The strike continues among the sailors and firemen in Great Britain, and at one or two ports on the continent, but there are evidences that it will ...
Article : 122 wordsIn the House of Commons this afternoon, Sir Edward Strachey, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Agriculture stated in reply to Mr. C. ...
Article : 182 wordsMr. Asquith, the Prime Minister of England, presided at the Imperial Conference yesterday afternoon, when the question of having a chain of ...
Article : 2,409 wordsYesterday there was held a procession from the Thames Embankment to the Albert-hall of members of the Woman's Social and Political Union of ...
Article : 171 wordsA cable message from London states that Queen Alexandra and her sister, the dowager Empress of Russia, are leaving the capital for a ten days' visit to ...
Article : 638 wordsMr. A. J. Balfour, the leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, presided at a Constitutional Club luncheon which was given yesterday in ...
Article : 401 wordsThe action brought in the Belgian courts by Princess Louise of Belgium to recover from the Government a portion of the estate of the late King ...
Article : 72 wordsThe members of the British Empire League and the Science Guild gave a banquet at the Savoy last night to the oversea visitors. The Duke of ...
Article : 218 wordsThe Imperial Agricultural Conference was opened yesterday at the Colonial Office, and was presided over by Lord Cromer. The Australian ...
Article : 155 wordsMr. Longworth, son-in-law of Mr. Roosevelt, has opposed the wool tariff schedule in the United States House of Representatives, and other members ...
Article : 212 wordsLast night the members of the Empire Press Union gave a banquet to the oversea journalists. Lord Burnham, the principal proprietor of the London ...
Article : 206 wordsAn International Limited Company's railway train was derailed yesterday at Toronto, and one passenger was killed and six others seriously injured. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe "Economist," one of the leading financial papers in Great Britain, states to-day that the Fedoral land tax as it stands is in many respects contrary to ...
Article : 63 wordsEighty thousand Albanian Highlanders attended the opening of the Selamlik ceremony at the tomb of the Sultan Mourad, on the Plain of Kossovo, ...
Article : 83 wordsArrangements have been made to accommodate 8,000 people in Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day. Though the route to be taken from, ...
Article : 154 wordsThirty bandsmen of Toronto were recently summoned for playing sacred music on Sunday. It was alloged that they had contravened the Lord's Day ...
Article : 55 wordsDelegates representing the ca[?]e growers of Bundaberg and district met yesterday for the purpose of discussing the demands made by the Amalgamated ...
Article : 70 wordsTwo additions to the death toll of aviators wore made in Paris yesterday. Lieutenant Princeteau, who was intending to start in to-day's Paris to ...
Article : 112 wordsThe members of the Royal Colonial Institute gave a conversazione to-day in honour of the visiting Premiers, and among those who were present were ...
Article : 133 wordsThere is much excitement in Teheran, the capital of Persia, over the sudden departure, for Europe of the Prime Minister. He had a quarrel with the ...
Article : 60 wordsThe assossors in the Dacca conspiracy cabe in India have found the 42 prisoners, all of whom are Bengalis, not guilty of the charge of conspiracy and ...
Article : 92 wordsWilliam Fogwell, who recently defeated Which for the professional sculling championship of New Zealand, was a "through" passenger by the s.s. Runic, ...
Article : 231 wordsIn the county cricket match between the Northamptonshire and Kent teams, which was concluded at Tonbridge yesterday, the former proved victorious. ...
Article : 45 wordsSpeaking in reference to the "N[?] Temere" decree in the course, of an addr[?]s to the Prahran brotherhood at the Prahran Congregational Church this ...
Article : 267 wordsAn investigation held at the British Consul-General's office in San Francisco into the cause of the loss of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's Asia, which ...
Article : 117 wordsGerman newspapers express delight at the approval by the Imperial Conference of the Declaration of London. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford is ...
Article : 76 wordsThe London County and Westminster Bank has acquired from the official receiver of the Birkbeck Bank the banking promises in Holborn, and the assets ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Public Works Department has called for tenders for the construction of a dry dock and ship repairing yards, also a berth for the construction of ...
Article : 54 wordsIn the gentlemen's lawn tennis singles for the Kent championship, which was played at the Beckenham tournament yesterday, A. F. Wilding beat S. M. ...
Article : 84 wordsA private telegram was received from Wynyard last night stating that Mr. A. G. Murphy, commercial traveller, had met with a serious bicycle accident. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe mail train, bound last night from Portland to San Francisco, was held up by armed men, and looted. The passengers were not molested. The ...
Article : 43 wordsThe crew of the French submarine Argonaute, 568 tons, 15 knots, voluntarily submerged the vessel yesterday at Toulon, and remained under water for ...
Article : 44 wordsAt the International horse show now being held at Olympia, in London, and for which the Kaiser specially selected the German team, the latter have ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following notifications appeared in the Commonwealth Government "Gazette" on Saturday:- Twelfth Australian Infantry ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Customs leakage Royal Commission, after taking evidence at Devonport and Burnie, left the coast for Melbourne on Saturday night. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe employers in the wool-combing industry in Bradford are determined to resist the demand of the men on strike for a general advance of 5 per cent, in ...
Article : 134 wordsThe Chinese loan of £6,000,000 at 5 per cent., which was to have been issued in equal parts in England, France, the United States and Germany, was ...
Article : 74 wordsIn the 880 yards swimming match, which took place on the Thames yesterday, Champion, of New South Wales, was first, Findley second, and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe census of the United Kingdom is returned as 45,216,665, an increase of 3,758,944 since 1901. The number of males in England and Wales is shown ...
Article : 74 wordsThe final census figures for Queensland, according to enumerators' counts, are—333,674 males, 279,266 females. Total, 612,940. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Forty Hours' Devation to the Blessed Sacrament was brought to a close at St. Mary's Cathedral at the 11 o'clock mass yesterday. His Grace the ...
Article : 217 wordsYesterday at Leipsiz a German Army reservist named Joseph Remane was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for selling carbines and military ...
Article : 62 wordsA number of plague-infected rats have been found at Shadwell, in the southeast of London, and within a couple of miles of St. Paul's Cathedral. The ...
Article : 54 wordsThe earthquake of great severity which was recorded at the Madrid Observatory, and also at Melbourne, was recorded at the West Bromwich ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Festival of Empire sports, which were held at the Crystal Palace yesterday, Opie was first in the 100 yards scratch race, and Stewart, of ...
Article : 106 wordsThe billiard match of 16,000 up on level terms for £50 a side between George Gray and Melbourne Inman was advanced another stage yesterday, ...
Article : 79 wordsA search party, headed by Constable Wilson, went out yesterday to look for Robert O'Meara, who had left for the North Heemskirk district on Thursday ...
Article : 83 wordsMr. Theodore Roosevelt has been attacked by the "Los Angeles Times" for expressing a doubt that the office was blown up by dynamite in October last, ...
Article : 54 wordsA resolution is to be introduced in the United Stales House of Representatives with the object of investigating whether the American Woollen ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 19 Jun 1911, Page 5
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