The financial year ended to-day, and returns issued by the Treasury show that revenue has amounted to £744,791,000. Excluding payment ...
Article : 930 wordsFrederic John Napier Theslger, [?]st Viscount Chelmsford, died to-day in his 65th year. His lordship motored this afternoon ...
Article : 349 wordsThe Tasmanian consolidated revenue collections for the nine months ended March 31 amounted to £1,781,093, compared with £1,748,166 for the ...
Article : 288 wordsThe sudden decision to-day to limit the boycott to one day is regarded in responsible quarters as a recognition of the-economic dislocation which will ...
Article : 892 wordsImmense crowds lined both sides of the River Thames to-day from Putney to Mortlake, to witness the annual rowing classic, the University boat race. Cambridge having won the event for nine years in succession, it may be said that there was ...
Article : 920 wordsHundreds did not gain admittance to the Town Hall on Friday night to hear the case for secession from representatives of the Dominion League, and many ...
Article : 232 wordsDuring the second Test match between England and New Zealand yesterday the spectators were treated to a great batting display in which W.R. ...
Article : 514 wordsThe Minister for Finance (Mr. Rhodes) stated in the House of Commons to-day that the 5 per cent, tax an interest payable on Canadian bonds ...
Article : 207 wordsWhen flying before a southerly gale off the Heads this afternoon the sailing boat Harmony collided with the Manly ferry steamer Barrenwoy and capsized. The ...
Article : 99 wordsStatistics issued by the [?]nternational Labour Office for the first quarter of 1933 show a world-wide increase in ...
Article : 77 wordsAn Australian, whose name has not been disclosed, underwent a remarkable operation in the Moorefields Eye Hospital ...
Article : 119 wordsIn a report to the Federal Government on handbags; boxes, cases, purses, wallets, trunks, etc., the Tariff Board has recommended the retention of ...
Article : 194 wordsIn pursuance of the forward policy which they have always adopted, the directors of Davies Brothers Limited, proprietors of "The Mercury" and ...
Article : 532 wordsIt is authoritatively stated that the text, now published in some newspapers, of the so-called four-Power plan represents the first tentative draft ...
Article : 637 wordsThe London representative of the Australian Woolgrowers' Association (Mr. W. P. Devereux), in his weekly report on the wool position, says:— ...
Article : 258 wordsH.H. Lieutenant-Colonel S[?]l Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, died suddenly, to-day as the outcome of heart failure, in his ...
Article : 257 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day. Mr. Gabb (Ind., S.A.), asked the Minister for Customs (Lieut.-Col. White) why the Ministry had appointod Mr. L. ...
Article : 113 wordsEfforts to obtain by alleged misrepresentation complimentary tickets for the Rosehill race meeting on Saturday were frustrated by the secretary of the ...
Article : 171 wordsWhen the milk inquiry "was continued to-day the Commissioner (Mr. Shanda[?] K.C.) said that the secretary of the Commission had received a letter from Mr. ...
Article : 328 wordsFollowing a visit to Capertee, a meeting was held at Lithgow, attended by representatives, appointed by the Commonwealth and New South Wales ...
Article : 167 wordsPassengers on Cerry steamers from North-Sydney were startled on Saturday morning to see what appeared to be a man's body floating in the harbour. ...
Article : 148 wordsA private aeroplane carrying to Manitoba a basket ball team of Winnipeg champions, known as Canadian Tollers, a party of 14 in all, crashed near ...
Article : 132 wordsIn consequence, of an alleged plan for widespread armed action against the Government, the Socialist Defensive Alliance was. summarily disbanded ...
Article : 94 wordsThe suspicious behaviour of four young men in Murray Street about 10.30 p.m. on Saturday attracted the attention of Constable McLaren, who. when he saw ...
Article : 236 wordsRevenue of the Irish Free State for 1932-33 amounted to £36,539,000, compared with £27,838,000 last year. It includes land annuities, under the Land ...
Article : 52 wordsAwakened[?]by reports of a gun at his home at Alexandria on Saturday afternoon, William Alston, aged 92 years, found his-daughter, Mrs. Sarah Carter, ...
Article : 158 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Stevens) to-night referred to the unsatisfactory position which has been created by the overlapping of Federal and State awards in ...
Article : 143 wordsHis Holiness the Pope inaugurated Holy Year in an impressive ceremony to-day. Wearing his white silk mantle and golden mitre, he was carried in the ...
Article : 127 wordsA tornado, accompanied by rain, hall, and lightning, killed 72 persons, and injured hundreds or others late on Thursday in East Texas, North-Western ...
Article : 84 wordsH. Jones and Co. Pty. Ltd., Hobart, announce payment of insurance in London in respect of apples consigned by the steamer Argyllshire, which loaded ...
Article : 115 wordsJoseph Norman Pitre, the first man in the history of British jurisprudence to face a second trial for murder, after having been once acquitted, was ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 3 Apr 1933, Page 7
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