A rescue party with helmets visited the 850ft. level twice during the night, but only reached No. 25 stope, being forced to retire. ...
Article : 80 wordsTelegrams received in Belgrade state that Roumania. has resisted the temptations of Turkey to remain neutral, and without territorial aspirations. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe directors and Mr. Sticht are speaking in terms of the highest praise of the heroic work done by the rescue parties. The engineer-in-charge (Mr. ...
Article : 394 wordsThe Governor (Sir Harry Barron) yesterday received the following cablegram from the Governor of Victoria (Sir John Fuller): ...
Article : 64 words"The Mercury" reporter interviewed two of them briefly in the changing house. James Elliott, a well-known miner, ...
Article : 789 wordsHerr Von Kiderlin-Waechter, the German Foreign Secretary, in a speech at a banquet in Berlin last night to delegates to the exhibitions Conference, ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Premier (Hon. A. E Solomon) has received the following telegrams from Brisbane:— The Legislative Council has this day ...
Article : 109 wordsA large crowd of people assembled at the mouth of No. 3 tunnel expecting an early delivery of the imprisoned miners. The weather is gloriously fine. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Paris "Matin" states to-day that Russia, the creator of Bulgaria and the protector of Servia and Montenegro, will not permit obstacles to the ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following telegram was received from the Queensland Minister of Mines by the Hon. E. Mulcahy:— I desire to convey to you and your ...
Article : 87 wordsSeveral men have reached the bottom of the engine winze at the 1,000ft. level, and preparations are no. being made to pull them up to the 700ft. level. ...
Article : 38 wordsAt midday another batch of messages from the men to their relatives and friends above was received, and distributed by Mr. J. Mahoney. ...
Article : 115 wordsThe first two men were got out at exactly one o'clock. They were Jack Smith and Arthur Dutton. They look very little the worse for their ...
Article : 52 wordsAeroplanes and cavalry reconsaissances show that 30,000 Turks have been withdrawn from the frontier of Thessaly to Servia, 42 miles to the ...
Article : 97 wordsThe Premier (Hon.A.E. Solomon) Yesterday received the following telegram from the Warden of Zeehan (Mr.W. Fisher):— ...
Article : 75 wordsAfter the capture of Tuzi yesterday, the Montenegrins continued their advance to Houm, which is the last fortress between Tuzi and Soutari, and ...
Article : 139 wordsThe following additional men wore got out at 3 o'clock:—A. Dawson, L. Fisher, J. Ryan, J. Arkley, A. Woodhouse,J. Morrissey, P. Heffernan, J. ...
Article : 76 wordsThree hundred reservists of the Greek army left South Wales yesterday to join the colours, and a number of others are awaiting steamers for the same ...
Article : 33 wordsIt was only about ten minutes after this that the announcement was made that some of the men had reached the bottom of the winze at the 1,000f[?]t. ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the meeting of the Tasmanian Farmers' and Stockowners' Association, a resolution was passed expressing sympathy with those bereared through the ...
Article : 66 wordsThe following is a copy of a telegram received by the Minister of Mines (Hon. E. Mulcahy) at 12.30 a.m. to-day from the Government. Geologist (Mr. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Bourses in Paris and Belrlin show a pronounced recovery to-day owing to the signing of peace preliminaries between Turkey and Italy, and the ...
Article : 49 wordsMen have been coming out steadily during the afternoon, and it is expected that all will be out by about 9 o'clock to-night. None so far are dangerously ...
Article : 63 wordsTwo more Dracger oxygon holmots from Wonthaggi (Victoria) arrived at 12.30 p.m. Mr. Alex. Grante is in charge of these helmets, as ...
Article : 64 wordsThe following telegram was yesterday received by the Premier (Hon.A.E.Solomon) from the Governor of West Australia (Sir Gerald Strickland):—"May I ask ...
Article : 73 wordsM. Poincare, the French Premier, has sounded the Great Powers on the desirableness of the institution of a conference, the aims of whose conversations ...
Article : 67 wordsPrince Peter of Montenegro has for warded the following telegram to his old school at Heidelberg, in Baden:— "Splendid victory on Tuesday. Ten ...
Article : 40 wordsAt 9.25 last night the Minister of Mines received the following telegram from Mr. Twelvetrees:— I wired you to-day [?]0 had been ...
Article : 83 wordsThe following is the text of a letter found pinned to the timber by a miner's "Spider," close to the body of J. McCarthy, at the 700ft. level, dated ...
Article : 118 wordsA smoke social of the Civic Club, Hobart, had been arranged for last night in connection with the show, but, in view of the North Lyell disaster, the ...
Article : 44 wordsAdvices from Mitrovitza state that Servian forces havo advanced to between Vranja and Zibefcheh. Tho local population is arming and. hurrying ...
Article : 106 wordsAs the news spread around that some of the imprisoned men had arrived safely at the bottom of the engine winze at the 1,000ft. level streams of people came ...
Article : 654 wordsThe Hungarian Delegation has adopted the additional naval and military credits already passed by the Austrian Delegation. ...
Article : 26 wordsHundreds thronged the streets throughout the day eagerly awaiting news of the rescue work at Lyell, and as the names of the rescued were posted at the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe motor-yacht Dora, an elaborately fitted craft, the property of Mr.John McTaggart, was stolen yesterday morning from her moorings in the Brisbane River. ...
Article : 425 wordsThe cotton trade of Manchester with Greece and Turkey is at a standstill owing to the war. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe rescue party is now going into the 850ft. level equipped with Draeger helmets. The Pulmotor apparatus has been efficient in restoring several of the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Porto has decided that the Note of the Balkan States does not merit a reply, and considers that the allies are wanting in deference in reacting ...
Article : 45 wordsThe last man of 50, Richard Lousdale, was brought out from the 1,000ft. level at 7.13 p.m. Not one was entirely incapacitated. ...
Article : 36 wordsM. Wilinart, the manager of the Ghent-Ternonzer, Railway Co., has disappeared, after perpetrating frauds amounting to nearly £2,500,000. He ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Porte has decided to release the Greek vessels laden with foreign cargoes. German officers in the Ottoman army are resigning their German commissions ...
Article : 127 wordsMrs. M.E. Targrees handed in the following additional amounts collected on the Show ground yesterday:— Already acknowledged............£26 4[?] ...
Article : 86 wordsTwo men with Draeger oxygen helmets have gone down to the 850ft. level to search the far end, where there is water from the bore holes, and which ...
Article : 44 wordsThis morning at 9.15 Mr. Sticht posted the following report:—"The rescue party, with helmets, visited the 850ft. level twice during the night, but could ...
Article : 138 wordsAs evening wore on the excitement became intense, and Mr. Mahoney (president of the Federated Mining Employees' Association) had to use efforts ...
Article : 168 wordsProgress reports from the North Lyell mine were eagerly awaited to-day. Several of the imprisoned miners were wellknown in Launceston, and information ...
Article : 109 wordsOne hundred and ten Socialist men bers of the German Reichstag and 41 Labour members of the House Commons have signed a manifesto in ...
Article : 50 wordsTurkey's answer to the Great Powers is regarded in Bulgaria as an indirect reply to the memorandum of the Balkan States. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsIt is not expected now that anything will occur to prevent the men, being raised to the surface this afternoon. They will be brought from No. 40 stope ...
Article : 224 wordsThe House of Commons, in Committee of the Whole, is now eonsidering the powers of the proposed Irish Parliament to be established under Home ...
Article : 60 wordsWriting under date Monday to the Secretary for Mines, the Chief Inspector of Mines (Mr. Twelvetrees) says:— "Utterly fagged, I beg to forward you a ...
Article : 1,250 wordsMr. J. F. P. Rawlinson; one of the Unionist members for Cambridge University, cross-examined Mr. LloydGeorge, the Chancellor of the ...
Article : 51 wordsM. Venezelos, the Greek Premier, has instructed the Cretan Government to arrange parliamentary elections accoring to the laws of Greece, and to be ...
Article : 58 wordsJust before 9 o'clock an air pump, designed and patented by Mr. R. Young (surface foreman at the Mt. Lyell mine), and which has been worked at ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Colonial Mutual Life Society Bill was considered in the Legislative Council to-day. The second reading of the bill was agreed to, the measure taken in ...
Article : 48 wordsOne hundred people aro suffering from ptomaine poisoning at Gorton, in Manchester, the cause being the eating of tainted pork. Three deaths have ...
Article : 36 wordsThe newspapers in Vienna notice as a coincidence the postponement of the allies' formal diplomatic rapture with Turkey and the signing of the peace ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Commissioner (Mr. L. E. Chambers) has given his received decision in the mining case, E.F. Coninon v. Lady Barron Syndicate, claim for £56 6s. 8d. ...
Article : 73 wordsThe last count shows [?]0 living from the 1,000ft. level, and three dead. It is officially stated now that the dead reported total 16, being one at 1,100ft. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe steamer Wainui, from Melbourne, reaches Burnie to-morrow at 4 o'clock with a further supply of oxygen helmets for the North Lyell rescue party, and a ...
Article : 126 wordsThe names of the dead at the 1,000ft are given as:— Jack Smith, single, better known as Speewa. ...
Article : 74 wordsA[?] aviator named Cobioni, who w[?] accompanied by Bippert, a journalist, went for a journey in the Neuchatel cantonment to-day, and when alighting ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Turks have bombarded and burned Kriva, near the Palanka Pass, [?] [?] the [?] and to leave. The Bulgerian insurgent leader ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 17 Oct 1912, Page 5
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