At the meeting of the Hobart Marine Board yesterday, it was decided that the cargo shed which is to be erected on the new pier, which it is proposed to build ...
Article : 107 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,44[?] tons, C. Su[?]ern, for Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Rowe, Nicholls, Harboard, Foster, Rose and infant, Ritchford, Henderson; Misses ...
Article : 105 words[?]ne, French ship, 2,770 tons, A. Hu[?] from Cherbourg, for orders. Agents—Burgess [?] [?] French ship, 2,737 tons, J. Jamet, ...
Article : 35 wordsZ[?]landis, s.s., 2,771 tons, J. V. Bentley, for Sydney. Passengers:—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Mowbray, Mr. and Mrs. Holmwood; Mesdames T. L. Hood, ...
Article : 127 wordsYesterday afternoon the fire brigade received a summons to attend a fire at the residence of Mr. Brent, Augusta-road. It appears that sparks from a chimney set ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Minister for Lands (Hon. A. Hean) and Mr. Counsel (Surveyor-General) are leaving Hobart this morning for the Tyenna district, to inspect the country. ...
Article : 140 wordsArrivals.—Rimutaka, R.M.S., from New Zealand; Clan Ronald, s.s., from Australia; Toko Maru Yham, s.s., from New Zealand. Departures.—For Melbourne: Saint Bride, ...
Article : 53 wordsThe prolonged spell of dry weather was broken yesterday by a welcome fall of rain, and should it continue, will do an immense amount of good. The reports ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsZealandis, s.s., for Sydney—16,896 css fruit, 1,906 half-css fruit, 722 css evap, fruit, 1,314 css fruit pulp, 1,169 css jam, 86 css fish, 37 [?]ds ale, 76 bis hops, 154 bgs potatoes, 100 ...
Article : 358 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Hobart Marine Board, a letter was received from the Treasurer (Hon. D. C. Urquhart), stating that a circular despatch, dated ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 557 wordsThe Commonwealth Statistician furnishes, some curious figures relative to population in Australia, which do not seem to be generally understood. They ...
Article : 441 wordsMiss Linda Wheelan, residing at No. 35 Park-street, reported to the police yesterday that her mother, Amelia Wheelan, left home at 11 a.m. on ...
Article : 59 wordsYesterday afternoon a deputation from the Buckingham Lodge of the Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, Friendly Society waited upon the Attorney General (Hon. W. ...
Article : 192 wordsThe man Frederick Turner, who received serious injury to his light hand at Port Esperance on Monday, through a gun going off, and who was admitted to ...
Article : 50 wordsMessrs. W. Crosby and Co. are in receipt of cable advice that the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's R.M.S. Corinthic, 12,231 tons, left Capetown on Saturday afternoon ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the banquet to Mr. A. W. Meeks, the British Commercial Agent, last week, in Sydney, Mr. Reginald Black paid a tribute to the British merchants, who ...
Article : 255 wordsThe French ship Bayonne, which entered Storm Bay on Saturday last, did not reach an anchorage in the harbour until 10.45 a.m. yesterday, [?]aving been hampered by light ...
Article : 178 wordsThe Defence Department has received advice that the King has approved of the grant of an honorary distinction, in recognition of services rendered in the ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Federal-Houlder-Shire steamer Banffshire, which is under engagement to the Huon Timber Company to load timber for the United Kingdom, was to have left Sydney ...
Article : 58 wordsAs a result of an examination at low wat[?] on Monday of the cutter Brothers, grounde[?] in the Mersey River at Devonport, all hope of floating her was virtually abandoned. An ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 461 wordsThe town of Richmond[?] New South Wales, intended on Empire Day to have formally unfurled in the local Superior Public School the identical flag that was ...
Article : 177 wordsA motion has been passed by the Conference of Australian Chambers of Commerce, urging the desirability of closer relationship between the Government ...
Article : 309 wordsA little piquancy was lent to the staid proceedings of the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday, during the discussion upon the number that should be a ...
Article : 214 wordsThe growth of the fruit export trade in Tasmania has been the most important development of industry during late years. Apples from this State have ...
Article : 774 wordsSo far as the argument goes, the opponents of what is called a policy of Preference in England, have, undoubtedly, the best of the controversy by a long ...
Article : 1,170 wordsA rate war is at present in progress in the New York-Mediterranean service between the British and German lines, on the one hand, and the Italian companies on the other. Fo[?] ...
Article : 229 wordsAdvices were received at Sydney by the last mail that the anticipated arrival next month of the British and French men-of-war was bring looked forward to ...
Article : 224 wordsRecently the Marine Board received an application from the Municpal Council of New Town for permission to drain Belle Vue Parade into Cornelian Bay, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsThe Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamer Empress of Ireland, which arrived at Liverpool on April 12, made a record passage from Canada. The actual time occupied ...
Article : 69 wordsThe English mails, which left Tasmania on the 21st ultimo, arrived in London, per R.M.S. Omrah, on the 24th instant. ...
Article : 26 wordsGreat interest was shown on the arrival at Portsmouth on April 12 of the new cruiser battleship Indomitable, the pioneer warship of her type, and the most powerful cruiser ...
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Advertising : 921 wordsSome surprise was occasioned in Sydney last week (says the Sydney "Daily Telegraph") by the receipt of a telegram from Port Macquarie to the effect that a ...
Article : 305 wordsIn reference to the affairs of the Tasmanian Smelting Company, the Premier (Hon. J. W. Evans) stated yesterday that he had written to the firm of Lewis, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe Koonookarra left at 8.15 a.m. yesterday for Launceston, via East Coast ports. The Yambacoona, for King Island, cleared Low Head at 2 p.m[?] yesterday ...
Article : 79 wordsComplaint is made at Burnie of insufficient police protection. Light rain has [?]al[?]en generally over the State, East Coast excepted. ...
Article : 640 wordsThe Devonport produce market (writes our correspondent) was decidedly overstocked on Friday with potatoes. Local stocks of the tuber amounted to 26,000 ...
Article : 239 wordsT[?]nn[?].—New Norfolk[?] Waldemar.—Channel ports and Cygnet. Excelsior—Huonville Reliance—Huon ports. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Warden of St. Leonards municipality (Mr. Arthur Pritchard) waited upon the Attorney-General yesterday. Mr. Pritchard inquired of the Minister ...
Article : 308 wordsBayonne, ship, from Cherbourg. B[?]arritz, ship, from Cherbourg. Helen, bq., from Adelaide. Hawk, ketch, from Melbourne. ...
Article : 37 wordsAristides, kt., Port Huon, for Geelong. Inveramsay, bq., Esperance, for U.K. Kylemore, bq., Norfolk Bay, for U.K[?] ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 27 May 1908, Page 4
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