"We can and will own the workshops," is the heading to an extraordinary circular issued to-day to various trade unions by the organising and ...
Article : 232 wordsMr. Justice Harvey this morning continued the hearing of the evidence in the inquiry into the internment of seven men on the ground that they are ...
Article : 569 wordsNo better evidence of the need for legislation to control the quality of fruit intended for exportation could be afforded than the inferiro condition of a ...
Article : 147 wordsRises. Sets. September 1.................. 6.38... 5.40 September 9.................. 6.25... 5.49 THE MOON. ...
Article : 1,067 wordsThe "San Jose Herald" (California) has the following under the above caption: —J. M. Ward, instructor in fruit culture, Department of Agriculture, ...
Article : 97 wordsThe announcement that the Labour Party is to take a vote of its members regarding the attitude to be adopted towards recruiting is in keeping with ...
Article : 347 wordsThe following were the Marine Board collections at the Port of Hobart last week:—Wharfage, £249 19s. 3d.; Quayage, £26 [?]s. 5d.; pilo[?]age, £3 4s. 3d.; ...
Article : 39 wordsThe following were the Customs collections at the Port of Hobart last week:— Duties, £573 4s. 11d.; excise, £665 4s. 7d.; light dues, £12 12s; miscellan[?]ous, [?]s. ...
Article : 36 wordsReferring to-day to a suggestion made by Senator Keating that the Government should exempt the tin mining industry from the War Times Profits Tax, the ...
Article : 93 wordsAustralian States expected at G.P.O. Tues day and Wednesday; delivered by letter carriers Wednesday and Thursday. N.S.W. (direct) and Queensland, expected ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsDr. Atkins having reported that the death of the young man Percy St. Clair Pharoah, who expired suddenly at No. 2 King-street, North Hobart, on Saturday ...
Article : 40 wordsDr. Sprott, City Health Officer, reported to the City Council last evening as follows:—During the month of July there were 41 deaths in the registration district ...
Article : 100 wordsAn unusual point, cropped up to-day, before Mr. Justice Hood, during the hearing of a petition for the dissolution of a marriage on the ground of ...
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Advertising : 475 wordsCasualty list 425. Engineers' strike. War-time profits tax. Launceston's milk supply. ...
Article : 148 wordsOn Sunday morning swallows appeared at Pontville for the first time this season, being about four days earlier than last year. They looked very travel-worn, and ...
Article : 84 wordsAt last night's meeting of the City Council Alderman Bottrill brought forward a motion, strongly urging the Government, in view of reports of the Chief ...
Article : 184 wordsBoth Houses of the State Parliament will meet to monow, the assembly at 2.30 p.m. and the Legislative Council at 7.30 p.m. Business will be resumed in ...
Article : 78 wordsThat real political union depends in a large degree on commercial union may be accepted as an indisputable fact. In the case of the federation of free ...
Article : 779 wordsMr. Justice Street, the Royal Commissioner appointed to inquire into charges made against the police in connection with the I.W.W. case, was unable to ...
Article : 55 wordsThe following message has been despatched by His Excellency the Governor-General on behalf of the Commonwealth Government to the President of ...
Article : 128 wordsAt the New Norfolk Police Court last Monday, a case was heard in which a defendant was charged with stealing firewood, and elected to be tried by a ...
Article : 286 words"Student."—The article pointed, out that the intention and in[?]vitable result of such texation was confiscation. "Inquirier."—The regulations apply to ...
Article : 36 wordsThe City Council last night received the resignation of Mr. E. J. Charles, works manager of the Queenborough sewerage scheme. Mr. Charles, in the ...
Article : 295 wordsOn the arrival at Ulverstone yesterday morning of the first train from Burnie people on the platform were informed that a large whale was stranded on the ...
Article : 112 wordsNo definite and official statement has yet been made of the intention of the British Government to have a general election this year, but it seems to be ...
Article : 933 wordsWalter Nunn, 50 years cf age, a commercial traveller, and Frederick Henry, manager of the Holdship Timber Company, were driving through ...
Article : 74 wordsWith referonce to the paragraph con[?] cerning the King Island fossil bones which recently appeared in "The Mercury," and the accuracy of which has ...
Article : 135 wordsThe report of the nurse at the Baby Clinic for last week set out thal 16 visits to homes were [?] by the nurse: four were return visits, and 12 to new-born ...
Article : 69 wordsTo-morrow it conference will take place between the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), Rear-Admiral Clarkson (Chairman of the Coal Board), the Premier ...
Article : 112 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2.[?] tons, K. Livingstone, for Melbourne, Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Walker, Tanner, Dawborn, Tulloch, Hart, Tyson. Spencer, baker, Lawrence, ...
Article : 167 wordsThe number of cases of infectious diseases reported to the Department of Public Health for last week was:—Hobart (including New Town).—Phthisis, ...
Article : 50 wordsAfter a hearing extending over several days, in which a great deal of export evidence was given residing the cool storage of apples, an action was ...
Article : 131 wordsAt the meeting of the Launceston Council yesterday a return was tabled giving a comparative statement of the revenue received and the number of ...
Article : 97 wordsAlthough a couple of steamers were in the North-West Coast-Sydney trade last week yet the produce shipments differed very little from those taken by the ...
Article : 175 wordsAt a meeting of the Burni[?] branch of the Protestant Federation to-night the chairman (Mr. S. W. Margetts) stated that nearly 500 members had enrolled in ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Launceston Council at its meeting yesterday decided by five votes to four that the route of the trams to the wharves should be down St. John-street, ...
Article : 40 wordsMarrawah, s.s., from Melbourne—12 [?]ss [?], 6 css candies, 12 [?] drapary, 1 cs confectionery. 1 es hardware, 48 bgs sugar, 20 bgs wheat, 4 bgs salt, 20 bgs rice, 67 bgs ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Postal authorities advise that the mail for the United Kingdom, wthich was previously anoounced as closing on Thursday, will close at 7 o'clock this ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Launceston Council proposes the adoption of some drastic measures in order to secure a pure milk supply. At yesterday's Council meeting the whole ...
Article : 183 wordsThe engineering trade wages board will meet in Hobart on September 3, and the boot trade wages board on September 7, for the purpose of dealing with ...
Article : 40 wordsThe City Council last night adopted a by-law to prohibit any person under 16 years of age from mounting or holding on to any part of a vehicle in any street ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 27 Aug 1918, Page 4
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