The members of the Ministry have been taking every opportunity of seeing the country, and making themselves acquainted with its requirements. The Premior (Mr. Giblin) and the Minister ...
Article : 391 wordsThe history of the past month has, in so far ad Tasmania is concorned, been a satisfactory one, our onward progress having received a noteworthy impotus in now mineral discoveries; while ...
Article : 1,457 wordsThe Supreme Court in its civil and criminal jurisdiction sat at Launceston last week before His Honor Sir Francis Smith, Chief Justice. The Civil Court opened on Tuesday, 2nd inst., the only case ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 324 wordsThe ninth half-yearly regatta of the Derwent Rowing Club took place on Saturday afternoon, April 6th, and was a decided success. The regatta was unusually free from those unfortunate ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,383 wordsThe Right Rev. Bishop Bromby presided at the last meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania. The Rev. Charles Rogers, L.L.D., Secretary Royal Historical Society, London, was elected as a ...
Article : 507 wordsAt the meeting of the City Council on the 1st inst. a report was brought up by the Markets Committee with a scheme mutually agreed on by the Committee and the Marine Board, for alterations ...
Article : 417 wordsMr. Alfred Stackbouse seut 40 40-tooth pure merine stud rams by the s.s. Tararua for New Zealand on her last trip. The rams, which were prenounced to be a really first-class lot, were bred ...
Article : 334 wordsIn anticipation of a warlike termination to the present European complications, and of the visit of Colonel Scratchley, early in April, with the object of seeing the report of Sir William Jervois ...
Article : 269 wordsOn March 18, a middle aged man named Thomas Daly was res[?]ued from a horrible death on the banks of the North Esk River. He was in a drunken state, and wandering over the river bank got stuck ...
Article : 808 wordsAn influential deputatiou, beaded by Sir James M. Wilson, waited upon the hon. the Minister of Lands on April 5 with referenee to certain alterations which were thought desirable in the new ...
Article : 1,466 wordsThe Very Rev. Dean Connell has been for some time psat assisting Dean Butler, at the Church of the Apostles, Launceston, in order to allow Rev. P. Gleeson to take a much-needed holiday. The Rev. ...
Article : 1,161 wordsA meeting under the auspices of the Church of England Temperance Society was held in the Trinity Hill schoolroom on the evening of the 27th March. There was a very numerous attendance, the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe railway returns continue to be satisfactory. On the Main line, the receipt for the four weeks ended the 6th inst., amounted to £4,102 19s, 7d., being an increase of £732 11s. 9d. on the corresponding ...
Article : 1,337 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Tasmanian Racing Club was held on April 1, according to rule. Sir James Milne Wilson, the president, took the chair, and Mr. A. P. Miller, who acted as secretary in the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 13 Apr 1878, Page 1
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