The Minister of Customs (Sir R. W. Best), in answer to Senator Keating, said that he would communicate with the Postmaster-General, with a view to ...
Article : 137 wordsIn the House of Assembly last night the Minister for Lands (Hon. Alex. Hean) made a brief, but indignant, protest against a statement that had been made ...
Article : 350 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Kelly (N.S.W.) continued, the debate on the Naval Loan Bill, giving the ...
Article : 1,261 wordsMr. Bowling's mines produced nearly one thousand tons of coal to-day. One hundred and fifty tons left Newcastle for Sydney, and the steamer ...
Article : 892 wordsThe trouble between the United States and Nicaragua in consequence of the execution of two Americans for assisting the Nicaraguan revolutionists ...
Article : 126 wordsSir Philip Fysh returned to Launceston from Melbourne,by the Loongana yesterday. He was accompanied by Lady Fysh. ...
Article : 863 wordsLondon "Truth," in commenting upon the report m the Ceylon "Times" of the dicket match that was played by the Austrlians at Colombo on ...
Article : 860 wordsThe majority for the amendment moved hy the Marquis of Lansdowne, which resulted in the rejection of the Budget proposals in the House of ...
Article : 647 wordsAlbert Nelson was to-day charged with having on October 6 shot at and wounded with intent to murder Florrie Sturgess. Nelson was also charged ...
Article : 293 wordsAt the instance of the Marquis of Lansdowne, the House of Lords has resolved, while not insisting upon its amendments to the Land Development ...
Article : 89 wordsThe sitting of the Assembly was not brought to a close until four o'clock this morning. The proceedings were monotonously quiet until three, when ...
Article : 212 wordsSir Wm. Matthews, consulting engineer for harbour and dock works, in association with Mr. W. Davidson, inspector-general of public works in ...
Article : 84 wordsLieut. Hofrichter, an Austrian officer, who was recently arrested at Vienna on a charge of attempting to poison officers of the general staff, states that the ...
Article : 111 wordsDr. Norris, Commonwealth Director of Quarantine, arrived from Melbourne by the Loongana to-day. He states that he has come over to Tasmania to give effect ...
Article : 302 wordsThe Chief Justice yesterday concluded the hearing of the administration suit of Griffin v. Griffin. In this case the defendant, Robert Griffin, formerly ...
Article : 288 wordsA native millionaire of Bombay Jam given a sum of 25,000 rupees (approximately £1,666) to Mr. Ghandi, the leader of the Indians in the Transvaal, ...
Article : 53 wordsMr, R. R. Cherry, who has been Attorney-Genoral for Ireland since 1905, will succeed Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon as Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland. ...
Article : 72 wordsThomas Downer, a Ballarat manufacturer, who has just returned from a trip to Europe, was interviewed today concerning the complaints said to ...
Article : 255 wordsIt has been officially announced that Admiral Sir A. Wilson has been appointed to succeed Admiral Fisher (recently raised to the peerage) as First ...
Article : 79 wordsA dozen offers have been received from persons who wish to have control of the fight that is to take place between J. Jeffries and J. Johnson next ...
Article : 124 wordsA strange case of alleged attempted murder came before the Glebe Police Court to-day, when a young man named Harry Ainsworth was charged with ...
Article : 288 wordsA corporal of hussars stationed at Verdun, in France, had borrowed large sums of money from the members of his squadron. As the corporal feared ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the City Court to-day George A. Tracey, ex-secretary of the Victorian Poultry and Kennel Club, was committed for trial on a charge of having ...
Article : 57 wordsThe King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice has dismissed Mrs. Pankhurst's claim, under the Act of Charles H., to psrsonally, or by ...
Article : 108 wordsThere were 1,191 casks of tallow offered at to-day's sales, and 428 casks, were sold. There was a decline of sixpence per cwt., except for good, fine ...
Article : 177 wordsThe Lord Mayor of Newcastle-on-Tyne has initiated a fund to relieve the local distress through the prevalent unemployment. It is said that there ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Mayor (Alderman Wilson) has prepared some interesting figures as to the present and prospective, indebtedness of the city. The liability of the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe annual installation meeting of the Loral Concord Lodge, No. 10, T.C. was held on Tuesday night at Latrobe. The installing officer was the Worshipful Bro. ...
Article : 146 wordsA man named James McEwan escaped from custody by jumping from a prison cart to-day. McEwan to-day completed a sentence of two years and ...
Article : 130 wordsThe Royal Mint has purchased £70,000 worth of silver for Commonwealth coinage purposes. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn his speech at the opening of the German Reichstag yesterday, the Kaiser avoided all reference to the navy. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Postal Commission concluded the taking of evidence to-day. The chairman (Mr. Wilks) said that during the Parliamentary recess the members of ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Kaiser, in opening the Reichstag yesterday, referred to the FrancoGerman agreement relative to Morocco. He said that the terms of this ...
Article : 45 wordsThe twelfth report of the liabilities of the archdiocese of Adelaide has been issued by Archbishop O'Reilly, and the figures are remarkably significant. ...
Article : 79 wordsAt the Horticultural Society's Colonial Exhibition in London, the New Zealand Government has received silver Knightsian medals for fruits, etc., and ...
Article : 51 wordsA nugget, containing ll6oz. of gold, was Unearthed at Poseidon field to-day. The claim is held by a syndicate of seven, one of whom disposed of his interest for £100 ...
Article : 55 wordsThe revenue returns for November were £356,553, as compared with £316,046 for November last year. The excess of revenue for the five months over ...
Article : 36 wordsThe weather has turned cold, with sweeping showers, alternating with hail storms and cold winds. To-night the conditions are improving. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe ship Clan Macpherson, which left Newcastle, Australia, on June 24 for Valparaise, has been posted us missing. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 3 Dec 1909, Page 5
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