Mr. Justice Isaacs in chambers to-day granted an application by the Tasmanian master builders for an order nisi for a writ of prohibition to prevent ...
Article : 172 wordsThe House Immigration Committee of the American Congress has declined to reopen discussion on the bill introduced by Mr. John Edward Raker, ...
Article : 241 wordsAt the beginning of the month the discovery of the strangled body of a seven-year-old boy under the seat of a railway carriage at Shoreditch, in North-East ...
Article : 316 wordsAu inquest was opened to-day on the body of Thomas Reeks, a native of Sydney, Now South Wales, and the fourth engineer of a British steamer. The body ...
Article : 649 wordsThe situation has improved in Pretoria and Durban, which are the only remaining railway strike centres. The men are rushing back to the Pretoria ...
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Article : 607 wordsThe Treasurer (Hon. H. J. Payne) motored to Stanley to-dau with Mr. A. K. McGaw (manager of the V.D.L. Co.), and inspected the large orchard planted ...
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Article : 229 wordsThe Hobort Rivulet has for a long time past been a source of trouble to the powers that be, and just recently that other pellucid stream, the ...
Article : 418 wordsThat so important a division of Tasmania as the West Coast should have remained till now without railway communication with the capital city of the ...
Article : 1,089 wordsThe members of the Timber Commission had several opportunities of seeing something of Hobart and its environs during their stay here. On Thursday ...
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Article : 37 wordsA man named Nirmolkantoroy has been charged with the murder of Inspector Ghose. The case is being heard in camera, as the evidence is ...
Article : 173 wordsOwing to the desire of the late Lord Strathcona to be buried with his wife, who predeceased him by a few weeks, at Highgate, in North-West London, ...
Article : 129 wordsIn order to assist the Commonwealth Council of Rifle Associations in entertaining the members of the British and other teams that will visit Australia to ...
Article : 141 wordsEvery effort is being made with the view of positively determining whether a commercial traveller named Mylne was drowned, as reported, while swimming ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says it is freely admitted that Germany suffered a diplomatic defeat by the withdrawal of all semblance ...
Article : 69 wordsA telegram received in Vienna from Constantinople says it is reported that the Grand Vizier of Turkey has informed the British ...
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Article : 395 wordsThe return Sheffield shield cricket match between New South Wales and Victoria began to-day on the Sydney cricket ground in ideal weather. The ...
Article : 178 wordsMillicent Florence Eleanor, Countess Cowley, formerly Lady Hartopp (having been divorced from Sir Charles Hartopp, Lord Cowley being correspondent) sued ...
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Article : 66 wordsThe Swedish Antarctic Committee has planned an expedition, which will include 10 scientists, and start in the autumn of 1915. Their base will be at ...
Article : 60 wordsThe strike of the coal porters in London is spreading, 8,000 now being idle. A mass meeting of the men to-day rejected the masters' offer to settle their ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 24 Jan 1914, Page 5
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