In the Legislative Assembly to-night, Mr. Vowels, dealing with a vote for hospitals and charitable institutions, said he could not understand why the ...
Article : 669 wordsAt the December meeting of the Scottsdale Council the following letter was received from the Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne:—"The ...
Article : 216 wordsA conference of Commonwealth and State immigration officers is to be opened in Melbourne to-morrow, with a view to securing the closest possible ...
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Advertising : 563 wordsRises. Sets December 17.................. 4.28... 7.43 December 2[?].................. 4.33... 7.43 THE MOON. ...
Article : 772 wordsThe following cases of infectious disease were reported to the Department of Public Health during the week ended Saturday last:—Hobart: Diphtheria, 3. ...
Article : 45 wordsBefore the business at the City Police Court was called on yesterday, Superintendent Browne said he desired, on behalf of the members of the force and ...
Article : 231 wordsThe Self-Extermination of Ireland still proceeds, notwithstanding the offer of the British Government to open a new chapter in this strange, eventful history ...
Article : 368 wordsAt a meeting of the Hobart City Council last night the Acting Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Lines) reported that during the month of October there were 59 ...
Article : 151 words"Shikspur? Shikspur?" asked the young lady in "High Life Below Stairs"—"who wrote it?" Perhaps the information acquired at school in ...
Article : 1,306 wordsOur Flinders Island correspondent writes:—"There is a boom in dairying on Flinders Island, and good returns are being obtained as the result of selling ...
Article : 131 wordsAs a first instalment towards the relief of the housing shortage in Hobart the City Council recently decided to erect eight workers' cottages on land in ...
Article : 111 wordsAmusing reminiscences of life with the diggers were (says the "Age") recounted by ex-Captain C. Tregear to members of the Protestant Federation last week in ...
Article : 295 wordsParliamentarians are not (says the "Sydney Morning Herald") poetic as a rule, but, forgetting their party differences on the occasion of Mr. Hughes's ...
Article : 149 wordsThe final stage has been reached in the negotiations between the Directors of the Latrobe Shale Company and a new company representing British and ...
Article : 199 wordsThe objections made by Yorkshire newspapers to the scheme for selling the carried-over Australian Wool are exactly what might have been expected. ...
Article : 871 wordsAt the Police Court to-day Henry Beasley, alias McNeil, who was arrested last week and charged with having fraudulently obtained goods by ...
Article : 97 wordsAn election will shorth be held to fill the vacancy on the Public Service Super-annuation Fund Board caused by the retirement of Mr. Winterson, through ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is stated by the "Australian Sugar Journal," in a review of the sugar crops in Queensland, that the weather has continued in all respects favourable for the ...
Article : 138 wordsFarmers around Devonport are busy with their hay harvest, and some splendid crops of Algerian oats are falling beneath the reaper and binder. In some ...
Article : 165 wordsA letter from the Chief Health Officer (Dr. E. S. Morris) was read at yesterday's meeting of the Kingborough Council, asking for a reply to his letter of ...
Article : 140 wordsThe latest developments in connection with the railwaymen's demands for higher wages and improved conditions is that the Trades-hall Disputes ...
Article : 131 wordsDivorce case at Burnie. Cases in the Divorce Court. Hobart City Council meeting. Kingborough Licensing Court. ...
Article : 252 wordsLoongana, [?].s, left Melbourne at 2 p.m. yesterday, and is due at Launceston at about 8 o'clock this morning. Wakatipu, s.s, which was to have left ...
Article : 156 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday morning, four Hobart men, James Clark, William Young, Francis Allen, and George McLaren, were charged ...
Article : 98 wordsHarold Rose, a lad of 15, employed in "The Mercury" branch office, Launceston, met with a nasty accident yesterday evening. It appeals that some boys were ...
Article : 65 wordsAt a meeting of the Kingston Hall Committee on Saturday night, Councillor E. J. Lucas presiding, it was decided that a new cement cricket pitch be laid ...
Article : 120 wordsThis week's Government "Gazette" contains:—Supplemental valuation roll for the district of Deloraine; assessment rolls for the municipalities of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Governor of Fiji is very anxious to remove the terms of reproach with which he believes the world generally regards Fiji. This he told the Legislative ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Weather Bureau reports for last week:—The fine weather of last week continued through the week-end. Air pressure remained low after Friday of ...
Article : 327 wordsUnited Kingdom, per Aquitania, due Thursday, delivery Friday; per Imperator, Friday, delivered same day; per Morea, Friday, December 23, delivered Monday, ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Launceston City Council at its meeting yesterday afternoon decided to abolish standing committees, the work of which will be done by the whole Council ...
Article : 92 wordsAttention was again called to the dangerous state of the Kingston jetty at yesterday's meeting of the Kingborough Council. Councillor Facy asked if any ...
Article : 114 wordsThe latest addition to the city tramways—car No. 42—attracted fresh interest to itself last evening, when at 20 minutes to 6 an overturned cart, a ...
Article : 200 wordsMelbourne (says the "Age") has something unique in "drunks"—a small, middle-aged man with a record of 120 convictions for being drunk and ...
Article : 286 wordsSome excellent views of Tasmanian scenery will be included in this week's "Tasmanian Mail[?]" to be published on Thursday The illustrations will ...
Article : 143 words"J.C." (Scottsdale).—No space. According to an interesting historical review in the latest issue of the "Commonwealth Year Book." New South ...
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Advertising : 147 wordsThe annual election in connection with the Hobart Marine Board takes place on Thursday. As in previous years, three of the wardens retire by effluxion of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 64 wordsThe report of the nurses of the Child Welfare Association for the week ended Saturday last stated that 15 visits were paid during the week, one of which was ...
Article : 131 wordsDuring last week 2,00[?] boxes of butter were credited to the Imperial contract, making 13,500 boxes in the Launceston and Burnie stores. The percentage of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 14 Dec 1920, Page 4
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