Senator Millen, in reply to Senator Foll (Q.), said that the Government had not yet received any advice that Lieut. Burchell, M.H.R. had been appointed ...
Article : 258 wordsThe Sinn Fein party will sweep Nationalist Ireland, and are likely to win 60 to 70 seats. Already 25 candidates have been returned unopposed, ...
Article : 92 wordsAt yesterday's meeting of the Executive the following appointments were made:—Mr. P. S. Seager, Mr. Ashton Warner, and Dr. Dunsmuir, official ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 21 wordsThe following is the approxiamate tide-table for Saturday, December 14:— High water: 6 a.m. and 4 p.m. Low water: 11 a.m. and 10.30 p.m. ...
Article : 33 wordsAt yesterday's Executive meeting Wednesday and Thursday, January 29 and 30, were fixed as Public Service holidays, from noon, on the occasion of the ...
Article : 30 wordsAlpha, sch., 97 tons, E. Taylor, from Melbourne. Ca[?]na, s.s., 5,426 tons.—Heddle, from Sydney. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn the course of his speech at Bristol last night, Mr. Lloyd George referred to the statement by Mr. J. H. Thomas, the secreatary of the Amalgamated ...
Article : 178 wordsSpeaking at yesterday's meeting of the Women's Health Association. Mrs. O'Shea Petersen strongly criticised the manner in which Parliament had treated the bill ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 wordsThe first General Election in the United Kingdom since the War began will be held to-day. While fighting was in progress, the Government considered ...
Article : 621 wordsOonah, s.s., for Sydney—6[?] css and 56 halfcss fruit, 1,032 css jam, 155 css evaporated fruit, 65 css fruit pulp, 25 css condensed milk, 51 css butter, 2css fish, 2 pkgs leather. ...
Article : 391 wordsWith reference to the paragraph which appeared in yesterday's "Mercury" as to the greatly decreased price of osmiridium, which has dropped in a few days from ...
Article : 127 wordsIn the House of Representatives today. Mr. McWilliams (T.) asked the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. W. Watt), (1) is it a ...
Article : 249 wordsA special meeting of members of the Southern Tasmanian Law Society was held last evening to discuss the proposal to increase the salary of one of the ...
Article : 294 wordsIn war the Germans have shown that they are utterly without scruple: even in peace it would seem they have done serious mischief in Australia. To the ...
Article : 200 wordsCaptain Ives Provost, of the French bq. Jeanne d'Arc, which reached Melbourne recently from San Francisco, was first mate on the French sh. Magellan when that vessel ...
Article : 167 wordsThe Legislative Council sat yesterday afternoon, when several bills received from the Assembly were passed. Hon. Ellis Dean moved a resolution ...
Article : 203 wordsWhat Australia needs most according to Mr. Meadows Smith (a member of the French Mission, and hon. British Cousul in Paris), is more population. "After ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 wordsYesterday was the last day for receiving nominations for the three vacancies on the Hobart Marine Board, caused by the retirement, through effluxion of time, ...
Article : 103 wordsThe United States Government has offered Chili and Peru its good offices to settle the dispute between them with the object of avoiding war. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 43 wordsAlbatross, sch., from Carrickfergus Bay to Melbourne. Joseph Sims, sch., left Adventure Bay for Melbourne, December [?]. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Acting Premier informed a deputation at Pretoria to-day that he would, in answer to a suggestion, invite Royalty to open the Union Buildings in ...
Article : 46 wordsAt a meeting of the Queenstown Hospital Board of Management to-night, the financial report for the month of November showed revenue £390 9s. 4d., and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsThe annual meeting of the Australian Temperance and General Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd. was held here to-day. ...
Article : 285 wordsIn March. 1916, at Fitzroy, Melbourne, a motorman was murdered, and the mystery has never been elucidated. A search of the police records alleges that the ...
Article : 86 wordsSeveral cases against motorists were dealt with by the Police Magistrate (Mr. Aubrey Walker) at launceston yesterday. Charles Robert Bayles admitted ...
Article : 198 wordsLoongana, t.s., 2,448 tons, K. Livingstone, for Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Perry, Frame, Lee and child. Grundy, Pritchard, Rundle and child. Broadbury, ...
Article : 151 wordsAt Thursday's meeting of the Port Cygnet Municipal Council a communication was received from the Hon. B. S. Bird, M.L.C., in acknowledgment of a ...
Article : 229 wordsThe machinery of civilisation is such an intricate and complicated organism that, when a new element is introduced, nobody can with any confidence predict ...
Article : 1,195 wordsSurprise was expressed by the Minister of Defence (Senator Pearce) to-day at an announcement made by the Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Holman), ...
Article : 182 wordsWhen on her way yesterday morning from King Island to Launceston the s.s. Wauchope called and discharged 25 head of fat cattle. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 32 wordsYesterday the price of chaff went up from £9 to £10 per ton. There is no definite word about the renewal of the wheat agreement between the Federal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 52 wordsOur Tyenna correspondent telegraphs that a man, Thomas Parker, aged 45, a native of Hamilton, was killed by a falling tree at Tyenna on Thursday evening. ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Railway Classification Appeal Board took further evidence in Launceston yesterday, under the presidency of Mr. E. L. Hall, P.M. The further hearing has ...
Article : 56 wordsArrivals.—At Panama: Australmead, s.s., from Brisbane, via Wellington. At Calleo: Kilmallie. bq., from Sydney. Departures.—For Sydney: Doringtoncourt, ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Tampico (Mexico) correspondent of the "New York Times" says the Juan Castillano oil well, up to tho present the greatest oil producer in the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 163 wordsIn order that no hardship should be incurred by the dependents of soldiers at present on active service through the depletion of the patriotic funds, which ...
Article : 132 wordsAt the last meeting of the Portland Municipal Council a letter was read from Mr. C. M. Maxwell, secretary of the War Loan Committee refusing to ...
Article : 178 wordsUnited Kingdom, Expeditionary Forces. abrod, and America. expected at G.P.O. Thursday, December 19. 6 p.m.: delivered by letter carriers. Friday. ...
Article : 178 wordsA middle-aged man named Michael Kiely, who was brought under escort from the mainland, was presented before Mr. E. L. Hall, Police Magistrate, ...
Article : 71 wordsJames Jobling (50), residing with his wife and five children on a selection at Parkhurst, seven miles from Rockhampton, murdered his wife during last ...
Article : 123 wordsThe election of the Mayor of Hobart for the ensuing year will take place at the Town-hall this morning, at 11 o'clock. It is probable that five members of ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Minister of Lands and Works (Hon. J. B. Haves went north last night to consult with the president of the Municipal Association (Mr. W. E. Rose) ...
Article : 46 wordsRise in price of chaff. Hospital Board meeting. Fatal accident at Tyenna. Railway Classification Board. ...
Article : 113 wordsOwing to great pressure upon our space a number of news items and other matters are unavoidably held over. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 14 Dec 1918, Page 6
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