Death under [?]ragic circumstances came to John E. Witt, aged 45, of 4 Poet's-road, West Hobart, whilst engaged at painting the front of Robb's ...
Article : 777 wordsThe Sardinia inquiry, before the Military Court, consisting of Colonel V. Le Gay Brereton (President), Major Shillingworth, and Captain Borrow was ...
Article : 613 wordsThe Tasmanian Ministers to attend the conference of Ministers in Victoria will leave from Launceston by the Loongana to-day, instead of departing from ...
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Advertising : 699 wordsRises. Sets. January 25.................. 6.6... 8.41 February 1.................. 6.15... 8.33 February 9.................. 6.25... 8.24 ...
Article : 23 wordsbout 20 interned Germans have (says the "Argus" of 15th inst.) recently been released from Holdsworthy camp, said the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) ...
Article : 169 wordsh. m. s. Last quarter...... Jan. 24... 2 22 0 p.m. New moon......... Feb. 1... 9 7 0 a.m. First quarter...... Feb. 8... 4 52 18 a.m. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe following is the approximate tide table for Tuesday, January 21:— High water: 11.15 a.m. Low water: 6.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. ...
Article : 26 wordsWestralia, s.s., 2,884 tons, G. F. Entwisie, from Sydney. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames R. Knight and child, M. Clark, M. Williams, A. Birch and child, E. TIndle, E. ...
Article : 284 wordsThe shipment of potatoes from NorthWest Coast ports to Sydney last week fell considerably short of those of the previous week. The tuber total was ...
Article : 170 wordsEx s.s. Kiltobranks—437 css "Shell" b[?] 100 tins kerosene: McGregor Bros., Merchants. Kiltobranks, s.s., leaves Hobart to-day with ...
Article : 175 wordsArrivals.—At London: Mana; Port [?] s.s.; M[?]dic, s.s., from Sydney, via Panama. At Calcutta: Orissa, s.s., from Sydney. Departures.—For Sydney: Marathon, s.s., ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 100 wordsThe transactions of the Commonwealth Savings Bank for the week ending January. 131 were:—Accounts opened, 3,252; deposits, £469,738; withdrawals. £390,251; ...
Article : 41 wordsThe initial meetings of the Board constituted under the Apples and Pears Standardisation Act have been characterised by some indecision in regard to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 103 wordsOn inquiry at the Hobart General Hospital last night it was stated that there was no improvement in the condition of Charles Goldsmith, who was admitted to ...
Article : 61 wordsMessrs. Huddart, Parker's s.s., West[?] which left Sydney for Hobart at noon on Saturday, arrived at this port at 6.50 p.m. yesterday. She experienced fine weather at the ...
Article : 62 wordsMersey Marine Board. Huon Municipal Association. Proposed Huon railway discussion. Y.M.C.A. annual State Convention. ...
Article : 174 wordsOn Saturday evening a heavy gale of wind, blowing from the north caused considerable damage to the orchards and hopgrounds in the New Norfolk district. ...
Article : 44 wordsAn Interesting loadlipe controversy cropped up recently over a steamer chartered by an Italian firm from Japanese owners. In the charter the vessel was described as classed ...
Article : 239 wordsThe Misses Braslin, with a child, son of Mr. C. W. Fysh, of Brightsides, were driving through New Norfolk on Sunday afternoon in a pony trap, when a ...
Article : 88 wordsMr. R. Sticht, general manager of the Mt. Lyell Co., left by rail motor for Burnie yesterday, and travelled from there to-day to attend the ...
Article : 90 wordsA correspondent writes:—Every citizen who does his duty, both honourably and well is an object lesson to his fellows and a valuable asset to the State. ...
Article : 279 wordsThe almost complete cessation of wors in the building trade during the past few years has led to a scarcity of houses in most cities throughout the ...
Article : 532 wordsShipmasters now trading to Australia are loud in their praise of the Admiralty Salvage Department, which did herculean service during the war, salving steamers sunk ...
Article : 199 wordsThere is every likelihood that Mr. Kearney, an Australian engineer, will secure permission to construct a high-speed railway under the River Thames ...
Article : 48 wordsThe following were the Marine Board collections at Hobart last week:—Whartage, £191 6s. 2d.; quayage, £68 17s. 3d.; pilotage, £35; miscellaneous, £419 8s. ...
Article : 37 words"M.G."—Your specimen is a harmless Virginian creeper. Poison vine has three independent leaflets to the leaf; never five. Veitch's Virginian ...
