The steamer Ardendearg, 3,229 tons, belonging to the Ardan Steamship Company of Glasgow, whilst on her voyage from Calcutta to Great Britain, picked ...
Article : 132 wordsOnly one-fourth of the railwaymen are members of trade unions. The railwaymon have issued a manifesto demanding the same ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Minister of Lands (Hon. A. Hean) and the Director of Agriculture (Mr A. H. Benson) left last night for Deloraine to inspect a site for an experimental farm ...
Article : 816 wordsA case of Asiatic cholera has been discovered in Vienna. SERIOUS OUTLOOK IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, August 17. ...
Article : 92 wordsInformation received from various sources creates the impression that Germany has renewed her original demands from France in regard to ...
Article : 180 wordsA fresh difficulty has arisen with the London dockers, owing to their opposition to the employment of non-unionists. ...
Article : 101 wordsThe railwaymen in York decline to handle trains conveying soldiers or police. Widespread unrest exist on the ...
Article : 35 wordsMr. Henry Labouchere's journal "Truth," alleges that the New Zealand Government hastened the execution of the young Maori, Tahi Kaka, ...
Article : 652 wordsAll grades of food are almost at famine prices in Liverpool. Meat is being escorted by the military from the docks to the merchants. ...
Article : 130 wordsLloyd's has secured a monopoly for the erection of wireless telegraph stations in Egypt, and will instal a powerful station at Port Said to start ...
Article : 43 wordsFurther rioting took place yesterday in Liverpool. The mob smashed the windows of tramears, and took no notice of the display of force against ...
Article : 121 wordsSince January 1 last Germany's imports have increased by £15,000,000, and her exports by £16,000,000, ascompared with the corresponding ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir H. Dalziel, the Liberal member lot Kirkcaldy Burghs, introduced a bill providing for Home Rule for ...
Article : 162 wordsBusiness in Manchester is demoralised. The bulk of the transport workers are idle. The strikers have notified the Post ...
Article : 91 wordsThe cargo of Australian wheat by the East African has been sold at 34s. 6d. per quarter. RABBIT SKINS. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Tom Mann, in an article in an article in to-day's "Daily Mail," says that the present strikes are a move in the direction of industrial solidarity as opposed ...
Article : 95 wordsA number of small fires, which are supposed to have been caused by incendiaries, have occurred among the shipping in Liverpool. ...
Article : 53 wordsIn February last an action was commenced in the High Court in its original jurisdiction, in which John De La Coar and 20 others, plaintiffs, claimed ...
Article : 348 wordsThere are 21,000 military reservists employed on the various railways, and the Government may summon them to the colours and put the men to work ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Sydney Buxton, the President of the Board of Trade, had a conference this morning with the railway managers, and in the afternoon with ...
Article : 195 wordsThe proprietors of the London newspapers are organising motor deliveries in the event of the failure of the railways. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe report received in London last month from Livingstone, in the Congo, staling that members of the Okavango tribe, in Ngamaland, had massacred the ...
Article : 81 wordsThe Midland Railway Co. has offered the men who will remain loyal a bonus of 50 per cent, on their wages during the currency of the strike. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe railway passenger and goods traffic in Manchester has been stopped. The Central Committee of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Governor of the Isle of Man (Lord Raglan) has applied ior a cruiser to transport provisions to the Isle of Man, as the ordinary communication ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. R. O. Davies, a Welsh solicitor, who acted as agent for Mr. C. F. G. Masterman, the Under-Secretary for the Home Department, and owing to ...
Article : 59 wordsThe general strike caTfed for yesterday by the executive of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants in the event of the ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is officially announced that C. B. Fry has declined the invitation of the Marylebone Club to captain the English cricket team visiting Australia. G. ...
Article : 183 wordsWhen counting ceased late last night the Liverpool Plains seat was in doubt, the Labour candidate having a lead of 31 votes, with three returns to come. ...
Article : 487 wordsMr. R. L. Borden, the leader of the Conservative party in the Canadian House of Commons, addressed a great meeting last night at Chatham, in the ...
Article : 108 wordsIn attempting a flight from St. Louis to New York, a distance of 1,108 miles by rail, the American aviator Atwood reached Pottsville, in Ohio, travelling ...
Article : 119 wordsSir Guy Granot, after to-day's conference, announced, on behalf of the railway managers, that the Government, having promised the companies ...
Article : 149 wordsThe members of the Labour party raised a discussion in the House of Commons yesterday on the strike. They denounced what they termed the ...
Article : 276 wordsThe Inter-State Labour Conference, which was called to deal with the sugar strike, concluded its sittings last night. The conference spent some hours ...
Article : 123 wordsThe South African newspapers comment to-day on the conclusion of the trial of Mr. Snm Lewis, the Bulawayo merchant, who shot and killed a negro ...
Article : 67 wordsThe condition of the Pope is unchanged. The death of Cardinal Moran has not been communicated to him owing to ...
Article : 49 wordsArising out of his unsuccessful appeal against Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady's writ of attachment for contemot of Court in failing to supply the Public ...
Article : 145 wordsThirteen members of the Poultry Trust, which operated only in New York city, have been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and each fined ...
Article : 46 wordsThe shipment of Tasmanian apples by the White Star liner Runic, which remained undischarged for nearly a fortnight, owing to the strike, was ...
Article : 82 wordsWork is being gradually resumed at the London docks, and the Port of London Authority has reinstated the strikers. ...
Article : 137 wordsWireless telegraphy has been used for police purposes for the first time in Australia during the voyage of the steamship Grantala from Brisbane to ...
Article : 173 wordsThere is a senpus outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany, no less than 17,669 farms being affected. The outbreak, in combination with the ...
Article : 75 wordsW. Fogwell, of New South Wales, who has challenged Ernest Barry for the sculling championship of England, continues to undergo hard training for ...
Article : 70 wordsLowe, Beamish, and Dixon, the representatives of England, will sail from Southampton for New York on the 24th inst. to pitty the United States in the ...
Article : 52 wordsEvery available soldier at Aldershot is under orders for service on the railways. The men will be stationed along the ...
Article : 83 wordsA cyclone which prevailed yesterday devastated the district of High River, in the province of Alberta. A shack (hut) occupied by a woman ...
Article : 81 wordsThe United States Senate and House of Representatives, after numerous conferences, settled their disputes over the Wool Bill, and fixed the ad ...
Article : 76 wordsSir James Barr, the senior physician of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, advocated at the Health Congress in Dublin yesterday the study of eugenics. He ...
Article : 63 wordsAlderman Charles H. Bird, the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, fearing disturbances, has asked for the assistance of 500 infantry and 150 cavalry to protect the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 18 Aug 1911, Page 5
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