It is an admitted fact at the present day that town life is, to a certain extent, unendurable without a number of "lungs" or public places set apart in the town and ...
Article : 1,092 wordsThe Standard of this morning publishes a statement to the effect that Russia claims the territory on the Afghan frontier down to Meruchak, on the Murghab River, ...
Article : 94 wordsA deputation to-day waited on the Solicitor-General, and urged that the Rev. Mr. Dowie and other prisoners, now serving sentences in the Melbourne Gaol for a ...
Article : 241 wordsThe Bendigo Independent states that the harmonious relations which have hitherto existed between the miners working in Mr. George Lansell's 180 mine at Sandhurst ...
Article : 368 wordsThe annual meet of the Evandale Racing Club was held yesterday on the Loch Bay estate, a short distance from the township. The weather was anything but promising ...
Article : 2,756 wordsSIR,—As some of the shopkeepers in town were fined at the Police Office for obstructing the footpaths, does the Police Act, or Police supervision, extend south of Elizabeth-street? ...
Article : 250 wordsIn the House of Commons this evening, Sir Arthur Divitt Hayter, Financial Secretary to the War Department, announced the regiments of Guards now at Suakin ...
Article : 100 wordsSailed—T.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Flinders, for Launceston. Passengers—Saloon : Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dowling, Mrs. Summers, Misses Grist, Messrs. Morales, ...
Article : 40 wordsSIR,—A most unsavoury paragraph respecting the sanitary officer and his duties appears in your local columns to-day. If your subscribers at their breakfast tables wish to receive ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Waterloo Cup Meeting, held under the auspices of the New South Wales Coursing Club, was concluded at Rooty Hill to-day. The Waterloo Cup was won ...
Article : 104 wordsThe local quotation for tin ore yesterday was 14s 3d per unit. The fifth half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Star of Peace Company ...
Article : 102 wordsDudley and Stephens, the captain and mate o the yacht Mignonette, convicted in December last and sentenced to death for the murder of the boy Parker, whom they ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Secretary of the Launceston Stock Exchange reports the following quotations for Thursday:—New Chum, s 1s; West Chum, a 2s 6d; Lefroy, s 12s; Little ...
Article : 71 wordsPurchasers of the recent floated Victorian four per cent. loan of four millions are making largo advance payments in order to obtain the discount allowed. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Governor published a Gazette notice this evening, placing the gunboat Protector on commission, under the Naval Discipline Act of last year, under ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Bosphore Egyptien, a scurrilous French paper published at Port Said, and which was recently suppressed by the Egyptian Government, but subsequently ...
Article : 41 wordsSIR,—You must see as well as I that the Chief Prince of Mushuch (Muscovy) and Tobolsk has been left freer for the performance of his prophetical duties than appeared at one ...
Article : 86 wordsThe following quotations were made on the Hobart Stock Exchange to-day :— Daily's, b 9d, s 2s; Specimen Reef, s 3s 6d; Victoria, b 5s 4d, s 5s 9d, 5s 6d, sales 5s 6d; ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Committee of the French Chambers appointed to take steps for the re-impeachment of M. Jules Ferry, the late Premier on account of his Chinese policy, has ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. Howard Haywood's Tasmanian Exhibition, which opens at the Pavilion in the Town Park on Monday evening next, promises to be a very attractive and ...
Article : 802 wordsAs a further practical illustration of the interest evinced by Mr. Joseph Archer in the welfare of our district, I am informed on the most reliable authority that he sunk ...
Article : 287 wordsThe shipment of grapes by the Orient steamer Potosi, from Adelaide, have been landed in marketable condition. ...
Article : 22 wordsA number of residents in this city are taking the initiatory steps to form a bowling green here. It bids fair to be a great success. ...
Article : 631 wordsThe hon. James Munro, the well-known Victorian temperance advocate and politician, who recently arrived here from Melbourne on a visit, has requested the ...
Article : 70 wordsThe cholera has broken out again at Marseilles in the south of France, and several cases were reported yesterday. ...
Article : 25 wordsIntelligence received from the north-west provinces of Canada states it has been ascertained that the Indians who joined Louis Riel's rebellion have been ...
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Advertising : 413 wordsSir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, has intimated to the Colonial Office that New Zealand agrees to the omission of clause 31 in the Australasian ...
Article : 53 wordsThree of the British regiments now at Suakin are proceeding to Cairo. where they will remain for the present. ...
Article : 30 wordsLast evening a number of recruits were drilled by Sergeant-Major Welsh in the drill-room, being dismissed at 9.10 p.m. This evening Colonel Warner, ...
Article : 180 wordsMr. Gladstone in the House of Commons to-day stated the Government would reconsider the question of the promised Irish Land Purchase Bill after ...
Article : 40 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the Launceston Hospital Board was held at the Board-room last evening, there being present :—Messrs G.T. Collins (chairman), ...
Article : 1,499 wordsBefore his Worship the Mayor (Hy. Button, Eq., J.P.) and B. P. Farrelly, Esq., J.P. DRUNK AND INCAPABLE.—John Thompson was fined 5s for having been drunk and ...
Article : 435 wordsThe French Government and the three Empires—Germany, Russia, and Austria—having protested against any deduction being made on the half-yearly coupons ...
Article : 48 wordsThe cholera has again appeared at Marseilles, and two deaths have already occurred. ...
Article : 19 wordsMr. Jack, of the Domain, has turned out for the Government a now cutter for torpedo purposes. Its length is 30ft.; beam, 7ft. 6in.; depth, 2ft. 6in. It is ...
Article : 185 wordsConsols are an eighth lower, the quotation to-day being 99 3/8. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe quotation for tin to-day is £84 per ton. Mrs. Weldon has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for libelling M. ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Fri 22 May 1885, Page 3
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