When the second of the triangular test matches between England and South Africa was to have commenced at Lord's this morning the weather ...
Article : 179 words"The fall of rain in the dry districts is almost unprecedented from two points of view," said the Commonwealth Meteorologist (Mr. Hunt) to-day. "The ...
Article : 266 wordsA shocking accident, resulting in the death of Melba Jones, a young girl, and indirectly in the serious injury of her fiance, George A. Armstrong, a member ...
Article : 232 wordsFurther evidence was given to-day at the Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the Titanic. Mauge, the assistant chef, has already ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. Oscar Hnminerstem, the American entrepreneur, who built the London Opera House at a cost of £350,000, and who has been disappointed ...
Article : 326 wordsThe supporters of the Government emphasise the urgency of preventing the London labour struggle spreading to other ports, by legislating, if ...
Article : 104 wordsLord Haldane, the Secretary of State for War, said at Marylebone yesterday: "When the oversea dominions before long have organised their naval and ...
Article : 57 wordsOut Sydney correspondent telegraphs that Sir Wm. Lyne, who has been for some time past an inmate of a private hospital at Darlinghurst, has authorised ...
Article : 508 wordsThe Toronto correspondent of "The Times" states to-day that there is reason to believe that the Government desires Canada to be represented on ...
Article : 61 wordsCaptain Rostron, the master of the Allan liner Carpathia, which went to the rescue of the passengers saved from the Titanic, has been awarded at ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Malta correspondent of the "Daily Mail," in referring to the recent, conference between the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith), the First Lord ...
Article : 131 wordsIf to-morrow's negotiations for a settlement of the strike fail, it is expected that the Government will promptly force legislation through Parliament to ...
Article : 194 wordsM. Kovacs, the member of the Hungarian House of Representatives who shot at Count Stephen Tisza, the President of the Chamber, and afterwards ...
Article : 80 wordsThe match between Australia and Yorkshire was set down to commence at Bradford this morning. The county team was selected as ...
Article : 85 wordsA Treasury advance of £5,000 has been made to the Commonwealth Bank for preliminary expenses. The governor has selected offices in Collins-street, ...
Article : 43 wordsTo show that opinion is favourable to the National Insurance Act passed by Mr. Lloyd-George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, already 251 approved ...
Article : 217 wordsIn connection with the approaching visit of Prince Katsura and Baton Coto to Europe, the Japanese press discredits the official explanation that it is ...
Article : 118 wordsThe anxiety which has been more or less shared by the whole of the State, owing to the continuous dry weather, was dissipated to-day, when ...
Article : 199 wordsOne of the results of the visit of the Minister for External Affairs (Hon. Josiah Thomas) to the Northern Territory is an increase in the pay and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe averages, which include the match against Cambridge University, show that in batting Bardsley has displaced Macartney at the head of the list, though the ...
Article : 179 wordsMr. Hawkes, the Canadian Special Commissioner for Emigration, in a report on the immigration services of the Dominion, points out that Australia has ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Minister for Home Affairs (Hon. King O'Malley) to-day said negotiations had been entered into with the Marconi Wireless Company and the shipping ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Italian advance from Tripoli on Zanzur is regarded as an answer to the growing complaints of inaction. The Turkish trenches were filled with ...
Article : 52 wordsHis Majesty's Trade Commissioner in Australia reports as follows for the three months ending March 31:— The recently issued "Accounts relating ...
Article : 505 wordsTown-planning experts in Calcutta recommend that, instead of the Durbar site for the new Indian capital at Delhi, the location should be in the ...
Article : 47 wordsMiss Malecka, who was sentenced to four years' imprisonment in Russia, and about whom there has been some controversy, as it was said she was a ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Chinese Government approves of Li-Yuan-Hung, the Provincial President of Nanking, having entered into a preliminary agreement with the Robert ...
Article : 85 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsA cable has been sent by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to the High Commissioner (Sir George Reid), intimating that the Federal Government had ...
Article : 116 wordsThere is great rejoicing in this State because of the break of the drought. All parts of the State appear to have participated in the present rain, which ...
Article : 123 wordsAt a meeting of members of the Women's Liberal Association held on Saturday, it was decided not to affiliate with associations whose objects do not ...
Article : 95 wordsWhen Mr. Asquith, the Prime Minister, introduced the Home Rule Bill in April last he stated that the Government found it necessary to add to the ...
Article : 123 wordsThe total amount realised at the Doucet art collection sale in Paris is £610,916, several other lots being offered on Saturday. In addition to the ...
Article : 107 wordsA disquieting accusation ot larceny has been made against a member of the Adelaide police force. In the small hours of Saturday ...
Article : 235 wordsSplendid rains again are reported from all over the southern and southeastern parts of the State, extending to the border, and also in the central ...
Article : 156 wordsThe well-known English ex-jockey Cannon referred yesterday to the statement made by Tod Sloan, the American jockey, in his reference to the victory ...
Article : 177 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 23 wordsAnother addition to the death toll of aviators was made in Paris yesterday. M. Dulrcuil, accompanied by a passenger named Visseur, was making a ...
Article : 66 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 19 wordsRussian police were apprised, yesterday of the presence of five brigands at a village near Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov. The police surrounded a ...
Article : 71 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsAnother explosion occurred yesterday at the Woellersdorf ammunition factory at Wienel Neustadt, 30 miles to the south-west of Vienna, where, on ...
Article : 74 wordsAn aviator named Kimmelling, who went for a flight yesterday with a passenger at Mourmelon Le Grand, in the French department of Marne, was, with ...
Article : 50 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsTo-day three French navvies attacked Madame Tremblay, the keeper of the cafe where the motor bandits committed a crime in April last, and almost ...
Article : 54 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 9 wordsThere is great jubilation throughout the State Because the drought has broken, and in a few hours the whole of the agricultural and pastoral ...
Article : 407 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 33 wordsA sensational accident occurred today in the North of London. The brakes of a motor omnibus, which, fortunately, had no passengers in it, ...
Article : 96 wordsThe International Radiographic Congress, which has been meeting in London, has inaugurated a movement in favour of international action to make ...
Article : 93 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsThe National Committee in Chicago has already added 72 delegates to Mr. Taft's list, and none for Mr. Roosevelt, but so far only claims from Southern ...
Article : 91 wordsTo-day was Hospital Sunday in England, and at all the churches there were large congregations. King George and Queen Mary attended the morning ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Eurasian, George David Silva, was executed at Bogga-road this morning. His behaviour in gaol while ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Royal Commission of inquiry into matters connected with the Zeehan District Hospital was continued to-day, before the Commissioner (Mr. E. W. ...
Article : 270 wordsThe special correspondent of the "S.M. Herald" in London wrote under date May 10:— The Australian XI, has played its ...
Article : 423 wordsIt is announced that the Chief Railway Commissioner has agreed to an all-round increase of 1s. per day in the wages in the Railway Permanent-way ...
Article : 129 wordsMessrs. Houlder Bros. steamers Rippingham Grange, Drayton Grange, Everton Grange, and Oswestry Grange, well known in Australian waters, have ...
Article : 36 wordsThere is no sign of the French submarine Vendemaire, which sank in Cherbourg Harbour yesterday with a loss of 26 lives, after being struck by ...
Article : 143 wordsLast month the tribes between Ipek and Gusmje, in Northern Albania, revolted, and a Turkish battalion was ambushed, and suffered heavy losses. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe French Government has drafted a bill which provides for the substitution of copper coins by perforated five, ten, and twenty-five centime nickel ...
Article : 32 wordsAt a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association to-night Mr. Frank Laver produced a pamphlet which he had issued in answer to the one recently ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Lisbon tramway strikers petitioned the Government to cancel the contract entered into between the municipality and the English company ...
Article : 31 wordsThe State Government has decided to go slow in the matter of immigration, It seems that difficulty is being experienced in providing for unassisted ...
Article : 89 wordsTwelve thousand weavers it Lancashire objecting to the use of trade union funds for political purposes, have decided to secede from the Northern ...
Article : 42 wordsKing George has telegraphed his sympathy to M. Fallieres, the French President, in the loss of the Vendemaire, and Mr. Winston Churchill, the First ...
Article : 57 wordsThere is great unrest in Eastern Turkestan, and anarchy prevails at Kashgar, where an influential political leader has been murdered. In the ...
Article : 46 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 11 Jun 1912, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: