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Detailed lists, results, guides : 16 wordsOf late it has been found necessary to draw attention in "The Mercury" to the unbecoming conduct of portion of the spectators at football matches on the cricket ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsWe can safely say that for every one person who, in looking at the cable messages in Saturday's "Mercury," turned first to the account given ...
Article : 727 wordsThe Weather Bureau reports for last week:—At the close of last month a high pressure area had just passed from Eastern Australia on to the Tasman Sea, ...
Article : 212 wordsThe Wainui, for Melbourne, via Strahan, left Hobart at 1.10 p.m. on Saturday. She is due back at Hobart on the 16th inst. The Toros[?] from Devonport and ...
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Article : 32 wordsDuring last week the practising schools at Elizabeth-street, Hobart, and East Launceston were kept open to afford the teachers of country schools an ...
Article : 91 wordsTwenty-nine Victorian representatives will attend the third Australian Dental Congress, which will be opened at Brisbane to-day, and continued until July ...
Article : 123 wordsCloudy to overcast and threatening throughout; raining in the North, and at places elsewhere, except in the S. Some [?] and fogs. Calms and light to strong ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 99 wordsWhen the 7 p.m. tram-car was proceeding from Launceston to Newstead on Saturday it collided with a cow on the Elphin-road. Two of the animal's legs ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsIn the Children's Court at Launceston on Saturday morning two lads under 16 years of age were chargea with a breach of section 145 of the Defence Act, by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 208 wordsCaptain Irvine, Chief Harbourmaster at Fremantle, has received the following telegram from Broome:— Steamer Bullarra, on the passage ...
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Article : 56 wordsIn past years sailing vessels requiring ballast at Launceston to steady them on their voyage to another port to receive cargo experienced little or no difficulty ...
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Article : 37 wordsThe Federal wireless expert (Mr. J. G. Balsillie) arrived in Adelaide on Wednesday from Melbourne. Mr. Balsillie intends to conduct experiments in that ...
Article : 112 wordsOonah, s.s., for Melbourne—357 bgs turnips, 30 bgs peas. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 8 Jul 1912, Page 4
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