One of the largest bush fires in the recent history of the State broke out at Bolgart on Friday, as the result, it is believed, of a spark from a passing train ...
Article : 108 wordsIn May last the King's Bench dismissed the appeal of Canon Thompson against the judgment of the Court of Arches, which had ordered him to cease ...
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Article : 96 wordsA disastrous storm on Lake Erie last week caused damage to the extent of a million dollars. Fifty-nine persons were drowned. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe match, Queensland against a New South Wales team, was continued to-day. The visitors carried their first innings to 380. Goddard was top ...
Article : 105 wordsThe British and Congolese sections of the Rhodesia-Katanga Railway have been linked up, thus completing a continuous British line of 2,147 miles from ...
Article : 55 wordsA new Cabinet has been formed in Italy, in succession to the Giolitti Ministry, which resigned last week. Signor Sonning is Premier; Signor ...
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Article : 430 wordsColonel Pellatt, of Toronto, is taking to England, in August next, at his own expense, six hundred picked men from the Queen's Own Canadian rifles to ...
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Article : 65 wordsIt is officially announced that Rear-Admiral Winsloe will succeed Vice-Admiral Sir H. Lambton as commander-in-chief on the China station. ...
Article : 107 wordsTrouble occurred last year between Germany and Switzerland over the action of German merchants in dumping flour into Switzerland at rates which ...
Article : 81 wordsKing Leopold of Belgium, who is in his 75th year, is in a critical condition, owing to intestinal strangulation. The doctors agree that an operation ...
Article : 53 wordsA deputation from, Launceston Traders' Association to-day waited on some of the local members of Parliament to lay before them their views ...
Article : 364 wordsIt was stated last week that Dr. Cook was living in retirement at New York, but "The Times" now says that diligent search has failed to discover ...
Article : 52 wordsTwenty-six Moslems who had been sentenced to death for complicity in the recent massacres at Adana in Syria, were executed on Saturday and ...
Article : 44 wordsThe State Cabinet is giving consideration to a large scheme for the promotion of immigration and the development of a land settlement scheme, ...
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Article : 107 wordsMessrs. MacRossan, Glassey, and Millican have been selected candidates to oppose the Socialistic candidates for the Senato. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe "Daily Telegraph" says that the British War Office has accepted M. Lebaudy's plans for an aerial cruiser, with a capacity of 280,000 cubic feet. ...
Article : 46 wordsM. Bleriot met with an accident at Constable, in France yesterday. His monoplane collided with the roof of a house and turned over, and the ...
Article : 54 wordsAn advance in the price of boots has been announced by the Victorian manufacturers, owing to the increased price of leather. There will be an immediate ...
Article : 54 wordsSir Joseph Ward introduced a bill increasing the tax on the t[?]t[?] receipts from 11/2 per cent, to 21/2 per cent., and increasing the tax note issues from 10s. to 15s per ...
Article : 47 wordsA Special issue of the "Commonwealth Gazette" to-night contained a proclamation proroguing Parliament till January 26, when a further proclamation ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the rugby football match on Saturday between Oxford and Cambridge, the former won by four goals five tries to one try. ...
Article : 62 wordsThree services were held in connection with the Methodist anniversary yesterday, and were largely attended. The singing was a special feature of the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Nobel prize, of about £8,000, for the best effort towards promoting the fraternity of nations and universal peace, has been divided between Baron ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Coliseum drapery establishment in Hundle-street, on Friday night, between £1,200 and £1,500 worth of damage was caused through the taps in the ...
Article : 62 wordsAn accident occurred at the Bel[?]ont races on Saturday. Persistent fell in the Chamberlain-park Handicap, and his rider, L. Reith, sustained a fractured ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 14 Dec 1909, Page 5
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