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Article : 203 wordsA nasty accident occurred while the steamer Guthrie was coming alongside the Government jetty to-day. The tide, which caught her head, swung her ...
Article : 218 wordsThe torpedo boats the Countess of Hopetoun and Childers returned today from Tasmania. ...
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Article : 161 wordsLast night a box containing 8 in gold, and jewellery to the value of 75, the property of Henry Francis, was stolen from the residence of Mrs. ...
Article : 65 wordsAlfred Holyoak, a miner aged 33, residing in Ballarat East, was on Saturday night arrested by Plain-clothes Constable Montagu on a charge of ...
Article : 135 wordsThe drought is causing much uneasiness throughout New Zealand, especially in Canterbury and Otago, Bush fires have done a great deal of ...
Article : 42 wordsSydney, January 13.—The produce market is weaker in some departments, with very small business. Prime maize 5s 3d; white 5s 2½d. Cape seed, barley 4s 3d. Blue ...
Article : 664 wordsThe State Government has decided to forward to London the balance of the money required for the redemption of the unconverted portion of the ...
Article : 45 wordsFrederick Nickless, 60 years, committed suicide by hanging himself to the limb of a tree on the speedway track at Albert-park early yesterday ...
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Article : 26 wordsThe Hon. C. S. Rolls and Mr. Frank Butler had a trip, by the invitation of Baron Henry Deutsch de la Meurthe, in his airship the Ville de Paris. Mr. ...
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Article : 29 wordsThe trouble with the wheelers ot the Pelaw Main Colliery has ended. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Tasmanian Woolgrowers Agency Co.is in receipt of the following cablegram from their London agents:—"The list of arrivals is closed. All your wools arrived in time, ...
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Article : 33 wordsThe strike of wharf labourers was continued to-day without developments. The general work on the coastal vessels was carried on with free labour, ...
Article : 53 wordsSir, — In your to-day's issue appears an article on recent wool sales, one [?]aragraph referring to Shropshire wool being only worth 7½d. per lb., which ...
Article : 282 wordsThe masters of the steamers Taiyuan. Moldavia, and Arrino, on two charges, were each fined 100 for having allow ed aliens to enter the Commonwealth. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe anxiety of the relatives of Mr. Robert Barrie for his safety was relieved on Saturday night, when the missing man appeared at the office of his ...
Article : 222 wordsThe third case of plague for the season was recorded to-day. The patient is Abe Gillies, a resident of Waterloo, employee in a city store. He was ...
Article : 73 wordsSir,—Can you inform me why we should have to pay both sanitary and the metropolitan drainage rates? We have had our drainage done for more than eighteen ...
Article : 65 wordsA Syrian storekeeper named Jacob, carrying on business at Ji[?]gera, in the Monaro district, was savagely attacked by a fellow-countryman, yesterday. ...
Article : 112 wordsMrs. May Phillips, Benham, Avoca, Tas., writes:—"I used Dr. Sheldon's New Discovery for my little girl, who had a very bad cold and cough. The New ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 15 Jan 1908, Page 3
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