The Customs returns for the port of Launceston last week were:— Duties, £1,010 13s. 5d. excise £141 3s. 4d.: miscellancous, £3 14s. 8d.; total, 21,155 11s. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Customs collections at the port_ of Hobart last week were:— Duties, £807 13s. 8d.; excise, £336 17s. 3d.; miscellaneous, £3 18s. 11d. Total, £1, 148 9s. 10d. The ...
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Advertising : 230 wordsIn sending specimens of plant diseases to the Vegetable Pathologist (Mr. H. M. Nicholls) there is a serious danger of the spread of the disease unless the parcels ...
Article : 65 wordsh. m. s. October 25... Full moon...... 4 6 54 p.m October 23... Last quarter... 8 53 0 a.m. October 3O... New moon...... 12 29 12 a.m. ...
Article : 1,862 wordsSome weeks ago a big contract for 90,000 tons of coal for Java waas secured by an Australian firm, and last week it was announced that the Bornce Company, in ...
Article : 115 wordsA Mining Board is to sit to-morrow and on Thursday at the Criminal Court, Campbell-street. To-morrow, the case of Jenkins v. the Comet Silver Mining Co. ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Director of Agriculture (Mr. A. H. Benson) has recieved an interesting letter, written by a student at the recent dairy school to the student's father. In ...
Article : 287 wordsDuring the hearing at the Launceston Police Court yesterday of a charge against two young men of having jostled passers-by in Brisbane-street on Sunday. ...
Article : 225 wordsAmongst the business for consideration at to-day's meeting of the Hobart Marine Board is a report from the Wharf Committee re Ralph's Bay Neck ...
Article : 113 wordsThrough the energy of some of the residents, a plot of seven acres of land has been secured to form a public recreation ground, and a strong and ...
Article : 46 wordsCity Council meeting. Launceston City Council. Meeting of the Royal Society. Presentation of "Mercury" challenge ...
Article : 304 wordsA number of boys, forty six in all, from the United States are making a tour of the world, and will to-day reach Hobart. The idea is one which has of ...
Article : 379 wordsThe Premier has telegraphed to the Prime Minister a cordial invitation to the Admiral of the Australian Navy to visit Hobart with his ships during the coming ...
Article : 65 wordsAt the City Council meeting last evening a letter was read from the Brighton Municipal Council, enclosing a copy of a resolution unanimously passed by the ...
Article : 75 wordsAt to-day's meeting of the Hobart Marine Board, Warden Murdoch is to move: —"That the shed on the new pier, instead of a flat roof, should have a second ...
Article : 240 words"I have watched the development of Canada for 40 years, and I have found that the main factor of the rapid development of that country has been th[?] ...
Article : 267 wordsSome interesting information regarding the earlier history of the Botanical Gardens was given by Mr. E. L. Piesse in a paper on the early history of the Royal ...
Article : 357 wordsUnited Kingdom, India, China, per P. and O. line, due to-morrow. Australian States, this day, per Marrawah; to-morrow, per Loongana; Thursday, ...
Article : 107 wordsOur Westbury correspondent writes:— "The weather on Friday waas excessively hot, especially in the forenoon. Towards evening the sky became a little overcast, ...
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Advertising : 441 wordsThe white or silver wattle which furnished most of the material used for the celebration of Wattle Day last month has long since passed the meridian of its ...
Article : 121 wordsIn reply to a question last night, the Mayor intimated that the question of the purchase of tho Golf Links will be considered by the City Council in ...
Article : 329 wordsIn his paper before the Royal Society last night, Mr. E. L. Piesse gave some account of the history of Besty, or Willaumez, Island (now also called Lady ...
Article : 247 words"What will he do with it?" is a question interesting many minds just now in view of the Treasurer's, promised windfall from the Commonwealth. It will ...
Article : 1,098 wordsIt was fitting that on the occasion of so important an anniversary as that which the Royal Society celebrated at its annual meeting last night, the honorary ...
Article : 807 wordsThis week's 'Gazette" contains:— Assessement roll for the municipality of Scottsdale; by-law of the Devonport Municipal Council fixing the charges for ...
Article : 32 wordsAt a meeting of the Geeveston Council, Councilllor Scott moved that a deputation from the Esperance Council wait on the Minister of Lands and Works, and point ...
Article : 123 wordsRobert McPhee, a youth, was engaged scrubbing in the bush at Trowntia, some miles from Smithton, in the North-West, on Saturday afternoon, when he was struck ...
Article : 77 wordsOur Stanley correspondent writers:— "The visit of the Minister of Lands to the Circular Head district last week was much appreciated by the inhabitants. ...
Article : 350 wordsAt the meeting of the Hamilton Council a letter was received from the municipality of Gormanston, asking the cooperation of the Hamilton Council in ...
Article : 258 wordsThere were sensational happenings this morning at Woolbrook, about 20 miles from Walcha. A Queensland half-caste named Alexander Brown shot ...
Article : 150 wordsThe House of Assembly meets this evening. When postponed items in the public works proposals will be further considered, and this will be followed by the second ...
Article : 69 wordsThe State Mining Engineer (M[?]. H. Conder) and the Road Inspector (Mr. Robert Grubb) were engaged yesterday examining the old Western Silver Mining ...
Article : 93 wordsThe State Treasurer (Hon. H. J. Payne), who has resumed his official duties after a week's absence at the Launceston Show, referring yesterday to the grant of ...
Article : 121 wordsWhen the American boys were about to leave the United States on their world tour, they arranged to have their pictures taken with President Wilson on the ...
Article : 217 wordsThe monthly circular of the Imperial Press Union states that it is proposed to hold an Imperial Press Conference in Canada next year. Leading Canadian ...
Article : 108 wordsAt a meeting of the Devonport Municipal Council yesterday strong exception was taken by councillors to the proposed alterations in the inter-Stale mail ...
Article : 50 wordsAn election of a member of the Public Service Board, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. E. D. Dobbie, I.S.O., has been proceeding during the ...
Article : 191 wordsThe volume of produce exports from North-West Coast ports to Sydney last week was fully maintained, as 17, 696 packages went forward, together with ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Public Works Department has accepted the following tenders: — Road, Collins's Cap-road (grading), W. H. Langmaid, £259 7s. 6d.; road, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 14 Oct 1913, Page 4
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