The Labour candidates for the forthcoming general election were announced yesterday by the secretary of the Tasmanian branch of the ...
Article : 334 wordsAs the Security Committee of the League of Nations did not sit to-day, correspondents spent their time in interviewing delegates. They found the ...
Article : 121 wordsOne of the most ardent champions of the secession movement in West Australia is Mr. McCallum Smith, one of the proprietors of the "Sunday Times," ...
Article : 634 wordsAt the conference of representatives of coal owners and miners' delegates to-day, the chairman (Mr. Farrar) said there were some points upon which he ...
Article : 365 wordsSportsmen will be interested to learn that Mr. C. G. Macartney, the well-known Australian cricketer, is on a short visit to Hobart. Mr. and Mrs. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 505 wordsAfter the first two weeks of the resumed session of the House of Representatives at Canberra had been spent in debating a censure motion moved ...
Article : 1,601 wordsUnless the Marine Cooks, Butchers, and Bakers' Union withdraws its demands before 11 o'clock to-morrow morning, Huddart, Parker and Co. Ltd. ...
Article : 316 wordsAfter ho had broken into a house at Augusta, Road last evening a man was grappled with, and after a severe struggle arrested by Detective-Sergeant ...
Article : 435 wordsThe remains of the murdered man found in a ditch at Melun, showing that the body had been taken there bound, sprinkled with petrol and burned, have ...
Article : 400 wordsAccompanied by vivid lightning and a few resounding crashes of thunder, a storm broke over the metropolitan area to-night. In places, exceptionally heavy ...
Article : 207 wordsTo remove the mischievous interference of politicians, and give able patriotic Australians a free hand to administer and develop Australian transport is ...
Article : 175 wordsA casual inquiry to-day in the South African Parliament regarding the expenditure of £2,500, elicited a reply from the Minister for Mines (Mr. F. W. ...
Article : 243 wordsSir William Henderson, C.B., D.L., LL.D., who attended the conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, is a jute manufacturer of Dundee ...
Article : 631 wordsThe old log lock-up at Omeo, where the Rev. Ronald Griggs, the young Methodist minister, who is charged with the murder of his wife, was lodged while the inquest was in progress this week. He is now in custody at Sale Gaol. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 47 wordsThe Secretary of State for Air (Sir Samuel Hoare) has sent the following telegram to Group Captain Cave Brown-Cave, the officer commanding the four ...
Article : 264 wordsThe force of 7,000 Wahabis under Ibn Washor, which raided the Beni Sakhr, El Zaban, and Dhakish tribes on February 13, killing in the first case 100 ...
Article : 174 wordsEarly yesterday afternoon both the Cornwall and Mt. Nicholas collieries were forced to cease work, owing to the Railway Department ...
Article : 213 wordsA conference at Delhi, at which all Indian political parties were represented, agreed to-day that the Swaraj or Home Rule constitution, which is to be ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Prince of Wales won the Welsh Guards' point-to-point race from Hazelton to Gloucester to-day, riding Decomme in a field of six. Three fell at ...
Article : 77 wordsTwenty-six nations, including the United States, signed a convention to-day for the abolition of restrictions on exports and imports, ...
Article : 81 wordsNative newspapers to-day endorse the report that the Cabinet has unanimously decided that the draft of the proposed new treaty between Egypt and Great ...
Article : 130 wordsLecturing on "Dominion and Colonial Defence" to-day, Major Gordon Macready, assistant secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, revealed ...
Article : 62 wordsThe annual return of fleets of the Empire and foreign countries discloses that the speed of cruisers being built in the United States, Japan, and Italy ...
Article : 119 wordsThe High Commissioner of Australia (Sir Granville Ryrie) this afternoon cabled to the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) a precis of the tenders ...
Article : 92 wordsThe newspaper "Correio do Para" to-day reports that Colonel Fawcett, the missing British explorer, is a prisoner of a savage Indian tribe. It asserts ...
Article : 176 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day, Lord Carson said: "The truth is that by degrees this House is disappearing through inanition. It is not that we ...
Article : 164 wordsThe Nice correspondent of the British United Press Association says that an Australian sheepfarmer, Mr. William Downie, while holidaying on the ...
Article : 147 wordsThe "Evening Standard" says that the latest development of the railway versus motor-vehicle war behind the legislation discussed in the House of ...
Article : 117 wordsThe telephone rates from London to America have been reduced from £15 to £9 for three minutes' conversation. ...
Article : 27 wordsWorkmen engaged in placing some great concrete pipes in position in Rickery Street, St. Peter's, near Cook's River, to-day were hoisting one of the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Cairo correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that it is now certain that the Wafd has decided not to accept the draft of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. ...
Article : 61 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 3 Mar 1928, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: