Since the fire was subdued this morning anxious inquiries have been made as to when the bodies will be brought out. This will not be till late to-night. ...
Article : 179 wordsThe Home Rule Bill was further considered in the House of Commons to-day. Mr. W. H. Fisher, one of the ...
Article : 203 wordsFarther particulars are published to-day of the resignation of Mr. and Mrs. Petbick Lawrence, the militant suffragists, who have quitted the Women's ...
Article : 113 wordsThe resignation of Mr. F. D. Monk, the Minister of Public Works in the Dominion Parliament, in consequence of disagreement with Mr. R. L. Borden, ...
Article : 128 wordsTurkey has declared war against Servia and Bulgaria. The Ministers in Constantinople of those two countries have received their passports. The ...
Article : 78 wordsThe death is announced by cable message from Washington of Senator Weldon Brinton Heyburn. He was born in Delaware County in 1852, and admitted to the ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Mayor received the following telegram yesterday from Federal Government house, Melbourne:— I am desired by His Excellency the ...
Article : 68 words"Many things have happened lately, the most conspicuous of all being that, about ten days ago, the whole of the rats in the 700ft level left. When this ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Women's Political Union hold a demonstration in the Albert-hall yester day Three hundred women who have suffered imprisonment were attired in ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Vossische Zeitung," one of the leading papers of Berlin, states to-day that the presence of the British fleet in Suda Bay, which has the best ...
Article : 72 wordsA burglary, with highly sensational shooting incidents, took place early this morning at the Captain Cook Hotel, Moore-park. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 184 wordsThe Roumanian steamer Princess Marie, which was conveying Ottoman refugees, has been detained at Varna the Bulgarian Black Sea port. ...
Article : 45 words"The association could do nothing until about three weeks ago, when Mr. Cunningham, secretary of the association, and myself, as president, met and ...
Article : 534 wordsMr. L. Ginnoll, the Independent Nationalist member for North Westmeath, questioned Mr. Sydney Buxton, the President of the Board of Trade, ...
Article : 69 wordsPaddy Heffernan, who was one of the rescued 50, relates how he first found a rope hanging down the shaft, which brought the entombed men into ...
Article : 317 wordsIt was recently reported that M. Wilmart, the manager of the Ghent-Terneuzen Railway Co., had disappeared, after perpetrating frauds amounting to ...
Article : 128 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon attention was called to the speech made on Tuesday last by Mr. F. D. Acland, the Under-Secretary of ...
Article : 105 wordsKing Ferdinand of Bulgaria has left Sofia for the front. The King of Servia has started for his army's headquarters, which are situated at Nish. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Red Cross Society is sending ambulances from England to Montenegro. Doctors Antony. Bradford, and Goldsmith, all Australians, will be ...
Article : 38 wordsTo-day the House of Commons read the second time the Bee Disease Bill, which gives the Board of Agriculture powers of inspection. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Russian Government has made energetic representations to the Porte, and is also negotiating with the Great Powers to secure the free passage of ...
Article : 38 wordsThe State Cabinet to-day considered the question of voluntarity offering a subscription to the relief fund. "The Ministry," said the Premier ...
Article : 271 wordsThe Bank of England figures for October 17, with the previous week's totals given in parentheses, are as follow:— ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Lloyd-George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated in the House of Commons yesterday that the Government did not intend to introduce the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Vienna correspondent of the "Temps" states that there is an unverified rumour that Sir P. L. Cartwright, the British Ambassador to ...
Article : 63 wordsCirculars have been issued in Peking urging the withdrawal of deposits from the Six-Power group of banks as a protest against their attitude ...
Article : 71 wordsThere was renewed rioting yesterday at Ely, in Nevada, when the trade union men attempted to close a mine. The State police were summoned, and ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Servian artillery repulsed a Turkish attack yesterday from Prypolyo, to the north-west of Novibazar, killing 200 men. The loss of the Servians is ...
Article : 36 wordsThe market rate for short loans is 3¼ per cent.; for bills at three months, 4[?] per cent. The rate in Paris is 8¼ per cent., and in Berlin 4? per cent. ...
Article : 35 wordsJ. Blomquist, one of the rescued, is reported to have been in two previous mining disasters and two shipwrecks. ...
Article : 23 wordsSir Newton Moore, the Agent-General for West Australia, gave evidence to-day before the Royal Commission appointed, in pursuance of the 20th ...
Article : 111 wordsAs a protest against the doctors refusing friendly society work, the guardians of the North Dublin Union have decided not to allow the corpses of ...
Article : 46 wordsThe declaration of war by Servia has evoked tremendous enthusiasm. At a special service the Archbishop of Belgrade invoked a blessing on the holy ...
Article : 69 wordsThe smelting of ore at the reduction works will be discontinued. To-night there are rumours that several women have become demented, and ...
Article : 125 wordsImperial Consols, 2½ per cent., quoted at £73 2s. 6d., a fall of 15s. since last week. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr. J. A. Jensen, M.H.R., who is in charge of the Mount Lyell relief fund in the House of Representatives, announces that he has collected from ...
Article : 111 wordsVictoria, 4 per cent., £100. New South Wales, 4 per cent., £102. New Zealand, 4 per cent., £100; 3½ per cent., £92: 3 per cent., £81. West ...
Article : 40 wordsWhen the Arbitration Court proceeded with the hearing of the tramway employees' plaint to-day. Mr. Waxman (representing the North ...
Article : 171 wordsMr. Roosevelt is still improving. He has issued a statement reproving Mr. W. J. Bryan for his assertion that the campaign issues ought not to be ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Bulgarian Government has ordered from Austrian makers eight aeroplanes for use in the war. ...
Article : 23 words"Why were the men not notified in terms of urgent warning that the fire was serious? The pump house man knew it at 10.45, and must have ...
