With the return of the State steamer Colliboi to port this evening all hopes of the safety of the two men, Chilco[?]t and Dickenson, who disappeared ...
Article : 774 wordsReplying to a question in the House of Commons this, afternoon, as to why it was necessary to take a larger staff to the Genoa Economic Conference ...
Article : 101 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Auston Chamberlain, Lord Privy Seal, stated that consideration of the amendments made in the Irish ...
Article : 172 wordsWild men from Borneo gave a distinctive note of welcome to the Prince of Wales when be braved the blistering boat of Singapore this morning. He ...
Article : 530 wordsWith the sale of the large business premises known as Wellington Bridge at the corner of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets, a well-known Hobart ...
Article : 508 wordsWith the exception of the declaration of the poll in one metropolitan electorate there was no material change in the election position to-day. The ...
Article : 357 wordsA deputation, representing the Pastoralists' Association, the Primary Producers' Association, and the North Australian Development League, waited on ...
Article : 319 wordsIt is rumoured on the Coast that a railway merger is contemplated. It is suited that the Electrolytic Zinc Co.or the Mt. Lyell Co., or probably both ...
Article : 122 wordsThe French, Cabinet has agreed that its policy at the Genoa Conference shall be on the widest collaboration for the purpose of solving the problems ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the House of Commons last night Mr. Winston Churchill announced the Irish agreement. Clause I. reads:—Peace to-day is ...
Article : 542 wordsOn Monday afternoon next Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, will move, "That the [?] approves that the resolutions passed at the Cannes ...
Article : 122 wordsIt has been ascertained that the Commonwealth Director of Migration and Settlement in London (Mr. Percy Hunter) will return to Australia ...
Article : 179 wordsSpeaking at the W.C.T.U. Conference in Perth to-day, Mrs. Edith Cowan, M.L.A., said she was thoroughly convinced of the necessity of motherhood ...
Article : 167 wordsWALCH'S CORNER; THE BUILDING SOLD TO A MELBOURNE FIRM. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 12 wordsThe members of the Empire Parliamentary Association are a luncheon at the House of Commons to-day to Sir James Mitchell Premier of West ...
Article : 172 words"I have no doubt in my mind, and I am sure that none of the other members on the committee have any doubt, that Mr. Brennan approved of the agreement, ...
Article : 361 wordsThe by-election for East Leicester, necessitated by the appointment of Sir Gordon Hewart the Attorney-General, as Lord Chief Justice, took place ...
Article : 133 wordsSuggestions that British statesmen should visit Australia and other parts of the Empire, in order to become conversant with the problems affecting the ...
Article : 218 wordsMr. Barwell has received 150 applications for the position of Railway Commissioner. The exceptional number is due to the British railways ...
Article : 58 words"I can only say that it is an indication of a belated, though very gratifying, return to sanity," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) to-day in referring to ...
Article : 92 wordsLast month the Committee of Privileges granted the petition of Lady Rhondda claiming her right to sit in the House of Lords, the decision ...
Article : 134 wordsIn the House of the Commons this afternoon, Major Ormsby-Gore, the Unionist member for Stafford, suggested that the Government should consider the ...
Article : 98 wordsThe A.L.P. executive decided at a meeting to-night to expel from the Labour movement Alderman W. J. Ratcliffe, one of the successful candidates ...
Article : 55 wordsAt the Central Police Court to-day William Harold Edwards (29), horse trainer, was charged with the murder of Robert Mitchell, on March 20. ...
Article : 162 wordsGermany has promised to pay Holland an indemnity for the sinking of the steamer Tubantia on March 16, 1916. Hitherto the Germans have ...
Article : 46 wordsNotices have been pasted at Tralec, in County Kerry, that the boycott against Belfast and other parts of the six-county area will be more rigorously ...
Article : 64 wordsThe trial was completed at the Central Criminal Court to-day of Edgar Barraclough (33), formerly accountant to the State Wool Committee, and ...
Article : 90 wordsThe allotting of the preferential votes in St. George, Western Suburbs, and Botany was completed to-day. In St. George, the five old members were ...
Article : 100 wordsThe House of Lords to-day agreed to placing the Lord Chancellorship under a commission, as Lord Birkenhead, the holder of the office, is going abroad ...
Article : 41 wordsThe promoters of the British Empire airship service scheme include Messrs. Vickers and Co. and the Shell. Oil Group Co. They will ask for an annual ...
Article : 93 wordsRebel intendiaries caused enormous damage in Belfast last night by starting fires which destroyed large promises in Great George-street and ...
Article : 33 wordsThe United States Senate has ratified the Chinese Customs Treaty by 58 votes to one, and the general Chinese Treaty by 65 rotes to [?]. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe South African Government has introduced a bill transferring all the railways and harbours in the mandated South West territory to the Union ...
Article : 91 words[?]ng, chief electrical officer of the Postal Department, and Mr. S. H. Witt, sectional engineer, have returned to Melbourne after visiting Great ...
Article : 68 wordsThe West Australian Government motor ship Kangaroo sailed for the North from Fremantle yesterday with an interesting cargo of men and ...
Article : 156 wordsMrs. Chilcott, widow of one of the men who were drowned, on being seen after her return to Launceston, said that she and her husband had only been ...
Article : 637 wordsIn giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Forestry to-day, Mr. D. McVicar, the head inspector of the Forestry Department, denied that his ...
Article : 347 wordsForty armed but undisguised men entered the offices of the "Freeman's Journal" in Dublin after midnight last night seized the departments, turned ...
Article : 218 wordsAs a measure of economy His Majesty the King has consented to the paying-off of the crew of the Royal yat[?]ht Alexandra (2,054 tons), which is ...
Article : 47 wordsThe death occurred in Chicago to-day, within a quarter of an hour of one another, of Rose and Josefa Blazek, the modern Siamese twins. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Minister of Mines (Mr.J.Scaddan) intends to visit the north late in June or early in July, to see the State's oil areas, where the work of the Okes ...
Article : 94 wordsThe State Department at Washington is awaiting consular reports concerning the arrests in New Orleans of Eric Harold McBride and Maggie ...
Article : 74 wordsBarter, who was to row No. 4 in the Oxford University crew, strained the muscles of his back during practice yesterday, and will be unable to row in ...
Article : 54 wordsQuestioned in the South African Senate this afternoon as to whether the Government had received representations from various wamen's ...
Article : 166 wordsAn historic and unique scene was enacted in the Supreme Court to-day, the occasion being the official retirement under the Judges' Retiring Bill, which ...
Article : 148 wordsEvidence of serious ill-treatment of a boy was given in the Children's Court at Perth to-day, when a 15-year-old lad, in a very emaciated ...
Article : 132 wordsThe State revenue for the March quarter was approximately £l,787,455, bringing, up the total for nine months to £5,003,534, compared with £4,399,506 ...
Article : 49 wordsArrangements are being made by the Federal Government for the extradition, of Eric Harold McBride and his wife, who have been arrested by the ...
Article : 107 wordsA report received in Copenhagen from Moscow, the headquarters of the Russian Bolsheviks, states that the resignation of M.Lenin, the premier, who is ...
Article : 48 wordsThe revenue for the month was £662,000, as against £646,194 for March, 1921, and the expenditure was £647,688, as against £638,686. The deficit for the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 1 Apr 1922, Page 7
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