Our Railton correspondent writes:— The weather continues very dry. Rain is badly needed, the feed has all dried off, and the potatoes are dying for want ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Honourable Percy Hart, M.L.C., who recently injured his knee while at Low Head, and has since been suffering from pneumonia, is not making the ...
Article : 880 wordsFor the past 50 or 60 years, it is said, Gretna people have used Ellis's-lane on the property of Mr. P. F. C. Milne, of Askrigg, and it is now considered that ...
Article : 155 wordsRises. Sets February 9......... 5.25... 7.24 February 17......... 5.36... 7.13 February 21......... 3.47... 7.1 ...
Article : 36 wordsSpeaking at yesterday's meeting of the Clarence Municipal Council, Councillor H. F. Paul drew attention to the growing evil of cattle straying about the ...
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Advertising : 542 wordsFebruary 12... Full moon...... 11.30 a.m. February 19... Last quarter... 4.18 a.m. February 27... New moon...... 4.47 a.m. ...
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Article : 12 wordsMoonah, a.s. 58 tons, J. Howell, for East Coast ports. Kowhal, S.S., with general cargo, leaves Hobart to-morrow for Melbourne, where she ...
Article : 306 wordsThis week's issue of the "Illustrated Tasmanian Mail." to be published today, will be found of exceptional interest for several reasons. To the ...
Article : 238 wordsA copy of the first issue of the "Australasian Electrical Times," which is published in Melbourne, has reached "The Mercury" Office. It is a ...
Article : 121 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday the Attorney-General (Hon. W. B. Propsting, C.M.G.) tabled a return showing that the total amount of capital ...
Article : 86 wordsThe body of John Rigby, aged about 50 years, a resident of Nile, was found at 5 a.m. on Tuesday on the roadside with a gunshot wound in the forehead, ...
Article : 94 wordsAt a meeting of the Zeehan Municipal Council yesterday, it was decided, on the motion of Councillor Sligo, that the Minister of Mines be requested to ...
Article : 128 wordsWhen members of the Legislative Council met yesterday afternoon, they were faced with an exceptionally heavy agenda paper, butan response to the ...
Article : 92 wordsMessrs. A. G. Webster and Sons announce that Mr. Arthur H. Hassel, of Sydney, is arranging a service of fruit steamers between Hobart, Huon ports, and ...
Article : 89 wordsThe agents of the Commonwealth Government line of steamers, at the request of the fruit expert (Mr. J. M. Ward), recently sent a cablegram to the ...
Article : 179 wordsFurther evidence was taken yesterday by the Standing Committee on Public Works in regard to the proposed new railway station and yards at Devonport, ...
Article : 315 wordsThe commonwealth ana Dominion (Cunard) liner. Port Adelaide, which left Melbourne for Hobart at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, in continuation of her voyage from London, was ...
Article : 84 wordsAt the meeting of the Clarence Council yesterday, a report from the Health Officer (Dr. Webber) was read concerning certain premises. He said that there ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsThe Scottish Shire liner Ayrshire is expected to arrive at Hobart from Melbourne during the coming week-end. She will be the second of the overseas steamers to load ...
Article : 77 wordsSmall fruit picking in the New Norfolk district is nearly finished, and the growers have had a very good season, owing to the heavy crops and high ...
Article : 99 wordsMessrs. A.G. Webster and sons, local agents for the Clan line of steamers, advise that arrangements are being made lor one of these steamers to call at Hobart in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsThe interview our representative had with Mr. Hughes as he was departing from us reveals him as no liker of the Country Party-which is nothing new, ...
Article : 300 wordsA petition, signed by 100 nurses and attendants at the Mental Hospital, was recently forwarded to the Postal Department, through the New Norfolk ...
Article : 142 wordsMessrs. Haddart, Parker's S.G. Riverina left Sydney at 10.15 am. yesterday for Hobart with 263 passengers and 200 tons of cargo, and is due here to-morrow morning. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsCouncillor Shoobridge moved at yesterdays meeting of the New Norfolk Council,—"That an effort be made to get the section of road between New ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsThe following steamers are due at Hebart from the under-mentioned ports:— Fell Port Adelaide, s.s. (Cunard line), from ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 72 wordsDuring Tuesday night one of the sideshows on the regatta ground, comprising a cinema show, was broken into by a number of mischievously disposed ...
