In the match Australia v. M.C.C. at Lords, the M.C.C team resumed batting to-day. The weather was fine, and the attendance totalled 2,000. ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Minister of Home Affairs (Hon. King O'Malley) this morning opened the envelopes containing the names of the competitors in the Commonwealth ...
Article : 176 wordsThe Miners Conference has stren[?] usly protested against. several of the mining boards fixing the awards at a minimum below what is a reasonable ...
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Article : 215 wordsThe inquiry being conducted by the British Board of Trade, under the presidency of Lord Mersey, into the sinking of the Titanic, was resumed ...
Article : 256 wordsThe female suffragsts in the united States are planning a militant camPaign on the lines that have been folowed in England. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe P. and O. steamer Meloja had unloaded 30,000 cases of fruit when the men handling the fruit ceased work, alleging as their reason for so doing ...
Article : 249 wordsMr. Hamilton Wiekes, who has discharged the duties of British Trade Commissioner in Australasia for some years, replaces Mr. Grigg as British Trade ...
Article : 683 wordsThe trial of the female suffragist leaders, Mrs. Pankhurst and Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence, together with the husband of the latter, on charges of ...
Article : 193 wordsSeme London newspapers state that the British Government discussing the question of making provision for the construction of another Dreadnought ...
Article : 72 wordsRepresentatives of the widow of the late Walter Ruessel Hall made known to-day her intentrion of enlarging her husband's bequests of £20,000 to the ...
Article : 266 words"The Times" correspondent at Toronto states that the feeling in lavour of an adequate naval contribution is making striking headway in Canada. ...
Article : 167 wordsMessrs. W. Crosby and Co., agents for the White Star line, have written to the secretary of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce as follows:—"Referring ...
Article : 111 wordsThe House of Commons adjourned yesterday until June 4. ...
Article : 20 wordsA railway guard named Jackson ran amuck at Hull last night, apparently as the result of hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a mad dog. ...
Article : 91 wordsThe sovereign rights question regarding the land desired by the Federal Government at Jervis Bay for the Naval College, ha been settled, the ...
Article : 46 wordsSir Edward Clarke, K.C., who acted as chairman of the South Yorkshire district board for the coal industry, has been appointed by the Government to ...
Article : 300 wordsThe returns for the Republican Presidential primary Convention show that ex-President Roosevelt has secured 32 out of the 40 delegates to the National ...
Article : 98 wordsWithin two months all wireless [?] cebses in Australian will probably be withdrawn by the Federal Government By that time the Feseral Government ...
Article : 61 wordsHis Majesty King George to-day opened the International Flower Show at Chelsea. It contains the largest and most marvellous exhibition of plants ...
Article : 67 wordsA sensatienal debate took place in the House of Assembly last night, when the adjournment of the House was moved to call attention to the situation ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsTwo instances of alleged smuggling of cigars were investigated by the acting Collector of Customs to-day. One mnn admitted having purchased from a ...
Article : 133 wordsEighteen players who took part in a junior competition match on Saturday have been disqualified for life by the Rugby League, on account of the ...
Article : 58 wordsPresident Taft claims that he will have 570 delegates in his favour at the Chicago Republican Convention, or sufficient to assure his nomination. He ...
Article : 65 wordsWhen the President of the Federal Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice [?]gins) resumed the hearing to-day of the tramway case, Mr. Wilcox ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsThe Federal troops attacked the main column of the rebels to-day. A fierce fight is now in progress, and there have been heavy losses on both sides. ...
Article : 49 wordsRain has been falling in Sydney since early this morning. However, the western portions of the State, where rain is most badly needed, have not ...
Article : 50 wordsHis Majesty the King has commanded that the Society of Knights Batchelor be in future called the imperial Society of Knights. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe High Court refused to-day special leave to appeal in the case of Edward Parker, who is at present undergoing a sentence of seven years ...
Article : 99 wordsSir William Bennett, who is the senior surgeon at the Greenwich Seaman's Hospital and consulting surgeon to several London hospitals, has presented ...
