It is reported that the Mahdi has retreated to Abba Island, on the White Nile, about 130 miles south of Khartoum, and at the junction of the route to Kordofan. It is ...
Article : 81 wordsENGLAND.—Via San Francisco, due on the 18th inst; via Torres Straits, due on the 25th inst.; per Messageries line, about the 28th inst.; per Orient line, due on the 25th ...
Article : 178 wordsHero, Huon Pine, Korannah, Southport, timber; Rose, Gardon Island, timber; Annie, Norfolk Bay, timber; Tasman, East Bay Neck, produce. ...
Article : 38 wordsSouthern Cross, s.s., 780 tons, T. Capurn, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Gasquoine, Mr. and Mrs. Hamming; Mesdames Peacock and 2 children, Allen. ...
Article : 45 wordsWindward, barque, 629 tons, J. R. Durant, for London. ...
Article : 11 wordsEsk, Wakefield, steamers; River Indus, Nautilus, Frederick Basil, Acacia, Emily Downing, Derwent Hunter, Islander, Von Moltke, Victoria, barques; Fairy Rock, ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Welton, the official liquidator of the Oriental Bank, has offered to pay all creditors willing to accept 17s. in the £, the final 7s. in September next. It is believed ...
Article : 54 wordsNew Zealand Ports—Rotomahana, s.s., 1,727 tons, M. Caroy: U.S.N. Co. ...
Article : 16 wordsMessrs. Everard and Co., of Melbourne, report on the 6th March:— "The offerings publicly of China teas for the fortnight have comprised 8,700 packages, but the same ...
Article : 552 wordsIncluded in the manifest of the barque Von Moltke, from New York, is the following consignment:— Ex Von Moltke, from New York—30 css ...
Article : 102 wordsThe London papers are unanimous in predicting the popularity of Lord Carrington, the newly-appointed Governor of New South Wales. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Times publishes intelligence that the Russians have made a further advance in Afghanistan, and says a collision is imminent. ...
Article : 62 wordsSouthern Cross, s.s., 780 tons, T. Capurn, for Melbourne—5 bis hops, J. R. Fryer and Son; 22 bis hops, A. G. Webster; 4 bis sheepskins, 180 scks ground bark, J. ...
Article : 156 wordsMarch 11, 6.20 p.m.—A ketch off South Arm. OUTWARD March 11, 6.20 p.m.—Southern Cross, s.s., ...
Article : 854 wordsThe Times, writing upon colonial offers of military assistance in Soudan, trusts that the loyal enthusiasm of the Australian colonies will induce them to adhere to their ...
Article : 34 wordsAu early reduction of the present bank rate of interest is considered improbable. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Egyptian garrisons at Kassala and Saubeil have been advised to make terms with the insurgent forces. ...
Article : 23 wordsEarl Granville stated in the House of Lords this afternoon that Her Majesty's Government had received no information confirmatory of the report that the British ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. W. Teulon, of Southwark, thus reports under date 28th January last:— "English hops are unaltered in value. The stock remaining unsold is not large, and is ...
Article : 231 wordsEdmund Yates, proprietor of the World newspaper, who has been undergoing a sentence of four months' imprisonment in Holloway prison since the rejection of his ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 wordsTin (Australian and Straits) is to-day quoted at £76 15s. per ton. ...
Article : 15 wordsCommander Acland, of H.M.S. Miranda, reports that on February 24 he observed on the Elizabeth Reef, Lord Howe Island, a wrecked vessel, apparently of 500 tons ...
Article : 290 wordsNotwithstanding interviews between Earl Granville and Baron Stael, the Russian Ambassador, no progress has been made towards a settlement of the difficulty with ...
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Article : 29 wordsMr. WM. CARTER, Collector for The Mercury and Tasmanian Mail Offices, is now on his HALF-YEARLY VISIT to the Northern districts. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe Minister of Defence has received a letter from Captain Thomas, Commandant of the Naval Defence Forces of the colony, suggesting that army officers who have been ...
Article : 1,008 wordsThe barque Westbury, Captain D. P. —Poole,[?] cleared at the Customs this evening with a full cargo valued at £31,750, made up as follows:—1,712 bis wool, 13 bis scrolls, 10 ...
Article : 96 wordsWE see that it is generally agreed in Great Britain that the Country is, to use the words of Mr. J. BRIGHT, "on the thre[?]hold of a new career." The large increase ...
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Advertising : 88 wordsMarch 11, 4.25 p.m.—Australia, s.s., for Melbourne. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsSir Ralph Gore, the immigration agent, who was recently called upon by the Colonial Secretary to furnish an explanation regarding certain matters connected with ...
Article : 119 wordsThere is no grander spectacle in the world than that of a great ship cleaving her trackless way asross the tumbling waves. By the application of steam we have now been able ...
Article : 241 wordsA meeting will be held in the Town Hall on Friday next, to consider the taxation question, in view of postponing the operation of the Act until after a specially summoned ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 12 Mar 1885, Page 2
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