Article : 54 wordsThis week's Government "Gazette" contains a list of Crown lands leased and sold during December last, and the assessment rolls for the Municipalities of ...
Article : 32 wordsSoon after the occurrence, people began to ask why the authorities permitted men to work in the vicinity of such dangerous wires, and why Witt ...
Article : 251 wordsThe following steamers are due to Hobart from the under-mentioned parts:— Jan Wainut, s.s., from Melbourne via ...
Article : 103 wordsFollowing the railwaymen's example, it, is reported that there is a general movement amongst skilled trade unionists to exclude non-unionists from their ...
Article : 39 wordsThe harvesting of cereal and root crops has commenced on the North-West Coast (writes our correspondent), under favourable climatic conditions, but all farmers ...
Article : 237 wordsDissatisfied citizens of Melbourne have followed the advice of that great apostle of political change, "The Age," and started for Australia an Initiative, ...
Article : 955 wordsThe Launceston Council has agreed to the request of the Tramway Union for a conference to discuss the new tramway log and the conditions of employment. ...
Article : 182 wordsDays out Alma Doepel, sch., from Melbourne... 3 Alpha, sch., from Melbourne, to sail. Beatrice, ketch, from Melbourne, to sail. ...
Article : 77 wordsPrince John Charles Francis, the youngest son of the King, died on Saturday afternoon at Sandringham, in Norfolk. He was in his 14th year. ...
Article : 160 wordsJoseph Sims, sch., left Adventure Bay for Melbourne January 9 (off Sandy Cape January 14). Myro, yacht, left Hobart for Sydney, ...
Article : 47 wordsA young man named Arthur Sainty was bitten by a snake on Saturday at Branxholm. In company with another young man, Victor Rainbird, he was ...
Article : 101 wordsGood Intent, kt., from East Coast. Heather Belle, ketch (undergoing repair). Kiltobranks, s.s., from Melbourne. Leeta May, new ketch. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe equity suit of Pears and another, v. Bell and others, being a dispute over orchard property, will be tried to-day in the Macquarie-street Supreme Court, ...
Article : 58 wordsYesterday four Australian soldiers, including a negro, entered a cafe near Montreuil, and called for drinks. The negro conversed with the landlord, and ...
Article : 107 wordsBURNIE.—Arrived—January l8: 4 p.m., Hilmeads, s.s., from Melbourne. January 20: 5.30 a.m., Marrawah, s.s., from Melbourne and King Island, via Stanley. ...
Article : 31 wordsYesterday the Premier received the following telegram from the Acting-Prime Minister. Mr. W.M. Watt:—"The French Labour Mission, comprising Messrs. ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Orient [?] Os[?], which was on a voyage from Liverpool to Australian ports, put into Falmouth yesterday owing to a slight defect in her ...
Article : 50 wordsThe rebels at Santarem surrendered after a heavy bombardment. The revolutionary rising at Lisbon has ended. ...
Article : 27 wordsMarrawah, s.s., from Melbourne—5 bgs bolts, 12 bgs wheat, 5 bgs maize, 20 bgs pol[?]ey food, 46 bgs oats, 6 bgs barley, 158 bgs sugar, 12 css kerosene, 25 css fruit, 143 ...
Article : 133 wordsThe Australia Day celebrations will last three days. The Australian Natives' Association will hold a corr[?]oree at the Connaught rooms, and ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Privy Council has dismissed the appeal from the New South Wales Prize Court in the case of the steamer Tural. ...
Article : 127 wordsA message received in Capetown from Johannesburg to-day states that the authorities have discovered that Internationalist Socialists on the Rand ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Public Health Department reports that for the week ending January l8 the number of cases of diphtheria reported was 16, of which one was in Hobart, two ...
Article : 63 wordsArrived.—January 18: 10.29 p.m., Mindini, s.s., from South Sea Islands; 11.10 p.m., Essex, s.s., from Port Said, via ports; 11.19 p.m., Kakapo, s.s., from Greymouth; 11.26 ...
Article : 108 wordsHon. J. W. Evans, M.H.A., yesterday brought under the notice of the Director of Education (Mr. W. T. McCoy) the overcrowding of Bellerive State-school. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe shocking accident by which a workman was fatally electrocuted in Hobart yesterday should draw attention to the risks to the public that attend the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 21 Jan 1919, Page 4
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