A conflict lasting several hours between Chinese and Japanese troops took place at Kantao, on the Northern Korean border, yesterday. ...
Article : 68 wordsAn International and Colonial Exhibition is about to be organised in the France-British exhibition palaces and grounds, and will be open during the ...
Article : 60 wordsJust as the House of Assembly was about to adjourn last evening Mr. Stafford Bird gave notice to move on Tuesday evening:— ...
Article : 461 wordsThe President of the Local Government Board (Mr. J. Burns), speaking at Newcastle yesterday, said lie refused to be a party to panic legislation in ...
Article : 233 wordsYesterday morning, shortly after 5 o'clock, a fire was located in a coachhouse and stables at the rear of the Cascade Inn, Upper ...
Article : 1,672 wordsThe St. Petersburg newspaper "Novoe Vremya" advocates a Balkan federation under a regenerated Turkish hegemony as the best defence of Balkan interests ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Rev. F. W. Boreham, of Hobart, has undertaken to deliver a series of lectures on local option in New Zealand immediately prior to the forthcoming ...
Article : 882 wordsSome time ago representations were made to Senator Keating to the effect that the potatoes shipped from Tasmania to West Australia had been rejected on ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Imperial Government and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, of Canada, have arranged for the transfer to British Honduras, with their consent, of all British ...
Article : 43 wordsThe loading French newspapers support Russian wishes in regard to the Dardanelles, and suggest that a good solution of the difficulty would be to ...
Article : 57 wordsA Russian loan of £50,000,000 will, it is expected, be placed on the foreign markets in a few weeks time. The Chinese loan of £1,000,000 has ...
Article : 65 wordsThe following announcement with respect to the agreement between Sir Edward Grey (British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) and M. Isvolsky ...
Article : 444 wordsLast week four thousand unemployed took part in a demonstration in Trafalgar-square at the "Hunger" Sunday meeting. ...
Article : 418 wordsThe amendments moved by the Prime Minister (Mr. H. H. Asquith) in the local option clause of the Licensing Bill provide for a two-thirds majority ...
Article : 82 wordsMembers of the Legislative Council were not disappointed yesterday when Mr. Collins got up to resume the second reading debate on the Closer Settlement ...
Article : 611 wordsArguments were continued to-day, before the High Court, on appeals from convictions under the Australian Industries Preservation Act. Mr. Mitchell, ...
Article : 570 wordsIt was recently stated that the directors of Willer and Riley, London, produce merchants, had decided that the company should go into liquidation in ...
Article : 70 wordsThe leader of the Opposition in the Federal Parliament, Rt. Hon. G. H. Reid, who has given notice of a motion of want of confidence in the Deakin ...
Article : 980 wordsThe balloon race for the GordonBennett Cup which started from Berlin last Saturday was attended with serious misadventures. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Porte, in a circular to the Turkish Ambassadors abroad regarding the military activity in Bulgaria, reiterates Turkey's pacific intentions, and adds that ...
Article : 60 wordsA crowd, consisting mostly of Kurds, murdered an Ottoman Greek gardener at Constantinople yesterday, and almost beat to death a Turkish woman ...
Article : 73 wordsAt the Women's Congress of anti-socialistic organisations to-day the papers read on Socialism were discussed. Miss Wells (Vic.) discredited the idea ...
Article : 261 wordsThe New South Wales Rugby team of footballers played Neath and Aberavon, in Glamorganshire, to-day. The game resulted in a win for the ...
Article : 82 wordsA deputation from the Northern Fruitgrowers' Association, consisting of Messrs. E. M. Law, W. G. Genders, P. A. Harrison, and L. E. Page, waited on the ...
Article : 599 wordsThere was keen competition at to-day's wool sales, and capital business was transacted at full prices. Australian clips to-day sold as ...
Article : 51 wordsA Blue Book has been issued containing the correspondence between Mr. Deakin and the British Admiralty on the naval question. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe usual motion for the adjournment of tho House was moved by the inevitable Mr. Long, who wished to correct the Premier in what he had said about a ...
Article : 380 wordsThe Bank of England figures for October 15, with the previous week's totals given in parentheses, are as follow:— Issue Department.—Reserves in notes ...
Article : 82 wordsWhen questioned to-night, the State Treasurer (Sir Thos. Bent) said, the drop in the 3½ per cent. Victorian stock, as mentioned in a cable message from ...
Article : 151 words"The Times" correspondent at Peking says that Mr. Kinder, General Manager and Engineer-in-Chief of the Northern Railways in China, has resigned, on the ...
Article : 80 wordsAn industrial crisis is approaching at Broken Hill. The position as regards wages and the proposed wages conference was discussed at a meeting of delegates ...
Article : 192 wordsThe bank rate of discount for three months' bills in London is 1? per cent.; Paris, 2?; and Berlin, 3. Short-dated loans in London are ...
Article : 34 wordsMr. Justice Grantham, in tho King's Bench division to-day, nonsuited the Sydney municipality in the case against Cook. ...
Article : 55 wordsImperial Consols, 2½ per cent., £84 15s. ...
Article : 11 wordsA further report has been received by the Department of Home Affairs from the Commonwealth representative (Mr. Andrew Christie) in connection with the ...
Article : 130 wordsNew South Wales, 3 per cent., £87 10s.; South Australian, £86 15s.; West Australian, £87. Queensland, 4, £106 10s. Tasmanian, 3½, £98 15s. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe City football team was entertained at a complimentary social to-night, when the Bourke Shield and the Dugan Cup were formally handed to the president, ...
Article : 68 wordsThe statement of accounts of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co. shows a profit of £171,079. A divi dend of 10'per cent, mid a bonus of 3½ ...
Article : 45 wordsFollowing upon the decision of the Ex ecutive Council that George Hudson is to pay the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of Adolf Bock, the authorities ...
Article : 45 wordsScrip in the recent South Australian loan of £2,000,000 is quoted at 1 per cent, discount. ...
Article : 23 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 17 Oct 1908, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: