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Article : 252 wordsThe New Zealand Rugby footballers play St. Helens on Saturday. It is understood that each of the New Zealand players will receive £150 ...
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Article : 380 words"The Times" says that Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman is physically unable to bear the strain of the session, and advises him to accept a peerage. The ...
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Article : 75 wordsWhen unveiling a monument at Burgersdorp on Monday to the burghers who were killed in the South African war, General De la Rey said that ...
Article : 86 wordsSeveral matters relating to the wages and conditions of employees came up for discussion in the Senate to-day. Senator Keating (T.), in reply to ...
Article : 185 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Hobart Young Men's Christian Association, held on Monday evening, the date of the ...
Article : 102 wordsA professor named Sultan has contributed to a medical journal at Berlin a description of an operation performed on a man's heart that had been ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo severe earth shocks have been felt at Johannesburg. ...
Article : 19 wordsMost of the business before the committee at its usual monthly meeting last evening had to do with the annual meeting of members to be held ...
Article : 147 wordsThe ship Emily Reed, 1,565 tons, which left Newcastle New South Wales, on November 8 for Astoria, in the United States, hass been ...
Article : 48 wordsA meeting of the Tasmanian Rowing Association was held this evening. Mr. R. M. Collins presided, and there were also present:—Messrs. W. Radford, W. ...
Article : 394 wordsThe [?]ate Michael Edward Sanderson, of Kettlethorpe-hall, has bequeathed £60,000 to the diocese of Wakefield, besides £10,000 to provide pensions for ...
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Article : 53 wordsThe timber yard employees' strike has ended. The president of the Timber Merchants' Association states that casual hands return to work for 1s. 1½d. per ...
Article : 154 wordsThe quarterly meeting of the Hobart branch of the A.N.A. was held last evening, the president (Mr. T. C. Simpson) in the chair. There was a ...
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Article : 81 wordsAt the Police Court to-day, James Sheehan, a young man, was remanded to Latrobe on a charge of child desertion at Railton in 1904. He ...
Article : 37 wordsP. M. Newton, Patent Attorney, begs to notify that his Hobart Office has been removed from 95 Macquarie-street to 72 Collins-street, and that Mr. H. C. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 19 Feb 1908, Page 5
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