The banquet tendered to-night to the Agent-General (Sir John McCall) on the eve of his return to London was a most successful function. It was given by ...
Article : 1,334 wordsDr. Gore, the Bishop of Oxford, who is an active worker against sweating in every form of trade, presided at a demonstration held yesterday in the ...
Article : 98 wordsM. Bardoux, in an article in the French weekly "Opinion" to-day, says —"Beaten by John Bull on sea, Germany seeks revenge on land, and is ...
Article : 111 wordsFurther surveys to-day of the damage done in Sydney and suburbs by the wind and rain during the phenomena storm on Saturday night brings the ...
Article : 618 wordsIt is with very great regret, a regret which will be generally shared, that we have to record the death of the Rev. George Clarke, who passed ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 1,337 wordsMany thousands of people assembled on Wimbledon Common to-day, and by their demonstrations rendered suffragist meetings there abortive. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe decisive victory at Janina of the Greek army, under the Crown Prince, has led the European sovereigns to forward congratulations on the ...
Article : 419 wordsYet another important stage in the development of the Australian scheme of naval defence was marked to-day by the arrival of the Commonwealth ...
Article : 988 wordsAdvices received in Paris from Rabat, the seaport on the west coast of Morocco, state that natives had attacked the French camp at Widzeau, and had been ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Charles E. Walch, who first met Mr. Clarke in 1847, when the latter had just left New Zealand, and who was a close personal friend of his ...
Article : 174 wordsAt Bow-street to-day Arthur Newton, the well-known solicitor, of Berkeley-street, and B. Bennett, an undischarged bankrupt, of Halfmoon-street, ...
Article : 135 wordsIt is reported that extensive deposits tn gold, copper, iron, and coal have been discovered on the estate of the late Prince Mahmed of Bukteah, at ...
Article : 44 wordsThe story of the Rev. Albert Knight, formerly vicar of Christ Church, Leeds who left England in company with Miss Fanny Grimes at a time when, he was ...
Article : 648 wordsA tragic suicide took place to-day at Brighton, in Sussex. A Roumanian visitor named Dimitresco, on finding that he had been ruined in a single day ...
Article : 48 wordsThe "Asahi Shimbun," a daily newspaper published in Tokio, states that the Japanese naval estimates will provide for the present construction of ...
Article : 107 wordsThe trawler Admiral Togo, 349 tons, belonging to the Pickering and Haldane's Steam Trawling Co., of Hull, has been wrecked on the coast of ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Chinese National Opium Congress, which has been sitting at Peking, recognising the hardships inflicted on the opium merchants by prohibition, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen are satisfied with the decision of the directors of the Midland Railway Co. in reinstating Guard Richardson, ...
Article : 104 wordsLieutenant Clark and Mrs. Fullam, the principals in the tragedy at Agra, which has caused such a sensation in India, were brought up for sentence ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Devonport Municipal Council met to-day. Councillor Lewis forwarded his resignation, through pressure of private business. ...
Article : 128 wordsReinsurances against total loss of the New Zealand Shipping Co.'s liner Turakina, which arrived at Rio de Janeiro last week on fire, have been made at 45 ...
Article : 77 wordsThe split in the South African Nationalist party, following upon the forced retirement of Mr. J. B. M. Hertzog from the Botha Ministry, ...
Article : 196 wordsAs the result of the hearing of a case by the Court of Industrial Appeals, the determination of the Clerks Wages Board giving women clerks the same ...
Article : 86 wordsThe French police arrested yesterday gang comprised of seven bicycle and motor bandits, who have been operating in Paris and its suburbs for the past ...
Article : 50 wordsOwing to successful tests made at Aldershot with machine guns fitted on a biplane, a fleet of biplanes is being equipped with guns. Experiments in ...
Article : 54 wordsIn reference to the attack made by an unknown Persian upon M. Constant, the Belgian Director of Customs at Bushire, and his wife, and which ...
Article : 67 wordsFinal arrangements have been made for establishing a steamer service on the coast of the Northern Territory. This will be opened by the Federal ...
Article : 44 wordsThe report of the Vulkan Shipbuilding Co. of Stettin. in Germany, shows a loss of £100,000 on ships built for the navy last year. The report states ...
Article : 60 wordsA hint was dropped to-day which would lead to the impression that Canberra has been selected as the name for the Federal capital. ...
Article : 36 wordsGreat friction, loading to the obstruction of Government business, has been introduced into the Hungarian Parliament, owing to new standing orders ...
Article : 45 wordsAn attempt is to be made to refloat the French barque Jean Bart, which is stranded at Wardang Island. The tug Dofiance, with a diver ...
Article : 81 wordsThe "Volks Zeitung," of Cologne, states that, in order to prevent the sending of German capital abroad to evade the recently-imposed war tax, the ...
Article : 101 wordsWelcome news was received to-day regarding the tramp steamer Queensland, from which distress rockets were fired last evening. A telegram which was ...
Article : 97 wordsYesterday a man in a German officer's uniform called and inspected tho municipal books at Sutterhausen. Finding that there were several thousand marks ...
Article : 69 wordsThe horse-drivers' strike collapsed today, the men having decided last night to return to work and move through the Arbitration Court. ...
Article : 201 wordsThe International Telegraph Conference will meet in London on September 26. EMPRESS OF ABYSSINIA. ...
Article : 86 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 30 wordsThe Governor-General (Lord Denman) received a wireless massage to-day from Dr. Mawson sent from Addie Land via Macquanio Island, as fellows:—"I ...
Article : 61 wordsMany fights took place on Saturday between Monarchists and Republicans at the municipal elections in the Basque provinces, and a magistrate and a ...
Article : 67 wordsThe German R[?]ichstag voted £10,000 yesterday for cotton cultivation in German East Africa. Dr. Solf referred to Grant Britain giving £10,000 a year ...
Article : 60 wordsSunday night was extremely wild and equally, "with showers, and 25 points of rain was registered. To-day continued wet, heavy rain falling at intervals. ...
Article : 35 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 60 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 11 Mar 1913, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: