The usual monthly meeting of the Tasmanian Railway and Progress Association was held on the 4th inst., when some very important matters were submitte, foremost among which may be mentioned a preliminary ...
Article : 1,536 wordsAs stated in our last Summary, the new Governor of Tasmania, Chas. Du Cane, Esq., accompanied by the Hon. Mrs. Du Cane, family and suite, arrived in Sydney by the ship Sobraon on Saturday, 19th ...
Article : 5,985 wordsPolitically we may be said to be in a state of stagnation. This is in consequence of the very long prorogation of parliament. For months we have had to report the ...
Article : 5,307 wordsThere has been little doing politcally during the month. Adolphus Fredericks Rooke, Esq., having resigned his seat in the House of Assembly as the representative of Deloraine, a writ has been issued, ...
Article : 300 wordsSince our last summary, tho returns of the revenue to the 31st December, 1868, have been published, from which it appears that the customs collected during the year amounted to £131.488 8s. 7d. The ...
Article : 194 wordsThe annual statement of expences incurred in maintaining the Brickfields Invalid Depot, present [?] at the meeting of the Boart on the 6th inst., showed that during the last year 150 inmates had been ...
Article : 774 wordsIn anothor column we have referred to a progress report, sent in by Messrs. Doyne, Major, and Willett, the engineers intrusted with the carrying out of the parlimentary survey of the main line railway, in ...
Article : 223 wordsThe people of Hobart Town yesterday gave His Excellency Mr. Charles Du Cane, the new Governor of Tasmania, a befitting reception. It was creditable to those who did honour to their new Ruler; it was ...
Article : 1,284 wordsThere has been very little stir among the volunteers during the month. The usual weekly parades of the artillery companies have been hold, and practice at the batteries and in the artillery school ...
Article : 363 wordsThe event of the month coming under the above category has consisted in the opening to anglers of the river Derwent, a measure advocated some time since in the loading columns of The Mercury. The ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 30 Jan 1869, Page 3
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