The French mail steamer Salagie from Marseilles was in a distressed condition off Jervis Bay early this morning. Captain McDonald, of the steamer ...
Article : 178 wordsFurther evidence was taken to-day by the special board which is inquiring into the Richmond railway disaster. Frederick John Hollands, recorder at ...
Article : 928 wordsAn intensely interesting and important discussion has been taking place at Home regarding the prodigious increase in the size of steamships, and the duty of the ...
Article : 1,421 wordsThe police in Calcutta, the capital of Bengal, have been actively searching certain ureas in the city where sedition was thought to exist, and a special ...
Article : 617 wordsThe manifesto issued by the Scottish National Committee, in which it was stated that the settlement of the constitutional question offered an ...
Article : 430 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Sir Harry Barron, who has been on a visit to Sydney returns to Hobart to-morrow night A cable was received yesterday from ...
Article : 605 wordsFighting has taken place in Teheran, the capital of Persia, between the Fidais a band of revolutionaries, and the Government troops. ...
Article : 89 wordsFurther trouble is threatened in the shipyards on the River Clyde, where the drillers are still on strike, although the caulkers-have returned to work. ...
Article : 275 wordsThe strike of the employees on the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada is practically at an end. Fifty per cent. of the men have ...
Article : 52 wordsIn the Criminal Court the seconad trial of John Wrixon Black, on a charge of having stoien three sums of £30 each from his late employers, S. Freedman ...
Article : 160 words"The Times" states to-day that a new postage stamp is under consideration, and will probably have King George's head imprinted upon it. It is expected ...
Article : 69 wordsAlthough it was intended by 80,000 Catholics to hold a demonstration in San Sebastian yesterday against the concessions granted by the Govornment ...
Article : 140 wordsA sensational tragedy occurred on Saturday outside the Palace of Justice, in Paris. Francois Medaille, an artist, sought ...
Article : 91 wordsA cottage in Richmond, occupied by Mrs. Travis, aged 72 years, was burned to the ground on Friday night last, and the old woman, who was crippled, was ...
Article : 90 wordsIt was stated last week that Turkey had purchased from Germany the battleships Worth and Brandenburg, and that the purchases were intended as a ...
Article : 197 wordsLabour organisations in the Bathurst district had made arrangements for a great demonstration at the gaol entrance on the occasion of the release of ...
Article : 74 wordsAll the men on the British subrmarine A[?], on board of which a spalrk exploded the petrol, and caused two of her officers and five other members of the crew to ...
Article : 70 wordsIn the Court of General Sessions today, a young man named Alfred Linzz[?] was charged with they manslaughter of Thomas Bull, a fireman. The accused ...
Article : 222 wordsThe Federation of Master Cotton Spinders recently decided to demand a five per cent. reduction in the wages of operatives in the cotton trade of ...
Article : 206 wordsAt the Hamburg chess tournament [?]st concluded, Herr Schiechter, who last January played Emanuel Lasker for the championship of the world, was the ...
Article : 248 wordsA gentleman, presenting himself on behalf of fruitgrowers, interviewed the Mininster for Customs (Mr. Tudor), on the difficulty experienced in obtaining ...
Article : 277 wordsLast week Senator Gore, in giving evidence at a congressional inquiry seated that the agents of the McMurray syndicate offered him 50,000 dollars ...
Article : 204 wordsMr. E. H. D. Sewell, who has frequently crticised the [?] of the Australian cricketer, has written a further letter to the "Sporting Life," ...
Article : 126 wordsThe King has issued his warrant, granting to Victoria a new coat-of-arms. The design includes the five stars of ...
Article : 75 wordsAn Austrian lieutenant in one of the Hussar regiments has committed suicide under tragic circumstances. "The officer, whose name was Karl ...
Article : 108 wordsYesterday evening at 8 o'clock an aviator named Willows started from Cardiff, in Wales, on a flight to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, a distance of ...
Article : 108 wordsA significant warning was uttered by Judge Heydon in the Industrial Court to-day. The case under notice was one in ...
Article : 169 wordsThe effect of the [?] strike [?] slaugh [?]men at Globe Island was hardly perceptible. The supply of mear in the city and suburbs was not affected to any ...
Article : 151 wordsAt Mossman, Charles O'Malle[?], secretary of the Sugar Workers' Union, was charged with p[?]cuting a man named Vincent Silvester Cook to blow up the ...
Article : 155 wordsWriting to the Acting-Comptrollor-General of Customs, in reply to some inquiries as to invoice values, a Britrsh firm of scale-makers said: ...
Article : 104 wordsThe murder in Paris in January last of a policeman by an "Apache," who was weering leather bonds studded with sharp spikes and razor blades, ...
Article : 121 wordsA daring robbery is reported from New Mexico, in the United States. Whilst the stage coach was proceeding yesterday to the Silver City, ...
Article : 62 wordsIn the Hampshire championship lawn tennis tournament, which was concluded at Bournemouth yesterday. G. A. Thomas defeated S. N. Doust in the ...
Article : 82 wordsThe Russian Countess Tarnowski, who at Venice in May last was sentenced to eight years' solitary confinement for being concerned with a young man ...
Article : 76 words"There seems to be an impression abroad," said the Minister of Defence (Senator Pernee) to-day, "that the Government is going to revolutionise the ...
Article : 110 wordsAn increase of at least £70,000 a year will take place in the Australian boot trade wages bill on the award finally made by Mr. Justice Higgins. ...
Article : 57 wordsFollowing upon developments in melbourne in connection with certain importations of motor-cars, which led to the "securing" of goods in Melbourne, ...
Article : 52 wordsJohn Renard, about 30 years of age, was charged to-day at the Richmond Court with having voted more than once at the Comrenwealth election held on ...
Article : 210 wordsIn reference to the deputation of members of the Manitoba Gramgrowers' Association who waited upon Sir Wilfrid Laurier at Brandon, and protested ...
Article : 93 wordsYesterday King George and Queen Mary made an unexpected visit to the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition, which is now being held at the White City. ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the county cricket match between Surrey and Middlesex, which was started at Kennington Oval on Thursday, the home team defeated Middlesex by ...
Article : 89 wordsThe scores' at the close of play in the Roberts v. Weiss billiard match were as follow:—1 Weiss (receives 2,000), 10,750. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Attorney-General stated to-day that he hoped the Government would be able during the present session to pass more stringent legislation to deal with ...
Article : 116 wordsIn a football match between the Hampden and Cloncurry Rugby teams yesterday, Angus McCallum sustained fracture of the skull, and died the same ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the test matches between the bowlins teams of Victoria and Queensland the local players were successful in two matches, the scores being 123 to 77, and ...
Article : 40 wordsThe steamer Star of Victoria, 3,291 tons, belonging to the Star Line Limited, of Belfast, has left Puerto Cabello, the chief seaport in Venezuela, for ...
Article : 61 wordsAnother attempt was made on Saturday to swim the English Channel, this time by James Mearns, who was in the water for 9½ hours, and covered 12 ...
Article : 50 wordsDuring the quarter ended June 30 4011b. of opium valued at £1,212 was seized by the Customs officials. Of the penalties imposed, viz, £897, the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 9 Aug 1910, Page 5
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