A fisherman named Stephen Andrews, jun., was heavily penalised by the Launceston magistrates an Saturday for having flounders in his ...
Article : 96 wordsThe doctrine of Malthus, that population increases faster than food, is up to this time, though often assailed and denounced, practically unrefuted. What ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 580 wordsTide table, September 28 (approximate) Low water, 2.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.; high water, 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. ...
Article : 23 wordsMongana, s.s., 43 tons, C. P. Kerr, from East Coast ports. Agents—Holyman and Sons. SAILED.—September 26. ...
Article : 284 wordsThe Public Works Department has accepted the following tenders: — Road, Upper Mountain River-road to Lovell's, Stubbings's, etc., A. T. Manning, £71 9s. ...
Article : 138 wordsThe rainfall returns for the week ended Friday were as follow:—Irish Town, 67 points; Stanley, 78; Low Head, 35: Burnie, 78; Devonport, 55; Beaconsfield, 54; ...
Article : 83 wordsAs anticipated, the ship which was reported in Storm Bay on Friday, proved to be the Crillon, 85 days out from Birkenhead. Owing to contrary winds, she has been unable ...
Article : 153 wordsA London correspondent writes:— "Japan seems determined to capture the shipping on the Pacific. Not many months ago one of the leading German ...
Article : 214 wordsParticulars have been received from London of the new Lund Blue Anchor liner Waratah, launched a few days ago. The vessel is a twin-screw steamer, of 10,000 tons ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 443 wordsThe Derwent and Tamar Assurance Company was founded in 1838 under a deed of settlement which authorised it to do business for 70 years. That ...
Article : 408 wordsThe Premier of West Australia (Mr. Moore) made a statement in the Assembly of that State the other evening, in reply to Mr. Godfrey's allegation to the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Chillan training ship General Baquedano, a barque rigged vessel fitted with auxiliary power, which is on a cruise with a number of naval cadets on board, arrived ...
Article : 112 wordsWith regard to the minting of the new Australian silver and bronze coinage, the Federal Government considers it to be undesirable to propose the erection of ...
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Article : 129 wordsPersons of average intelligence throughout the Commonwealth have long since come to recognise that the chief concern of the Deakin Administration is ...
Article : 1,146 wordsA potato grower on the North-West Coast states that the past season's potato crop is likely to prove the largest ever grown in Tasmania. The export up to ...
Article : 85 wordsThe arrival from England of the Union Company's new steamer Makura will result in a rearrangement of the running of several of the vessels. As already stated ...
Article : 153 wordsByron tells us that "a man must serve his time to every trade—save censure," to which he might, in these days, have added farming. This last is an ...
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Advertising : 859 wordsReferring on Saturday to the proceedings to be taken under the Anti-Trust Act, the solicitor for Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co. said the company had ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsThe Orient mail steamer Orient, with the English mail of August 28, arrived at Fremantle on Thursday last, and is due at Largs Bay to-day, when the mails for ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Mongana, from Past Coast ports, arrived here at 0.55 p.m. on Saturday. She leaves at 9 a.m. to-day on the return trip. The Koonookarra, for Hobart, via East ...
Article : 99 wordsOur attention has been directed to the fact that whilst provision has been made in the estimates for those deserving institutions the Queen Victoria and ...
Article : 441 wordsBrizeux, barque, from Port Talbot. Boris, ketch, from Melbourne. H.J.H., ketch, from Melbourne. Hawk, ketch, from Melbourne. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe criminal sittings of the Supreme Court will commence to-morrow. The calendar is as follows:—George Hudson, murder; John Johnston, false pretences; ...
Article : 83 wordsAt the City Police Court on Saturday a man named Percival Stubbs appeared on a charge of wandering abroad, and having no visible means of subsistence. ...
Article : 79 wordsZeehan-Strahan train ran into some straying cows on Saturday, killing one. Emu Bay Butter Factory held its annual meeting on Saturday. ...
Article : 338 wordsLoading or to Load. Ganymede, bq., Port Huon, for Lyttelton. Helon, bq., Esperance, for Lyttelton. Iris, bqtine, Port Arthur for Port Pirie. ...
Article : 26 wordsRotomahana, s.s., 1,777 tons, F. Maitland, from Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Vincent, Lincoln, Stewart, G. Whitfield, W. H. Smith, R. Jackman, C. E. Evans, ...
Article : 175 wordsShortly before 9 o'clock on Saturday night the roof of the South Hobart Working Men's Club. Upper Macquarie-street, was discovered on fire by a man ...
Article : 83 wordsThe City Council will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Among the subjects set down for hearing are the report of the public works committee regarding ...
Article : 149 wordsAs the recent tenders for the installation of wireless telegraphy in Australia did not comply with all conditions, the Postmaster-General decided not to accept ...
Article : 96 wordsLOW HEAD. — Arrived — September 27, 1.15 p.m., Rotomahana, s.s., from Melbourne DEVONPORT. — Arrived — September 28, 9.25 a.m., Oonah, s.s., from Melbourne, via ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. John Stewart, a merchant, of Fremantle, who has just returned there from a trip to Ceylon, Malaya, and Hongkong, states that West Australia has the ...
Article : 144 wordsA correspondent writes to the "Argus": —"The Greek papers bring the news that in October an ambassador from Persia will present his credentials to King ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsMr. Barnard, a member of the executive of the Dairymen's Association, interviewd Dr. Wollaston yesterday relative to altering the quarantine laws from those ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 28 Sep 1908, Page 4
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