Events in connection with the strike of marine engineers took a more favcurable turn to-day and it was reperted that, although the conference ...
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Article : 599 wordsAt the first series of the London wool sales which opened to-day 10,648 bales were catalogued, of which 3,785 bales were from New Zealand. There was an ...
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Article : 41 wordsThe British Board of Trade recently notified the State Government that an exhibition of timbers grown within the British Empire to be held in London ...
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Article : 104 wordsAdmiral Lord Jellicoe and Sir Robert Borden, the Prime Minister of Cannda, left Havana to-day on board the battle-cruiser New Zealand. Their ...
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Article : 703 wordsThe board of the Mt. Lyell Mining and Railway Co. has authorised the extension of the concentrating plant by the installation of a plant for the hand ...
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Article : 310 wordsThe latest news received in Cairo [?] from Syria shows that the situation there is exceedingly grave. Serious fighting occurred between the French ...
Article : 125 wordsIt is reported at San Antonio, in the American State of Texas, that a Japanese merchant vessel, loaded with munitions of war for the Mexican ...
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Article : 33 wordsThe terrifie hitting of the members of the A.I.F. cricket team at Fitzroy on Tuesday was freely commented on in cricket circles to-day. One hit by ...
Article : 81 wordsDuring a gale in the Bay of Biscay yesterday the French liner Afrique, 5,404 tons, was damaged owing to striking a rock near the coast, but managed ...
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Article : 225 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the New Norfolk Municipal Council a circular letter was read from the Penguin Council relating to the remission of rates on ...
Article : 472 wordsThe Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that even the Social Democrats are joining in the campaign against the extradition of ...
Article : 117 wordsThe action of the New York State Legislative Assembly by virtually a unanimous vote refusing to permit five Socialist members to take their seats ...
Article : 96 wordsFour returned soldiers, representing "diggers" of Henty, Wallah, and Cul [?] cairn districts, informed the Premier (Mr. Holman) to-day that two men ...
Article : 129 wordsLord Dudley, formerly Governor-General of Australia, has sold his Witley Court estate at Stourbridge, in Worcestershire, for over £1,000,000. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Enemy Debts (Tearing House in London calls upon British traders who [?]wed money to Germans before the war to immediately pay their ...
Article : 45 wordsCommander Bowen (District Naval Officer), chairman of the Coal Board, states that surprise visits are being made to houses and other premises by ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Robert Lansing, the American Secretary of State, announces that 29,000 Jews had been killed in pogroms in the Ukraine up to September, 1919. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe desirability of improved postal facilities at Castle Forbes Bay was raised by Councillor C. Reeve at this week's meeting of the Huon Municipal Council. ...
Article : 501 wordsThe principal event as regards shipping matters in Hobart yesterday was the arrival of the Union S.S. Company's s.s. Mocraki, which left Sydney ...
Article : 494 wordsMargate, Ramsgate, and other Thanes towns are claiming, through the British Government, £500,000 from Germany for damage done by air ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Minister of Trade and Customs (Mr. Massy Greene) has given particulars of the special arrangements that are being made in connection with the ...
Article : 185 wordsLieutenant Parer, who is making an attempt to fly to Australia, has arrived at Le Bourget, near the Swiss border. ...
Article : 32 wordsApplication was made to Mr. Justice Mann in the Practice Court to-day for bail on behalf of Jeremiah Heffernan, of Malvern, who is at present awaiting ...
Article : 250 wordsThe British Government is taking steps to prevent a German invasion of Great Britain, which may come about consequent on the ...
Article : 96 wordsLord Robert Cecil, the Unionist member for Hitchin, condemns a proposal made by Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancellor, for the creation of a new ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Finance Minister states that the amount raised for the New Zealand Victory Loan was over £8,800,000, and other considerable amounts were to ...
Article : 48 wordsThe Prince of Wales, who was the principal guest at a dinner given last night by the Canada Club, referred to the pleasure with which he anticipated ...
Article : 77 wordsMartial law has been proclaimed throughout Germany, owing to oubreaks against the Government. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe attention of the Commonwealth Treasurer has been drawn to the fact that certain persons, styling themselves as brokers and financiers, are ...
Article : 80 wordsPeace having been formally established, a—proclamation has been issued b[?] the South African Government bringing the amnesty to rebels into ...
Article : 63 wordsFollowing upon the destruction of the British Wheat Mill at Wallaroo on Wednesday, a fire broke out at the Olympi[?] Picture Theatre, near to the ...
Article : 62 wordsWith Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., in the chair, the Basic Wage Commission resumed its inquiry into the housing and rent problem to-day. The evidence of ...
Article : 141 wordsLast week the municipal workers of Durban took control of the affairs of the council, occupied the public offices, and restarted the public services, the ...
Article : 96 wordsAn announcement in the "Commonwealth Gazette" to-day states that approval has been given by the Governor-General in Council to the ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Premier (Sir Walter Lee) stated yesterday that, in respense to a request made by the Mayor of Hobart (Alderman Snowden) and Captain Stopp, on ...
Article : 80 wordsNegotiations have been concluded between the Australian Headquarters Staff in London and the Imperial authorities in reference to the disposal ...
Article : 60 wordsThe Coroner (Dr. Cole) at the morgue to-day committed Thomas Edward Barnett, of Kew, for trial in connection with the death of Lynella ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 16 Jan 1920, Page 5
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