The ordinary fortnightly meeting of the Hobart Marine Board was held yesterday afternoon. There were present: The Master Warden (Mr. A. E. ...
Article : 1,263 wordsA meeting of the Tasmanian Rowing Union was held at the Albion Hotel last evening. There were present the president (Mr. R. J. Lucas), in the chair ...
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Article : 172 wordsSir H. Campbell-Bannerman, our London messages state, passed a quiet day on Monday, and is now sleeping much better. ...
Article : 834 wordsIn the High Court to-day argument was heard in the case of the Merchant Service Guild and Messrs. Archibald Currie and Co. Proprietary Limited. ...
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Article : 553 wordsOpinion in France is favourable to the Asquith Ministry. The "Temps" says Mr. Asquith's practical opportunism has replaced Sir ...
Article : 38 wordsConsequent upon information received from London, three anarchists belonging to an international group have been arrested in a suburb of Paris. Two ...
Article : 56 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" says that instead of the status of the Board of Trade and the Local Government Board being raised, the Government ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Assembly sat till 2.50 this morning, and before the adjournment there were some angry remarks launched at the Premier by Mr. Bowman, leader of ...
Article : 217 wordsThe Prime Minister (Mr. H. H. Asquith) will introduce the budget in the House of Commons within the next few days. Mr. Lloyd-George, who has ...
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Article : 128 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, who is about to seek a renewal bf confidence from the electors of North-West Manchester, consequent upon his acceptance of the ...
Article : 155 wordsReuter says it is estimated that the stock of wheat in the country elevators in the interior of Canada totals 2[?] million bushels, against 19 million at the ...
Article : 43 wordsSir Robert Giffen will preside over a committee that has been appointed to inquire into and report upon the changes that it is considered desirable ...
Article : 86 wordsA deputation, consisting of Dr. Crowther and Messrs. Waterworth, Hadrill, Butterfield and Overell, was introduced to the Premier (Hon. J. W. ...
Article : 255 wordsEarl Carrington states that if the Licensing Bill is not passed, it is nearly certain that there will be no further licensing legislation during this ...
Article : 40 wordsThe United States authorities are somewhat surprised at the large amount of wealth that is being withdrawn from the country consequent upon the ...
Article : 56 wordsAs a result of recent interviews be tween Prince Bulow (Chancellor of the German Empire) and Signor Tittoni (Minister for Foreign Affairs in Italy) ...
Article : 72 wordsYesterday the Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans, C.M.G.), despatched a telegram to the A.M.A., asking what position it would take up in reference to the ...
Article : 125 wordsOwing to the Alaska portion of the route in the motor race from New York to Paris being considered impracticable, it has been eliminated from the ...
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Article : 765 wordsThe Premier of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, states that treaties have been signed on behalf of Great Britain and the United States regarding the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe chairman of the Metropolitan Drainage Board at yesterday's meeting tabled a draft copy of the additional bylaws, which had been approved by the ...
Article : 357 wordsThe agreement with the Seamen's Union, come to at the conference on Saturday night, was ratified by the union to-day. ...
Article : 90 wordsA peculiar motor-car accident occurred in the Rangatki district to-day. A car, with seven occupants, was returning from a stock sale, when a horse, jumping over ...
Article : 58 wordsHeavy floods have occurred in the Han-Kiang River, one of the chief tributaries of the Yangtse-Kiang, in China, and two thousand Chinese have ...
Article : 52 wordsThis was judging day at the Royal Agricultural Show, which was opened in splendid weather. A general advance is shown throughout, ...
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Article : 54 wordsWith regard to the murder of the Governor of Galicia, Count Pot[?]chi, on Saturday, by a Rutherian student of philosophy named Sigzynski, later ...
Article : 51 wordsA treaty regulating the frontier of the French Congo and the Cameroons has been signed. BREADSTUFFS. ...
Article : 295 wordsThe weather to-day is very unsettled, but mild. The local branch of the Workers' League has selected Mr. W. Treanor as ...
Article : 69 words"The Times" says that the Australian and New Zealand experiments in the matter of compulsory arbitration as a means of avoiding strikes, and ...
Article : 74 wordsLately the huts occupied by woodcarters at Hall's Creek, four miles out from Queenstown, have been frequently broken into, and yesterday Thomas ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Duma has passed the first reading of a bill which provides for an annual grant of 6,900,000 roubles (about £690,000) towards universal elementary ...
Article : 40 wordsWhile W. Cotter was pressing the detonator on a fuse at the North Lyell mine to-day, the detonator exploded, and blew three fingers off his right ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the Hospital Board meeting, tonight, Mr. Peter Gannon resigned his seat, owing to his leaving the district. Regret was expressed. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe fire at Chelsea, a suburb of Boston, in the United States, which destroyed a square mile of buildings on Sunday, started in a rag-picker's shop. ...
Article : 60 wordsSo far, no mention has yet been made is to who is to fill the place of Constable Wardley, who was transferred to Gormanston three weeks ago, and it ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 15 Apr 1908, Page 5
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