The executive committee of the Tas[?] manian Rowing Association met this morning, and considered the offer of the Tasmanian Rowing Union to row a ...
Article : 548 wordsNominations for the municipal vacncies closed to-day. For East ward, W. G. Wells was the onh candidate, and, after being declared elected, he returned ...
Article : 382 wordsMr. Winston Churchill, who is seeking re-election for Northwest Manchester, consequent upon his acceptance of the position of President of ...
Article : 128 wordsFurther argument was heard to-day in the case in which the question to be decided was whether steel rails imported by the New South Wales ...
Article : 577 wordsMr. J Redmond, speaking at Dublin yesterday, appealed to the Irish to make a strong, willing, consistent, and combative movement simultaneously in ...
Article : 194 wordsThe P. and 0. Company's mail steamer India, with the English mails of March 20, arrived at Fremantle on April 14, and is due in Largs Bay on Saturday, when ...
Article : 1,563 wordsThe United States House of Representatives, by 190 votes to 79, has rejected an amendment in the Naval Appropriation Bill, Which provided for the ...
Article : 211 wordsLord Tweedmouth, in addressing the Britannia Naval College cadets yesterday, explained that his relinquishment of the position of First Lord of ...
Article : 81 wordsBritish coal mine owners recently decided that if the Miners' Eight Hours Bill became operative before June 30, 1909, they would raise the price of coal ...
Article : 94 wordsReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that eleven political prisoners in gaol at Penza killed two warders, and wounded a third, on Monday, ...
Article : 111 wordsThe Earl of Kerry (Unionist) has been elected unopposed to fill the vacancy for West Derbyshire in the House of Commons, in place of ...
Article : 62 wordsA crowd at Berlin made desperate attempts yesterday to lynch a degenerate German named Heidert, Who is charged with the murder of a youth. ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Irish and Germans in the United States are strenuously urging members of the Senate to vote against the arbitration treaty between Great Britain ...
Article : 64 wordsGeneral Booth has announced that owing to the inadequate response by the shareholders of the, British South Africa Company to the recent appeal ...
Article : 67 wordsThe will of the late David Syme was to-day filed for probate. The executors, proving the will are—Mrs. Annabella Syme, widow of the testator; ...
Article : 738 wordsThe President of the Board'of Trade (Mr. Winston Churchill), replying yesterday to a deputation of women suffragists, said he was in favour of women ...
Article : 45 wordsAdvices from Quetta, in Beluchistan, state that the smuggling of rifles and ammunition is proceeding on an unprecedented, scale. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Jenkins Trust Company's Bank at Brooklyn, and the Borough Bank at Brooklyn, which suspended payment in November last year, have reopened ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Premier has received from Mr. Kirkpatrick, Acting Premier of South Australia, a list of the subjects which his Government proposes should he ...
Article : 178 wordsThe dispute between the Tasmanian Rowing Union and the Tasmanian Rowing Association was discussed by the New South Wales Association last ...
Article : 138 wordsA serious loss has been sustained consequent upon a fire at the Elmendorf stud farm, Lexington, in Kentucky, on Monday. ...
Article : 56 wordsA new development has occurred in connection with the Magnet strike. The Premier, (Hon. J. W. Evans, C.M.G.) yesterday received a telegram ...
Article : 166 wordsSir Wilfrid Laurier has refused a demand made by the Asiatic Exclusion League, to the effect that Canada should exclude Asiatics, by adopting ...
Article : 40 wordsIn 1899 an Imperial rescript was issued in China, which conferred on Catholic, Bishops the rank of Viceroy or Governor, and on priests the rank of ...
Article : 53 wordsBusy days at the port of Hobart have now become of such frequent occurrence that they pass almost unnoticed. Yesterday, however, a new record was ...
Article : 560 wordsProfessor Dewar explains that Professor Ohnes' reported solidification of helium was due to the fact that the helium in being treated got mixed ...
Article : 361 wordsThe postal telegraph operators in India are still delaying the work of the department, but the congestion has been greatly relieved by the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Premier (Mr. Bent) returned from Ballarat the other day, suffering from it heavy cold, and it has troubled [?] a good deal since. On Tuesday he presided ...
Article : 649 words"It may mean the loss of as much as £100,000 a year to Victoria," said the Premier to-day, when asked why he proposed to have the stamp duties ...
Article : 161 wordsThe threatening aspect of the weather yesterday somewhat damped the anticipatory pleasure of those who had determined to enter one or other of the Easter ...
Article : 235 wordsThe Russian Duma has adopted the bill introduced by M. Stolypin providing for the construction of a line of railway to the Amur district in Eastern ...
Article : 172 wordsMr. J. Earle, M.H.A., who is mak ing a brief visit to this district in reference to the Tullah Medical Union Hospital, gave a semi-political address ...
Article : 122 wordsThe South African Cricket Association has accepted the invitation received from the Marylebone Cricket Club to take part in a traingular contest in ...
Article : 131 wordsAs a result of a quarrel, which took place in Nicholson-street, Brunswick, last night, between a man named William Danaber and a woman ...
Article : 240 wordsA dividend of 3d. per share has been declared by the directors of the Melbourne Trust Company. The year's profits amounted to £17,394. The ...
Article : 96 wordsAdvices from Dunedin state that importers of Tasmanian timber there complain at the delay experienced in receiving shipments, which they state is ...
Article : 171 wordsJ. A. McGinn was found dead at the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, this morning. In a letter to the coroner, McGinn explained that owing to ...
Article : 108 words"Tommy" Burns, the world's champion boxer, who defeated Squires, the Australian representative, in one round at San Francisco some time age, is ...
Article : 99 wordsThe visible supply of wheat east of tho Rockies is 50,093,000 quarters, as compared with 51,147,000 quarters a week ago. ...
Article : 23 wordsD. Eberle, while working at the Tasmanian Smelting Company's works, met with a serious accident to-day. Eberle's arm was caught in the ...
Article : 58 wordsMonzie Castle, in Perthshire, tenanted by Mr. James Richmond, an Australian has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £30,000. ...
Article : 36 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 17 Apr 1908, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: