The Premier, Mr. Bent, on Monday laid the foundation-stone of the new pavilion at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, there being a considerable attendance— ...
Article : 1,366 wordsThe Chief Justice will proceed to Launcestom on Monday to preside at the sittings of the Supreme Court in its civil and criminal jurisdiction, and conduct ...
Article : 61 wordsSir William Lyne, speaking on preferential trade with Canada to-day, said he did not think we could do very much in that direction. After the overtures ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Government formally posted notices at the outer harbour works yesterday that it has taken possession of the works, on account of the contractors ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association has received a cable from the London Institute, stating that the French barque St. Donatien, which left Bordeaux for ...
Article : 47 wordsThe taxation committee of the Reichstag at Berlin has unanimously rejected the Government bill providing for the introduction of a tax on receipts. ...
Article : 49 wordsThe natives guilty of an attack on the police in the Richmond district of Natal were courtmartialled and shot in the presence of the tribe. ...
Article : 84 wordsTwo daughters of Mrs. George Crouch, of Endaven, near Mitchell, were taking the clothes off a wire line yesterday, when they were killed by lightning. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Joseph Cook, deputy leader of the Federal Opposition, will visit Tasmania after the state elections. Arrangements will be made for him to ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Wages Board in the stonemasons' trade met to-day to consider the refusal of the stonemasons to abide by the decision of the board with regard to wages. ...
Article : 64 wordsA credit for £42,000 sterling for European troops in German East Africa has been voted. ...
Article : 20 wordsReceiving the Rev. Wilson Carlisle, hon. chief secretary of the Church Army, King Edward sent kindly greetings to the members. ...
Article : 65 wordsSix deaths have occurred from bubonic plague at Hong Kong in a week. SHIPPING RESTRICTIONS. MELBOURNE, Friday. ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. T. A. Okines has decided to contest the Queenborough seat at the coming elections. A deputation waited on Sir Elliott ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Fremantle Harbour Trust profit for the past year was £27,795. ...
Article : 16 wordsThe Prime Minister made public to-day a minute written by the Minister of Defence, relating to the necessity for a Commonwealth agency in London. It ...
Article : 284 wordsA discussion took place at the marine board to-day relative to the carriage of wax matches on ships in other than fire-proof cases. A letter was ...
Article : 116 wordsThe area of land in occupation increased by 650,000 acres last year. The area of wheat for threshing shows a decrease of 35,000 acres. Oats ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. D. N. Harvey, of Tattersall's, left by the mail train to-night, en route for a seven months' tour of Europe. This afternoon he was presented with a ...
Article : 50 wordsSir Francis Cowley Burnand has retired from the editorship of "Punch," and has been succeeded by his assistant, Mr. Owen Seaman, M.A. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Seamen's Union at Dunedin passed a resolution expressing astonishment at the terms of the Arbitration Court in the seamen's dispute and stating that ...
Article : 74 wordsWheat sold to-day at 3s 2d to 3s 2¼d; flour, £6 17s 6d to £7 7s 6d; bran, 11¾d to 1s; pollard, 11½d and 11¾d; mailing barley, 4s 5d to 4s 11d; other sorts, ...
Article : 163 wordsOn the Stock Exchange of London yesterday the following quotations ruled:—Mount Lyell, b £2 3s, s £2 4s. Broken Hill Proprietary, b £3 10s 7d, ...
Article : 70 wordsThe returns of the Bank of England for the week, as compared with those of a week ago, are as follow, the figures of a week ago being given in ...
Article : 98 wordsThe National Council of Women's Interstate Congress was continued to-day. Mrs. Hannaford (vice-president) was in the chair this morning, when reports ...
Article : 90 wordsThe New Zealand 4 per cent. loan of £500,000, tenders for which opened yesterday at the Melbourne and Sydney offices of the Bank of New Zealand, has ...
Article : 111 wordsMr. Gollinger's bill provides subsidies for certain classes of merchantmen and fishing boats, in return for the use of the vessels for national defence and ...
Article : 65 wordsMr. L. W. Murdoch, secretary to the Shropshire Sheepbreeders' Association, reports having shipped, on account of Mr. Harry Exton, of Oak Farm, Kempton, ...
Article : 126 wordsDuring the week the Attorney-General sent several cables to Natal, asking for information as to the exact point upon which the Natal Full Court had ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Labour members understand that the Federal Government proposes to bring the Trade Marks Act, which includes the union label, into force in May, ...
Article : 136 wordsThe open money market discount rate for three months' bank bills is 3 29.32 per cent., or 3-32 per cent. below the Bank of England rate. ...
Article : 29 wordsH.M.S. Pioneer arrived his afternoon, and anchored outside, although there is plenty of room in the river. She sails to-morrow for Burnie. ...
Article : 28 wordsButter.—With prices unchanged, the market is steady. Danish is hardening, and all the choicest colonial has been cleared. There is a slow trade ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsMr. H. J. James was the purchaser of the hotel property known as the Royal Hotel, and not Mr. Thos. James. ...
Article : 26 wordsA case of local interest was before Messrs. H. G. Spicer and J. L. Waters, Js.P., at the Police Court to-day, when William Horton, jun., was charged with ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Minister of Defence, speaking about Major Hawker's case, said that anybody who administered an oath without proper authority was liable to a ...
Article : 141 wordsAt Paddington at an early hour to-day Reginald Cooper was wounded by a neighbour named Charles Sawyer. Sawyer had been annoyed by larrikins, and ...
Article : 133 wordsThe following executive appointments have been made:—Constable J. G. Knight to be a bailiff of the Court of Requests at Stanley. A public holiday ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Federal Government will shortly invite applications from persons competent to fill the position of Federal Statistician. The salary is to be £800 or ...
Article : 54 wordsThe steamer Vittoria, which arrived from Ocean Island to-day, stated that no news has been received there of the steamer Scott, which is long overdue ...
Article : 44 wordsDear Sir,—It is with great pleasure I tell you of the cure of my son of Hydalids through taking VITADATIO. About 15 months ago my son began to be ill, ...
Article : 298 wordsThe following approved decisions relating to the Customs tariff are published for general information and the guidance of officers by Sir William Lyne, ...
Article : 205 wordsIt is probable that a decision will shortly be come to by the Commonwealth military authorities, whereby the various corps will be permitted to retain the ...
Article : 337 wordsThe musical competitions were continued to-night, when there was a very much better attendance. Miss Edith Woods's juvenile choir, in the part ...
Article : 169 wordsThe managers of the Junction North and the British mines have decided to seal down the shufts for a few days, to allow the fire in the Junction mine to ...
Article : 53 wordsDon't give up. Discouragement has lost many a life. Fight it out. Try every means. Failure in one case does not mean ...
Article : 339 wordsA leading citizen has been commissioned to purchase 150 tons of flour for the relief of the starving Japanese. The flour will go forward free in two ...
Article : 48 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Flinders Island Road Trust on the 7th inst. the seats held by Messrs. James and William Holt were declared forfeited, ...
Article : 175 wordsPresent—Messrs. Thos. Riggall (chairman), Thos. Parramore, W. H. Bennett, M.H.A., and R. C. Keomode, attended the meeting on Monday. ...
Article : 105 wordsMr. Griffith Boscawen, the Unionist candidate in the Tunbridge division, scored neatly at a tempestuous meeting which the Radicals attempted to break ...
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Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Sat 17 Feb 1906, Page 8
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