The British Navy has been reinstated on a war footing, and the vessels have completed loading munitions in readiness for eventualities consequent ...
Article : 166 wordsM. Marters, the so-called Russian Bolshevik Ambassador to the United States, and the mombers of his staff have been cross-examined in New York by the ...
Article : 62 wordsWith the introduction of a Correspondence School into the activities of the State Education Department by the Director of Education (Mr. W. T. ...
Article : 1,558 wordsMr. W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia, has inaugurated a series of half a dozen farewell speeches in London prior to his leaving for the ...
Article : 458 wordsOfficials of the Victorian branch of the Seamen's Union deny that they had any knowledge of the peace move by the representatives of the ...
Article : 99 wordsCaptain Alcock and Lieutenant Brown, the British airmen who made the successful flight across the Atlantic, arrived at Euston railway station ...
Article : 87 wordsFour deaths from influenza were reported to the Board of Health to-day. Admissions to hospital numbered 70, and discharges 60. There are now 758 ...
Article : 50 wordsOwing to the effect of the epidemic of influenza upon teachers and pupils of public school, the Minister of Education has decided to add a week to ...
Article : 63 wordsA mutiny broke out yesterday among men on board French war vessels in the Baltic, the cause being the spread of Bolshevism among the crews. The ...
Article : 68 wordsOn Sunday morning next it is certain that all roads will lead to the Ocean pier. Those who wish to witness the arrival of the troops are advised to get there ...
Article : 328 wordsThe Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) stated to-day that he had given consideration to the proposals made by the Industrial Disputes Committee of ...
Article : 68 wordsThe influenza epidemic appears to be dying out in Brisbane. No deaths have occurred in metropolitan hospitals since Tuesday evening. There are now 189 ...
Article : 51 wordsYesterday the French commander at Frankfort threatened to bombard the town owing to crowds of Germans demonstrating outside the residence of ...
Article : 65 wordsThe balance-sheet of the British Ministry of Food for the year ending January 1, 1918, shows a total turnover, excluding wheat and sugar, of ...
Article : 125 wordsThe State Government chartered steamer Allinga is now held up in Brisbane, owing to the firemen refusing to sail on the vessel while the chief ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Royal Commission on influenza has published its report. It finds that the cause of the introduction of the epidemic was the conveyance by sea of ...
Article : 229 wordsThe secretary of the Peace Conference handed the reply of the Allies, with the revised treaty, to the German delegates at 6 o'clock on Monday ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Washington correspondent of the "New York Sun" states that Count Ishii; the Japanese Ambassador, has left Washington for Tokio avowedly for ...
Article : 121 wordsAn English company has been formed to [?]utilise the present opportunity to introduce Australian wines into Northern Europe and secure a hold on the ...
Article : 111 wordsThe following are the military arrangements to be carried out in connection with the troops to be released from quarantine:—Leave Barnes Bay, Sunday, ...
Article : 287 wordsThe Agent-General (Sir John McCall), in his latest report, says:—The Emigration Bill, of which I wrote in my last report, has not been passed. ...
Article : 919 wordsDuring the debate in the United States Senate to-day on the covenant of the League of Nations, Senator McCumber, one of the Republican members ...
Article : 93 wordsThe auxiliary schooner Dart, which was formerly the Victorian Government training ship, is expected to leave Melbourne on Saturday, with general cargo ...
Article : 84 wordsOn Monday night, at 11 o'clock, the steamer Glenturk, a scow of 150 tons, owned by the Pine Export Company, Strahan, was driven ashore by a heavy ...
Article : 298 wordsDr. Charles Duncan, at the convention of members of the American Medical Associations, which was held in New York to-day, said a cure for influenza ...
Article : 69 wordsJohn Libby, 62 years of age, a member of the Australian Ship and Wharf Workers' (Loyalist) Association, was to-day charged, before Mr. Justice ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Premier (Hon. W. H. Lee) has been in communication with the Controller of Shipping (Admiral Clarkson) in regard to detailing a vessel to lift ...
Article : 164 wordsThe number of persons in Great Britain drawing the weekly unemployment donation decreased by 322,117 between the end of April and the end of May. ...
Article : 61 wordsThe unrest in Vienna is approaching a crisis. The Communists threaten [?] great demonstration, and troops are being held in readiness. The feeling ...
Article : 54 wordsTramcars will leave the suburban termini on Sunday as follows:—New Town, 9.25 a.m.; Sandy Bay, 9.20 a.m.; Cascades, 9.20 a.m.; West Hobart line, ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Presbyterian General Assembly to-day unanimously passed the following resolution.—"In view of a possible crisis in the history of the New Hebrides, ...
Article : 449 wordsThe military authorities advise that the s.s. Wyandra leaves Melbourne at 10 a.m. to-morrow, 21st inst., with 20 officers, 2 nurses, 170 other ranks, and 5 ...
Article : 96 wordsYesterday Canadian soldiers made an attack on the Epso[?] police station in [?] attempt to rescne comrades, who had been locked up[?] and in the ...
Article : 70 wordsGeneral Sir Charles St. Leger Barter, speaking last night at a dinner to the 47th British Division, complained that he had been dismissed from the ...
Article : 154 wordsTasmania's isolation through the strike was firmly impressed to-day on the farming community by the Burnie and Table Cape Marine Board issuing ...
Article : 130 wordsA meeting of the residents of Granton was held at the residence of Mr. T. Hay last week in connection with the welcoming of returned soldiers. Mr. ...
Article : 105 wordsThe ketch Sara Hunter, which trades between Tasmania and Melbourne, has become a total wreck in Waratah Bay, near Wilson's Promontory. She had ...
Article : 114 wordsThe Mining Managers' Association at meeting yesterday decided to send a letter to the Amalgamated Miners' Association, with reference to its claims ...
Article : 219 wordsMrs. H. Watson, of Bellerive, has been advised by the Base Records Office that Gunner H. Watson will arrive in Melbourne about June 39 by the transport ...
Article : 300 wordsAn honour board for the Tasman Municipality has been designed, and is being executed by Mr. Geo. Garne[?]t, of Saltwater River. At the last meeting of ...
Article : 450 wordsYesterday two uniformed Spartacusers overpowered the guard at the temperary military prison at Weimar, and liberated 60 soldiers. The latter ...
Article : 78 wordsThe results of the intermediate examination of the Incorporated Institute of Accountants, Commonwealth of Australia, held in May last, have been ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. J. I. Macpherson, the Chier Secretary for Ireland, has issued an official reply to the report published by the Irish-American delegation which ...
Article : 266 wordsA question of very great interest to all engaged in the Australian wool industry was to-day answered by the Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Watt), this ...
Article : 187 wordsCharges of having by means of false pretences obtained £200 from Wm. Mackay, £225 from Thomas Henry Shallard, and £120 from Louis Septimus Lawritz, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe Acting-Prime Minister (Mr. Watt) intends leaving Melbourne for Sydney on June 27, with the Minister o[?] Repatriation (Senator Millen). ...
Article : 136 wordsAt a conference held to-day of delegates of the National Union of Railwaymen, a resolution was passed instructing the executive of the union ...
Article : 65 wordsHeavy rain fell yesterday and to-day and the nights have been bit[?]erly cold. At 5 o'clock this morning the thermoneter was down to [?]deg. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 20 Jun 1919, Page 5
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