Our Melbourne correspondent telegraphed last night:—"The Governor of Tasmania and the Lady Edeline Strickland arrived from Hobart this morning. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Minister for Lands will leave to-day for Sydney, where he will attend the conference of Ministers of Agriculture, which has been convened to discuss the ...
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Advertising : 726 wordsMahinapua, s.s., 456 tons, K. Livingstone, for Strahan. Passengers — Saloon: Mesdames Nichols, Fogarty, Roberts, Fitzpatrick and child, Grundy, Richardson, Clay and infant; ...
Article : 53 wordsOur Melbourne correspondent cabled last evening as follows:—"Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore will leave for Hobart in H.M.S. Powerful on Thursday ...
Article : 39 wordsKomata, s.s., for Wellington—47,198ft. timber. February 23. Wild Wave, bq., for Melbourne, from Port ...
Article : 284 wordsAn election took place yesterday by the Senate of the University of Tasmania, of a member of the Council in the place of Mr. H. C. Kingsmill, M.A., who resigns ...
Article : 69 wordsOur Launceston correspondent reported last night that the officials of the Cornwall Coal Company had stated, in explanation of their mine being idle three ...
Article : 54 wordsThe second and last special wool sale of the Hobart reason was held in the Town-hall yesterday. Three catalogues— those of Messrs. Roberts and Co., Fryer ...
Article : 155 wordsIn addition to the large number of vessels mentioned the other day as having been engaged to load timber at Tasmanian outports, the Huon Timber ...
Article : 110 words"I mean it, every bit of it; our baths are the cleanest, the healthiest, and the nicest in the city, such was the Warden of Queenborough's beginning to a glowing ...
Article : 252 wordsThe revenue of the Hobart Marine Board between February 15 and February 22 totalled £633 17s. 2d. The receipts under the principal headings were: ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Blue Funnel liner Orestes, which was expected to arrive yesterday afternoon from Sydney, had not put in an appearance by midnight, but was hourly expected. She ...
Article : 87 words"Albion."—Like the scorpion, your letter has the sting in its tail. We do not want a controversy on religious subjects in our columns, and ...
Article : 37 wordsAn Assessment Appeal Court was held yesteday at Zeehan. The feature of yesterday's wool sales was the high price for lambswool; ...
Article : 616 wordsA telegram from Dunedin a few days ago ago (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph") stated that intercolonial fares had been increased by the Union Company by the ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Minister of Home Affairs (Senator Keating), telegraphed our Melbourne correspondent last night, has sent to Launceston Mr. Joscelyne, of the ...
Article : 88 wordsMany a well-found sailing ship has come to grief in endeavouring to round Cape Horn. Steamers, on the other hand, have the option of navigating through the Straits ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Tasmanian Government "Gazette," published to-day, contains:—Accounts of the Oatlands municipality, the Upper Sorell Road Trust, the Colebrook Road ...
Article : 48 wordsA young woman named Catherine Agnes Vernen, living at Gould's Country, died in the Hobart-Launceston express train yesterday at Evandale. The deceased ...
Article : 103 wordsThe comparisons which we publish to-day between the various Australian ports show Hobart in a particularly favourable light. It has long been ...
Article : 240 wordsAt a meeting in the Synod-hall last evening Bishop Mercer stated that Mr. Bernard Shaw had secured for £5 the large size Prayer Book used by the Rev. ...
Article : 63 wordsJune 7 is appointed for the first sailing of the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, the new steamer being built at Bremerhaven for the Norddeutscher-Lloyd Company. The vessel ...
Article : 158 wordsThe city detectives yesterday arrested Hy. Vimpany, cook at the General Hospital, on the charge of larceny, on February 23, of 31lb. potatoes, one marrow, ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Criminal Sittings of the Supreme Court will be commenced to day at Hobart. The Chief Justice will preside in No. 1 court, Mr. Justice McIntyre in ...
Article : 76 wordsSingapore is a sort of Clapham Junction of the East. Consequently the news that the Norddeutscher- Lloyd have driven the Japanese out of the trade of ...
Article : 156 wordsWhen the English three-masted schooner Doris foundered on the sandbanks off Flushing recently the Dutch lifeboat William III. could not reach the wreck through the ...
Article : 113 wordsThe District Coroner (Mr. G. W. Allwright) held an inquest yesterday at the Bellerive Hotel concerning the sudden death on Sunday evening of the licensee, ...
Article : 87 wordsAn exchange says that a group of C[?]se mandarins is taking measures for, establishing a steam navigation company for furthering the Chinese shipping trade. The ...
Article : 44 wordsOnce again charges have been made of a very serious nature with regard to the treatment of West Australian blacks, and have been found to be, in the main, ...
Article : 572 wordsOur Huon correspondent writes:—"The Warden of Huon (Mr. W. J. Thomas) is in communication with the Orown Law officers on the question as to the ...
Article : 159 wordsThe Mahinapua left here at 1.10 p.m. yesterday for Strahan. The Karori, from Sydney, took the ground in Macquarie Harbour Channel at 7.30 a.m. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe determination of the Postal Department to recall all the stamp selling licenses has been arrived at (says the "Age"), with the ultimate intention of ...
Article : 141 wordsAlm. bq., from Sundsvall. Challenger, H.M.S., from Wellington. Cambrian, H.M.S., from Sydney. Carin, bgtine, from Port Pirie. ...
Article : 83 wordsIt is announced that "a Bill is being drafted for the Prime Minister accepting from South Australia the control of and responsibility for the Northern ...
Article : 806 wordsA conference of inspectors of mines has been held at Queenstown, and it was attended by Mr. Wallace, Secretary for Mines. Mr. Wallace and Messrs. ...
Article : 85 wordsJava, bq., Shipwright's Pt., for U.K. Mariner, sch., Port Arthur, for Melbourne. ...
Article : 15 wordsMongana.—New Norfolk. Taranna.—New Norfolk. Ivy—Brown's River. Star.—Huon. ...
Article : 13 wordsWhen the tariff debate in the Senate does at length come to an end, members of the House—on the Government side, anyhow—have no intention of ...
Article : 178 wordsLOW HEAD.—Arrived—February 23, 11.35 p.m., Wareatea, s.s., from Melbourne; February 24, 1.30 p.m., Helen Moore, ketch, from Straits Islands. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe local agent for the Australian Workers' Union (writes our Campbell Town correspondent) received a telegram on Friday evening from Mr. A. Rae, who ...
Article : 103 wordsSailed.—February 24, 7.5 p.m., Loongana, t.s., for Launceston. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsBefore discussing the question of distribution among the States of the surplus revenue from Customs and Excise, it is necessary to see how far there is an ...
Article : 939 wordsIn the course of one of her articles in the "Sydney Morning Herald" upon Papua, Miss Grimshaw mentioned the praying mantis as being common there. ...
Article : 227 wordsThe largest trout of the season 1907-8 was landed at the Kydra River, Nimitybelle, New South Wales, last week (according to the "Sydney Morning ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 25 Feb 1908, Page 4
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