In the course of a general statement before the Low-Grade Mines Commission this morning, the representative of teh Rand Mineworkers' Union said ...
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Article : 234 wordsThere is no part of the city where a soup kitchen is more needed than in North Hobart, which is a populous portion of Holy Trinity parish, and the ...
Article : 208 wordsThere is practically no consternation here over influenza. Protracted isolation has rendered the community immune from perturbation, except from ...
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Article : 75 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the German troops, under General Von der Goltz, which were engaged to protect ...
Article : 231 wordsThough everything is in readiness to cope with an outbreak of pneumonic influenza at Lindisfarne, the residents up to the present have not been attacked ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsIt is announced that President Wilson will shortly start on a tour of the United States to speak on behalf of the Peace Treaty. ...
Article : 36 wordsIn the Arbitration Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Higgins, reference was again made to the difficulty experienced by shipowners in loading ships at ...
Article : 307 wordsHerr Von Hainhausen has been selected by the German Government as the new Ambassador to the United States, but the appointment is likely to ...
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Article : 210 wordsUnder the provisions of the Peace Treaty, a plebiscite is being taken of the people of Schleswig (the province which was wrested by Prussia from ...
Article : 165 wordsSir John S. Bradbury, the joint permanent Secretary to the Treasury, has been appointed principal British representative on the Reparation ...
Article : 35 wordsThe order issued on August 20 by the Chier Health Officer (Dr. Clarke), closing all shops, except chemists and druggists, and friendly societies' dispensaries, ...
Article : 53 wordsSteps will probably be taken to secure the early repatriation of Great Britain's 300,000 German prisoners, who are row idling in France, and costing ...
Article : 41 wordsThe period during which bauks are to close at noon has been extended to Friday, September 12. ...
Article : 21 wordsMajor Schro[?]der, a Canadian, was the winner of the Toronto to New York and return air race. [In a message published in ...
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Article : 135 wordsThe Chief Health Officer (Dr. Clarke) has authorised the reopening of the State High Schools on Tuesday next, so that candidates for the senior and junior ...
Article : 61 wordsNo fresh cases of influenza were reported in the Zeehan municipality to-day Zeehan has managed so far to keep clear of pneumonic influenza, although the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe action of the coal workers yesterday in refusing to proceed with the coaling of vessels in port was short lived, for this morning the men went on with ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 73 wordsThe provisions of the Unemployed Workers' Bill, introduced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, have caused consternation in commercial circles in ...
Article : 286 wordsMr. C. A. McCurdy, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, has begun the administration of the Profiteering Act, and has secured ...
Article : 114 wordsIn regard to the outbreak of influenza at the Mental Diseuses Hospital, New Norfolk, all patients suffering from the disease have been effectually isolated in ...
Article : 67 wordsIn the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Atkinson (T.) asked the Acting-Minister of the Navy (Mr. Poy[?]ton) whether, in view of the necessity ...
Article : 237 wordsThe soup kitchen at the Salvation Army Citadel in Liverpool-street was besieged at the two distributions which took place yesterday, and eleven coppers were in ...
Article : 203 wordsNumerous fresh cases of influenza within the municipality of Huon occurred to-day; but, fortunately, no further cases of the pneumonic type have been ...
Article : 421 wordsAn informal warning given to Turkey by Rear-admiral Driscoll, of the United States Navy, fobidding further Armenian massacres, has led to ...
Article : 108 wordsThe ladies connected with St. David's parish made a beginning with their soup kitchen in the Synod-hall yesterday, and, under the management of Mrs. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 29 Aug 1919, Page 5
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