Weather forecasts issued at 9 p.m. yesterday for the 24 hours ensuing:—A few isolated light showers, but mainly line. Variable chiefly southerly to ...
Article : 529 wordsAt the meeting of the Hobart City Council last night it was resolved that £9,200 should be borrowed for the following works:— ...
Article : 144 wordsSir,—What a woman can do when given a free hand in the selection of male attire only a Little Lord Fauntleroy making his debut at a public school ...
Article : 483 wordsCAPTAIN H. E. ADKINS, Director of the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall, Middlesex, arrived in Melbourne in the Strathaird to-day on ...
Article : 215 wordsA DAY such as Sunday provides lots of things for thought. With beaches packed, and motor-cars assembling by the dozen, the problem is ...
Article : 251 wordsTHE arrest of a gathering of men in the bush in the northern suburbs, while they were engaged in the ancient and brutal sport of cock-fighting, serves ...
Article : 275 wordsMr. Macdonell Watkyn Woods, son of Mr. W. A. Woods, of Hobart (a former Speaker of the House of Assembly), has been nominated as the Tasmanian ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 511 wordsTHERE is great temptation to join whole-heartedly in the expressions of relief that are heard in different quarters now that Russia and ...
Article : 1,082 wordsThe prevalence of the iliegal use of motor-cars has caused automobile designers, as well as owners, a lot of concern, and a good deal of time and money ...
Article : 255 wordsA notable passenger iu the Strathaird was the young Duke of Northumberland, who is on his way to New Zealand, accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel ...
Article : 233 wordsThere is a direct as well as an alliterative association between the three words, summer, surfins, and sharks. The second of these comes with the first ...
Article : 216 wordsAFTER negotiations extending over some months, an arrangement has been come to between the Government and the Tasmanian Paper ...
Article : 412 wordsSir,—In the burly-burly of opinions that must necessarily centre on so important a question as birth control, it is as well to keep one or two salient points ...
Article : 329 wordsFollowers of sport in Hobart, particularly in Sandy Bay, have been watching with interest the efforts of the Hobart City Council in the last year or two ...
Article : 193 wordsThe announcement to-day that at the close of the year Mr. Eric Wel[?]h will sever his connection with, the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will be ...
Article : 213 wordsAn impression was made in Sydney by Dr. Bernard[?]ni, the Apostolic Delegate, who came to Australia a few weeks ago, and now he has started to ...
Article : 136 wordsDisapproval of the failure of the Apple and Pear Export Council to request the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Stewart) to reintroduce the Fruit ...
Article : 240 wordsThe death occurred to-day of the Melbourne engineer, Mr. Elliott Cumberland, at the age of 61. He was the inventor of the electrolytic system of ...
Article : 544 wordsMr. George Lunsbury, leader of the Labour Opposition in the House of Commons, who broke his thigh when he slipped on the stairs at the Gainsborough ...
Article : 227 wordsPerseverance had its reward in the case of the Motor Vehicles Insurance Bill, which the Legislative Council has passed and which now only awaits ...
Article : 188 wordsSir,—The avowed object of the Dairying Stabilisation Bill is to raise local prices by fixing quotas relative to export and home markets. The figures ...
Article : 258 wordsAn ambitious scheme to manufacture rain has been submitted to the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Perkins) by Mr. F. Snodgrass, of Melbourne, who claims ...
Article : 96 wordsACERTAIN amount of confusion still prevails in the matter of the flour tax, and prompt action is demanded of the State Government. ...
Article : 412 wordsThe meetings of the Hobart City Council are usually followed only by the aldermen, two or three heads of Council departments, and one or two journalists ...
Article : 160 wordsBoth Houses of the State Parliament will meet to-night at 7.30 o'clock, and it is probable that in addition to late sittings, members will'be asked to sit ...
Article : 181 wordsReferring to the M.C.C.'s reply to the Australian Board of Control's cable, which is expected to be sent on Monday, the "Daily Herald" says: "It may safely ...
Article : 131 wordsSir.—I was under the impression that the flour millers of this Stale were to have a refund made to them of all amounts paid by them under the new ...
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Advertising : 134 wordsA lonely reminder of a forgotten tragedy associated with the old whaling days in Tasmanian waters was recently discovered by Mr. J. Dalton, of Hobart, ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Chamber ot Deputies adopted the complete Budget proposals by 280 votes to 175, the Government making the matter a confidence motion. ...
Article : 31 wordsSir,—In your issue of Friday the Minister for Education is reported to have informed members of the House of Assembly, when the Legislative ...
Article : 106 wordsSir,—When opening Parliament the Governor said our registered unemployed were 3,155, and was made-to imply that this is an improvement. Our ...
Article : 144 words"No soup, please; I just had my suit cleaned." ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 12 Dec 1933, Page 6
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