A poll was taken at Derby on Tuesday to decide upon the day for the statutory half-holiday, and resulted in 228 votes being recorded for Wednesday and 107 ...
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Advertising : 617 wordsDuring the summer months the letters carriers of Launceston have enjoyed a Saturday half-holiday, the inter-State mail invariably arriving early, and the ...
Article : 116 wordsTide table, May 16 (approximate):—High water, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.; low water, 3 p.m. ...
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Article : 35 wordsKaituna, s.s., 1,977 tons, J. Thomson, from Wallaroo, S. Australia. Agents—U.S.S. Co Rooganah, aux. 3-mstd sch., 95 tons. H. Heather, from Melbourne Agents—H. Jone ...
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Article : 30 wordsKaituna, s.s., 1,977 tons, J. Thomson, for Dunodin, etc. Agents—U.S.S. Co. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Premier has received a despatch from the Agent-General (Sir John McCall) stating that three new settlers were about to leave England by various ...
Article : 31 wordsRooganah, sch., from Melbourne—1,200 bgs wheat and quantity sundries. Kassa, bq., from Melbourne — 4,750 scks wheat. ...
Article : 19 wordsMarrawah, s.s., for Melbourne—400 bgs peas, 65 bgs barley, 17 bgs oats, 270 bis straw, 51 pkgs rabbit skins. Oonah, s.s., for Melbourne—67 bgs peas 10 ...
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Article : 517 wordsMany rumours have been current that France intends to cede her portion of the New Hebrides to Great Britain in return for compensations elsewhere Residents ...
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Article : 10 wordsArrivals.—Crillon, Leon Blum, from Australia; Annaberg, Otaki, from New Zealand. Departure.—For Sydney; Schlschein. ...
Article : 19 wordsUnited Kingdom Wednesday. South Africa (direct), 23rd, per Ruapehu. Australian States, this day, per Rotomahana. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe board appointed to judge the designs of the Federal capital city submitted reports to the Minister of Home Affairs to-day. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 195 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales (Hon. J. S. McGowen) has addressed a circular letter to the Prime Minister and the Premiers of all the States on the necessity ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 wordsThe Oonah, from Melbourne, via ports, arrived at Devonport yesterday morning. The Marrawah, for Melbourne, via Stanley, left Burnie at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 wordsThe mutiny of senior cadets at Wallaroo, a South Australian centre, has ended in the humbling of the youthful mutineers. They have been let off with ...
Article : 155 wordsOne of the announced objects of the Labour Party is to secure to the worker the whole produce of his labour, a most laudable object. But, when this ...
Article : 724 wordsThe barque Kessa arrtived at Hobart from Melbourne at 9 p.m. yesterday. She left Williamstown pier at 8 a.m. on Thursday and experanced variable winds, with ...
Article : 71 wordsWhen the report from the Presbyterian General Assembly of Australia, relative to the federation of the churches, was before the Presbyterian ...
Article : 281 wordsThe chairman of the Launceston Stock Exchange, in his speech made at the half-yearly meeting, took a gloomy view of the condition of Tasmanian ...
Article : 277 wordsOn the ground that he has become a publican, John Haylett, the corswain for the past ten years of the Caister lifeboat, has been asked by the local committee of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsA proposal has been discussed by the directors of Messrs. W. T. Bell and Co. Ltd., auctioneers, for the amalgamation of the company's interests with Messrs. ...
Article : 45 wordsOn to-day's chart the usual easterly advance is shown by the various weather systems, a peculiar feature being the rise in pressure in south-western Australia; ...
Article : 246 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Bonwick's residence, in Dowling-street, Elphin-road, Launceston, was broken into on Tuesday evening, and the sum of £7 in money and jewellery, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsThe Hobart Fire Brigade received a call to 295 Elizabeth-street at 8.12 p.m. yesterday. A six-roomed two-storey stone [?]d shiggle-roof dwelling, occupied by ...
Article : 119 wordsIn the illustrations in this week's "Tasmanian Mail" are photographs of the clergy and laymen who attended the sittings of the Anglican Synod in Hobart ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 39 wordsA poll of the ratepayers of Queenborough is to be taken to-day to decide whether the ratepayers are in favour of the resolution of the ...
Article : 70 wordsIt has been decided by the Musicians' Union to cite the Chief Secretary (Mr. Flowers) before the Arbitration Court, on account of alleged breach of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsAt an inquest held on Tuesday concerning the death at Lower Longley by burning of the child Dorothy Lovell, aged 7, Dr. Cummings, who arrived on ...
Article : 260 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, A. J. Emslie, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames J. Sutton, Cameron, Boag, Moody, Hodgkinson and child, A. Peaccok, Allbecy. C. ...
Article : 169 wordsMr. J. M. McCormick, Engineer-in-Chief, has, in response to a request made by the Launceston Marine Board through the Government, inspected the ...
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Article : 439 wordsMr. Hoskins, of the Lithgow ironworks, states that he has experienced a difficulty in getting orders for the ironworks since the stoppage of work ten months ago. ...
Article : 104 words"Chamberlain's Tablets have been the means of relieving me of Indigestion," writes Mr. James Colfey, ex-stationmaster at Mentone, Vic. "I was for ...
Article : 78 wordsWakatipn, s.s., for Sydney—5,528 bgs chaff 17,543ft timber, 2,708 css apples, 770 bgs potatoes, 1,813 bgs oats. 600 bgs bark. 289 bgs carrots, 300 bgs oat husks, 149 bgs peas, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 16 May 1912, Page 4
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