The Director-General of Recruiting (Hon Donald Mackinnon, M.L.A.) to-day received, through Mr. Henry Noyes, formerly vice-chairman of the ...
Article : 306 wordsAbout 11.30 yesterday morning Charles J. Stephens, general hand, employed at the Pine Export Company's mills, West Strahan, met with a serious accident. It ...
Article : 138 wordsThe following were the Marine Board collections at the Port of Hobart last week:—Wharfage, £197 16s. 1d.; quayage, £16 4s. 1d.; pilotage, £5 10s.; ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Controller of Commodities in Melbourne has ordered the wholesale price, of aromatic or light tobacco manufactured in Australia from Australian or ...
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Advertising : 614 wordsRises. Sets. July 1[?].....................7.38... 4.52 July [?].....................7.31... 4.59 THE MOON. ...
Article : 812 wordsBookmakers in Japan are business agents for trading houses. Mr. D. R. Hall, Attorney-General of New South Wales, discovered that during his ...
Article : 243 wordsAt a meeting of the council of the Hobart Chamber of Commerce recently the question was discussed as to the like[?] lihood of the direct steamer service ...
Article : 185 wordsMany of the failures in the way of crops experienced by persons who cultivate the soil may be traced to the use of inferior seed. It is customary for ...
Article : 591 wordsThe shipments of potatoes from North-West Coast ports to Sydncy last week were the heaviest for three weeks. The total was just above 14,000 bags, of ...
Article : 181 wordsIncluding 10 ordered to be closed last Licensing Court in Victoria (previously the Licenses Reduction Board), in the 11 years from July, 1907, during which ...
Article : 209 wordsThe Minister of Mines (Sir Elliott Lewis), while in Launceston yesterday, visited the works of the Serpentine Paint Company. He was accompanied by the ...
Article : 79 wordsIn our issue of May 21, we stated that a petition for the liquidation of his affairs had been lodged with the Registrar in Bankruptey br Mr. William ...
Article : 80 wordsThe transaction of the Commonwealth Bank for the week ending July 8 were: —Accounts opened, 2,714; deposits. £340,546; withdrawals, £335,584; lifference, ...
Article : 44 wordsPerhaps the most important pronouncement made by a British Prime Minister in recent years, as affecting the future of the Empire, was that of Mr. Lloyd ...
Article : 899 wordsAt a meeting of the Geelong Trader and Labour Council last week the suggestion made recently by the Governor of New South Wales that the working ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Premier (Hon W. H. Lee), and the Treasurer (Sir Elliott Lewis), left Launceston yesterday on their way to Melbourne to attend the conference of State ...
Article : 115 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Mersey Marine Board to-day Mr. James Watt (Master Warden) presided, and all the wardens were present except Warden ...
Article : 203 wordsSeven recruits were medically examined at the State Recruiting Office yesterday. Three were passed as fit for active service, and one for home ...
Article : 157 wordsThe report of the nurse at the Baby Clinic for the week ending July 13 is as follows:—Fifteen visits to homes were paid by the nurse, 12 were to new-born ...
Article : 107 wordsSenators J. H. Keating and T. J. Bakhap, and Mr. R. J. Sadler, M.H.A., Chairman of the Launceston Stock Exchange, took advantage yesterday of the ...
Article : 108 wordsAt the meeting of the Launceston Council yesterday Alderman J. F. Ockerby moved,—"That so far as practicable all work for this council be performed by ...
Article : 231 wordsAsked how many whiskeys he thought would knock a man over, a witness who was giving evidence in Sydney alst week before the Senate Committee on ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. P. H. Thomas, assistant fruit export, delivered a lecture in the Mechanies'-hall to-night on the "Management and treatment of the plum." He pointed ...
Article : 309 wordsThe question of the tramway extension to the new wharf was further discussed by the Launceston Council yesterday, on a motion by Alderman Hart that five ...
Article : 72 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, K. Livingstone, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Smith. Johnson, Reid, Fletcher, Lawrence and child. Douglas, Winch, McLean, ...
Article : 112 wordsA sensation was created prior to the starting of the Farewell Handicap a[?] the Townsville races on Saturday, when the trainer of Etal told the stewards ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Chief Health Officer (Dr. Park), in referring to the question of a pure milk supply, points out that, while boiling milk will kill most of the ...
Article : 301 wordsAt the meeting of the Emu Bay Council at Burnie yesterday the Warden (Mr. O. G. Norton) stated that quite recently he and three others spent a day shooting ...
Article : 98 wordsAt a meeting of the Returned Soldiers' Imperial League in Hobart last evening it was stated that efforts had been made to secure quarters in the city for a ...
Article : 76 wordsNarrawall, s.s., from Melbourne—4 bgs oats, 20 bgs wheat, 32 bgs sugar, 30 bgs pollard, 22 ess kerosene, 71 brs iron, 5 bris carbide. ...
Article : 130 wordsThe results of the May examinations held under the supervision of the Federal Institute of Australia, have just come to hand, and the following candidates ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the meeting of the Sorell Council on Saturday a letter was read from Mrs. Nicholas appealing for a donation towards the equipment of a recreation room at ...
Article : 93 wordsA suit for divorce, in which the wife gave evidence in support of her husband's petition for a dissolution of the marriage on the grounds of misconduct, ...
Article : 204 wordsAlthough Ministers spent several hours to-day discussing a demand for an inquiry in connection with the conviction of the I.W.W. prisoners, no ...
Article : 277 wordsAustralian States, expected at G.P.O. Tuesday and Wednesday; delivered by letter carriers Wednesday and Thursday. N.S.W. (direct) and Queensland, Thursday. ...
Article : 87 wordsThis week's "Goevrnment Gazette" contains:—Proclamation under the "Insecticides Act," prescribing a standard for destructive preparations; accounts of New ...
Article : 36 wordsAn unusual case came before the Police Magistrate at Brisbane City Court this week, when Constable Norton called on Henry John Sharman, a grave digger, ...
Article : 79 wordsRabbit pest. Emu Bay Council. Leven Harbour Trust. Mersey Marine Board. ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Premier has received from Sir John McCall (Agent-General for Tasmania) a roughly bound and somewhat dilapidated copy of "Godwin's Emigrant's ...
Article : 292 wordsThe number of cases of infectious disease reported to the Department of Public Health for the week ended 15/7/18 was:—Hobart (including New Town).— ...
Article : 67 wordsYou can't find a single Frenchman who is not walling to go to certain death any time, because he believes his life belongs to France, and that France is ...
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Advertising : 111 wordsThe Premier (Hon. W. H. Lee) and the Honorary Minister (Hon. Tas. Shields, M.L.C.) had a conference yesterday at the Town-hall, Launceston, with the ...
Article : 136 words"Onlooker."—That kind of letter does no good. "Thirsty for Knowledge."—We do not understand what you mean. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 16 Jul 1918, Page 4
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