The National Industrial Conference convened by the Government opened to-day. There were 800 delegates, representing 10,000,000 employers and ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is rumoured in official circles (says the "Argus") that there is a possibility of the Orient Company running a weekly service to Australia next year. The ...
Article : 156 wordsRi[?]es. sets. March 1.................. 6.33... 7.55 March 9.................. 6.2... 6.41 March 17.................. 6.11... 6.27 ...
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Advertising : 1,101 words[?]. m. s. New moon......... March 2... 9 11 24 p.m First quarter...... March 9... 1 14 6 p.m. Full moon......... March 17... 1 41 6 a.m. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe following is the approximate tide-tame for Saturday, March 1:— High water: 8 a.m. and 8.30 p.m. Low water: 2 p.m. ...
Article : 33 wordsBeatrice, ketch, 77 tons, R. Blackwood, for Melbourne direct. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe Motor Drivers' Wages Board will meet at Launceston on Wednesday, the 12th March, to make a determination as to wages and conditions of employment ...
Article : 55 wordsEx Forbes Bros., from Melbourne—401 pkgs mercan[?]se; M[?]regor Bros. Laranah, s.s., left Melbourne at 3.30 p.m. yesterday with a full general cargo for ...
Article : 127 wordsThere was considerable difference of opinion at the Miners' Conference. It is understood that Mr. R. S. Smillie (president of the Miners' Federation) ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Mayor of Hobart, at the request of some leading citizens, has convened a public meeting, to be held in the Town— hall on Monday evening, for the purpose ...
Article : 171 wordsMessrs. Huddart, Parker's s.s. Westralia is expected to be released from quarantine at Barnes Bay to-morrow morning. She has no passengers on board. She is to leave ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Press Bureau has issued the following:—The Ministry of Labour states that 36 labour disputes are being referred to arbitration this week, ...
Article : 57 wordsTwice the little steamer Croydon has attempted to leave Port Adelaide for Tasmania, and twice she has returned (says the Adelaide "Advertiser" of February 2[?]). It ...
Article : 188 wordsRoyal assent has been given to the Sankey Coal Commission Bill. It is understood that the 16 members of the Commission will be half Labour men, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe regulations framed under the Apples and Pears ACt passed last session, relating to the standardisation of apples and pears for export to inter-State ...
Article : 192 wordsIn the House of Lords to-day Viscount Templetown asked what steps the Government were taking to secure for the Australasian trade enemy ...
Article : 74 words[?]fteen ships, aggregating 206,769 gross tons, were lost by the Cunard line during the period of the war. Of these, all except two vessels were classed as war losses, having ...
Article : 99 wordsNorthern spy stock. Trained Nurses' Association; annual meeting. National Council of Women; annual ...
Article : 256 wordsThe question of proportional voting for the Senate will shortly receive attention by the Federal Cabinet. The undertaking was given last year that various ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Northern Colonial Bureau Ltd., in Hamburg, has issued a pamphlet entitled, "German Shipping Before, During, and After the War," which contains valuable statistics. ...
Article : 374 wordsThe shipping position is more acute than ever. The Brisbane Federated Seamen's Union to-day decided not to return to ...
Article : 56 wordsFive tenders were received by the Burnie and Table Cope Marine Board for the construction of the wharf at the new breakwater, and that of Mr. Geo. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe British Government is arranging to build 50,000 houses in Ireland. ...
Article : 20 wordsOur Burnie correspondent telegraphs that orchardists on the North-West Coast read with interest the report of the committee on the Northern Spy stock. Many ...
Article : 155 wordsThe following steamers are due at Hobart from the under-mentioned ports:— March Croydon, s.s., from P. Adelaide...... — ...
Article : 177 wordsLady Sykes, the widow of General Sir Mark Sykes, M.P. for Central Hull, who died recently, has been adoptod as Coalition candidate in the contest to fill her ...
Article : 43 wordsThe public has been hearing a good deal on the subject of education these last few days, and much of it is to the point. The Bishop's speech at the ...
Article : 1,162 wordsMingled with the eminently wise observations that Professor Pelham addressed to a large gathering of law students the other day were some ...
Article : 1,208 wordsAt a meeting of the Queenstown Municipal Council on Thursday night it was decided to increase the council's policy to provide for the liability incurred ...
Article : 56 wordsAfter a week's sojourn at Port Melbourne new pier, the steamer Loongana, which but for labour troubles would have conveyed stranded Queensland soldiers ...
Article : 232 wordsSenator Keating is still trying to move the Federal Ministers with regard to the heavy fares by which passengers who desire to go from Tasmania ...
Article : 487 wordsLeillateah, sch., from Strahan, via Port Davey. Leeta May, ketch, from Melbourne, to sail. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt the Launceston Police Court yesterday morning, before the Police Magistrate (Mr. E. L. Hall), the cases preferred against Sydney E. Stearnes for having ...
Article : 106 wordsBeatrice, ketch, left Hobart for Melbourne February 28. Joseph Sims, sch., left Carrickfergus Bay for Sydney about February 24. ...
Article : 43 wordsWainul, s.s., 684 tons, F. Johnstone, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Budge, O'Neil, Snow, Turner, Hodson, Barrand, Ingamills, Armstrong Pitt, Correl, ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Premier was asked yesterday if he had read in "The Mercury" that morning that at a meeting of the State Labour party in Launceston on Thursday it was ...
Article : 125 wordsThe application of electricity is now made to the bench plane, the carpenter's tool used on small jobs (says the "Scientific American"). Hand work for this class ...
Article : 162 wordsLOW HEAD.—Cleared.—February 28: 6.50 p.m., Wainui, s.s., for Melbourne. ...
Article : 11 wordsHon. J. W. Evans waited on the Premier yesterday on behalf of the fruitgrowers and others in the Oyster Cove district, urging that the new decking ...
Article : 77 wordsArrived.—February 27: 12.40 a.m., Waitomo, s.s., from Sydney. Sailed.—February 28: 7.27 a.m., Malta, s.s., for south. ...
Article : 91 wordsAmerican Electrician's Handbook, by T. Croft, 16/6. Erecting Work, by H. E. Collins, 5/6. Shafting Pulleys, and Belting, Collins, ...
Article : 100 wordsThe troops from the steamer Argyllshire who recently [?]oke quarantine and paraded Sydney streets, received an unpleasant surprise when they visited ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. McWilliams, M.H.R., stated yesterday, as to the Premier's statement that the Federal Government proposed to reduce the per capita grant:—"May ...
Article : 126 wordsArrivals: At H[?]vre: Germaine, bq., from Port Pirie. At Suez: Warsettor, s.s., from Adelaide. Departures.—For Sydney: Balmoral Castle, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 1 Mar 1919, Page 6
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