{No abstract available}
Advertising : 1,363 wordsThe tourist traffic is now a recognised asset throughout the world, wherever a country has anything to offer a man that he has not got in his own country, ...
Article : 2,033 wordsMr. A. Foster, the manager of the Wallan, Millbrook, and District Butter Factory had a marvellous escape from being killed. He was, in company with the ...
Article : 146 wordsThe parliamentary session, owing to the absence of the newspaper reporters from the Assembly gallery, has collapsed, and it has now been arranged that the ...
Article : 100 wordsSome lengthy biograph films were exhibited at the Temperance-hall on Saturday evening, which vividly illustrated the Squires-Burns glove fight in ...
Article : 240 wordsThe presence of what at first appeared to be one whale, but was later shown to be two-probably a cow and a calf— caused excitement at South ...
Article : 171 wordsA story, all the more sensational because the details are fully authenticated, is told of a Missouri German pastor, who, after seeking to win souls ...
Article : 470 wordsThe following, appeared recently in the Friendly Society Notes in the "Lincoln Gazette:"—"The proposal to establish exclusively military lodges in connection ...
Article : 1,155 wordsBefore the Chief Justice (Sir John Madden) in the Supreme Court, Geelong, on Thursday, John Ross and Henry Roberts were proceeded against on three charges ...
Article : 232 wordsLast week a cablegram appeared in "The Mercury" stating that the adoption by Canada of the new Ross rifle had resulted in a great improvement in ...
Article : 945 wordsTo-night, at the Theatre Royal, "The Octoroon" will be produced by Mr. W. P. O'Callaghan's dramatic students. A great deal of expense and trouble has been gone ...
Article : 70 wordsThe costers' fair is to be opened tonight. For weeks, and even months, past excitement has been rife concerning the preparations for this notable event, and ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Children's Hospital, Melbourne, on Thursday, George Ramsdale, an infant three weeks old, died under chloroform. The parents of the child, who ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Public Works Department has accepted the following tenders:—Road to selections of Holdstrom's and others, H. Cashion, £83 15s. 6d.; road, ...
Article : 231 wordsThe High Court, on Tuesday, gave judgment in a case under the New South Wales Crown Lands Act concerning the cost of a boundary fence. The question ...
Article : 185 wordsIn yet another field of activity more manual dexterity is threatened with dispossession by mechanical ingenuity. At last a machine has been devised for ...
Article : 806 wordsA rumour gained circulation in Sydney on Thursday that another strike of tramway men was not improbable, and that a general dislocation of traffic would take ...
Article : 221 wordsDr. Hall Edwards, whose left forearm had to be amputated as the result of the terrible disease contracted through his investigations in the X-ray ...
Article : 468 wordsA chemist at Junee has prepared a secret mixture, which has been used with deadly effect on crows by Mr. John Quilter, of Claris-park. He killed several ...
Article : 59 wordsA telegram from Oodnadatta states that Birtles, the ovorland cyclist, arrived there at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon from Macumba. He reports a wet ...
Article : 58 wordsSeveral stock agents informed a reporter that, although the cattle traffic had grown tremendously in the last few years, the Railway Department had net ...
Article : 209 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 17 Aug 1908, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: