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Advertising : 2,274 wordsIt is common knowledge to every careful reader of this column that wool values have seriously fallen since the middle of last October, involving rather ...
Article : 1,767 wordsThe Manly ferry steamer Brighton broke down opposite the heads at 9.30 p.m. yesterday, and anchored until she was taken in tow by the steamer Woy ...
Article : 195 wordsDavid Cha[?]d, a dairy farmer at Franlinham, who is charged with having attempted to cause poison to be administered to his illegitimate child ...
Article : 59 wordsA weatherboard house was destroyed at Horsham this morning under remarkable circumstances. On two occasions the place was found to be ...
Article : 54 wordsHarvest thanksgiving service was held in St. Paul's Church on Sunday, February 8. The pretty litle church was very tastefully decorated by the lady members ...
Article : 126 wordsAt the Mudgee Quarter sessions an accused in the witness box stated that he was once convicted of stealing grapes when a child. Acting Judge ...
Article : 45 wordsThe gold yield for January was 45,676 ounces gross valued at £180,862. As compared with the corresponding period of last year, on morease of 1,175 ounces ...
Article : 32 wordsAn alarming accident which fortunately was not attended with very serious consequences, happened at the Ringwood railway station early this ...
Article : 53 wordsReginald Shorthose, trained at the Adelaide Our Boys' Institute, lifted 217lb. double handed above his head yesterday. Shorthose weighs 9st. 9lb. ...
Article : 75 wordsBishop Mercer arrived at St. Mary's by motor-car on Wednesday, and was met at the post office by the rector, Rev. J. Hayes, and was driven to ...
Article : 227 wordsTwo business promises and three dwellings at Rainbow were destroyed by fire early this-morning. The damage is estimated at £1,900. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Director of Education forwarded "The Mercury" a report containing the references to the delay in re-opening the "Devonport State schools to the Municipal ...
Article : 601 wordsWhen the steamer Lauschan recently arrived with a cargo of timber from Siberia her master reported that when making a call at Yokohama a Japanese ...
Article : 173 wordsA daring robbery occurred late on Friday evening on the 11.5 tramcar to Prospect. A man jumped on the back of a car, and whilst the conductor had ...
Article : 82 wordsLast night the detectives recovered the jewellery stolen from Mrs. M. A. Stewart's residence, Payncham, on Wednesday night. Two detectives in ...
Article : 106 wordsAt the Court of General Sessions, Richmond, on Monday, before the Chairman. (Mr. W. C. Simmons) and Mr. K. A. Ogilvy, J.P., Edmund Johnson, of ...
Article : 434 wordsAt midnight on Saturday Charles Campbell, a visitor to the city, who injudiciously had allowed two strangers, John Ross and John McIvor, to ...
Article : 122 wordsBurnle, February 11.—Cha[?] to-day is £3 5s per ton. There are 550 bags at the wharf. Potatoes reached £5 for primest. Deliveries totalled 400 bags. Good progress is being ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Tasmanian Woolgrowers' Agency Co. reports[?] Newstead fat stock market was to-day heavily supplied with sheep and lambs, but only a limited number of cattle were yarded, ...
Article : 143 wordsA man, who gave, the name of George Morrison, 23 years of age, described as a labourer, was arrested to-day by Constables P. O'Connor and Craig, on a ...
Article : 224 wordsMelbourne, February 11.—Wheat dull, quoted nominally at 4s 3d. Flour £10. Bran and pollard 1s 2d. Malting barley firm. A fairly large quantity of fair to prime sold ...
Article : 139 wordsThe seventeenth half-yearly meeting of the Portland Accident Society took place in White's-hall, Lottah, on Wednesday evening last. There was a full ...
Article : 308 wordsSir,—On the eve of my departure to my native State of South Australia, permit me to return my best thanks for the courtesy and kind attention I have ...
Article : 491 wordsThe Post Office at Eurobodalla, South Coast, was broken into last night. The safe was blown open by explosives, and the building and all ...
Article : 67 wordsThe strike of the casual hands in the Sydney timber-yards is spreading. The regular employees at several of the timber establishments ceased work ...
Article : 120 wordsLast week a shop, dwelling, and outbuildings were burnt to the ground. It belonged to Mr. Jas. Patmore, of Colebrook. Unfortunately the fire insurance ...
Article : 257 wordsA sad shooting fatality occurred at Moolarben, Mudgee, yesterday. Edward Charles Roberts, three years, was shot dead with a pea-rifle by his ...
Article : 85 wordsThe gold yield of New South Wales for January was 26,033oz. of fine, a decrease of 3,806oz. on the output for January, 1907. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 12 Feb 1908, Page 3
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