Article : 197 wordsA letter from the Public Health Department, read at yesterday's meeting of the New Norfolk Council, said that an inspection of the newly-opened ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 37 wordsMr. J. C. Newton, M.H.A., yesterday conferred with the Minister of Agriculture (Hon. J. B. Hayes, C.M.G.) with reference to extending experiments in ...
Article : 64 wordsThe report of the Venereal Diseas[?] Conference between the Commonwealth and State Health Authorities, which was recently held in Melbourne, was made ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsThe amount of time devoted by the City Council to the matter of a man named Edgecock, who has chosen to live in tents in the Domain, is quite ...
Article : 973 wordsBefore business was commenced at yesterday's meeting of the New Norfolk Council, the Warden said that he wished councillors would attend more ...
Article : 92 wordsBy slow and painful steps the exhausted world is staggering back to peace. Peace in a way we have bad for some time past, but the peace with, hope ...
Article : 1,042 wordsMessrs. Ben. Watkins and Ogilvie, Ms.H.A., waited upon the Minister of Works (Hon. J. B. Hayes,. C.M.G.) yesterday, and asked that the work on the ...
Article : 49 wordsJ3, submarine, Prince's wharf, J4, submarine, Prince's wharf. Kowhal, s.s. (Melb.), Prinpo's wharf. Platypus, H.M.A.S., depot ship, Prince's ...
Article : 22 wordsIt was pleaded by counsel for Thomas Grogan, a young miner, charged at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day with conspiracy to defraud, that ho had been ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Parliamentary Committee on Public Works has made a report to Parliament on the question of carrying out the construction of the canal at ...
Article : 178 words[?] Doepol, [?]., left Melbourne for Hobart, February 4 Wild Wave, bq., from Adelaide. Eleanor, [?], left Adeloide Jan. 22, ...
Article : 25 wordsOnly one objection was received within the prescribed time to the new electoral divisions, as arranged by the Commission recently. This objection was ...
Article : 179 wordsAnnle Taylor, ketch, loft Rechercho for Sydney, February 1. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 wordsOpah, ketch, left Launceston last evening with general cargo for St. Helens and Boobyalla. She is due back at the beginning, of next week. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 wordsAfter having been carried out by a strong current at North Steyne Beach, Manly, four women and a boy were all rescued this afternoon. F. Luker ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 24 wordsA telegram from Culcairn to a Sydney paper says:—A young fellow of this town, Walter Leonard Clough, carried 950 bags of wheat in a period of eight ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsOur travelling correspondent writes: —No more striking contrast in the general appearance of the country could be presented than in the Nugent district ...
Article : 190 wordsCouncillor Downie moved at yesterday's meeting of the New Norfolk Council,—"That the position of the New Norfolk tip be altered." He said he had no ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 207 wordsThe Clarence Municipal Council yesterday struck its rates for the year 1922, and decided to wipe out the health rate. The general rate was increased ...
Article : 115 wordsCongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, [?] livingstone, from Melboarne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Deering, Mason and child, Murdoch and 2 children: Miss Turttey; Mr. Spicer; ...
Article : 32 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2.448 tons, K. Livingstone, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Brown, Foster and child, Dick, Mc Farlane. McGlone. McKenzie, MeNally, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 84 wordsloongana, t.s., from Melbourne—65 bgs [?]our, 60 ess fruit, 18 ess motor spirit, 15 ess salmon, 12 bxs nails, 35 cls wire, 40 bls cornsacks. 20 empty casks, 55 bgs ...
Article : 34 wordsThe visiting journalists from the mainland, Who armed in Launceston on Tuesday, will leave for Melbourne by the Nairana this afternoon. Yesterday the ...
Article : 58 wordsloongana, t.s. for Melbourne—349 bgs oats, 10 bgs beans, 147 bls straw, 40 bxs butter, 4.670 feet timber. Poolts 8.5, for Sydney— 510 bgs oats, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 9 Feb 1922, Page 4
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