The monthly meeting of the Esperance Municipality was held on Saturday at the Town-hall, Geeveston. There were present the Warden ...
Article : 867 wordsThere was a brief, but very warm encounter in the County Court to-day between Judge Johnston and Mr. J. Cohen. ...
Article : 247 wordsThe New York "Evening Post," under the heading, "Beginning With Hops," has the following leading article on the cry in Kent for a duty on ...
Article : 1,101 wordsThe annual report of the Commissioner upon the police force of Tasmania was tabled in the House of Assembly last night. Elsewhere appear extracts culled ...
Article : 1,220 wordsDorando, the Italian athlete, who finished first in the Marathon race in connection with the Olympic contests last month, but who was disqualified ...
Article : 108 wordsAt five minutes to eight o'clock last night Auckland Harbour was a dull leaden grey, under the dim rays of a half moon. Suddenly a church in the ...
Article : 123 wordsThere was what the Scotchmen would ball a "real bein" appearance about the Legislative Council Chamber when the members met last night—a sort of rich ...
Article : 256 wordsIt was stated last month that the Vulcan Engine Building Company, at Stettin, the capital of the province of Pomerania, in Prussia, was having ...
Article : 128 wordsThe successful exhibition given by Wilbur Wright last week of the flying capabilities of his aeroplane were repeated at Le Mans, in France, ...
Article : 49 wordsA banquet was given last night by the Prime Minister and the Ministry to Admiral Sperry and fleet. His Excellency the Governor, ...
Article : 76 wordsA collision between ships occurred off the Newfoundland Banks during a dense fog yesterday, and it resulted in the loss of a number of lives. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe House met at 7.30, and at once got to business. The Jury Bill and Police Regulation Bill were finished. At the instance of Mr. Best, the third ...
Article : 459 wordsAt the Pan-Aaiglican Congress, which was recently held in London, an appeal was made for missionaries for outlying parts of the Empire. ...
Article : 67 wordsMost of the official matters are now over, and the American and British sailors and New Zealanders have settled into one seething mass of moving ...
Article : 190 wordsThe adjourned coronial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the suddon death on July 27, at Bangor, of Elsie Ingaretta Bladen, was concluded ...
Article : 392 wordsThe military authorities in Austria consider that carrier pigeons might be used in a way that would tend to expose the defence arrangements of the ...
Article : 67 words"Swoll mobsmen" gained access to Templeton House, at Barnes, in Surrey, last evening, and stole a quantity of art treasures, the property of Lord ...
Article : 47 wordsHis Majesty King Edward, it was recently announced, would during August meet both the Kaiser and the Eemperor Francis Josef of Austria. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Davidson) states that amounts totalling £125,000, out of the £345,000 constituting the Pan-Anglican thanksgiving ...
Article : 81 wordsThe American press bestows far less editorial notice on New Zealand's reception of the fleet than the British newspapers do. ...
Article : 224 wordsIn the county cricket conteste, Hampshire has defeated Kent by one wicket, and Surrey has beaton Middlesex. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe "Spectator," in a remarkable article, condemns the Cobden Club for neglecting to maintain Gobden's principles, and in not opposing the Trades ...
Article : 176 wordsSelected members of the Young Turkey party attend all the police stations at Constantinople, and support the police in keeping order. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Inspector-General of the Commonwealth military forces (Major-General Hoad) left Melbourne yesterday afternoon for London, where he is to be ...
Article : 703 wordsAn hotel of gigantic size is being built in the Strand, London, on the site of Exeter-hall. Twenty Beale (Australian.) pianos, ...
Article : 50 wordsSir Thomas Bent received to-day from the Premier of Canada (Sir. Wilfrid Laurier) and from the Premier of the province of British Columbia (Mr. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans), in moving the adjournment of the Assembly last night, notified that the Premiers of New South ...
Article : 104 wordsMr. Hill, on behalf of the Australian team of athletes who attended the recent Olympic competitions, has written to the Olympic Council, thanking the ...
Article : 71 wordsAn explosion of gelignite at the Muddy Creek Sluicing Company's water race. Southland, to-day, resulted in the death of Jas. Lindsay, a native of ...
Article : 76 wordsMrs. Beechey, who is an inmate of the General Hospital, is reported to be making satisfactory progress towards recovery. ...
Article : 28 words"I regret that the police have had to contend, in some instances, with systematic and organised attempts to evade the law," states the ...
Article : 291 wordsSpeaking at a labour rally last nighty under the auspices of the local branch of the Workers' Political League, Mr. Ben Watkins, M.H.A., in making ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Burnie Poultry Society show entries received to-night are a record in Wyandotte, Leghorn, and Game varieties. The committee decided to receive ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Scottish long-distance champion swimmer, Mearns, made an attempt last week to swim across the English Channel. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe following telegram, sent by Messrs. Durack and Bill from Turkey Creek, was received by the Commissioner of Police this, morning:—"Sent two boys to ...
Article : 213 wordsElder Mackie, of the Latter Day Saints' Church, Richmond, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having deserted his wife, and having left ...
Article : 44 wordsAs recently as last year provision was made in the Appropriation Act for the purchase of samples of liquor from licensed houses for analysis. In his ...
Article : 256 wordsThe funeral of the late Horace Sherrin, the victim of the Smelters machinery accident, took place to-day, and was largely attended. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Japanese fishing fleet is not bound by the convention that prohibits the British and American fleets from killing seals within a zone of sixty ...
Article : 124 wordsA Court of Requests was held by Commissioner E. W. Turner to-day, when the following cases were disposed of:— ...
Article : 155 wordsAlthough the veto of the ranomination of the Rev. C. H. Nash to the incumbency of the church at Geelong has been maintained, a license is to be ...
Article : 54 wordsA distressing accident occurred on Sunday on a farm between Drouin and Longwarry, as a result of which a lad named Allan Webb lost his life, and ...
Article : 83 wordsHeavy showers fell last night and during to-day. ULVERSTONE, August 11. Last night the spell of fine weather ...
Article : 62 wordsFive more cases of alleged unlawful occupation of Crown lands were brought before Mr. E. W. Turner, P.M., at the Police Court to-day, and ...
Article : 63 wordsA youth named Gordon Drake was arrested this afternoon on a charge of larceny, and brought before Mr. J. J. Madden, J.P., and remanded. It is ...
Article : 56 wordsA successful invention means fortune. For Patents, see P. M. NEWTON, 72 Collins-st., Hobart. H. C. Tapping, Representative. Tel. 878. Head Office. 437 ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 12 Aug 1908, Page 5
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