Mr. A. B. Piddington, K. C., arrived in Hobart by the express on Saturday night, to preside over the Basic Wage Commission, which commences ...
Article : 164 wordsGladys Fellows, who was admitted to the Launceston General Hospital several weeks ago suffering from the effects of a burning accident at Ringarooma, died in ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Public Works Department has accepted the following tenders:—Road, Butler's and Challoner's, John McPhee, £116. Road, to Wilson's and others, D. ...
Article : 148 wordsRises Sets. August 17.................. 7.3... 5.[?] August 25.................. [?].50... 5.55 THE MOON. ...
Article : 1,142 wordsThe Acting Under Secretary (Mr. C. F. Seager informed a representative of "The Mercury" on Saturday that the superintendent of the New Town ...
Article : 324 wordsAn accident occured on tho Glen Fern road on Friday evening (says our New Norfolk reporter), as a result of which L. H. Harris, son of Mr. W. Harris, a ...
Article : 191 wordsThe study of politics, if it is to have any real value, must be directed towards a seeking out of tendencies, particularly of Parties, but also of ...
Article : 868 wordsThe Engineer of Works (Mr. Ross Reynolds), on returning to Hobart from a visit to the North-West on departmental business, expressed ...
Article : 334 wordsWidespread interest has been created by the reported good fortune of Miss Maud Armstrong. The representative of the "Register" at Jamestown has ...
Article : 315 wordsThe Director of the Government Tourist Bin eau (Mr i 1 Emmett) returned from the mainland b} the Loongana on Siturdav, after having visited Queens ...
Article : 428 wordsAt a meeting of the Queenstown Hospital Board last night the financial report showed that the debit balance on July 1 was —288 8s. 5d. the ...
Article : 429 wordsThe Parliamentary debate on Thursday on the Mount Bischoff mining dispute was brought under the notice of the managers of the companies ...
Article : 365 wordsThe attendance of the Director of Education (Mr. G. V. Brooks) was on Saturday directed to a report of a discussion at the meeting of the Huon ...
Article : 265 wordsAsked on Saturday how the survey for the proposed Huon railway is progressing, the Engineer of Works (Mr. Ross Reynolds) said permanent pegging had ...
Article : 154 wordsNurses Bonnily and Searle, who were sent by the State Government to New Zealand to undergo a course of three months' training at Dr. Truby King's ...
Article : 75 wordsThe Engineer of Works (Mr. Ross Reynolds) stated on Saturday that good progress is being made with the construction of the railway, 50 chains in length, ...
Article : 81 wordsCouncillor Hayton drew the attention of the Brighton Municipal Council, at its August meeting, to the condition of the Dromedary railway station yard. ...
Article : 92 wordsUnited Kingdom and Europe, per Narkunda (left England July 15), due Thursday, August 19, delivered Friday, August 20. America, per Niagara, due Thursday, ...
Article : 228 wordsTwo of the leading daily papers of Vienna, the "Morgen" and the "Neue Tag," were forced to suspend publication in May, owing to the high cost of ...
Article : 145 wordsSome little time ago the New Norfolk Municipal Council was asked to put the track leading from New Norfolk to the Huon in order, and after correspondence ...
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Article : 116 wordsAt present a person who is a naturalised Biitish subject in the United Kingdom or in New Zealand and the other Dominions, is an alien in ...
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Article : 171 wordsThis evil is rampant in England, where a letter has been addressed by Mr. C. T. Cramp, the president of the National Union of Railwaymen, to the branch ...
Article : 248 wordsOonah, s.s., 1,757 tons, E. Evans, from Melbourne. J Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Weatherhead, Whitfield; Miss Baker; Messrs. B[?]nnister, C[?]ming, Stone, Weatherhead, ...
Article : 109 wordsDeath from burning. Inter-State football matches. Lindisfarne State-school fair. Mount Bischoff mining dispute. ...
Article : 252 wordsA motor-car, carrying six persons, and driven by Mark Clayborought, motor mechanic, was last night running along Concord-road, Burwood, when a ...
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Article : 95 wordsThe fifteenth meetin[?] of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science has been appointed to open at Hobart University on January 5, 1921. ...
Article : 121 wordsOonah, s.s., 1,757 tons, E. Evans, from Melbourne. Passengers:—Saloon: Mesdames Ranson and children, Bewsher and c[?]ild, Guest and child, Billett, Wisdom: Misses ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 16 Aug 1920, Page 4
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