The condition of the lad Goldsmith, who was yesterday found suffering from bubonic plague, is slightly improved to-day. The city council stuff is visiting ...
Article : 81 wordsMr. Edmund Robertson, K.C. (L.), asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in the House of Commons yesterday whether he would represent to the ...
Article : 69 wordsAt a meeting of the marine board to-day a complaint was received from Mr. G. A. Crouch, of Western Australia, as to the condition of the deck loading of ...
Article : 305 wordsThe cause of the fire, resulting in the destruction of Mr. C. W. Rosoman's barn, stable, and cowshed, and 30 tons of hay stored in the barn, is still ...
Article : 447 wordsThe treacherous coral reefs which abound in the South Seas have been responsible for the loss of another fine steamship, news having been brought to ...
Article : 2,033 wordsWhile running along the road Thursday evening in New Town, Mark If the second son of Mr. W. H. Keam, fell into a drain and broke his right leg ...
Article : 61 wordsA serious farm fire occurred, John Brown's farm, Sunnyside, on Wednesday. All the season's crop, together with barns, was burnt. It is believed ...
Article : 32 wordsColonel Mackenzie, with his subordinate officers, returned from Lyell to-day, and passed on .to Burnie after inspecting the local forces at Zeehan, Strahan, and ...
Article : 107 wordsDr. Elkington paid his promised visit on Friday afternoon, and inspected the Government buildings and hotels. ...
Article : 17 wordsOwing to the discovery in Sydney of plague-infected rats and mice, the board of health has decided that all vessels arriving in Melbourne from Sydney shall be ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Chief Justice (Sir Samuel Griffith) sat this afternoon in the Court of Disputed Returns to hear the petition of Mr. J. M. Chanter against Mr. R. O. ...
Article : 163 wordsCaptain A. Somerville, master of the latest addition to the fleet of the Chi Navigation Company, s. Anhui, which arrived at Port Adelaide from Hong Kong ...
Article : 856 wordsA deputation of produce merchants waited on the Hon. A. H. Barlow to-day, in the absence of the Premier, and asked that certain shipments of potatoes now ...
Article : 118 wordsThe annual meeting of the Tasmanian Government Railway Employees' Association was held to-night. The following officers were appointed for the coming ...
Article : 73 wordsA "Gazette extraordinary" has been issued declaring New South Wales to be infected with plague. This morning, when the s. Orontes arrived off Sandy Bay ...
Article : 81 wordsThe High Court sat this morning to hear the arguments on points of law arising out of the petition by Mr. Max Hirsch against the return of Mr. Pharez Phillips ...
Article : 49 wordsThe quantity of wheat stacked at Williamstown awaiting shipment is estimated et 20,000 bags. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe body of Martin Sullivan, the man who has been missing from his home since February 22, was discovered to-day on the bare hill between the town and ...
Article : 64 wordsSome of the members of the Freetrade Liberal party state that there is great dissatisfaction with the attitude of Mr. Reid in compromising with Mr. Deakin ...
Article : 64 wordsThe seaman Atkins, who was one of the Wallaroo explosion victims, has completely recovered, and another, whose name is Pretty, is able to walk about ...
Article : 36 wordsThe forecast for March 12 is:—The front of the approaching barometric depression, No. 13, is now about 15 degrees to the west, and may be expected to ...
Article : 54 wordsThe social in connection with the anniversary of the Early Closing Association was held in Lawson's Hall on Wednesday night. There was a large attendance, ...
Article : 342 wordsThe fifteenth convention of the Pastoralists' Federal Council of Australia commenced its sittings on Tuesday afternoon, and continued them till to-day. ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Minister of Customs to-day received the subjoined return showing the interstate customs and excise adjustment for last month. Dr. means that ...
Article : 77 wordsThe mere state of widowhood is a menace to any man who would maintain the bliss of bachelorhood. Be the lady as modest as Martha, as ...
Article : 600 wordsA man named John Clayden picked up a purse in the city to-day containing £20 17s in cash and notes, and returned the same to the owner, who munificently ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Kingston (S.A.) resumed the debate on the address-in-reply. He said he could not altogether approve of the action of the Government in several important ...
Article : 700 wordsShipping business to-day was brisk. Several large steamers arrived to load cargoes of fruit and other produce, and the wharves presented an unuslally busy ...
Article : 28 wordsWheat is irregular, but about 8000 bags sold up to 3s to 3s 4d ex store. Flour gold up td £8. Bran, 7½d to 7½d. Pollard, 7½d. Prime malting barley was ...
Article : 244 wordsDuring the process of fumigation this morning a house in Anglesea-street caught fire, and the brigado's services were called into requisition, but little damage was ...
Article : 40 words"Is Russia hostile to Great Britain?" To this pertinent question a gentleman for many years a resident of St. Petersburg, and at present on a visit to ...
Article : 369 wordsThe Premier (Mr. W. B. Propsting) has received information from the Agent General that a document has been found in the possession of a bookseller in ...
Article : 60 wordsA very enjoyable concert in aid of the George Town regatta funds, given by members of the St. John's Church, Launceston, was held here in the Town Hall ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Minister of Lands (Hon. Carmichael Lyne) went north to-night, and will be in attendance at his office at Launceston up to 11 o'clock on Monday morning. ...
Article : 36 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Council to-day the following appointments were confirmed:—A. L. Brockett and A. W. Garrett, inspectors of state schools, to be ...
Article : 54 wordsIt is stated that the Government has already saved £20,000 by retrenchment among officers in the Public Works Department, and that a further saving of ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is reported that the French Government conferred on Mr. John Perry (Minister of Public Instruction); Mr. Fred. Bridges (Under-Secretary of Public ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Minister of Education (Hon. H. Nicholls) is in communication with the chairman of the Hobart and Launceston Technical Schools, he having suggested ...
Article : 119 wordsThis vessel paid her maiden visit to Tasmania on Thursday afternoon, W[?] she arrived at Burnie. She is a fine boat of 2500 tons. in build much ...
Article : 252 wordsThe Marine Court to-day suspended for six months the certificate of Captain Andrew Langram, master of the steamer Julia Percy, in connection with her ...
Article : 39 wordsThe annual picnic in connection with the Presbyterian Sunday school was held on the recreation ground on Wednesday. A large number of prizes were given for ...
Article : 130 wordsOn the night of January 29 beacons blazed on the Border hills to celebrate the centenary of a false alarm 100 years ago, when Napoleon's flotilla of flat-bottomed ...
Article : 185 wordsFor some months past numerous robberies of a mysterious character bad been committed at the residence of a wealthy couple in Paris, which is much frequented ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Investigations which Scotland Yard has been making with regard to allegations against Detective-Inspector M'Carthy have led to that officer's dismissal ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Premier (Mr. R. Seddon), when speaking at Lawrenco, South Island, said that the excess of births over deaths in New Zealand List year was 13,301, and ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. J. B. Gibson, M.H.A., member for the district, addressed the electors on Thursday night. Mr. F. Proctor presided. The attendance, however, was only ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 12 Mar 1904, Page 6
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