A conference of representatives of the hop-growing industry in Victoria and Tasmania was to-day held at the Hotel Metropole, to consider whether ...
Article : 747 wordsThere was naturally much excitement in an about Parliament to-day, for there was a general desire to see the outcome of the proceedings in the ...
Article : 1,136 wordsThe Australian and Tasmanian apples by the steamer Mooltan, which left Hobart on February 29, arrived in fair condition but much of the Tasmanian ...
Article : 168 wordsThe preliminary draft of the noticepaper for the Premiers' Conference, which is to be opened in Melbourne on April 28, has been issued, and shows ...
Article : 238 wordsIn referring to Mr. Winston Churchill's promotion to the Board of Trade, the Capetown "Times" says South Africa may congratulate itself upon escaping ...
Article : 82 wordsIn a message to Congress, urging that provision be made for the immediate construction of four battleships of the largest type President Roosevelt ...
Article : 238 wordsA cablegram received last night stated that the Earl of Dudley, the new Governor-General of the Commonwealth, will sail on July 10 for Canada, where he will ...
Article : 519 wordsThe House of Commons adjourned on Tuesday until April 27. ...
Article : 17 wordsLord Fitzma[?]ice, Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, and Mr. T. Buchanan, Under-Secretary for India, have been appointed members of the ...
Article : 28 wordsA number of swindles were perpetrated at Vi[?]nna on Saturday in connection with the betting on the English races. Owing to the absence of direct ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. A. G. Hales, mentioned as one of the candidates likely to oppose Mr. Winston Churchill, who is seeking re-election for North-West ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Congo Free State authorities declare that many assertions contained in the reports of British Consuls are erroneous. ...
Article : 64 wordsSome time ago the Postmaster-General (Mr. Mauger), after abortive negotiations with the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. for the purchase of their cables ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Divisional Court has ordered the Union of London and Smith's Bank to deliver to the Bow-street magistrate the sealed packet which is supposed to ...
Article : 203 wordsA Blue-Book which has been issued shows that Lord E[?]gin, after vainly urging that Chinese offenders in the Transvaal should be tried hy the same ...
Article : 94 wordsThe "Chronicle" urges Mr. W. Run[?]iciman, President of the Board of Education, to convene an informal conference, in order to arrange a compromise ...
Article : 41 wordsBefore Messrs. Jones and Atkinson, Js.P., to-day, D. Hayes was charged with burglariously entering the premises of Emily Robins with intent to ...
Article : 102 wordsThe High Court delivered judgment to-day in the case stated by Mr. Justice Higgins as president of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court in the case ...
Article : 66 wordsThe police have seized a large quantity of goods supposed to have been stolen from the warehouse of Hoffnung and Co. The firm had suspected for some time ...
Article : 74 wordsThe famous old garrison church at Berlin has been destroyed by fire. Of the many flags commemorative of the Franco-P[?]ussian war of 1870-71 ...
Article : 47 wordsThis afternoon Detectives Donovan and Masters arrested William Prior, a second-hand dealer, on a charge of the larceny of a quantity of bags, valued ...
Article : 109 wordsArgument was concluded in the wire netting case, and the High Court reserved judgment. ...
Article : 18 wordsOur North- West correspondent writes:—The action of the directors of the Magnet mine in closing down for an indefinite period as a result of the ...
Article : 207 wordsA number of anarchists at Barcelona recently attempted, under threats, to blackmail the local officials and the banks, and subsequently caused a ...
Article : 91 wordsThe matter of the payment of Customs duties on steel rails imported by the Government of New South Wales was before the High Court to-day. The ...
Article : 115 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday Sir Gilbert Parker directed attention to the ruin that threatened the Kent hop industry by reason of the dumping ...
Article : 243 wordsThe action brought by the Rev. George Gladstone, who was recently removed from the charge of the parish of Nathalia by order of the Anglican ...
Article : 84 wordsLilian Bridge, aged 17 years,, daughter of Wm. Bridge, a. well-known dairy farmer at Allandale, in the West Maitland district, was brutally murdered ...
Article : 109 wordsA Russian named Zalakoff, disguised as a Mullah, has been arrested near Herat, in Afghanistan, on suspicion of being a spy. ...
Article : 66 wordsA correspondent writes us as follows:—"The cessation of work at the Magnet mine is not being received with much satisfaction by those shareholders ...
Article : 554 wordsThe British barque Inveramsay, which arrived in Storm Bay on Monday morning from Delagoa Bay, and anchored off Adventure Bay, was towed to an ...
Article : 234 wordsAt Bai[?]nsdale Assizes on Tuesday, Edward Chomley was charged with administering strychnine with intent to murder John Hickey. Hickey returned from ...
Article : 336 wordsThe British Consul at Tangier (Mr. H. E. White) has warned British subjects in Morocco that the Imperial Government will refuse henceforth to pay ...
Article : 60 wordsShortly before midnight on Monday an Austrian named Tom Parum. stepped outside his camp at West Boulder lease, when a young married woman named ...
Article : 102 wordsThe authorities in Venezuela are suing Mr. Carner, ex-receiver of the New York-Bermudez Asphalt Co., for an account of his administration of the ...
Article : 192 wordsThere is an extraordinary rush of American farmers towards Western Canada, where the prespects are considered better than in many parts of ...
Article : 37 wordsThe announcement was made in these columns a few weeks ago that the Union Co.'s steamer Mararoa would shortly be replaced in the Hobart-Sydney service by ...
Article : 324 wordsIt is reported from Junction Creek that a big row has taken place at Oaks rush, approaching a serious riot. At one time it is stated 500 men were ...
Article : 82 wordsThe employees on the North-Eastern Railway in England threaten to go on strike, with a view to securing a day of eight hours for all grades, with 2s. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe losses sustained by the British insurance companies in connection with the fire at Chelsea, Boston, in the United States, aggregate 1,640.000 ...
Article : 57 wordsThe death is announced of Willie Edouin, the actor. Willie Edouin was born at Brighton in 1841. He made his first appearance as ...
Article : 152 wordsOn Tuesday, at the South Melbourne Police Court, Abraham Trevascus, commercial traveller, was committed for trial on a charge of wilfully attempting ...
Article : 160 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, Mr. Kidston's proposals as to the suspension of the standing orders, to enable the passage through all its stages in one day ...
Article : 161 wordsThe following were the closing quotations to-day for Australian stocks:— Australian Land Mortgage and Finance Company, £101. Dalgety and Co. ...
Article : 57 wordsAn extraordinary position at Broken Hill has arisen as a sequel to last Saturday's vote of the ratepayers against the street lighting ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 16 Apr 1908, Page 5
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