A serious earthquake has occurred in parts of Japan. The shock at Nagayo, Kyoto, and Osaka was exceptionally severe. ...
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Article : 330 wordsTwo boys named Jas. Pretty and Wm. Draper were yesterday charged at the Launceston Police Court with the larceny on the 8th inst. of a quantity of mercery ...
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Article : 589 wordsThe Imperial Government's proposals have been accepted by the Defence Conference. They provide for the interchangability of the forces of all parts ...
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Article : 65 wordsOne of the biggest buildings in the Auckland Strand Arcade belonging to Campbell Eheenfried, and running from Queen to Elliott streets, was totally ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the Federal Budget, which reached Hobart last night, it was to be noticed that the estimates for different services or works were as follow: ...
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Article : 64 wordsAt a meeting of the New Town Council last night a letter was read from the Warden of Glenorchy (Councillor Valentine), acknowledging receipt of a copy of ...
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Article : 63 wordsDuncan McIntyre Johnson, who pleaded guilty to a charge of forgery and uttering, and another charge of uttering, was, at the General Sessions to-day, ...
Article : 52 wordsThe weather in parts of China during the past few days has been intensely hot. One hundred and fifteen degrees in ...
Article : 54 wordsA stampede occurred at a children's cinematograph entertainment at Southsea, Portsmouth, ou Saturday night, owing to an alarm of fire being raised. ...
Article : 44 wordsWilliam Fox, who has been a guard on the Government lines here for the past 10 years, died at the hospital to-day from typhoid fever. He leaves a widow and ...
Article : 95 wordsMrs. Stourton, hen, secretary of the Victoria League, who accompanied Mrs. Henry Dobson to Toronto, Canada, as one of the Tasmanian delegates to the great ...
Article : 584 wordsSome remarkable evidence was given in the Criminal Court to-day, in the case in which John Anderson was charged with having committed bigamy. ...
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Article : 74 wordsAccording to a cable message received by the Sydney Chamber of Commerce from Captain Collins, the press representatives to the Congress of Chambers ...
Article : 83 wordsThe Cape Colony authorities are appointing a commission to ascertain what arrangements are necessary, to deal with shipping casualties on the coast, with ...
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Article : 176 wordsThe recent decision of His Majesty the King, that, on the demise of a foreign Sovereign, flags should be flown at halfmast on the day of the Sovereign's death, ...
Article : 128 wordsHis Majesty King Edward, who is at Marienbad taking the waters, entertained M. Clemenceau, ex-Premier of France, and M. Crozier, the French ...
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Article : 70 wordsAt the General Hospital this afternoon an inquest was held touching the death at the institution on Saturday last of Leslie Lionel Marchant, who was ...
Article : 95 wordsColonel Cody made several further successful trials with his aeroplane on Saturday. With Colonol Capper as a fellow ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 17 Aug 1909, Page 5
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