The Hon. Federal Minister of Defence (Colonel Foxton) is settling the final details of Australian naval matters with the Admiralty. ...
Article : 145 wordsMr. R. H. T. Brook, M.Aust.I.M.E., general manager of the New Wyengatta and the West Wyengatta gold mines, has been elected an associate member of the ...
Article : 843 wordsDr. Bruce is preparing a ScottiSh expedition for the South Pole, and if £50,000 is forthcoming a start will be made before 1911. ...
Article : 160 wordsThe London correspondent of the "Argus," telegraphing from Fremantle to his paper, sends the following despatch, dated August 27: ...
Article : 2,070 wordsA brilliant display of the Southern lights was observed m Hobart late on Saturday evening, and early on Sunday morning. The following notes on the ...
Article : 929 wordsAlthough the Public Service Board has recommended to the Government that Mr. W. J. Rooney, principal of the Training College of West Australia, ...
Article : 281 wordsThe House of Commons sat in committee all through Thursday night and Friday morning considering the spirit duties in the Finance Bill. ...
Article : 202 wordsThe Liberal newspapers, the "Daily Chronicle," and the "Daily News," consider it probable that there will be a general election in January. ...
Article : 173 wordsThe whole population watched the military dirigible Republique passing over Moulins, in France, yesterday, at the rate of twenty five miles an hour. ...
Article : 99 wordsInspector Mears of "Kiukiang, a treaty port in China, was recently tried on a charge of the manslaughter of a Chinaman, but was acquitted. ...
Article : 72 wordsThe request made by the Miners Federation that the colliery proprietors should reinstate the secretary of the Hebburn Lodge, and also agree to the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Australasian Amateur Boxing Championships were entered upon yesterday at the Stadium. The weather was fine, and the spectators numbered ...
Article : 492 wordsSince the collapse of the "hunger strike" among the female suffragists who are in prison, nine of the women undergoing imprisonment have been ...
Article : 55 words"The Times's" correspondent at San Francisco says that a determined demand may again be made to induce Congress to pass the Ship Subsidy Bill ...
Article : 104 wordsThe new British submarine, D.I.O., has undergone successful trials at Portsmouth. She attained a speed of twelve knots ...
Article : 33 wordsA special meeting yesterday of the Patent and Trade Marks section of the London Chamber of Commerce discussed the disadvantageous effect on ...
Article : 95 wordsThe third Australian Congress of the Roman Catholic Church was inaugurated to-day by the celebration of pontifical high mass in St. Mary's ...
Article : 198 wordsLord Kitchener, who arrived at Saigon, in French Cochin-China, on Wednesday, was warmly welcomed, and was entertained at a banquet in the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe first meeting of the Boy Scouts in their new drill-room was held on Saturday afternoon. The room is conveniently situated in Collins-street, ...
Article : 467 wordsThe cotton market at New York is excited, and there have been violent fluctuations in prices. Eight hundred thousand bales ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Canadian Postmaster-General (Mr. R. Lemieux) has sailed to attend the Postal Conference at Berne. When interviewed, Mr. Lemieux said ...
Article : 50 wordsOver 100 delegates from various parts of the Empire who attended the Congress of Chambers of Commerce arrived yesterday from Sydney. ...
Article : 295 wordsTorrential rains have destroyed five hundred houses and homes in Syria. One hundred persons have perished. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Federal Public Service Commissioner (Mr. D. C. McLachlan) was amongst the guests entertained by the Viotorian Postal Sorters' Association ...
Article : 136 wordsThe Blackpool Corporation, in England, has arranged to hold an aviation meeting, which will extend over a week. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Housing and Town Planning Bill has been taken through committee of the House of Lords. The Earl of Crowe has expressed ...
Article : 51 wordsIn response to a request from Warden Fisher, the Minister of Lands (Mr. Hean) has instructed Mr. Robert Grubb, local inspector of roads and ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Hon. Lewis Thomas, of (Queensland, has presented £1,000 to the University College of Aberystwith, to found a scholarship for the boys of his ...
Article : 45 words"The Times" has published a letter from Mr. Cameron, New Zealand Commercial Agent in London, which gives details of the precautions being taken ...
Article : 54 wordsA second arrest has been made in connection with the fires which occurred on September 2 and 4 at the shop of Carmichael and Morrison, drapers ...
Article : 60 wordsOwing to the discovery of Irish blight in the potato crop at Welshpool, the Ministry has quarantined the parish of Bingin Warrin, in Gippsland. By ...
Article : 70 wordsThe ship Clan Macpherson, which left Newcastle (New South Wales) on June 24 for Valparaiso, has been reinsured at eighty guineas per cent. ...
Article : 36 wordsPresident Taft, speaking at Denver yesterday, said that the Corporation Tax was a compromise to prevent the passage of the Income Tax. as the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe discussion as to the relation between the Church and State was continued by the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday. Further speeches ...
Article : 54 wordsThe rowing championship of Australia was contested on the Parramatta River yesterday over a course of three miles 830 yards for £100 a side and the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Federal Treasurer yesterday sent a cable to the Imperial authorities asking them to have the dies prepared for the new Australian silver coinage, and ...
Article : 57 wordsA branch of the Manchester Unity Lodge was opened at Magnet on Friday night. Past Grand Master Bird and Deputy Past Grand Master Bowen ...
Article : 77 wordsThere was keen competition at today's wool sales, and prices were fully maintained. American buyers are active. ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral Society yesterday carried a motion disapproving of Sir John Quick's suggestiou that a Federal Department ...
Article : 88 wordsA girl named Ruby Walker, whose parents reside in the city, fell downstairs, and fractured her thigh yesterday. She was admitted to the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe recent epidemic of whooping cough and dysentery in Papua (New Guinea) carried off between 40 and 600 natives. The epidemic lasted three ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Observer" says that the Australian Defence Bill provides for the thorough application of the principle of universal compulsory military ...
Article : 71 wordsA miner named Daniel Sweeney, aged about 54, was this morning reported to the police as missing from his home in Hurst-street, Zeehan, since 4 p.m. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe ten miles running cnampionsnip nf New South Wales was contested yeterday at Victoria-park racecourse in bracing weather. The Botany ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 27 Sep 1909, Page 5
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