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Article : 112 wordsIn the course of an interview yesterday on the present relations between Spain and the Vatican, Senor CanaleJas, the Premier of Spain, stated that ...
Article : 949 wordsA disastrous fire started last night at the Brussels exhibition and is still raging. The British French and six other sections are in flames. ...
Article : 357 wordsOur Woodsdale correspondent writes:— "News is to hand of the death of a very old and respected resident of Woodsdale, Mrs. Jane Rowlands, who was well on in ...
Article : 565 wordsNews has been received of a disastrous railway collision which occurred between an excursion tram and a goods train to-day near Saujon, near ...
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Article : 650 wordsThe "Daily Mail," which gave the £10,000 for the first successful flight from London to Manchester, has given another £1,000 for the longest ...
Article : 261 wordsThe employers in the Gorman private shipbuilding yards recently resolved to lock-out sixty per cent, of their employees, who total 60,000 hands, in ...
Article : 131 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Marine Board, a letter was read from the Warden of flinders Island municipality, who wrote stating that the letter from the ...
Article : 397 wordsWe have received the following, and shall be glad to acknowledge receipt of further amounts towards the Memorini Fund:— ...
Article : 48 wordsAll details in connection with the visit of the South Africans to Australia having now been arranged, the team will sail from Capetown in time to reach ...
Article : 284 wordsIn the death of Mr. Thos Gunn, the rowing partner of the well known firm of Messrs J. and T. Gunn Ltd., which occurred early this morning, Launceston ...
Article : 855 wordsIt is reported at Washington that President Taft has made terms with the Republican Insurgents. Mr. Richard Ballinger, the Secretary ...
Article : 180 wordsIn June last the Government of the Straits Settlements proposed to impose a 20 per cont. tax on freight recorded in all bills of lading, returning the duty ...
Article : 181 wordsFurther particulars have been gathered with regard to Mrs. Dost Mahomet, who was recently murdered at Karachi. After her husband had met with a ...
Article : 402 wordsApparently it is hoped that the writing of threatening letters to the secretary of the commission of inquiry into the accounts and affairs of the Workirtgmen's ...
Article : 199 wordsNews was received in England in May last that Lieutenmt Boyd Alexander, formely of the Rifle Brigade, who was on a hunting expedition in the French ...
Article : 232 wordsThe British causer Duke of Edinburgh, 13,500 tons 16 guns, belonging to the fifth ciuiser squachon and under the command of Captain the Hon. R ...
Article : 124 wordsThe cases of ptomaine poisoning in Wroxham, Castle Bromwich, and St. Helens have been farther added to by a number of people being attacked at ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Festival of Empire, which was held at the Crystal Palace last June, and in which 15,000 performers took part, is to be repeated next year, but ...
Article : 111 wordsThe quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,455,000 quarters as against 2,655,000 quarters a week ago. The ...
Article : 287 wordsYesterday 300 Czechs, who were visiting the Sports Exhibition in Vienna, came into collision with a number of Germans who were taking part in a ...
Article : 59 wordsEastern advices by the steamer Changsha state that Lieutenant Sharase and the members of the proposed Japanese expedition to the South Pole are collecting ...
Article : 58 wordsThe High Court of Lisbon, in Portugal, has decided that ex-Queen Maria Pia, grandmother of King Manuel of Portugal, is liable for the payment of ...
Article : 71 wordsAn employee of a London railway has been arrested in Liverpool whilst boarding the Oceanic S.S. Company's vessel Arabic, which was just ...
Article : 85 wordsThe political situation is uncertain except that the Ministry will possibly se[?] the session through without reconstruction. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe High Court delivered judgment to-day in the case of the Wingadee Shire Council v. Mrs. Mary Willis. The latter was sued for rates, and the appeal ...
Article : 189 wordsPersia has decided to introduce foreigners to reorganise various Government services. The army will be taken in hand by seven Frenchmen, the ...
Article : 69 wordsThe forest fires in North Idaho, where two infantry regiments were despatched from the army manoeuvres to help to fight the flames, are very serious, and ...
Article : 93 wordsMr. Hannah M.L.A., has been notified of his exclusion from membership in the Political Labour Council, because he would not withdraw from the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe P. and 0. liner Oceana, 6,610 tons, bound from London to Bombay, has gone ashore at Capo Faro, on the western side of the Straits of Messina. ...
Article : 58 wordsFrank Beauropaire, the Australian swimmer, achieved a further success yesterday in Paris, when he won the 100 metres international championship race, ...
Article : 39 wordsThe death occcued in Ballarat Benevelent Asylum last night of Mr. Thomas Hamilton, aged 101 years. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 16 Aug 1910, Page 5
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