Thick blankets of low cloud in Bass Strait yesterday completely disorganised the air services, three passenger liners which set out from Melbourne for ...
Article : 470 wordsAt the London wool sales to-day 10,013 bales were offered, including 1,274, New South Wales, 739 Queensland, 212 Victoria, 1,683 West Australia, 269 South ...
Article : 498 wordsJames Ellis Wood, of Lane Tier, Ous[?] aged 75 years, who was thrown from a horse a few days ago, was admitted to the Hobart Public Hospital yesterday ...
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Advertising : 279 wordsA petition on behalf of officers of the merchant navy was taken to Westminster from Tower Bridge on board a tug. It contains the signatures of 12,000 ...
Article : 142 words"Midnight Club," the film version of E. Phillips Oppenheim's story of an American detective's attempt to break up a London jewel theft ring, opened a ...
Article : 134 wordsEngland's willingness to send 8,000 young Englishmen to Australia immediately migration was resumed, to recipocate Australia's gift of 8,000 carcases of ...
Article : 284 wordsA resolution requesting Trades Hall Councils of the Australian States to move for legislation to provide for a uniform basic wage and a working week ...
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Article : 799 wordsA meeting was held in the Derby State school on Tuesday evening for the purpose of forming a Parents and Friends' Association. Councillor P. ...
Article : 630 wordsReference to the improved conditions in Australia during the last 12 months, and the resultant increase of business on Stock Exchanges, was made by the ...
Article : 399 wordsIn the Practice Court at Launceston, before the Chief Justice (Sir Herbert Nicholls) yesterday, application was made on behalf of the Registrar of the ...
Article : 552 wordsThe entries for the Tamar Regatta, to be held on Saturday, December 9, are well up to those of last year. The nominations for the rowing events total 44, ...
Article : 285 wordsThe express train, from Bangkok (Siam) to Penang (Straits Settlements), on which several robberies of bank notes representing a large amount of ...
Article : 131 wordsThe French Treasury will issue on Friday, 1,475,000,000 francs, (about £17,600,000) worth of 5 per cent. Treasury bonds redeemable in five years. ...
Article : 212 wordsDuring November, 260 more persons crossed Bass Strait by the Nairana than in the corresponding month last year. The total number last month was 3,500, ...
Article : 126 wordsDescribed as Britain's king of receivers, Edward George Tucker, a compositor, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment to-day on 17 charges of ...
Article : 160 wordsFundamental reforms in the American banking system by means of legislation were recommended to-day before the Stock Market Investigating ...
Article : 191 wordsNominations for the three vacancies on the Launceston City Council and the one vacancy on the Launceston Marine Board closed on Thursday. Six ...
Article : 149 wordsAlthough Germany's population has increased by 2,700,000 during the last eight years, it is still 2,500,000 short of the pre-war figure of 67,000,000, ...
Article : 106 wordsHerd and Co. (1920) Ltd., of Launceston, report that owing to the very successful sales that have been made this year throughout Tasmania for early ...
Article : 149 wordsThe official opening of the King Island aerodrome situated at Currie, will take place this afternoon, in the presence of the Governor and Lady Clark, Mr. ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Argentine Government, by decree to-day, fixed the price of wheat at 62 cents a bushel; corn 44 cents a bushel on a basis of American currency, ...
Article : 153 wordsA meeting of the Oatlands Parents' Association was hold in the Town Hall, Oatlands, on Wednesday to discuss the erection of a school residence and ...
Article : 306 words"Satyrin" Tablets for Rejuvenation, gold box for men, silver for women, is the greatest restorative tonic known, Restores nerves, promotes energy, ...
Article : 60 wordsA woman was overcome by heat and smoke early this morning, when the Kirribilli Guest House, at Selby, 30 miles from Melbourne, was destroyed ...
Article : 124 wordsFrench grievances against Britain from the time of Joan of Arc, "The Maid of Orleans," who forced the British to raise the siege of the city of Orleans ...
Article : 159 wordsAt a meeting of the Launceston women's branch of the Australian Labour Party at Launceston on Wednesday, the president (Mrs. R. Standaloft) ...
Article : 109 wordsThe Weather Bureau, Hobart, reported yesterday that the South Esk River at Fingal had risen 1 inch in the last 24 ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Tasmanian Motor-Cycle Club will hold a 10-mile beach race at Green's Beach to-day. Handicaps are as follows:—P. Bryant and D. Hemingway, ...
Article : 99 wordsOperating from to-morrow as a result of an agreement reached by representatives of a joint price-fixing committee of licensed victuallers, wine and spirit ...
Article : 64 wordsThe number of passengers who arrived at Launceston from Melbourne by steamer during November, compared with the figures for the corresponding ...
Article : 57 wordsFor the first time members of the Launceston Boys' Band will appear in uniform on the occasion of a concert on the Evandale Showground to-morrow ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 2 Dec 1933, Page 7
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