Produce deliveries to-day comprised 4719 bags potatoes. 2705 bags oats, 561 bags peas, 257 bags chaff, and 199 bales straw. Business was quiet. Redskins and ...
Article : 454 wordsA ball was held lit the Town flail on Friday in aid of the funds of the Avoca Cycling Club. Mr. J. S. Good-all, assisted by a, ladies' committee, ...
Article : 177 wordsMr. Reginald Goss Custard has resigned the post of organist and choirmaster at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Mr. Goss Custard has played at the marriages of ...
Article : 193 wordsBamboo plants are said to have the peculiarity of blooming at exactly the ounce time, whether in Europe or Africa, the difference in climate and surround. ...
Article : 71 wordsDuring March the rooks gather in numbers in old trees whore they have for years established their colonies. In winter they pass their nights in the ...
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Article : 35 wordsW. T. Thorpe reports having sold on trucks at the railway, Hobart, on Tuesday —Wood at 10s per ton; chaff, at £3 12s; peas, 4s 4½d per bushel. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Woolgrowers' Agency Company held their fortnightly sale at Coo-ce Creek this afternoon. There was a fair yarding of fat cattle, which sold at the rate of ...
Article : 93 wordsThe success of every business venture is due in a large measure to the forethought and enterprise of its organisers. The able business man, to ...
Article : 1,762 wordsHarvest thanksgiving services were held in the Don Congregational Church on Sunday. The church was nicely decorated with various products of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Talbot Arms Hotel has been in the Maher family for nearly 30 years, but they are leaving at the end of the mouth. The hew proprietor is Mr. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe wool sales were resumed to-day, when 7700 bales were submitted. The selection was of a miscellaneous character. Scoureds sold irregularly, and withdrawals ...
Article : 149 wordsA very remarkable natural phenomenon was recently witnessed near Jerusalem. A swarm of flying ants filled the air from sunrise till o'clock in the ...
Article : 90 wordsThe state school is again closed, owing to the teacher (Mr. R. J. Thompson) being laid aside in the Launceston General Hospital with an attack of typhoid fever, ...
Article : 62 wordsLord Chief Baron Palles, the Irish judge, who has celebrated his eighty- second birthday, has nearly completed 40 years on the bench. Called to the bar ...
Article : 143 wordsThe African elephant has, been generally considered as quite intractable; but it seems that much may be done with him if caught young. The catching takes ...
Article : 226 wordsThe Sunday school picnic was held on Saturday under very favourable circumstances. The day was very hot; nevertheless those present spent a very ...
Article : 161 wordsIn the Western market to-day apples, eating, sold at 2s to 7s 6d per case; cooking, 2s to 4s. Peaches—Dessert, 3s 6d to 10s; canning, 3s to 5s. Pears, 3s to 7s ...
Article : 38 wordsThe wheat market was firm to-day. Parcels were quoted at 3s 9d to 3s 9½d, alongside. Farmers' lots were worth 3s 4d to 3s 4½d at country stations. New laid ...
Article : 288 wordsDr. Frank Weston, the Bishop of Zanzibar, whose letter to the Bishop of St. Albans started the Kikuyu controversy, is described by the "Treasury" as among ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 599 wordsA most successful mission has been held at Sisters Creek by Mr. George Beckett, of Victoria, who is employed as an evangelist in connection with the ...
Article : 128 wordsOne of the greatest enemies of wooden chips, and of all timber submerged in salt water, is the teredo, the so-called ship-worm. In the worm-like shape of ...
Article : 149 wordsColonel Sir Edward Willis Duncan Ward, K.C.V.O., one of the new baronets, entered the army in 1874, and became a major in the Army Service ...
Article : 124 wordsMessrs. Ronald Gunn and Co. report In reference to the London wool sales that Sanderson, Murray cable under date 24th inst., that the third series of sales, which ...
Article : 43 wordsMore than one medical expert hap said that the discovery of the serum for protection against typhoid fever was the mots important thing done in the last ...
Article : 446 wordsFor long it was a mystery how the fly, "turning gravity to jest," walks and runs so easily along a ceiling or up and down a perpendicular piece of glass. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 164 wordsWheat is firm, and there is a fair enquiry at full prices. The cargoes ex Loch Torridon and Songdale said at 36s 3d; that ex Artensis at 36s 4½d; and those ...
Article : 72 wordsTravellers to France who complain that he people there do not understand their own language have just received some valuable hints from Dr. D. Jones, the ...
Article : 352 wordsThe Right Hon. James Bryee, O.M., who has been made a viscount, was born at Belfast 7th years ago. Educated at Glasgow and Oxford, le was called ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 268 wordsWhat are the real colours of sea and sky? Starting from the consideration of colour as a shadow. Lord Rayleigh showed at the Royal Institution that to ...
Article : 202 wordsSir Archibald Geikie, upon whom has been conferred the Order of Merit, is the eminent geologist, and has been President of the Royal Society since 190s ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Thu 26 Feb 1914, Page 3
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