The return match between the Australians and Middlesex was commenced to-day at Lords. The county team consisted of Warner, Douglas, Hendren, ...
Article : 442 wordsThe South Australian Government has granted Professor Perkins, principal of the Roseworthy Agricultual College, 12 months' leave of absence, and has ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Irish Land Purchase Bill, that was introduced in the House of Commons last month by the Chief Secretary for Ireland, was further considered in ...
Article : 393 wordsThe five persons who were arrested by the police on Sunday afternoon when emerging from the premises of Messrs. Manpin and Webb, with a quantity of ...
Article : 112 wordsThe cruiser Pandora has returned to East London. No trace of the missing steamer Waratah, was seen during a search extending over several days. ...
Article : 1,180 wordsDrastic measures had to he adopted to suppress the rioting at Pittsburg in the United States, which followed upon the strike of steel workers. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe defendants in the political libel action, Swinburne v. the "Age," have withdrawn from the case. This announcement was made to Mr. Justice ...
Article : 265 wordsFurther development has taken place in connection with the potato trouble. A proclamation will be gazetted to-morrow placing an embargo upon all Victorian ...
Article : 317 wordsM. Bleriot, the French aeronaut, who recently crossed the English Channel on his monoplane, and Mr. Latham, who has made two unsuccessful attempts to ...
Article : 63 wordsThe river at Jeparit is still rising. A mile and a half of the railway line near the local railway station is under water. ...
Article : 190 wordsIn the eliminating trials at Rheims, in France, yesterday, M. Pondlate, on a Voisin biplane, made a flight of 34¾ miles in 56 minutes. ...
Article : 267 wordsThe financial situation engaged the attention of Federal Ministers-in Cabinet to-day. The Electoral Bill and several other measures not yet introduced were ...
Article : 335 wordsThe local produce merchants have sent the following wire to the Premier (Sir Elliott Lewis):—"Victorian authorities refuse to allow Tasmanian potatoes landed ...
Article : 1,435 wordsYesterday afternoon the Mayor's Courtroom was filled with lady members of the Victoria League, representing the city, suburbs, and country districts, to ...
Article : 511 wordsThe matter of the printing of stamps occupied the attention of the Postal Commission to-day. Mr. Gullick, the Government Printer, said the cost of ...
Article : 173 wordsAn explosion in the gasworks at Geneva yesterday caused great damage to parts of the city. One of the gasometers was entirely ...
Article : 80 wordsThe annual meeting of the Tasmanian Freemasons' Hall Company was held at the Masonie-hall last evening. The chairman of directors (Bro. J. Hamilton) ...
Article : 936 wordsSir Sandford Fleming, of Canada, who has for many years taken a special interest, in the movement for establishing the Pacific cable, and a Pan-Britannic ...
Article : 136 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Mr. C. W. Bowerman (L.) asked, in view of the fact of the American Beef Companies increasing their capital by ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Premier stated in the Legislative Assembly to-day that he was of opinion the House had outlived its usefulness. He had waited on His Excellency the ...
Article : 152 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Hobart Marine Board a letter was read from the Board of State Harbour Commission, San Francisco, stating that ...
Article : 612 words"The Times" says that Australia's strong initiative in military and naval defence is a source of the most profound satisfaction to all in Great Britain, ...
Article : 105 wordsA fire in the business section of Mexico city yesterday caused damage to the extent of a million and a half dollars. A fire in a block of buildings between ...
Article : 89 wordsNews was received to-day of the tragic and sad death of the Rev. W. Walkup, representative Protestant minister in the Gilbert Islands. Mr. Walkup left ...
Article : 163 wordsAn application was made to the High Court to-day for leave to appeal from an order of the Full Court ordering the reinstatement of Richard Dennis ...
Article : 176 wordsMotor fatalities in the United States are becoming matters of every day occurrence. The New York correspondent of the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe head of a Japanese cattle breeding farm is visiting Great Britain for the purpose of purchasing stock, especially Ayrshires. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,300,000 quarters, as compared with 2,240,000 quarters a week ago. The ...
Article : 153 wordsThe limited number of cases that are now coming before the police magistrates is one of the features of the strike in Sweden. ...
Article : 87 wordsTwo Chinese cook shop proprietors were to-day fined £40 each on a charge of sly grog selling. Two revenue officers called at the establishment and asked ...
Article : 53 wordsAn action in, which John Unitt claimed £5,000 from the Union Steamship Company for alleged, breach of contract to carry him to British Columbia in the ...
Article : 71 wordsA meeting of the Northern Auxiliary branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held to-night in Milton-hall, Rev. R. Philp presiding. There was a ...
Article : 108 wordsKent, which has been playing well in county cricket contests this year, is practically assured of the championship. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. S. Ford, secretary of the Zeehan branch of the A.M.A., was to-night nominated for pre-election for a seat in the Federal Senate in the Labour ...
Article : 32 wordsThe State Cabinet to-day finally adopted a bill which is to abolish the present power of judges to award solitary confinement as a punishment for criminals. ...
Article : 73 wordsWine-growers in France are favourable to the proposal of the Government to attach State labels, at a small cost, to each battle of wine, in order to ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Zeehan dog and poultry show entries this year exceed those of previous years as follows:—Dogs 31, fowls 175, pigeons 48, fancy, work 78, other ...
Article : 40 wordsThe election for the north ward of the Emu Bay Municipality, to fill the vacancy caused through the resignation of Councillor J. Craig, was held to-day. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 25 Aug 1909, Page 5
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