Alderman Williams asked at last night's meeting of the City Council if the Mayor had received any definite reply from the Hobart Tramway Co. in regard to the ...
Article : 88 wordsIn view of the commencement of systematic operations at the State farm with the beginning of the financial year next month, the time of the fruit export (Mr. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 59 wordsPaloona, s.s., 2,771 tons, F. W. Macbeth, from Sydney. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Robb, Hodgkinson, Runney, White. O'Keele; Misses Rigby, Collins, Ikin, Cooney, Uren ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Acting City Health Officer (Dr. G. B. Bailey) reported to last night's meeting of the City Council that during the month of May there were 35 deaths in the ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Marine Board is to meet this afternoon, when the following business is to have consideration:—Harbour Improvements Committee: Diving apparatus, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 167 wordsMongana, s.s., 43 tons, C. P. Kerr, for East Coast ports. Agents—Holyman Bros. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 34 wordsA telegram was received by the Marine Board yesterday afternoon from the superintendent of Eddystone Point Light-house, stating that the fishing smack ...
Article : 74 wordsThe London "Hospital" says:—"It is well known that the depravity of human nature has found a means of money-getting in advertising 'cures' for drug ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 258 wordsDelegates from all the branches of the Liberal League in Tasmania are to meet in conference in Launceston to-morrow, to discuss matters of serious ...
Article : 826 wordsMr. American Consul H. D Baker has returued to Chicago for a time, and has been discussing Australian conditions. He said.—While he liked Australia and ...
Article : 115 wordsThe conditions laid down for employment of men at the Westernport naval base show that tho Federal Government has not weakened in its ...
Article : 270 wordsA public telepbone, with continuous service, is to be erected at Lady Franklin's Museum, Augusta-road, at an early date. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe author of the book entitled "The Great Illusion," which has attracted a wonderful deal of attention, is trying to persuade the world that war is ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 106 wordsGeorge Thomas Miller, of Hobart, commission agent, yesterday filed a petition with the Registrar in Bankruptcy, praying for the liquidation of his affairs by ...
Article : 66 wordsA new liner for the White Star Co. is at present under construction at the Queen's Island shipyard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff Limited, at Belfast. This ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 158 wordsThe North German Lloyd steamer Schlpsien, from Bromen, via Antwerp and Melbourne, is due at Hobart on July 8 with 350 tons of cargo. She will be the first of this line ...
Article : 40 wordsA meeting of the Mining Board was held yesterday morning at the Solicitor-General's office. Present:—Messrs. E. D. Dobbie, I.S.O. (chairman), H. Ross, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsThe U.S.S. Co.'s Kakapo, which grounded in Kelso Bay on Saturday morning, is still hard and fast. Up to this evening 500 tons of coal had been lightered from her ...
Article : 63 wordsThe secretary of the Shropshire Sheep-breeders' Association (Mr. T. Murdoch) advises us that this year the members of the association will be sending very few ...
Article : 108 wordsThe U.S.S. Co.'s s.s. Paloona arrived at Hobart at 9.35 a.m. yesterday after a smart passage of 46½ hours from wharf to wharf. She experienced fresh north-westerly winds ...
Article : 44 wordsThe monsoonal rain disturbance, first indicated on Friday, 21st inst., and again on Saturday, has now (Monday) developed greatly in intensity; its trough is now ...
Article : 305 wordsMr. Smail, Commonwealth woollen milling expert, visited Horsham in the course of his inquiries concerning the future site of woollen mills. He conferred with the ...
Article : 86 wordsAn "Australian Sugar Journal" representative bad a few minutes' talk the other day with Mr. F. Foster, M.P., chairman of the Commonwealth Fruit ...
Article : 310 wordsSydney, from N.W. Coast ports, arrived at Melbourne at 10.40 a.m. yesterday. The Marrawah, from Melbourne, reached Burnie at 4 a.m. yesterday, and salled for ...
