The appeals of Arthur Newton, the solicitor who defended Hawley Harvey Crippen, the murderer, and Berkeley B. Bennett, a land agent, against their ...
Article : 150 wordsAn extension of the Now Zealand strike to Melbourne has occurred. The steamer Dorset, of the Federal Shire line, which arrived from Dunedin ...
Article : 79 wordsAnother stage in the progiess of the big hnrhour works now being carried out by the Hobart Marine Board was marked by the putting down yesterday ...
Article : 524 wordsIt is understood that it is the intention of the Labour Premier (Mr. Elmsli[?]) to submit to the Lieutenant-Governor (Sir John Madden), whon he ...
Article : 107 wordsA steamer, with its keel upwards, was found yesterday at the mouth of the River Ems, in the North Sea. It is believed to be the steamer Narvik, ...
Article : 141 wordsThe Navy League gave a luncheon to-day at the Hotel Cecil Thames Embankment, to Captain Lionel Halsey, the commander of the battle-cruiser ...
Article : 698 wordsMr. Harry Mallaby-Deely, the Umo[?]st member for the Harrow Division of Middlesex, has purchased the Duke of Bedford's Covent Garden estate in ...
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Article : 237 wordsThe excellent working order which the North Lyell mine is now in is established by the fact that for the last week an output of 2,750 tons of [?] was obtained, ...
Article : 540 wordsTasmania has become rather famous for rare minerals. It is, for instance, the chief source of the world's supply of osmiridium, and other rare minerals ...
Article : 382 wordsUnsolicited banknotes for £100 were received last month by Canon J. Hasloch Potter, of St. Mark's Vricarage, Surbiton, Surrey, from a firm of ...
Article : 120 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle," which is now recognised as the official organ, states that the British Government has decided to [?]liminate from the Home Rule ...
Article : 48 wordsSpecial leave to appeal was granted in June last by the judicial committee of the Privy "Council in the case of Miles v. the Sydney Meat Preserving ...
Article : 257 wordsThe French Appeal Court bus upheld the will of Count Jules De Per Rochel, who bequeathed £280,000 to a distant cousin, a cabdrivor, and a stableman. ...
Article : 61 wordsA sensational affray took place to-day between two girls, each 19 years of age, in the East End of Paris. The girls were rivals for the ...
Article : 100 wordsA man has been arrested at Bradford who is believed to be George Sumner, one of the two men who are alleged to have murdered Miss Christina ...
Article : 152 wordsTo-day, at Shreveport, in the State of Louisiana, a mob lynched two negroes named Ernest and Frnnk Williams after they had confessed to the ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Chief Secretary moved in the Legislative Council last night that the Council should agree to the following part of the resolution of the House of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 342 wordsJ. R. Nicholls, whose speech at the annual smoke social of the State Service Clerical Association, of which he was secretary, contained what were ...
Article : 86 wordsThe National Executive of the Postal Employees' Union, at a conference today, rejected a proposal for an early strike ballot, and postponed any ...
Article : 69 wordsWalter Robson, for many years a cashier in the London office or the Commercial Bank of Australia, is charged with stealing £7,000 in bank notes, the ...
Article : 134 wordsThere were stormy interludes at a special sitting of the City Police Court to-day, when Charles Burchell, night watchman, sued John Norton, of ...
Article : 105 wordsAn outbreak of fire destroyed an apartment house in New York last night. Severnt occupante saved their lives by thrilling jumps from windows ...
Article : 107 wordsThe hearing was concluded in the County Court to-day of the action brought by Wm. H. Prced against Lewis Waller, actor, to recover £240 as ...
Article : 102 wordsNotebooks found on Perugia, the man who stole the famous picture of Mona Lisa, show that he contemplated selling it to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, or Mr. J. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe unveiling to-day of the monument erected at Bl[?]mfontcin as a memorial to the women and children who died in the various concentration camps ...
Article : 341 wordsThe bill for closing shops had the effect of keeping the Council open for longer hours than would otherwise have been the cate yesterday. The question ...
Article : 450 wordsA disastrous explosion occurred to-day at the Vulcan mine, near Newcastle, in the State of Colorado, and it resulted in 38 men losing their lives. ...
Article : 226 wordsThe annual meeting of the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia Ltd. was held to-day. The Chirman (Mr. Andrew Newell), ...
Article : 196 wordsEarl Grey, formerly Governor-General of Canada, has paid £6,000 for the option of a Dominions site in Aldwych, at a ground rent of £50,000 a year. ...
Article : 101 wordsA terrific cyclone took place yesterday at Colombo, causing heavy floods and the washing away of railway embankments at several points. Hundreds ...
Article : 53 wordsYesterday a visitor from London lost £2,500 worth of jewels at a hotel at Torquay, in Devonshire, and her maid, named Graham, is missing. ...
Article : 139 wordsAll the United States officers who were concerned in the Carabo banquet, where ridiculo of American administration and policy in the Philippines, and ...
Article : 98 wordsFrance and Russia have agreed to the British Note regarding the southern frontier of Albania and the Ægean Islands. In regard to the latter the ...
Article : 124 wordsThe trial of Walter Kingsley Dawson[?] aged 24 years, clerk, on the charges of embezzling the sums of £1 15s., £5 8s. 6d., and £2 9s. 6d., from John George ...
Article : 80 wordsA slander action in which a good deal of local interest was manifested was heard at the Court of Requests to-day before the Commissioner (Mr. E. W. ...
Article : 109 wordsWith regard to the match between the Australian player, George Gray, and Tom Newman, three games of 18,000 up (New man receiving 4,000), for ...
Article : 136 wordsSir Newton Mooro, the Agent-General for West Australia, has seemed a promise from several British shipping companies of an emly and important ...
Article : 46 wordsIt was recently announced that Russia, without consulting the other Powers, except possibly France, had announced the withdraw of her troops ...
Article : 97 wordsThe dredges were given a satisfactory trial run to-day under the supervision of Inspector H. Green. The Davenport did effe[?] drodigng to a depth of ...
Article : 60 wordsA scheme, which has been promoted for the amalgamation of the to electric light companies of London, proposes to replace the existing 13 power stations ...
Article : 51 wordsIn the Court of Requests, to-day, before the Commissioner (Mr. L. E. Chambers), John Baldock sued Martin Sullivan for 30s. for material used in a ...
Article : 48 wordsThe market for Imperial consols continues depressed. To-day they were quoted at £71 10s., a further fall of 2s. 6d. since Thursday last, and the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 18 Dec 1913, Page 5
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