The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this bank was held at their offices, Bank-buildings, on Monday. Mr., J. R. Bullen-Smith, C.S.I., in the ...
Article : 2,034 wordsThe race meet at Pattersonia proved a very enjoyable and successful day's sport. Though the number of people present on the course was small, and visitors from town very ...
Article : 702 wordsWilliam Pole, tea merchant, of Queen-street, has called a meeting of his creditors. This afternoon a statement was presented, which showed liabilities £27,000, of which ...
Article : 876 wordsSIR,—As an Englishman coming from the other side of the Line, may I be allowed a few words in reply to your correspondent "Right, not Might." If your Press ...
Article : 381 wordsThe session of the Union commenced with singing and prayer at 10 a.m. Present: The Revs. J. M. Bayley (president), J. W. Simmons (secretary), G. Clarke, J. Nisbet, ...
Article : 641 wordsSIR,—"Alpha" bespeaks further leisure to reply. To what? Not to my straight-forward and only question. That question is, who is he to sot up his individual opinion ...
Article : 604 wordsSIR,—In your report of the Congregational Union meetings I notice a paragraph in the chairman's address bearing on the above question, in which he urges the Union to ...
Article : 145 wordsSIR,—I concluded my letter of the 7th inst. with the remark that we ought to have 20,000 rifles in the colony for defensive purposes, but that it is doubtful whether we ...
Article : 449 wordsSIR,—Will you kindly grant me the use of your columns for the purpose of expressing my opinion re the above. My plea for soliciting this favour is, being a shareholder ...
Article : 432 wordsAt the Court yesterday, before Mr. Commisioner Whitefoord, and a jury of three, in the case of Gee v. R. H. Douglas, claim for £16 for gravel that was carted on to the ...
Article : 492 wordsThe Council has adopted the Address-in-Reply by a large majority, but the debate is still continuing in the Assembly. Sir Luke Samuel Leake, Speaker of the ...
Article : 66 wordsThere is small rush of wool from the Darling, and steamers are taking it to Melbourne. The Minister of Justice, who never ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsThe session was resumed in the afternoon, when after the usual exercises. Mr. W. A. WEYMOUTH called attention to the prragraph in the Chairman's address ...
Article : 926 wordsSIR,—The weakling who habituates himself to crutches, loves at length the props. So it is with our makers-up; they have been so long crippling on crutches that now ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 wordsSIR,—No doubt the sound of the battle drum, so far as Australia is concerned, has hitherto been very remote, and this probably has been a large factor in her wonderful ...
Article : 524 wordsThe annual cricket match between the past and present scholars of Hutchins School was played yesterday on the upper Association ground, commencing at 10 o'clock. The ...
Article : 427 wordsSIR,—The Southern Tasmania Political Reform Association has fairly earned the thanks of the community for their efforts to elicit opinions with regard to the coming ...
Article : 585 wordsThe new Queensland gunboat Gayndah is expected to arrive in a few days. No formal reply has yet been received to the offer of the Government to the Admiralty ...
Article : 91 wordsThe weather during the past fortnight has been all that could be desired for ducks and geese, for scarcely a day has passed by without rain, and the late crops not yet ...
Article : 385 wordsAt the Hospital Board meeting this evening, on the motion for the adoption of the Visiting Committee's report, brought up at last meeting, the subject of the ...
Article : 694 wordsA destructive fire has occurred at Te Awamutu, near Auckland, by which Lewis' Hotel and 8 other buildings were destroyed. At the annual meeting of the Rifle ...
Article : 58 words[?] the Minister of Lands has to-day Bay, [?] the three route of road to the [?] station, and has expressed himself as much more favourably impressed with ...
Article : 169 wordsSIR,—Being the owner of the above property, I shall feel obliged if you will allow me, through the medium of your paper, to contradict certain statements made by the ...
Article : 667 wordsThe meeting of the O.K. T.M. Co., called for last evening, in order to wind the company up, was adjourned for want of a quorum. ...
Article : 117 wordsFor several weeks past the weather at Carnarvon has been almost a continuance of wet, on an average five days out of seven— rain falling. Those on the Peninsula who ...
Article : 248 wordsThere is no grander spectacle in the world than that of a great ship cleaving her trackless way across the tumbling waves. By the application of steam we have how been able ...
Article : 242 wordsSIR,—It was with great pleasure that I read the annual meeting of the Southern Tasmanian Agricultural and Pastoral Association in your paper of Saturday, and was ...
Article : 354 wordsArgus.—Under instructions from the directors of this company, according to a resolution passed by the board on 13th inst., Messrs. M. Bruce, G. Babington, and R. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 20 Mar 1885, Page 3
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