Article : 176 wordsThe murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Mr. Thomas A. Burke, the Undersecretary, in Phœnix Park, Dublin, on ...
Article : 129 wordsA most pathetic incident has come under notice, and has been vouched for as true. W. Simmonds, who was one of those rescued from the 1,000ft. level ...
Article : 66 wordsThe sum of £5 13s., collected by Miss A. J. M. Dermott, was handed to "The Mercury" last evening, as an addition to the £50 11s. 16d. already deposited ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Mexican Chamber of Deputies has precipitated a crisis by demanding the resignation of General Madero, the President, and his Cabinet. ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Turks are now operating from Mustanha to the north-west of Adrianople, and the advance guards of the Bulgarians are retiring on the main ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Thomas W. Lawson (author of "Frenzied Finance") at the State Campaign Contributions Investigation at Washington to-day, related a ...
Article : 101 wordsIt is officially stated in Constantinople that Turkish militia, supportde by regular troops, have penetrated Bulgarian territory for several miles, the ...
Article : 47 wordsThe name J. O'Day, given in the list of the dead and missing, should be George Gadd, and that of W. Bennett should be J. McGowan. ...
Article : 27 wordsBro. F. H. Ralph, Grand President of the United Ancient Order of Druids Grand Ledge of Tasmania, has instructed the secretary that the sum ...
Article : 68 wordsAmong the relatives of the men who have lost their lives in the North Lyell disaster is the father of W. and A. Tregonning. Mr. Tregonning ...
Article : 240 wordsAlarmed at the situation in Vera Cruz, the United States Government has ordered the cruiser Des Moines, 3.200 tons, there to protect Americans, ...
Article : 64 wordsTo-day, when the Montenegrins entered Berane, which was captured from the, Turks after severe fighting, two months supply of food for the garrison ...
Article : 39 words"As to the conflict of opinion about the number of men underground (the company saying there are 42, and we 48). I was present when the roll was ...
Article : 105 wordsAnother aviator was killed to-day at Mourmelon, in the French department of Marne. Whilst an airman named Blanc was piloting a monoplane at a ...
Article : 48 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, the Treasurer gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill to declare the meaning of section 7 of the Income Tax Act of 1902 in respect ...
Article : 250 wordsThe "Argus" has a fund for the relief of the sufferers. Up to the present £236 has been received. The Governor (Sir Jno. Fuller) gave £10, the Broken Hill ...
Article : 55 wordsLord Lamington, a former Governor of Queensland, in a letter in to-day's "Times," states that had privatelyowned railways been allowed in ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Turkish losses in the fight at Krania were 17 killed and 54 wounded, and the Montenegrin casualties 500. Fighting [?] the north of Gusinge ...
Article : 128 wordsAt Philadelphia to-day Teddy Maloney outpointod "Ad" Wolgast in a six-round bout. Maloney punched Wolgast at long range throughout. ...
Article : 52 wordsBefore closing, I must, on behalf of my Union, thank Mr. Sawyer, the New South Wales expert, for helping the men on Sunday last in the attempted ...
Article : 70 wordsThe "Herald" North Mount Lyell disaster fund now amounts to about £200. ...
Article : 19 wordsA disastrous explosion occurred to-day at Barsonnechia, and destroyed the new power station erected there for the electrification of the Mont Cenis tunnel ...
Article : 40 wordsMr. J. J. Mahoney, president of the Lyell branch of the Federated Miners' Association, and also president of the organisation for the State, yesterday ...
Article : 220 wordsThe Canadian Cadets, who arrived in Hobart on Thursday, were entertained at breakfast yesterday morning at the Grotto by the Royal Society of St. ...
Article : 258 wordsThe above statement was made known to Mr. Jamieson, chairman of directors, and Mr. Sticht, general manager of the Lyell Co., and they stated:— ...
Article : 139 wordsMr. R. S. Sievier states that he won £30,000 on the Cesarewitch Stakes, run yesterday, and won by Mr. C. E. Howard's colt Warlingham. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn a speech at Newcastle to-day Earl Grey, formerly Governor-General of Canada, said he was surprised that profit-sharing co-partnery was the last ...
Article : 51 wordsGreek gunboats have arrived at Vonitza, on the south shore of the Gulf of Arta. The four torpedo-boat destroyers which were recently purchased in ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. W. H. Twelvetrees (Government Geologist) returned to Burnie to-night from Mt. Lyell. Interviewed by a "Mercury" reporter, he said that the ...
Article : 182 wordsThe South African team of Rugby footballers met Glamorgan yesterday, and won by 35 points to three. ...
Article : 24 wordsRepresentatives of the Northern Tasmanian Tourist Association will wait on the Commissioner of Railways at Launceston on Monday to discuss with Mr. ...
Article : 125 wordsLast month an attempt was made to obtain £1,750 from Cox's Bank at Charing Cross by forging the signature of Field-Marshal Lord Roberts, but the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe Greek gunboats passed the Turkish guns within 240 yards in the narrow channel between the new fortress at Previa and the const batteries. The ...
Article : 136 wordsNow that peace has been concluded between Turkey and Italy, the Sultan has issued a firman granting autonomy to the Arabs in Tripoli and Cyrenaica. ...
Article : 35 wordsDiscussing the Lyell disaster to-night, Mr. Thomas Judge (Victorian president of the Federated Mining Employees' Association) stated that he could not ...
Article : 166 wordsA proclamation has been issued by the italian Government granting an amnesty to all those who participated in the war in Tripoli and Cyrenaica, and ...
Article : 45 words"The position is, no doubt, to an extent due to a lack of performance of duty on the part of the Government inspector of mines. Recently the men ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 19 Oct 1912, Page 5
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