"Solid Progress."—Your letter has already appeared. "Subscriber."—We have no space for short stories in "The Mercury." ...
Article : 20 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 784 wordsTide table (approximate), June 9: Low water, 9.30 a.m.; high water, 4 p.m. ARRIVED.—June 8. Doris, ketch, 52 tons, H. J. Petersen, from ...
Article : 30 wordsDemonstration against horse Tatters in Launceston yesterday. Sorell v. New Norfolk football match, at Sorell, to-morrow, for Brown trophy. ...
Article : 429 wordsMahinapua, s.s., 458 tons, K. Livingstone, for Strahan. Passengers:—Saloon; Mesdames Allan, Barnett, Green and child; Misses Self, McGowan, Fulton; Messrs. M. E. J. Salmon, ...
Article : 599 wordsApropos of the proposal to establish communication by wireless telegraphy between King Island and other islands in the east of Bass Strait, the Minister for ...
Article : 116 wordsThe praacticability of a person in Launceston visiting Hobart, or in Hobart visiting Launceston, and returning the same day, was demonstrated on Sunday by two ...
Article : 142 wordsA great deal has been written about the Maori population of New Zealand, and of late years it has been stated roundly that the decrease in it had been ...
Article : 471 wordsOur New Norfolk correspondent writes: —"Looking through the old Church of England burying ground here a few days ago, I was astonished to find the amount ...
Article : 199 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsIn regard to the present shipping depression in Great Britain and the Continent, "Fair Play," an English shipping journal, says:—"Over a hundred steamers are laid up ...
Article : 106 wordsIn their docks at Hull the North-Eastern Railway Company have been making an experiment in the employment of dogs as police auxiliaries. So satisfied ...
Article : 152 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 415 wordsParticulars of the wreck of the steamer Muritai (ex Bellinger), on the New Zealand coast show that the vessel ran into a cluster of rocks at the Big Chickens during a heavy ...
Article : 284 wordsIt is, undoubtedly, a great misfortune that the Federation should have become so involved in unnecessary disputes. Every day shows that the true spirit, ...
Article : 1,203 wordsOccasionally, during the long drawnout arguments that may daily be heard in the High Court, sparks of humour flash out between Bench and Bar. On ...
Article : 217 wordsWithin recent years attention has been drawn to the possibility of the denudation of timber areas in various countries, and many, suggestions have ...
Article : 829 wordsThe suggestion made by "The Mercury" that the various bodies controlling sports in Tasmania should have a common emblem, to be used by ...
Article : 355 wordsThe work of converting H.M.S. Penguin into a depot ship, commenced at Sydney about a month ago, will not be completed for several weeks. The Penguin, which was ...
Article : 147 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 463 wordsThe Postmaster-General was further questioned in the House of Representatives on Friday with regard to the sum of £10,000 placed on the estimates for ...
Article : 170 wordsThe pilot cruiser Lady Fraser, built by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company from designs by Professor Biles, has run her trials on the Clyde. The ...
Article : 243 wordsFederal Ministers are slowly learning the wisdom of not fighting each other in public (says the "Argus"). On Friday Mr. Bruce Smith (N.S.W.) asked the ...
Article : 235 wordsThe operations of the Orient Steam Navigation Company for the year 1907 have been so satisfactory that the directors have been enabled to write off to reserve the fall ...
Article : 101 wordsThe forty-third anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, which occurred on June 3, was celebrated throughout the Commonwealth ...
Article : 109 wordsA leading shipping manager has expressed the opinion (says the "Age") that within the next few years Marconi signal stations will have to be established along the Australian ...
Article : 87 words"The Hobart Baptist Church," remarked the Rev. F. W. Boreham at the public meeting at Moonah last night, has a baby. It is in the position of a ...
Article : 85 wordsIt is officially stated that the N.D.L. Co. has ordered an ocean liner which is to exceed all other steamers of the German companies. She will be named the George Washington, ...
Article : 92 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 98 wordsWith characteristically extravagant language, Mr. O'Malley complained in the House of Representatives last week that the Union Steamship Company had ...
Article : 136 wordsDoris, ketch, from Melbourne. J. T. North, bq., from London. Natal Queen, barque, from Port Pirie. Zealandia, s.s., from Sydney. ...
Article : 50 wordsIn speaking at the presentation to cricketer Noble, in Sydney, the other day, Sir Harry Rawson, the Governor of New South Wales, is reported to have ...
Article : 211 wordsThe Koonookarra left here at 3 a.m. yesterday for Launceston, via East Coast ports. The Mahinapua left here at 0.20 p.m. yesterday for Strahan. ...
Article : 45 wordsTaranna.—New Norfolk. ...
Article : 9 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 9 Jun 1908, Page 4
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: