His Excellency the Governor and Lady Edeline Strickland left Tasmania on Saturday, accompanied by two of their children, and will ...
Article : 535 wordsThe Prime Minister, on behalf of the Commonwealth, has invited the United States Fleet to extend its visit to Austialia, and word comes that the ...
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Advertising : 655 wordsKoonookarra, s.s., 162 tons, J. Holyman, from Launceston, via-Swan Island. Agents— Holyman and Sons. February 23. ...
Article : 98 wordsThe R.M.S. Orontes sailed on Saturday afternoon with the first shipment of the season's apples for the United Kingdom She took 6,800 cases. Three steamers will ...
Article : 113 wordsPeriodical dredging will evidently be necessary to maintain a sufficient depth of water in the Denison Canal. The steamer Koonookarra, which arrived ...
Article : 106 wordsKomata, s.s., 1,994 tons, T. N. Hunter, for Wellington, via Newcastle. Agents—U.S.S. Co. Orontes, R.M.S. (Orient-Royal Mail line), ...
Article : 137 wordsFrom time to time protests, more or less coherent, are made against the importance attached to games; but still, from year to year, the growth of ...
Article : 671 wordsNews has been received of the death of the Rev. C. P. Greene, Rector of Clapham, England. The deceased was wellknown in Hobart, having been curate of ...
Article : 106 wordsEx Northemhay, from Liverpool—50 pkgs merchandise: Burgess Bros. Ex Moeraki, s.s., from Melbourne—370 pkgs [?]chandise: Burgess Bros. ...
Article : 30 wordsLeaving Hobart this morning, the Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans) will pay a visit to the principal towns on the West and North-West Coasts. He will be away ...
Article : 133 wordsOrontes, R.M.S., for London—6,800 ess apples. Komata, s.s., left here at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday for Wellington, via Newcastle. ...
Article : 473 wordsWhen the Federal Treasurer (Sir William Lyne) returns to Melbourne (says the "Argus" of Friday) he will at once proceed to finally revise the ...
Article : 196 wordsTheir Honors Chief Justice Griffith, Mr. Justice Barton, and Mr. Justice Isaacs were passengers to Melbourne by the t.s. Loongana on Saturday. Mr. H. W. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Victorian State Cabinet will, today, consider the question of the standard size of corn sacks. The Premier (Mr. Bent) remarked on Saturday that, ...
Article : 147 wordsTressider and Webb are reported to be both in excellent fettle for the contest for the sculling championship of the world, which takes place to-morrow on ...
Article : 50 wordsThe importance of the recent Senate election in South Australia, particularly in the interests of the smaller States, cannot be over-estimated. Up till now ...
Article : 809 wordsAt 3.30 a.m. yesterday Constables Harman, Weston, and Hursey had their attention directed to a blaze on the upper Cascades-road, and found two ...
Article : 186 wordsLOW HEAD. — Arrived—February 22, 7.15 a.m., Loongana, t.s., from Melbourne. S[?]led— February 22, 5;45 p m., Loongana, t.s., for Melbourne. ...
Article : 75 wordsAt 6 o'clock Sir John Dodds was sworn in as Lieutenant-Governor. The ceremony took place in the Executive Council Chamber. The oath of ...
Article : 63 wordsArrived.—February 22, 2.20 p.m., S.M.H.T., ketch, from Hobart; February 23, 5.30 a.m., Loongana, t.s., from Launceston. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt a meeting of [?] Military Board held last week, the regulations for the formation and control of the new intelligence corps were adopted. These ...
Article : 225 wordsThe R.M.S. Orontes, with the first shipment of this season's apples for the London market, left this port at 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The shipment comprised ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsIt is (says "Engineering") a relief occasionally to turn aside from industrial stri[?]e and couflct to another phase and aspect of the life of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 669 wordsFloating coaling depots have proved so satisfactory that the Admiralty has decided to build more of them. The largest now in use has a capacity of 21,000 tons. A ...
Article : 67 wordsWilliam Gregg, licensee of the Bellerive Hotel, was yesterday morning found lying dead on a couch. He was in the city on Saturday night, and after ...
Article : 109 wordsA report received by the last mail states that it is intended next spring to start a new line of Norwegian steamers from Scandinavian ports to South Africa and Australia ...
Article : 48 wordsMongana.—New Norfolk. Taranna.—New Norfolk. Ivy—Brown's River. Nubeena.—Port Arthur. ...
Article : 20 wordsThree cases of larceny, which were perpetrated in the city between the 15th and 18th inst., have been traced to three juveniles, ranging from 8 to 13 years of ...
Article : 195 wordsDuring the bleeding season for starlings the residents of Narre Warren (says the "Argus") destroyed a great number of these orchard pest[?] by a method ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Mahinapua, from Strahan, which port she left at 11 a.m. on Saturday, arrived here at 9.15 a.m. yesterday. Strong head winds and sea were experienced to the Cape, ...
Article : 92 wordsAlm. bq., from Sundsvall. Challenger, H.M.S., from Wellington. Cambrian, H.M.S., from Sydney. Carin, bgtine, from Port Pirie. ...
Article : 87 wordsThe solid prosperity of a country is not to be judged solely by the public revenue, nor even by the total production and trade. The fluctuations in these ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Minister for Education has authorised the erection of teachers' residences at the State-schools at Tullah and Montagne. The work will be proceeded with ...
Article : 35 wordsJavan, bq., Shipwright's Pt., for U.K. Mariner, sch., Port Arthur, for Melbourne. Wild Wave, bq., Port Huan, for Adelaide. ...
Article : 23 wordsMr. Maugel astonished the members of a deputation of fanners on Thursday (says the "Argus") by informing them that all the facilities they asked for were ...
Article : 275 wordsSir John Madden has just returned to Melbourne from New Zealand. He has informed an "Argus" reporter that one of the things he noted at Rotorua most ...
Article : 313 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, C. Suffern, from Melbourne. Passengers — Saloon: Mesdames Shells, Webster, Chapman, Pearce, Moloney, Sullivan, Young, Parramore, Read, Morzer, ...
Article : 209 wordsTasmanian cricket team leaves for Melbourne to-morrow. Gymkhana sports at Brighton on Saturday very successful. ...
Article : 591 wordsFive trucks attached to the afternoon train from Zeehan to Strahan on Saturday left the line at about the 14-mile peg. One truck was smashed, the others ...
Article : 72 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, C. Suffern, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Grimes Finglas, Post Mason. Dalton, Denham, J. S. Taylor. Weinbein, Colquhoun, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 24 Feb 1908, Page 4
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