The long-awaited announcement in regard to the salaries of public servants was made yesterday by the Premier (Sir Walter Lee). Briefly, it indicates that ...
Article : 1,538 wordsThe death is announced from Strahan (telegraphed our Zeehan correspondent last night), of an old West-Coast Pioneer, Mr. Charles Grining, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 4 wordsAbout 4 o'clock yesterday morning a fire occurred at Linda Valley, when the Hotel Linda and its contents were completely destroyed. The building ...
Article : 63 wordsThe number of cases of infectious disease reported to the Department of Public Health during the week ended March 18 were as follows:—Hobart: ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 16 wordsConstable Wright, of Moonah, has been transferred to Queenstown; Constable Webberley, Queenstown, to Latrobe; and Constable Cartledge, of ...
Article : 34 wordsA two-roomed brick house with a shingle roof at 271 Liverpool-street caught fire at about 4.30 yesterday afternoon. The Fire Brigade was on the ...
Article : 50 wordsKanna, s.s., 1[?]948 tons. G. M. Rutton, from Newcastle, Agents—[?].S.S. Co Ho[?]rata, s.s., 11[?]243 tons (New Zealand Shipping Co.), Capt. Bower, from Sydney. ...
Article : 367 wordsThe report of the Launceston municipal tramways for the fortnight ended March 15 shows that the number of passengers carried totalled 176,048, as ...
Article : 63 wordsA petition is in course of signature at Devonport asking the Municipal Coancil to take a poll of the ratepayers at the forthcoming annual election of ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Launceston Marine Board recently decided to erect a beacon on Bombay Rock, in order to facilitate the entry of vessels into the Tamar at night. ...
Article : 98 wordsA deputation of Beaconsfield residents waited on the Premier (Sir Walter Lee) on Saturday, and urged that a sum of from £4,000 to £5,000 should be provided ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsThis week's "Government Gazette" contains the assessment roll for the municipality of Glenorchy; list of Crown lands leased and sold acring the month ...
Article : 47 wordsIt has been reported to the Deputy Dire[?] tor of Navigation at Sydney that the Henry Ellis Buoy, Clarence Strait, Northern Territory, is six cables out of charted ...
Article : 41 wordsThe official report of the proceedings of the last Premiers' Conference issued to-day contains particulars of an interesting though brief debate on the ...
Article : 241 wordsIt appears improbable that the efforts of the Tamar fruitgrowers to obtain another vessel to take a direct shipment of fruit to the English markets will be ...
Article : 179 wordsThere were two notable arrivals of overseas steamers at Hobart yesterday afternoon, these being the Orient liner Orvieto, 12,132 tons, and the New Zealand Shipping ...
Article : 254 wordsThe Government Geologist is quite convinced that there is no possibility of stores of liquid oil being discovered in Tasmania. Recently he made a report, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 126 wordsIn a case that was called on at the Court of Requests yesterday, the solicitor for the plaintiff produced a letter and cheque for the amount claimed. In ...
Article : 124 wordsThe work of discharging and loading the s.s. Riverina, which arrived at Hobart from Sydney on Sunday, is expected in extend till to-morrow, and in consequence, the ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Weather Bureau reports for yesterday:—A fairly general rain has fallen over Tasmania during the last 48 hours in connection with a deep depres[?]on which ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Produce Wages Board meets at the office of the Public Service Commissioner (Mr. R. J. Meagher) at 10 a.m. to-day, to consider the whole of the ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is anticipated that the following ships will be in wireless communication today:— With the Hobart radio:—Geranium, Na[?] rana, Carina, City of Canton. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe amended determination of the City Councils' and Marin[?] Boards' Wages Board is published in the "Gazette" issued to-day. The chief ...
Article : 110 wordsWhat we need in Australia, in the happy phrase of the President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, is a "Pence Offensive"; and Mr. Gordon ...
Article : 1,195 wordsThe Child Welfare Association nurses' report for the week ended March 18 shows that 56 visits were paid by the nurses from the Hobart centre during ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsMr. Theodore made an effort to provide for the presence of the Press representatives during the deliberations. Mr. Hughes: I do not mind what ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 wordsSome time ago the Government Geologist (Mr. Loftus Hills) reported unfavourably on the prospects of liquid oil being found in Tasmania, but since then ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsThe retiring councillors at the annual election for the Devonport Municipal Council are:—North ward, Warden H. H. McFic; central ward, Councillor H. ...
Article : 104 wordsThe tempest of anger aroused among Public Servants by the declared intention of the Government to carry into effect the promised reduction of their ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsRiverina, s.s. (Sydney), Queen's p[?]er. Hororata, s.s. (Sydney), King's p[?]er. Kekerangu, s.s. (Port Pirie), Sandy Bay. Kanna, s.s. (Newcastle), Queen's pier. ...
Article : 44 wordsThere was, writes our South Flinders correspondent, consternation amongst the birders before the season opened, when a notice was posted by the council that ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsNa[?]rana, t.s., left Melbourne for Launceston at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon with 190 passengers and 106 tons of cargo. She is due at 9 o'clock this morning, and will ...
Article : 404 wordsA fatal boxing contest occurred at Collie on Saturday night. In the twelfth round Jim Dawson, of Collie, who was opposed by Bert Lear, of ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the Practice Court yesterday, before Mr. Justice Crisp, an application was made by Mr. W. J. T. Stops for the appointment of the Perpetual Trustees, ...
Article : 170 wordsIssued 9 p.m. Monday for 24 hours [?]nsuing:— Tasmania.—Cool and cloudy, with some further showers, chiefly in the west and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 330 wordsThe adjourned inquiry into the origin of the fire at Devonport on February 16, when a shed and motor-car were destroyed, was concluded to-day. ...
Article : 309 wordsA shooting sensation occurred in Burnley Park at a late hour last night. John James Roddick, a labourer, aged 33 years, and his wife Jessie, aged 22 ...
Article : 163 wordsOur travelling correspondent writes[?] —In these great days of twentieth century progress it seems hard to realise that a district comprising upwards of ...
Article : 300 wordsAt a special meeting of subscribers of the Queenstown Hospital Union on Saturday night the resolution carried at the annual meeting last month, that the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsA collision occurred to-night near Kogarah between a motor-car and a tram[?]ar. The motor-car was smashed to matchwood, and the driver and four ...
Article : 73 wordsAn elderly man named Edward Mooney, living at New Town, met with a painful accident while working at his timber yard at 317 Elizabeth-street ...
Article : 96 wordsArrivals.—At A[?]mouth: Mes[?], [?]s., from Australian ports. At Liverpool; Asca[?]us, s.s., from Australian ports. At Suez; Booral, s.s., from Australian ports. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 21 Mar 1922, Page 4
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