The Minister of Lands and Works (Hon. E. Mulcahy) met representatives of the rural municipalities interested in the Ralph's Bay Neck Canal in conference ...
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Article : 822 wordsThe Hydro-Electric Co. recently submitted alternative proposals for Government assistance, owing to the fact that the present state of the London money ...
Article : 687 wordsThe flagship Australia and the cruiser Sydney arrived at Albany at 11 this morning, and both anchored in the harbour. The vessels parted company at ...
Article : 479 wordsThe adjourned inquest on the bodies of the victims of the railway disaster at Aisgill, in Yorkshire, was resumed to-day. Caudle, the driver of the train, ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Senate and Appeal Court judges of New York State have sat to open the trial of Mr. Sultzer, the impeached Governor of the State. ...
Article : 244 wordsMr. R. L. Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, in speaking the other evening at Halifax, Nova Scotia, referred to the proposal that Canada ought ...
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Article : 54 wordsThe latest freak law in the American State of Wisconsin is that against gossips, and was enforced at Marinette to-day, when Peter Kesoki, a Niagara ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Chinada, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States, has discussed with Dr. Wilson, the President, and Mr. Jennings Bryan, the Secretary of ...
Article : 96 wordsThe directors of the Orient Steamship Co. have approved of the plans of a new 15,000 ton liner, which will be built at Messrs. John Brown and Co.'s ...
Article : 417 wordsGeneral Sir George Reilly Richardson, who saw service in the Afghan war, the Egyptian war (including the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir), the Zhob Expedition, and ...
Article : 55 wordsThirty-six aeroplanes are engaged in the French Army manœuvres, and have proved a brilliant success. They were kept constantly working, and the pilots ...
Article : 427 wordsComparatively few fresh cases of small-pox were reported to-day, the number being only four. Three of the cases were in southern suburbs, and one at ...
Article : 840 wordsSeveral cases of typhus fever, due to the contamination of the River Elbe, have occurred in Germany. The outbreak is attributed to the rinsing of ...
Article : 52 wordsPresiding at a conference of friendly societies to-day, Mr. Warren said the National Insurance Act, contrary to expectations, had no afforded them ...
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Article : 420 wordsA number of workmen who were travelling in a vehicle yesterday at Archachon, to the south-west of Bordeaux, were precipitated into a dock owing to ...
Article : 49 wordsJoseph Grizgard, Simon Silverman, and Leissir Gutwirth. Austrian diamond dealers, and John Lockett, a Jeweller, were again before the ...
Article : 404 wordsA great sensation has been caused in Germany by the suicide of the Princess Sophia of Saxe-Weimar, one of the Saxony Duchies. The princess died ...
Article : 361 wordsAbout one o'clock this morning the residents were rudely awakened from their peaceful slumbers by the lusty voice of Mr. G. Nichols, who rushed ...
Article : 420 wordsWholesale arrests in connection with fraud and embezzlement upon a steamship company have been made at Hamburg. It is stated that 80 people are ...
Article : 45 wordsThe body of a man whose identity is it present unknown was found floating in the Tamar, under the wharf near Holyman and Sons' office this ...
Article : 210 wordsAdvices received at Vienna from Valona state that Essad Pasha, the defender of Skutari during the Balkans war, who proclaimed himself King of ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" states that the Kaiser is investing extensively in land in British Columbia, and that other eminent ...
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Article : 73 wordsThe show of stock, dogs, poultry, and pigeons to be held at Launceston on the 7th, 8th, and 9th October will be the largest exhibition of its kind yet held in ...
Article : 85 wordsMembers of the British Parliamentary party, who since Wednesday have been travelling in South Australia, returned to Melbourne by special train this evening. ...
Article : 42 wordsMadame Pavlova, the great Russian dancer, is to make a tour of the United States, starting next month. From America she will probably visit ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 20 Sep 1913, Page 5
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