific Cable Board has arranged for the immediate introduction of weekend "cable letters" between Canada and Australia and New Zealand. The ...
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Article : 177 wordsThe Imperial Naturalisation Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons to-day. ...
Article : 24 wordsLaura Pearl Gadd, 24 years of age, of East Melbourne, to-day petitioned for a divorce from Theodore Victor Gadd, 26 years of age, hairdresser, on ...
Article : 102 wordsA fire broke out at Government House as the vice-regal party were sitting down to breakfast to-day. The firemen subdued the flames promptly, only three ...
Article : 102 wordsThe 4,417-ton steamer Star of New Zealand, belonging to the Commonwealth and Dominio[?]s line, and running between Australasia and English ...
Article : 217 wordsSir R. A. Cooper, the Unionist member for Walsall, yesterday introduced a Living Wages Bill into the House of Commons. Its purpose is to enable any ...
Article : 62 wordsThe arrivals of Australian fruit during the past week have been as follow[?] Apples, 202,000[?] cases[?] pears, 21,260 cases. ...
Article : 155 wordsA company called the Barrier and General Trust Co. is being formed, with a capital of £230,000, to make investments in the Broken Hill group of ...
Article : 116 wordsSuspicions of foul play were aroused on Wednesday evening, when it was reported to the officials of the watchhouse that a young man had been ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Old Dominion liner Jefferson has arrived from Norfolk, Virginia, and further particulars are available of the explosion in the engine-room, by which ...
Article : 88 wordsTwo men named Patrick Daley and Alfred Carr have been burned to death at Whare, near Whangere[?]. Presumably the deceased had been indulging in ...
Article : 45 wordsAided by a strong sea breeze on Wednesday night, the tide at Glene[?]g and Henley Beach rose to an exceptional height. At Henley Beach it reached ...
Article : 104 wordsWednesday's rainfall was 62 points, making 172 points for seven wet days in May. To-day was fine. LAUNCESTON, May 14. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 15 May 1914, Page 5
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