The members attending the PanAnglican Congress were entertained at a brilliant garden party yesterday at Windsor. ...
Article : 249 wordsThe English mails, which left Tasmania on the 9th ult., per R.M.S. Manuka, arrived in London on the night of the 17th inst. CUSTOMS AND PORT COLLECTIONS. ...
Article : 2,899 wordsIt is expected that the hearing of evidence at the inquest in connection with the Sunshine railway disaster will be concluded to-morrow. There are only ...
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Article : 109 wordsThe Prime Minister announced some days ago that the Government had been offered another site for the Commonwealth offices in London. The new ...
Article : 193 wordsA serious disaster occurred on Friday in a colliery at Pittsburg, in the United States, resulting in the loss of a number of lives. ...
Article : 147 wordsSeven processions, composed of persons interested in the granting of votes to women, entered Hyde-park on Sunday afternoon. ...
Article : 290 wordsA representative of "The Mercury" yesterday discussed with several leading bankers the matter of the interest charged by the State bank for loans ...
Article : 444 wordsFor the first time in history German troops will shortly engage in manoeuvres in Alsaco and Lorraine. The Kaiser will personally direct the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Australian tenderers for. 1,000 miles of rabbit-proof wire netting have, the Premier states, now offered to take £1 per mile preference over the English ...
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Article : 209 wordsDuring the past six months hundreds of mysterious cases of arson have occurred in Berlin, but the efforts of the police to capture the persons guilty of ...
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Article : 61 wordsA bomb outrage was perpetrated on Saturday on a steamer on the Delaware River in the United States. It appears that a bomb was secreted ...
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Article : 24 wordsIt is very pleasing to bo able to record the fact that the prolonged drought in the East Coast districts has at last broken up. We are informed that the rain, ...
Article : 244 wordsIt was estimated in April that the stock of wheat in the country elevators in the interior of Canada totalled 24 million bushels, against 19 millions at ...
Article : 116 wordsA meeting of the promoters of the local Tramway Company was held to-day. Good progress was made, the principal business being the ...
Article : 62 wordsThe two commercial travellers, Arthur Henry Tiliinghest and William Archibald Robertson, were again before the Central Police Court to-day in ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Federal Treasurer (Sir Wm. Lyne) states that the Customs and excise revenue for the third week of the current month was £10,000 more than ...
Article : 56 wordsThe South African Cricket Association had not received by Saturday any definite invitation to visit Australia next season. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Oak Zeehan Druids Lodge was held tonight, when the District President, Bro. D. Coombe, installed the following ...
Article : 80 wordsThere is still an apparent disposition on the part of the English railway companies to come to some arrangement in regard to the adoption of a joint ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. Ogden, M.H.A., returned from Magnet to-night. He states that everything is quiet at the mine. The strike is still in full swing, and the men are ...
Article : 73 wordsChas. Frederick Collins, Francis Saint Neal Paterson, Charles Frederick Clare, and Ernest Blackman, all packers in the employment of Hoffnung and ...
Article : 88 wordsLord Chelmsford, Governor of Queensland, was, at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council yesterday, appointed an honorary colonel of the 9th Australian ...
Article : 643 wordsThe meeting between King Edward and the Czar, which recently took place Royal, has caused certain anxiety among some of the continental nations, ...
Article : 134 wordsIn the course of a conversation yesterday, the Premier stated that he had never asserted that the Government could borrow money in London at less ...
Article : 316 wordsA Branch Board meeting this afternoon decided to ask the Agricultural Council to held another series of classes at Ulverstone. ...
Article : 119 wordsA strike has taken place at the Balmain coal mine, Sydney harbour collieries, and about 100 employees ceased work this morning. The dispute has no ...
Article : 115 wordsConstables on duty near the Waterloo tram terminus last night noticed two men at Sandhills, and their movements being suspicious, the officers ...
Article : 136 wordsMr. Oddy, the Conservative candidate who was elected member of the House of Commons on Friday for the Pudsey division of Yorkshire, which ...
Article : 84 wordsIt was recently stated that the Democratic Convention to be held at Denver on July 7 was likely to nominate Mr. W. J. Bryan as the democratic ...
Article : 165 wordsA case of alleged attempted murder occurred at Edendale, Southland, to-day. A man named Stott, a half-caste Australian aboriginal, shot a girl named ...
Article : 72 wordsIt is estimated that 189,000 tons of sugar will, be manufactured in Queensland next season, an increase of nearly 4,000 tons over the total ...
Article : 74 wordsA sly grog seller at Invercargill was fined £50 to-day. The evidence showed that defendant had been warned, without the slightest effect. The police ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Bishop of New Guinea (Rt. Rev. M. Stone-Wigg), who is in London attending the Pan-Anglican Congress, has been interviewed relative to the ...
Article : 115 wordsThe members of Miss M. B. Peterson's physical culture class gave their quarterly display at the Barracks Gymnasium yesterday pafternoon. In the absence of ...
Article : 182 wordsThe Public Works Commissioners (Messrs. Whitfeld, Collett, and Edwards), with Mr. Leatham, M.H.A., Mr. Crooke (Railway League), and Mr. ...
Article : 124 wordsOur Campbell Town correspondent writes:—"A painful accident has befallen the eldest child of Constable George Hildyard. The little girl, who ...
Article : 130 wordsWith regard to the cable that the South African Cricket Association had not received an invitation to Australia Mr. McE[?]hone, the hon. sec. of the ...
Article : 94 wordsCount Zeppelin, who recently constructed an airship that he was able to manoeuvre with perfect ease in a series of trials over Lake Constance, between ...
Article : 142 wordsThe decision of the Canadian authorities to prevent the landing of British Indians has been relaxed, and an Order-in-Council has just been issued ...
Article : 53 wordsThe proposal of the Minister for Lands, that the Queenstown Council should find £100, to be expended on the £1 for £1 principle on the road between ...
Article : 81 wordsThe creation of the position of Assistant Comptroller-General of Customs was approved at a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day. The ...
Article : 49 wordsFor the Lyell portion of the West Coast, which includes Queenstown, Gormanston, and Linda, there are about 1,150 persons who have failed to ...
Article : 44 wordsAt a meeting of the Federal Executive Council to-day, the members of the Postal Commission were appointed. The names have already been announced. ...
Article : 41 words"The Times" states that the Australian athletes who intend to compete in the Olympic contests at Shepherd's Bush, which commence next month, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 23 Jun 1908, Page 5
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