Article : 121 wordsMr. A. Boatwright, orcbardist, Latrobe, has expressed the opinion that the residue from shale could be used for spraying for the mussel scale for woolly aphis ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Premier of New South Wales (Hon. J. S. McGowen) regards the payment of travelling expenses by youths engaged in compulsory training as a tax upon the ...
Article : 133 wordsProduce shipments from N.W. Coast ports to Sydney last week generally exceeded those of the previous week, although only one boat was loading cargo. ...
Article : 306 wordsThe vessels [?]ing at Hobart this week have been [?] the following berths:— Paloona, s.s., [?]om Sydney, Argyle-street Wainui, s.s., from Melbourne, via Strahan, ...
Article : 49 wordsAn unexpected arrival at Hobart yesterday was the s.s. Anglo-Saxon, which reached port at 6 p.m. She left New York 55 days ago for Auckland with a general cargo, ...
Article : 150 wordsDevonport, 18: Sheffield, [?]0; Low Head, [?] Beaconsfield, 9; Launceston, 22; Scottsdale, 14; Waratah, 46; Magnet, 50; Hamilton, 2; Boobyalla, 6; Eddystone, 9; Ringarooma, 42; ...
Article : 95 wordsA letter from Mr. F. Katz, secretary of the Carters' and Drivers' Union, asking that the Council should fix a scale of charges for carting in the city, was read ...
Article : 85 wordsFire at Battery Point. Further rise in price of butter. Meeting of Fire Brigade Board. Supreme Court sittings, Launceston. ...
Article : 388 wordsFew people know that the consumption of sugar, per capita, in Australia, is about 113 pounds, a quantity probably unequalled by any other country in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 31 wordsThe Tasmanian Government "Gazette" of to-day contains a list of Crown lands leased and sold during the month of May: a supplemental valuation roll for ...
Article : 71 wordsMessrs. C. Piesse and Co., Hobart agents of Holt's Blue Funnel line of steamers, have received a smart little pamphlet from the company dealing with freights and fares by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 20 wordsCape Leeuwin.—30.41; E., 4; overcast Esperance.—36.38; S., 5; fine, cloudy; rough. Eucla.—30.11; S.W., 5; showery. Cape Borda.—29.43; S.S.E. 2; steady rain, ...
Article : 77 wordsAustralia's youngest widower is only 17 years of age, while two men of 19 years are divorced. The youngest married woman is 14 years of age, while the ...
Article : 186 wordsNobody passed the dictation test set by the Commonwealth officials last year to would-be, but undesirable, immigrants, of whom 83 were refused admittance to ...
Article : 102 words"There is now prevailing a most curious commericial phenomenon, which practical men are unable to explain, but which economists analyse as one of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 95 wordsConvincing proof of the breakdown of the protective policy under the present Federal Administration is found in the monthly returns of imports into Victoria ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Goulburn (N.S.W.) Municipal Council some time ago ordered from Noyes Bros. a steam-driven waggon, the cost of which, with appurtenances and duty ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 25 wordsThe Customs collections at the port of Hobart last week were:—Duties, £2,204 2s. 3d.; excise, £244 11s.; miscellaneous, £1 2s. 1d. Total, £2,449 15s. 4d. The ...
Article : 68 wordsIt has been said that trades which do not pay fair wages ought not to exist, and this has been said by those fierce democrats who want to put everybody ...
Article : 474 wordsThe Cadets who recently took part in the Commonwealth Cadet championship contests visited Federal Parliament House to-day. ...
Article : 87 wordsRotomahana, s.s., 1,777 tons, F. Maitland, for Melbourne Passengers—Saloon Mesdames A Scott, Finnis. Batten, Rushfirth, Brown; Misses Galvin, Nottage, Bailey, ...
Article : 69 wordsIn the "Commonwealth Government Gazette" applications are invited for two positions, carrying a minimum salary of £520 per annum. A chief surveyor is ...
Article : 75 wordsMessrs. Roberts and Co. yesterday offered for sale by auction 27 allotments belonging to the Bea[?] estate, on the New Town-road. No sales were effected, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 17 wordsArrived.—June 24, O[?]ir, R.M.S., from London. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 25 Jun 1912, Page 4
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