The day and hour of importance to all interested in the lodging of entries for the forthcoming Tamar Regatta are Monday next at 9 o'clock in the ...
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Article : 83 wordsThe abridged programme for the Westbury H.A.C.B. Society's sports on Wednesday, March 20, is published to-day. Nominations close on March 2. ...
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Article : 793 wordsThe sports meeting held annually in conjunction with the Lilydale show has come to be popular with city as well as country athletes, and attention is ...
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Article : 296 wordsSome of the Chinese girls who have organised an Amazon corps to support the rebel cause have arrived here, says recent Hankow paragraph. The ...
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Article : 84 wordsThe Socialist "Vorwae[?]ts" publishes Herr Bebel's reply to the pacific address of the British Labour party to the Social Democratic party in the Reichstag. ...
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Article : 60 wordsOn the 20th inst. Messrs. H. G. Chambers and J. R. Alcock caught some good fish in the River Mersey above [?]Creek, the total catch being 17 fish ...
Article : 57 wordsThe middle-weight contest between Dave Smith and "Cyclone" Johnny Thompson at the Stadium to-night, went 20 rounds. Smith won, out-pointing Thompson ...
Article : 32 words"Alcohol has such a distinctly depressant action on the heart, it should never be given in cases of accident, because it is dangerous to do so. Brandy is often ...
Article : 160 wordsThe corn trade sectional committee of the chamber of commerce today fixed the chamber of commerce standard of fair average quality wheat for the 1911 and ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the match West v. South today, West will be chosen from—Savigny, Gill, Westbrook, Davit (2), Tabart. Kemmis. Pike, Sherwin (2), Foot, Parsell, Green. ...
Article : 25 wordsIn a solid silver basin bearing an enamelled emblem of special design, a plum pudding made at Tiverton, Devon, for presentation to the King and ...
Article : 81 wordsThe adjourned monthly meeting of the Launceston Fruit Board was held yesterday afternoon. Mr F E. Burbury presided, and there were present Messrs. ...
Article : 518 wordsThe match between New South Wales and Victoria was commenced to-day in tine weather, and in the presence of a large attendance Folkard was omitted ...
Article : 1,015 wordsOur Cressy correspondent writes:—The threshing machines are at work, and it is to be hoped the returns will be satisfactory. Many are a bit afraid of the ...
Article : 32 wordsLieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden. Powell, distributing the prizes at Carpenters' Hall, in connection with the Trades Training Schools, said that having ...
Article : 124 wordsProduce deliveries to-day comprised 3400 bags potatoes, 40 bags wheat. 188 bags peas, and 2218 bags oats. The markets are quiet, potatoes ranging ...
Article : 273 wordsThis illustration is of a simple and yet very effective combined washer and nut-lock. It is cut out of sheet metal "C" is the centre hole; "A," "A," two ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 79 words"Alcohol and danger to chalthy mind were synonymous. Its pleasant emotional and social effects needed constant watching. It hindered work of any kind. ...
Article : 116 wordsWheat is quoted at from 5s 8d to 3s 8½d, with fair demand; for wheat on spot, 3s 8½d. Flour is selling at £8 10s. Bran (firm), at £5 10s. Pollard, 5 15s to ...
Article : 338 wordsLord Haldane has come to the rescue of a correspondent of an enquiring turn of mind by telling him how his name should be pronounced. "The first ...
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Article : 194 wordsThe Wholesale Fruit Merchants' Association report prices as follow.—Apples, is 6d to 5s. per case; apricots, 4s 6d to 8s per case; peaches, 3s to 10s per case; and ...
Article : 39 wordsTo the memory of "Lord Sandwich' belongs the name of that edible. Being, during his administration (as was usual with him), at a gambling house, he had, ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 306 wordsA distressing affair is, according to the American newspapers, causing acute embarrassment to Mr. Frank Cockrell, a well-known timber merchant of Chicago, ...
Article : 231 wordsA. G. Webster and Sons, Ltd., report having sold at the Hobart railway on Thursday one truck of chaff at £4 per ton. ...
Article : 52 wordsMrs. Grigg's daughters were taking music lessons, and she called upon their instructor to enquire as to their progress. Upon her return she seemed ...
Article : 67 wordsA promoter for a rubber company was trying to persuade Mr. Spangler to invest some of his savings in the company's stock. The demand for rubber, he said, ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 27 Jan 1912, Page 5
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