At a special meeting of the board of management of the Hobart General Hospital held at the hospital yesterday afternoon, the matter of the ...
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Advertising : 18 wordsLieut-Colonel Charles Campbell, formerly of the New Zealand Defenco Force, has been wounded the second time. He has been twice mentioned in despatches. ...
Article : 61 wordsSir George Reid, the High Commissioner of Australia, who celebrated his 70th birthday to-day, received hundreds of congratulatory messages, including ...
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Article : 58 wordsAt a gala performance which was held in the Bulgarian capital on the night of the 14th inst. a bomb was thrown in the vicinity of the box occupied by ...
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Article : 89 wordsAt the general conference of the Methodist Church of Victoria and Tasmania to-day, the president (Rev. A. T. Holden. B.A.,) being in the chair, the ...
Article : 279 wordsThe steamer Harpaliou, which was torpedoed yesterday off Beachy Head when on a voyage from England to the United States, three of her crew being killed ...
Article : 87 wordsSir John McCall, the Agent-General for Tasmania, is giving the £500 sent from Tasmania to the Belgian refugees in England. ...
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Article : 432 wordsThe steamer Deptford, which was blown up in the North Sea by a German submarine, was struck abaft her engineroom. A lifeboat was launched, ...
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Article : 91 wordsIn the Criminal Court to-day, Mr. Justice Hood passed a sentenece of five years' imprisonment on Francis Charles John Elliott on a charge of attempted ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is officially stated that the bombardment of the Dardanelles was resumed this morning by a powerful squadron of British and French battleships and ...
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Article : 48 wordsM. Viviani, the French Premier, in an interview with American press representatives in Paris yesterday, declared that the Germanic torrent had been checked. ...
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Article : 35 wordsThe publication of the German casualty lists in the newspapers of the province o[?] Schleswig, the population of which is largely Danish, has been forbidden. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 27 Feb 1915, Page 5
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