Our Melbourne correspondent telegraphed last night:—"The flagship on the Australian Station, H.M.S. Powerful, will arrive in Port Phillip Bay on ...
Article : 65 wordsCambrian, H.M.S., second-class cruiser, 4,360 tons, 10 guns, 19.5 knots, Captain Price Vaughan-Lewes, D.S.O., from Sydney. Onyx, bq., 420 tons, W. Woebling, from ...
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Advertising : 510 wordsAbout the middle of last year if was decided by the Postal Department to undertake a survey of a route for a new telegraph line between Melbourne ...
Article : 180 wordsMahinapua, s.s., 458 tons, K. Livingstone, for Strahan. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Clarke, Close and 3 children, Whittington, Cleaver, and child, Lynch and 2 children: ...
Article : 73 wordsNew Zealnnd has long been regarded as the birthplace and head centre of industrial legislation, and the operation of its laws has been keenly ...
Article : 1,237 wordsOnyx, bq., from Adelaide—5,000 bgs wheat. Ex Mahinapua, s.s., from Strahan—45 specially selected Huon pine logs: Risby Bros., Timber Merchants, 6 Elizabeth-street, ...
Article : 462 wordsGiven fine weather the visitors' cricket match to-day should attract a large number of people to the association ground Arrangements for the match have been ...
Article : 248 wordsWith the large load which Mr. Vardon has gained, we may take it as certain that he will be elected, and that one more vote will be gained in the Senate ...
Article : 273 wordsThe American financial crisis is still the leading topic of the day in commercial circles throughout the world. Indeed, it forces itself on notice owing to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsArrived.—February 16, Perth, s.s., from Devonport; 17th, 2 a.m., Kamona, s.s., from Devonport. QUEENSCLIFF. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 621 wordsFor the week which ended February 15 the following collections were made at the port of Hobart:—Wharfage, £267 0s. 1d. harbour dues, £28 11s. light dues, ...
Article : 115 wordsAs anticipated, the sail reported off Wedge Bay on Sunday proved to be the barque Onyx, from Adelaide. She reached an anchorage in the stream through the night, and ...
Article : 164 wordsUpon three of the Judges of the High Court of Australia taking their seats in the Supreme Court, Hobart, yesterday, Mr. Waterhouse, on behalf of the ...
Article : 186 words"The numbering of the houses in the city is shocking," said Alderman Amott at a meeting of the Council yesterday. Proceeding, he moved that the system ...
Article : 239 wordsThe old steamer Beautiful Star, which was gutted by fire on Christmas Day, was taken under the crane in the Constitution Dock yesterday to have the engines removed. ...
Article : 206 wordsThe regulation of traction-engine traffic is again a burning question on the North-West Coast, and one of the municipal councils has addressed to the Minister of ...
Article : 86 wordsThe Premier returned yesterday from Bruni Island. No further trace of the fruit fly pest has been discovered at Launceston. ...
Article : 564 wordsThe Union Company's steamer Komata arrived here at 8 o'clock last night, and anchored in the stream. This is her second visit to this port. She was last here in ...
Article : 103 wordsOur Fingal correspondent writes:— "Matters are not very brisk here just now, but it is hoped that before long Fingal will be reaping the benefit of the ...
Article : 71 wordsTo-day the Secretary of Mines (Mr. W. H. Wallace) will leave Hobart for the West Coast. He will visit Queenstown and Zeehan, and at the latter town meet ...
Article : 50 wordsThe German-Australian Company's steamer Plauen, from Sydney, which port she left on Friday afternoon, entered Storm Bay yesterday morning, and passed into ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Probation of Offenders Act came into force in England on New Year's Day, and the first case heard at Norfolk Quarter Sessions was dealt with under the new ...
Article : 256 wordsAt a meeting of the Hobart Fire Brigade Board yesterday, a discussion took place as to the advisability of the brigade attending fires outside of the Board's ...
Article : 217 wordsAn exchange says:—"If the proposition to watch the course of icebergs and keep transatlantic shipping informed of the approximate positions of these dangers can be ...
Article : 173 wordsThe P. and O. Company are pretty much, of course, in the public eye at present (says "Lloyd's Gazette"), through their distinguished chairman's little passage of arms ...
Article : 166 wordsFour very beautiful leopards died on Sunday morning in Eroni Bros.' circus. They were at once generously donated to the Museum. To the owner this means ...
Article : 132 wordsThe returns of the polling in the election for the vacancy in the representation of South Australia in the Senate are coming in slowly. The latest ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Mahinapua left here at 2.30 p.m. yesterday for Strahan. The Moonah leaves here at 9 o'clock this morning for East Coast ports. ...
Article : 28 wordsExcelsior—Franklin. Mongana.—New Norfolk. Taranna.—New Norfolk. Bonnie—Huonville, Geeveston, and Huon. ...
Article : 17 wordsH.M.S. Cambrian, from Sydney, arrived here at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. This makes the seventh warship at anchor in the Derwent. Since her last ...
Article : 130 wordsA certain number of writers and speakers have a ready answer to all criticisms of Australian methods whether political or commercial. Those who cavil ...
Article : 309 wordsAlm, bq., from Sundsvall. Challenger, H.M S., from Wellington. Cambrian, H.M.S., from Sydney. Carin, bgtine, from Port Pirie. ...
Article : 74 wordsJava, bq., Shipwright's Pt., for U.K. Pla[?]en, s.s., Port Huon, for Antwerp. Wild Wave, bq., Port Huon, for Adelaide. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 18 Feb 1908, Page 4
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