The Jervis Bay arrived at Colombo this morning. The expected statement by the master, Captain Daniels, has not yet been made. A board of inquiry was held on the vessel by the principal Collector of Customs and other officials, at ...
Article : 1,279 wordsThe Swedish Ministry of Defence today announced that General Nobile had been rescued by the Swedish expedition under Tornbevg. The latter sent ...
Article : 313 wordsThe new Note from the United States Secretary of State (Mr. F. B. Kellogg) concerning the treaty for the renunciation of war was addressed to His ...
Article : 802 wordsThe Cooks' Union kept faith with the shipowners to-day, and no depute marred the first day of resumption of the inter-State ...
Article : 633 wordsAlthough only scanty details were available for yesterday's "Mercury" a full account has now been obtained of the tragic accident at Westerway, near ...
Article : 938 wordsTwo girls were drowned and three men and another girl had remarkable escapes from a similar fate early this morning when a ...
Article : 520 wordsThe East Coast of Tasmania is simply staggering under its possibilities, said Mr. T. Ryan yesterday, commenting on what he had seen on ...
Article : 937 wordsThe absence of control over large numbers of Chihli and Shantung troops in the coal-mining area of Tongshan and Kilan is causing considerable ...
Article : 136 wordsGeorge Eric Gordon, 30 years, labourer, was again brought before the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Richard Clements, 65 ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Chamber of Deputies to-day passed the bill to stabilise the franc by 450 votes to 22. The bill was also passed by the ...
Article : 91 wordsCommandant Glaize, who has been organising a commercial air service from Rangoon to Vinh, Annam, has returned to Paris. He states that the ...
Article : 302 wordsArgument was continued in the High Court to-day In the appeal by Herbert Carrigan against his conviction and fine on a charge under the Federal Crimea ...
Article : 126 wordsIn a speech at Rugby yesterday Lord Hailsham (Lord High Chancellor) said that, although unemployment still presented a grave problem in the United ...
Article : 65 wordsAustralasian Rotarians in London gave a luucheon to-day in honour of Rotarian Arthur Chadwick, president-elect, and Rotarian Edward Lyne, ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Australian competitors for the Bisley rifle shooting have completed a fortnight's strenuous practice on the range, and the officers are very ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "Morning Post" points out to-day that the initial cruise of H.M.A.S. Australia will be important because she will he the first of the new 10,000 ...
Article : 126 wordsThe State Government has been advised since the visit of Messrs. H. W. Gepp, J. Gunn, and Bankes-Amery that the Commonwealth and British ...
Article : 113 wordsAmazement was caused in the vlcinity of Barwon Downs at the week-end by the sight of a dog crossing a paddock with a human head between its ...
Article : 157 wordsThree Cingalese have been arrested on charges of attempted murder as a consequence of the recent riots near Colombo, in which Mrs. Gibson, ...
Article : 72 wordsThere were 103 starters on the Bordeaux-Hondaye section in the Tour de France to-day. The course was good, but hilly. The weather was ideal. ...
Article : 181 wordsOf five parliamentary by-elections now pending, little interest Is being displayed in those taking place in Epsom, Holborn, and Hallam, Sheffield, ...
Article : 192 wordsFrom a private source information has been received that at a meeting at the National Federation Office, held at London, on May 11 last in respect to the ...
Article : 237 wordsIt is learned that Mr. F. Nelson, who was deported from Samoa by the administration, is making efforts to obtain reinstatement in Samoa, and has ...
Article : 205 wordsOfficers of the Home and Territories Department to-day denied the truth of a report that Cockatoo Island, in Yampi Sound, West Australia, had been sold or ...
Article : 116 wordsJoseph Hargraves, aged 52 years, who resided in Falce[?]or Street, Fitzroy, while staying at Wangaratta took poison and died. ...
Article : 169 wordsScotland Yard and the Criminal Investigation Department are engaged on Inquiries regarding a discovery made yesterday that mails landed at ...
Article : 116 wordsLloyd Edward Nesmith, aged 27 years, second engineer on the American steamer, Tampa, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of the wilful ...
Article : 139 wordsDr. Muller failed to form a grand coalition owing to the insistence of the German People's party that a 10,000 ton cruiser must be built. The Socialists ...
Article : 73 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 26 Jun 1928, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: