The proposal of the Minister for Home Affairs to spend a small sum of money, as an experiment, during the next financial year, to purchase, through the ...
Article : 123 wordsHyson, s.s. (Holt's Blue Funnel line), 6,608 tons, J. A. Davies, from Sydney. Agents C. Plesse and Co. Koonookarra, s.s., 163 tons, J. Holyman, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsSome remarks made by the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives on Thursday evening should not be permitted to pass unchallenged. When the ...
Article : 335 wordsHyson, s.s., (H.B.F. line), 6,608 tons, J. A. Davies, for London and Liverpool, via Melbourne. Agents—C. Piesse and Co. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe report read by Miss Price at the annual meeting of the Victoria League, on Friday last, furnishes ample evidence of the splendid work being done by this ...
Article : 237 wordsHyson, s.s., for London—1,281 bls wool, 221 bls sheepskins, 40 bls rabbit skins, 18 bls leather, 4 bls glne pieces, 3,000 css pulp fruit, 1 cs metalware, 3 css merchandise. ...
Article : 511 wordsSection 10 of the new Victorian Police Offences Act (says the "Argus") gives power for the apprehension of any person having in his possession property ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 489 wordsCopies of the annual reports of the Victorian Government agricultural colleges at Dookie and Longerenong have been received. They give accounts of ...
Article : 208 wordsThe danger associated with the practice of letting off fireworks in the city, at present largely indulged in by juveniles. has been unmistakably demonstrated by ...
Article : 240 wordsThe statistics of motor-car accidents and offences go to show very conclusively the besetting sin of the present day, that is the desire for speed and for showing-off. ...
Article : 486 wordsEnipire Day is really the outcome of the South African War. It is the emphatic and many-tongued answer to the Cnmpbell-Bannermans, Lloyd-Georges, ...
Article : 1,218 wordsThe large cargo steamer Hyson, 6,608 tons, belonging to Holt's Blue Funnel line, arrived from Sydney at 3.45 p.m. on Saturday, and berthed at Princes Wharf to load for London. ...
Article : 129 wordsThe unanimous decision of the High Court has boen that the Government of New South Wales had no right, through its agents, to seize certain rolls of ...
Article : 809 wordsA dispute about one penny on a question of tram fares was argued before Mr. Justice Hood in the Practice Court, Melbourne, last week. Mr. Duffy. K.C., ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 421 wordsThe London "Times" has the following notice of the works of Mr. Francis McComas, a native of Tasmania, and grandson of the late Mr. John Davies: ...
Article : 832 wordsThe barque [?] which was [?] months ago off the Semaphore, Port Adelaide, whilst at anchor, is still occupying the attention of the firm which undertook salvage ...
Article : 111 wordsThirty new vessels, with a carrying capacity of 204,700 tons, will be launched by the Great Lakes Transportation Companies before the opening of the season's navigation. ...
Article : 106 wordsThe net loss of the working of the Sydney-Melbourne telephone line for the nine months ended April 10 was £596 15s. 4d., so Senator Best informed Senator ...
Article : 153 wordsCaptain A. Robb, late of the s.s. Nineveh (now known as the Aldenham), has been appointed to the Aberdeen liner Moravian, Captain Alexander Simpson taking the Pericles, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsThe Wellington Harbour Board have for some time been increasing the charges on shipping, notwithstanding several warnings. The contention of its supporters was that ...
Article : 96 wordsA tin of preserved mutton, which was packed in the year 1876, is in the posesssion of Dr. Brown, superintendent of food for export. Dr. Brown explains that ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Federal Government has decided to construct two cables between the mainland and Tasmania, to take the place of those which belong to the Eastorn ...
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Advertising : 898 wordsThe Mahinapua, from Strahan, which port she left at 10.20 p m. on Saturday, arrived here at 5.55 p m, yesterday, after a fine passage. She leaves at noon to-day on the return ...
Article : 138 wordsOn Saturday the Commissioner of Police (Mr. J.E.C. Lord) received a report from Constable Archer, date Cape Barren Island, May 20, as to the finding ...
Article : 113 wordsSpecial church services held yesterday in commemoration of Empire Day. Two Victorians have taken up 5,000 acres in King Island. ...
Article : 465 wordsTaranna.—New Norfolk. Reliance—Port Cygnet. Thistle—New Norfolk. ...
Article : 11 wordsHelen, bq., from Adelaida. Hawk, ketch, from Melbourne. Koonookarra, s.s., from Launceston. Kassa, barque, from Adelaida. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt has been found, as the result of careful investigation by the Customs Department, that a considerable quantity of smoking opium finds its way into ...
Article : 145 wordsLoading or to Load. Inveramsay, bq., Esperance, for U.K. Kylemore, bq., Norfolk Bay, for U.K. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Minister of Lands (Hon. A. Hean) will leave for a visit to Tyenna on Wednesday. He will be accompanied by the Surveyor-General (Mr. E. A. Counsel), ...
Article : 47 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,488 tons, C. Suffern, Iron Melbourne, Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Yager and child, Baker, McAlinden, Allworth, McGowan, Carter and child, Swan, Wood, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe inquiry as to the action of the officer commanding the No. 2 Battery Australian Field Artillery, at Fremantle, in placing an order for military clothing ...
Article : 162 wordsTo any one who, during the past few years, had studied on the spot the working of compulsory arbitration, in New Zealand the fact that another strike had ...
Article : 341 wordsRotomahana, s.s., 1,777 tons, F. Maitland, for Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Wray, Palmer, Pearce, W. Green, A. J. Evo, White, Brown, H. Martin, Saltmarsh, ...
Article : 83 wordsLOW HEAD.—Arrived—May 23, 5.50 p.m.. Meeinderry. s.s.; from Melbourne: May 24, 6.25 a.m., Loongana, t.s., from Melbourne; 0.45 p.m., Wareatea, s.s., from Melbourne. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 25 May 1908, Page 4
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