On Thursday, 14th instant, at the invitation of the above company, a great number of the shareholders, suppliers, and business folk of the town and district, together with prominent men from ...
Article : 1,525 wordsIn the Hunter District Rugby football competition on Saturday Kurri Kurri met Cessnock on the latter ground. The match was fast throughout, and the result ...
Article : 275 wordsThough Messrs. Carson and Simpson, the contractors for the construction of the first section of the North Coast railway, are ready to make a start with the work, and have brought along a ...
Article : 407 wordsThe Attorney-General has filed a nolle proseque in the case against W. Kutnewky, the chaffeur, who had been committed for trial in connection with the death of J. Woolfe, ...
Article : 49 wordsA Travellers' Bill, granting the public free access to uncultivated mountain country and moorland, was not limited to Scotland, as was Mr. J. A. Bryce's earlier measure in the same ...
Article : 59 words[?]under General Vigy, on the [?] frontier, met a body of hostile tribesmen [?] An obstinate fight followed, lasting [?] Finally the tribesmen were routed. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe North Shore Bridge Royal Commission held its first meeting to-day. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe editors of the "Veluri" and "Armiodiya," Bombay weekly newspapers, have been arrested on charges of sedition. ...
Article : 19 words[?] King yesterday received at Buckingham [?] Ever Dernburg, director of Colonial Af-[?] Germany. Herr Dernburg, who sails [?] Africa to-day, expressed himself as ...
Article : 38 wordsReginald Gibbs was remanded on a charge of having slain Henry Willes, who was knocked down by a motor car on Saturday night. ...
Article : 25 wordsA German scientific expedition has left Hamburg to study native customs in the Bismark Archipelago. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe second conference of shire delegates was opened in Sydney to-day. Councillor J. T. Lord, the convener, in welcoming the delegates, paid they had not come down with a sword to have a ...
Article : 421 words[?] O'Donnell, M.P. (Nationalist), in reply [?]manifesto of the executive of the United [?] in Great Britain, condemning Ro-[?] who support Unionist candidates ...
Article : 62 wordsA Reuter's message states that M. Crappi, the French Minister of Commerce, and Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, have commenced the preliminary discussion of an ...
Article : 35 wordsA Barge band of Albanian brigands raided the Turkish port of Santi Quaranto, and looted the Italian and Greek shipping agencies, the post office, and chief places of business, besides ...
Article : 47 words[?]National Conference on the conservation of state resources held at Washington, has adopted inclination of principles, and has suggested [?]meaning of future conferences to deal with ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. M. Charlton, M.L.A., paid a visit to Stanford-Merthyr yesterday morning, and attended a meeting of residents of Stanford-Merthyr and Pelaw-Main, called ...
Article : 245 wordsThe "Daily Mail" states that the failure of the banana crop from Busoga northwards towards Lake Victoria Nyanza, Africa, has caused a famine, and there have been thousands of deaths. ...
Article : 42 words[?] melator named Littlemore, profiting by ru-[?] that he was attempting to corner July cot-[?] pectly sold his cotton to alarmed speculation [?] New York yesterday. By these ...
Article : 34 wordsRecently Mr. Deakin, the Prime Minister, communicated with Mr. Wade, the Premier of New South Wales, notifying that the Federal Government were engaging for the ...
Article : 263 wordsFrom Johannesburg it is reported that the Government has agreed to the temporary prolongation of the Customs convention there. ...
Article : 23 words[?]Admiral Charles Sperry has succeeded[?] Admiral C. M. Thomas in the command [?] American battle fleet, now at San ...
Article : 24 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that Mr. Stainer (Unionist) was elected to Shropshire North, to put tariff reform in the forefront. Though such an issue was not so directly involved at the ...
Article : 69 words[?]drons of the 21st Lancers, in opers-[?] against the Mohmands on the north-west[?]seconded the amphitheatre at the base [?] Pass, 30 miles north-west of Peshawar. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe personalty of the Marquis of Linlithgow (Lord Hopetoun), the first Governor-General of Australia, has been computed at £690,530, and £58,700 realty. ...
Article : 25 words[?] Court of Criminal Appeal held its first [?] yesterday. The Lord Chief Justice (Lord [?] in opening the Court, emphasised [?] tribunal was not instituted for the ...
Article : 63 wordsIt has been decided to present Mr. W. D. Readett with a purse of sovereigns on his departure to Wauchope. The ladies of the district will make a similar presentation to ...
Article : 223 wordsThe West Australian Court in the Franco-British Exhibition, has been completed. ...
Article : 14 wordsBefore the Full Court to-day, an application was made on behalf of John Thomas Russell, of East Maitland, for making absolute a rule in the nature of a mandamus ...
Article : 171 wordsGould, the American amateur crack, has defeated Miles, a rival tennis champion, at London, by 6-2, 1-6, 6-1. ...
Article : 24 words[?]thousand hop pickers from London, and [?] growers factors and labourers of Kent, [?]Wescester, Hereford, and Hampshire yesterday [?] reached through London in a procession. ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Friday evening last a very pleasant function took place in the Temperance Hall East Maitland, when Mr. Albert Jory, of Raworth who is about to be married, was ...
Article : 729 wordsOn Wednesday, 13th instant, a very pretty wedding was celebrated in the Methodist Church, Mulbring, by the Rev. J. W. Moore. The contracting parties were Miss Amy May Andrews, ...
Article : 504 words[?]a banbuet given by the Mayor of Minister,[?] Mr. Walter[?] M.P. (Union-[?] said the hoped soon to see representation [?] of the colonies sitting on the House ...
Article : 67 wordsTowards midnight on Saturday a gang of threes young men, mounted on bicycles, terrorised and robbed all pedestrians in the eastern portion of Christchurch with whom ...
Article : 95 wordsThe introduction of Christianity into heathen countries has been more or less closely connected with trade, and the arts of civilisation. The Government has often been kindly alive to the ...
Article : 593 words[?]sitting at the Mansion House yesterday [?] resolved, on the motion of the Earl of [?]Secretary of State for the Colonies, [?]by Earl Roberts, to support a ...
Article : 52 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsA terrible disaster, involving great loss of life, has occurred in China, owing to the flooding of the Han River. The particulars brought by the E. and A. mail steamer Empire showed that one ...
Article : 121 words[?] sales yesterday there was ani-[?] competition, and prices were very [?] quotations were:—Trade, 17½d; [?] 9¾d; Walhora, 8¾d; Monbialla, ...
Article : 59 wordsTwo months ago Moree was visited by a severe outbreak of typhoid fever, and on inspection of the town, by direction of the Board of Health, it was found that sanitary matters had been very ...
Article : 279 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 113 words[?] wrapped in paper was laid on a [?] Calcutta. A cart passing over [?] exploded it, resulting in four na-[?] seriously injured. Notices in ...
Article : 173 wordsThe weather information received at 9 a.m. to-day at the West Maitland Telegraph Station reports fine at all places. ...
Article : 24 wordsNew South Wales : Cloudy ever the central and eastern parts, with isolated showers, chiefly coastal, and some thunder; fine in the west Variable winds. ...
Article : 38 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 12 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), Mon 18 May 1908, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: