A sharp and severe earth shock passed right through the town to-night at 9 minutes to 8 o'clock, and created no small confusion. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Conference met in camera to-day, and got rid of the greater part of the subjects on the long agenda-paper by the very rough process of throwing them ...
Article : 557 wordsMr. Scott-Moncrieff, a deputy inspector of police in the Blue Nile district, has been assassinated at Messalamie, a town 102 miles south-east of ...
Article : 139 wordsA judicial committee has visited the castle of Prince Philipp Eulenburg at Liebenberg, and examined the Prince relative to the contradictions between ...
Article : 491 wordsAs an outcome of the resolution passed at a recent meeting of the City Council, with regard to the loitering of youths and girls in the public streets, special ...
Article : 2,638 wordsThe stone from the gold discovery made by Mr. J. L. Moore, while engaged in track-cutting operations on the Great Western survey line this year, was ...
Article : 968 wordsThe British outposts at Landi Kotal, on the Indian frontier, are being fired upon by tribesmen in British territory that have rebelled. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe unprecedented abstention of the Afridis, despite the great pressure exerted to induce them to take sides against the British, is the most ...
Article : 407 wordsA sharp shock of earthquake occurred at 10 minutes to 8 to-night, apparently travelling from north to south. Buildings shook and windows ...
Article : 44 wordsAt 9 o'clock this morning a crowd of 50 persons gathered at the City Morgue. The business of the majority was to give formal evidence of ...
Article : 366 wordsA large warehouse situated in Clarence and Kent streets, and occupied by Messrs. W. W. Campbell and Co., Ltd., furniture warehousemen, was the scene ...
Article : 350 wordsMrs. Kennedy, the wife of a barrister, who was injured in a bomb explosion at Muzaffurpur, Bengal, on Thursday, in which two persons were ...
Article : 80 wordsSettlers on the East Coast are being seriously troubled by a drought which has existed in that locality for some time past. The last month or two are said to ...
Article : 157 wordsThe military movements are severely censured at Simla. Many officers have departed for duty. The actual orders for operations are secret, thus ...
Article : 137 wordsThe adjourned inquest concerning the murder of the young woman, Lilian Bridge, at Allandale, on the night of April 14, was resumed at West ...
Article : 401 wordsThis evening, a diocesan meeting was held in St. John's hall, under the presidency of Bishop Mercer. There was a large attendance. ...
Article : 297 wordsOne of the Mazaffurpur assassins states that he was induced to commit the crime consequent upon a study of the vernacular press and the lectures ...
Article : 165 wordsThe Prime Minister, after his speech at the Premiers Conference last week, left Melbourne for Point Lonsdale, where his wife is slowly recovering from ...
Article : 666 wordsWriting on Saturday, our Westbury correspondent says:—"A splendid shower of rain fell last night, but only sufficient to moisten the surface of the ground, and ...
Article : 322 wordsSir John Brunner, Liberal member in the House of Commons for Northwick, addressed a meeting of his constituents on Saturday evening, and in the course ...
Article : 65 wordsHon. J. W. Evans and Hon.D. C. Urquhart had another meeting to-day with Mr. Schmidt, the representative of the Tasmanian Smelting Co. The latter ...
Article : 76 wordsA. F. Wilding, of New Zealand, and M. J. S. Ritchie, of England, have won the tennis covered courts doubles championship. They defeated A. W. ...
Article : 61 wordsAn, express train was "held up" on Saturday by a hand of masked robbers near Pittsburg, in the United States. A sum of £16,000 was being ...
Article : 63 wordsAt the invitation of Lady Lewis, a large number of ladies assembled at Werndee, Augusta-road, yesterday, to meet Miss Elsie Nicol, and listen to an ...
Article : 390 wordsThe question of recommending to the Government a site for proclamation as a noxious trades area, again came before the City Council to-day. The City Health ...
Article : 386 wordsRain would be very welcome. The ground is unusually dry for the time of year. Possibly when it does start, it will mean the breaking down of the weather ...
Article : 42 wordsA train was destroyed by an explosion of dynamite near Butte City, Montana, on Saturday. Several persons were killed, and a ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Persian Cabinet, being unablo to pay their officials and the soldiers the amounts in arrear, have resigned. The Azerbaijan province, which was ...
Article : 51 wordsAlthough a few showers tell this morning, they have only laid the dust and enlivened the grass, and we are very much in need of a heavy fall. The crops ...
Article : 158 wordsSix thousand shipbuilding employees in the Clyde works have been locked out. It is estimated that the stoppages in other trades consequent upon the ...
Article : 51 wordsThe four-masted Swedish barque Swanhilda, 2,150 tons, has been wrecked off Buenos Ayres. Only one member of the crew was ...
Article : 79 wordsA telegram relating to the north-west pearling disaster was received by the commissioner of Police from Broome to-day. "Constable Mills reports the total ...
Article : 103 wordsCanon Nash returned to Melbourne to-day from London. He would add nothing to Mr. G. S. Faulkner's statement that the charges against him had been ...
Article : 52 wordsThe statement of accounts of the New South Wales Land and Mortgage Company shows a profit of £29,496 on the year's operations. £2,500 have been ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. H. Gladstone) has intimated that the Government will introduce legislation in 1909 dealing ...
Article : 74 wordsAt the adjourned annual meeting of the local brunch of the Royal Society of St. George, which was held to-night, Mr. J. B. Waldron was elected president; Mr. ...
Article : 83 wordsThe scrutiny of votes in connection with the election of three directors for the A.M.P. Society concluded to-day, with the following result:—R. J. Black, ...
Article : 47 wordsRichard Millhouse and John Waterman were admitted to the Queenstown Hospital to-day, suffering from axeWounds, sustained while woo — chopping ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 5 May 1908, Page 5
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