Most of the newspapers give prominence to the decision to sell the Commonwealth Line of steamers. The tenor of the comments is that it is ...
Article : 181 wordsFollowing the reproofs by Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Clynes, and Mr. J. H. Thomas, for his outburst against the vote for the Prince of Wales's tour, ...
Article : 297 wordsThe House of Commons to-day agreed to a financial resolution increasing the amount of loans under the Trade facilities Act for which ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Australian Trade Commissioner (Mr. J. A. M. Elder) communicated Mr. Bruce's request for information concerning the American's fleet's visit ...
Article : 123 wordsDr. Earle Page, the Treasurer in the Commonwealth Government, and his party, arrived at New York to-day, having omitted their visit to Detroit ...
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Article : 132 words"The Tasmanian Government has agreed to the request of the Commonwealth Government to join in continuing the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley during six ...
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Article : 115 wordsA representative of "The Mercury" yesterday sought the opinion of the British Trade commissioner (Mr. R. W. Dalton), who is at present in ...
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Article : 118 wordsMr. Reid's report naturally deals exclusively with the Tasmanian exhibits at Wembley. Tasmania's participation in the British ...
Article : 259 wordsInterviewed by a representative of the Austealian Press Association, a shipowner engaged in the Australian trade pointed out that one of the chief ...
Article : 148 wordsThis morning a big fire occurred at Westport, where the Grand Hotel, the King's Theatre, Gibbs's garage, and a storeroom of a bacon factory were ...
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Article : 253 wordsDr. Earle Page, in a further statement, said he felt that many features of the hvdro-electric development in Canada and the United States would ...
Article : 129 wordsThe Japanese Legation has issued a statement that the ex-Emperor of China suddenly left for Tientsin by tram last evening. His sudden ...
Article : 220 wordsThe following is a list of persons committed for trial at the Supreme Court at Launceston on Tuesday, March 3:— ...
Article : 85 wordsThe appointment of Sir Mark Sheldon formerly Australian Trade Commissioner in the United States, and Mr. J. B. McDougall, of New South Wales, virtually ...
Article : 86 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph," states that the misfortunes of Australian shipping are all the more remarkable because under the Australian navigation law ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Tasmanian exhibits, the report states were grouped with those of the other States of the Commonwealth, and were displayed to great advantage ...
Article : 1,096 wordsThe strike situation in Shanghai, embracing most of the cotton spinners, is easier, and intimidation has stopped. Two mills, employing 7,000 workers, decided to ...
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Article : 103 wordsThe House of Lords this afternoon read a second time the Merchant Shipping Bill, which gives effect to a number of draft conventions passed at the Washington ...
Article : 114 wordsQuestioned in the House of Commons in reference to the Government's decision regarding the draft report of the Committee appointed by the late ...
Article : 79 wordsShipping people in Sydney did not express surprise at the announcement of the intended sale of the Commonwealth Shipping Line. The restrictions sought to be ...
Article : 122 wordsA party of detectives while searching in the "underworld" of Madrid for a much-wanted thief, entcicd a house in which they found a corpse on a bier, ...
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Article : 114 wordsIn tho Assembly to-day, the Labour member, Mr. Barlow, moved that a petition should go from the House requesting His Majesty the King to ...
Article : 258 wordsThe possibility of a conflict with Great Britain over shipping trade policies is the reason for a strong United States Navy, Roar-Admiral Phelps told the ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Jacob Johanson, assistant secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union, commenting to-day on the sale of the Commonwealth Government Line, said ...
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Article : 111 wordsThe Minister for Justice (M. Renoult) is facing a curious literary problem. Pierre Charles Baudelaire, a poet, in 1857, was fined 300 francs, ...
Article : 146 wordsThe lobby correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that the meting held yesterday of the British Labour Barty was a stormy one, and showed a growing lack ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Russo-Japanese agreement which provides for a commercial treaty, a most favoured nation clause, and concessions in coal and oil to Japan in the island of ...
Article : 45 wordsReferring to-day to the cable message from London, stating that it was proposed to insert a clause in the agreement between the Empire Exhibition ...
Article : 180 wordsThe gas strike in Melbourne is still unsettled, and pending the healing in the High Court to-day of the adjourned application of the Metropolitan Gas ...
Article : 169 wordsThe operation on the German President (Herr F. Ebert) was performed practically at a moment's notice. The President barely had time to arrange ...
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Article : 125 wordsThe levy made by the British Income Tax Commissioners on an assessment of an income of £1,000 made by a man described as a professional ...
Article : 66 words"The Times" fund for the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral now amounts to £41,454. ...
Article : 22 wordsJapan is the first nation challenging for the Davis Cup to specify her entry [?] the American zone. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 26 Feb 1925, Page 7
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