Our Launceston correspondent reported yesterday:—"Many who were astir early this morning thought that a fall of snow had taken place, but it seems that what ...
Article : 43 wordsDuring the week several donations have been made in favour of the trustees of the Museum, the most important being an aboriginal can[?]e built by the last ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 144 wordsTide table, August 19 (approximate): High water, 1,30 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Low water, 7 a.m. and 7.30 p.m. Orders have been received concerning the ...
Article : 438 wordsAfter moderate deliveries of the early part of the week at Devonport, potatoes literally poured in on Thursday and Friday last (writes our Devonport ...
Article : 255 wordsThe spot quotation for tin in London on Monday ranged from £132 to £132 10s. The drop in price was due to speculators realising upon stocks owing to receipt of ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Lands Department has issued a neatly printed booklet, containing a plan and particulars of the Forester settlement, which is being offered for selection ...
Article : 66 wordsPrices slightly better at Newstead sales yesterday. Market fairly supplied. A conference was held at Launceston ...
Article : 431 wordsTwo Syrians figured in the Court of Requests yesterday as plaintiff and defendant, one suing the other for the value of a silver watch, alleged to have ...
Article : 297 wordsDr. Arthur, the President of the Immigration League, sends us a letter, in which he desires to clear up certain mistakes relative to what he has been ...
Article : 453 wordsAbout 14 months ago (says the "Age") the Commonwealth Government, acting on behalf of the States, brought back from South Africa 1,300 Australians, who ...
Article : 209 wordsAdvices continue to be received of additional French merchantmen to call at Hobart. Our London cables this morning announce the departure of two more barques ...
Article : 103 wordsThe date on which the proprietors of "The Mercury" will withdraw their offer to the people of Tasmania of the "Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetter," at an almost ...
Article : 118 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday, Tasman Percival Batt, carrying on a boot business in Elizabeth-street, under a firm name other than his full or usual ...
Article : 266 wordsCable advice was received yesterday that the Union Company's steamer Maitai, which was to have left the Bluff on Monday afternoon for Hobart, did not sail until ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 417 wordsMessrs. W. Crosby and Co. [?]re in receipt of advice that the R.M.S. Ionic, 12,232 tons, left Capetown on Saturday evening last, in continuation of her voyage from London to ...
Article : 52 wordsAccording to the latest statistics, the Swedish mercantile marine comprised at the end of last year 2,842 vessels, of, altogether, 742,361 register tons; 1,852 of them were ...
Article : 344 wordsThroughout yesterday was witnessed the heaviest sea at Kingston that has been experienced there for several years. There was a stiff [?]ou'-wester blowing, and ...
Article : 196 wordsThe improved positions in the British Cabinet obtained by Mr. Lloyd-George and Mr. Winston Churchill have evidently served to turn their heads, and ...
Article : 277 wordsAt the meeting of the Marine Board yesterday the Harbourmaster reported that the dredging at Denison Canal had been completed. The dredge removed ...
Article : 219 wordsA, rather curious, and certainly interesting, discussion has been going on of late in the English papers, relative to the subject of Woman Suffrage. The ...
Article : 1,224 wordsThe agreement binding the suburban municipalities to the terms of their arrangement with the City Council in the matter of the erection of the Infectious ...
Article : 167 wordsThe large annual increase of the fruit-growing areas in Tasmania puts on the Government an extra responsibility. So far as the actual work is concerned, we ...
Article : 717 wordsA telegram was received from Triabunna yesterday afternoon, stating that the Mongana was sheltering in Spring Bay. The Mahinapua, from Hobart, arrived at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 445 wordsTaranna—New Norfolk. Waldemar—Channel ports. Thistle—New Norfolk. ...
Article : 10 wordsDoris, ketch, from Melbourne. Jeanne Cordonnier, barque, from Limerick. Relic, sch.[?] from Melbourne. Ville du Havre, 4-masted bq., from London. ...
Article : 23 wordsIn "The Mercury" a few days ago exception was taken to the decision of the Marine Board to erect a shed in the centre of Prince's Wharf, it being ...
Article : 225 wordsJudge Heydon ventured the opinion in the Industrial Court, Sydney, the other day, that "satisfied" was the most ambiguous word in the ...
Article : 179 wordsAristides, ketch, Port Huon, for Melbourne. Ennerdale, s.s., Port Huon, for N. Zealand. Hawk, kt., Port Huon, for Melbourne. H.J.H., ketch, Esperance, for Melbourne. ...
Article : 35 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, C. Suffern, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Collis McGregor, W. C. Grubb, Hutchinson, Brent, Soden, Chancellor, Kirby, Howden and ...
Article : 109 wordsA case in wliich an apprentice named Percy Chick was charged with disobeying the orders of his master (Wm. Rowell) came before the Launceston Police Court ...
Article : 111 wordsArrivals.—Moravian and Lord Curzon, st[?]s., [?]rom Australia. Departures.—For Sydney: Cuf[?] s.. Zioece s.s., K[?]o, ship. For Melbourne: Kazenbe, ...
Article : 55 wordsA good deal of interest was manifested along the waterside at Sydney the other day (says the "Herald") in the manœuvres of a strange-looking craft, built ...
Article : 147 wordsSome little time ago Dr. Benjafield made strong comments on the method in which river craft carried water for the consumption of passengers, and the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 159 wordsAt the conference of Premiers in Melbourne, in May last, a resolution was passed in relation to the question of immigration. This resolution ...
Article : 239 wordsIn the course of his reply to a deputation which waited upon him, the Premier of New South Wales used the argument that persons committed to gaol ...
Article : 184 wordsA report that Mr. Price, Premier of South Australia, had declined to attend any further conference with reference to the Murray waters agreement was ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 19 Aug 1908, Page 4
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