Article : 95 wordsThe Australians been thE sixth match of their tour, that against Oxford university, this morning. McLaren, Matthews, Mayne, and Wehster ...
Article : 157 wordsFerty out of the 46 boxes of gold, in specie, on board the P. and O. steamer Oceana when she sank in the English Channel, off Beachy Hoad, on March ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Conference of Surveyors-General of the Commonwealth and New Zealand was concluded to-day. Consideration was given to the ...
Article : 187 wordsGeorge Carpentior, the French champion, defeated Willie Lewis, of America, on points in a twenty-rounds boxing match last night. Lewis was ...
Article : 70 wordsA few of the apples carried by the B.S. Maloja have teen discharged. The Tasmanian portion of those discharged has been" sold at frem 6s. 6d. to 9s. ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Australian Estates and Mortgage Co. has declared a dividend of 5 per cent, and transferred the sum of £40,000 to the reserve fund. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Secretary of State for Fereign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) gave a guarded reply to questions in the House of Commons yesterday regarding ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Young Australian League has received on intimation from Canada that 60 boys of the Vancouver High School, organised as cadets, sail for ...
Article : 77 wordsA telegram received from Berlin states that the Kaiser has declined to send a representative to the funeral of Prince George, the Oldest son of the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe cargo of South Australian wheat earned by the barque Inversnaid has realised 39s. 9d. per quarter. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Van Diemen's Land Co. shareholders have authorised the payment of £1 per share out of the proceeds of the sale of land, as a return of capital. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 44 wordsThe British military authorities have granted Turkey the use of the services of five officers, who are to be incorporated with the gendarmerie at Salonika. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Minister of Works (Mr. Johnson), replying yesterday to a deputation from Broome in respect to the pearlers' complaint that they wanted ...
Article : 98 wordsA disaster at a mining settlement in Antofagasta, Chili, is reported. A came at Gatico was flooded on Tuesday, with the result that forty ...
Article : 42 wordsJohn Granger, one of the five men who were injured through the bursting of a drum of sulphuric acid on the Newcastle Shipping Company's Wharf ...
Article : 47 wordsCount Wolff-Metternich, the German Ambassador in London, who is about to he succeeded by Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, at present Ambassador at ...
Article : 109 wordsThe proposal made in different parts of the North-west Coust for the erection of freezing works at Burnie crystal[?]sed yesterday into a meeting at ...
Article : 194 wordsThe match between the visiting South Africans and Oxford University was continued to-day. There was no play before, luncheon owing to the wicket ...
Article : 202 wordsAt the auction sales of tallow to-day 1.112 casks were offered, and l,000 casks sold. Fine mutton realised 37s. per cwt., medium, 34s. ner cwt.: fine beef, ...
Article : 36 wordsThe fact that Mr. Asquith and Mr. Winston Churchill are to confer with Lord Kitchener, now British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, is interpreted ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Kaiser gave an audience to the High Commissioner for Australia (Sir George Reid) to-day. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe visible supply of American wheat east of the Rocky Mountains is estimated at 68,429,000 bushels. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe weather for the past two days has been beautifully fine, with every promise of a continuance. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Belmont team beat the New South Wales bowlers to-day by 35 points. ...
Article : 17 wordsJudgment was given to-day by the Full Court in the appeal by Henry Edmund Holland, who is well-known as a Socialist, against the conviction and ...
Article : 121 wordsThe annual meeting of the NorthWestern Agricultural Association was held at Latrobe to-day. The balance-sheet showed that the receipts for the ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the final sitting of the Reichstag for the session yesterday violent attacks were made on the Kaiser by the Socialist members in regard to his threat at ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Apache, known as "Bill," who recently murdered a carter named Blanchot, the man supoosed to have given information regarding the ...
Article : 80 wordsCaptain Amundsen, who arrived at Monte Video yesterday, states that he will leave San Francisco in the Fram in March, 1[?]3, on his projected Aretic ...
Article : 65 wordsThe South Australian Parliament meets on July 18. ...
Article : 21 wordsThere have been 206 cases of plague at Hongkong during the past week, of which 179 have proved fatal. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 24 May 1912, Page 5
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