An additional stage was reached in the trouble at the Mount Nicholas colliery yesterday, when the shift men, complying with the motion passed at the ...
Article : 114 wordsThe output or factory butter in the State continues satisfactory, and the gradings for the week ended Saturday last totalled 3,739 boxes (209,3841b.), ...
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Advertising : 173 wordsA fast trip from Brighton to the Western Junction aerodrome was made by the airliner Southern Sky, under the guidance of Air-Commodore Kingsford ...
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Article : 226 wordsThe City Organist (Mr. J. ScottPower) gave the last of the midsummer series of midday organ recitals at the Town Hall yesterday. Two items ...
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Article : 291 wordsAdam James Heaslip, aged 20 years, unmarried, was found dead at Oatlands yesterday about midday in circumstances which pointed to suicide. Deceased had ...
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Article : 409 wordsA meeting of the committee was held last evening, presided over by the Deputy Mayor (Alderman J. J. Wignall), at which final arrangements were made ...
Article : 484 wordsThe Southern Tasmanian Cycling Club and the Hobart Amateur Club held their usual combined Monday, night twilight sports on the North Hobart ground last ...
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Article : 263 wordsAt the T.C.A. ground last night the Tasmanian Amateur Athletic Association commenced the second contests of the third round. Old Hobartians meeting Sandy ...
Article : 606 wordsThere was a good attendance of delegates at a meeting of the council of the Tasmanian Amateur Swimming Association held last night, and presided over ...
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Article : 169 wordsProfessor Hassan has excavated the tomb of a Queen of the Third Dynasty (3,366 B.C.), consisting of two chambers, one containing the sarcophagus, ...
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Article : 146 wordsTrooper Grace, of Sorell, informed the Metropolitan Superintendent of Police (Mr. W. G. Oakes) yesterday that Edward James Brown, aged 55, a ...
Article : 186 wordsDuring the tea interval in the Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney cricket ground, to-day, J. Carlton, the Australian sprint champion made an ...
Article : 67 wordsA yacht race of 150 miles, the first of its kind in the State, was conducted by the South Australian Royal Yacht Squadron over the week-end. The ...
Article : 149 wordsAt the Labour conference the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) announced that the New South Wales Ministry had decided to bring down a bill ...
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Advertising : 76 wordsWilliam Brown Penman, accountant and director of a firm of guaranteed rubber brokers, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for a criminal ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 27 Jan 1931, Page 5
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