Continuing a record of uninterrupted success, the annual stock show of the Southern Tasmanian Agricultural and Pastoral Society was opened yesterday ...
Article : 1,635 wordsIn addressing the Austro-Hungarian Delegations yesterday, Count Esterhazy, on behalf of the Foreign Minister, stated that the Government ...
Article : 210 wordsDiscussion on Mr. Raid's motion— That the financial proposals of the Government are unsatisfactory to this House. ...
Article : 1,150 wordsAt the meeting of the committee of the Institution for the Blind, Deaf and Dumb, held on Tuesday evening, Mr. E. J. Roge[?]s referred to the honour recently conferred ...
Article : 1,124 wordsReferring to the visit of the United States fleet to Japan, the New York "Times" says that "Japan has outdone our kinsfolk in New Zealand and ...
Article : 103 wordsMr. W. J. Bryan, the Democratic candidate for the United States Presidency, calculates that he will receive the votes of a million and a half ...
Article : 78 wordsThe want of confidence motion tabled by the Leader of the Opposition came as a surprise, although there were many reasons which, under ordinary ...
Article : 824 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday, Mr. H. Kearley submitted a motion to instruct the committee to insert in tie London Electricity Supply Bill a clause ...
Article : 109 words"The Times," in commenting upon the interchange of messages between the Mikado and President Roosevelt, remarks that Australia and New ...
Article : 80 wordsGeneral Methuen, in command of the military forces in South Africa, who is at present at Durban, has stated that the British Secretary for War ...
Article : 74 wordsThe committee elected by the depositors of the National Bank at Waynesburg, in the United States, that recently suspended payment, has ...
Article : 106 wordsBulgaria has sent two Commissioners to Constantinople to endeavour to settle the differences between the two nations before the Conference meets. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the Central News Agency states that an encounter has taken place between Turkish and Bulgarian troops at ...
Article : 57 wordsThe unemployed problem is causing the authorities in the United States a great deal of anxiety, and in order to provide work for a number of the ...
Article : 50 wordsAt mid-day His Excellency the Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland) and party, the Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans. C.M.G.) and his co-Ministers, and a large ...
Article : 1,033 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Chief Secretary for Ireland (Mr. A. Birrell) informed Mr. C. Craig (U.) that 234 agrarian outrages had been ...
Article : 62 wordsKing Peter of Sorvia upbraided the Crown Prince yesterday for his intemperate provocations against Austria. The Prince tried to strike his father, ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Licensing Bill is still under consideration in committee of the House of Commons. The Government's amendment in ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Kaiser, in the course of a speech that he road at the Prussian Diet yesterday, declared that the German Empire, in faithful co-operation with ...
Article : 49 words"The Times" says that the problem confronting Imperial statesmanship is how, to secure the reconciliation of the growing forces of nationalism in the ...
Article : 76 wordsKing Edward, in replying to the Emperor Josef's notification respecting the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has reiterated his assurances of sincere ...
Article : 29 wordsIt was stated some days ago that a conflict lasting several hours between Chinese and Japanese troops had taken place at Kantao, on the Northern ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Austrian authorities at Agram have forcibly detained and searched M. Vukotitch, a Montenegrin Envoy Extraordinary, who was proceeding on a ...
Article : 52 wordsA typhoon of an exceptionally destructive character has been experienced at Amoy, China. Three thousand six hundred houses ...
Article : 44 wordsSir J. Do Villiers, President of the Conference at Durban, that is considering the question of the unification of South Africa, has asked Lord Solborne, ...
Article : 79 wordsIn replying to a question asked in the House of Commons yesterday with respect to the scope of the proposed conference relative to the Balkan ...
Article : 79 wordsThe shareholders in Wilier and Riley, the London produce firm that lost so heavily owing to the defalcations of M. Alberti, ex-Minister of Justice in ...
Article : 48 wordsOne hundred and eleven entries were received for the Colonial Wine Competition at the Breweries Exhibition in London. The awards were as ...
Article : 182 wordsThe special Coal Court is hearing evidence in regard to the matter or wages paid at the Teralba pits. Mr. E. Simpson, director of the ...
Article : 109 wordsThe London County Council has authorised the starting of work for the unemployed, including an expenditure of £281,000 on the electrification of ...
Article : 98 wordsHugh Daly was placed on trial at the Criminal Court to-day, on a charge of manslaughter, arising out of the death of his wife. Bridget Daly. The ...
Article : 362 wordsAt to-day's sitting of the Postal Commission the examination of the chief accountant to the department (Mr. Vardon), was continued. Mr. Vardon ...
Article : 300 wordsA fire broke out this morning underground in Block 14 mine, Broken Hill. It is above the 200ft. level, but the exact position cannot be located, ...
Article : 273 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonel Soely, said that the All-red Route Committee was ...
Article : 61 wordsArthur Ross was charged to-day with tile murder of Jas. Muir at Gayndah. The accused, who made no reply to the charge, was remanded. ...
Article : 63 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 50 wordsIn the House of Representatives, the debate was continued to-day by Messrs. Glynn, Kelly, Tilley, Brown, Hans Irvine, and Sir John Quick. ...
Article : 281 wordsSir Joseph Ward, in a policy speech, claimed that the new land laws had been a success. Replying to the criticism that taxation was £5 0s. 4d. per head of the ...
Article : 118 wordsA Congregational Union, attendad by 1,400 delegates, has been opened at Liverpool. The Rev. K. Wardlaw Thompson has ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Children Bill, which was amended in the committee stage of the House of Commons, with a view to abolishing the death sentence on young persons, ...
Article : 40 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 22 Oct 1908, Page 5
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: