The PRESIDENT took the chair at 4 o'clock. PETITIONS. Mr. SCOTT presented a petition in favour ...
Article : 1,888 wordsH.M.S. Miranda returned to port ycsterday from a cruise of five months in the South Sea Islands. While on the way to Apia the Miranda slightly grounded on a coral patch, ...
Article : 424 wordsMr. Service has received a telegram from the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia, conveying to him, as chairman of the Committee of Premiers appointed at the Sydney ...
Article : 457 wordsThe Agents-General met to-day to discuss the course to be taken in their coming interview with Lord Derby, in reference to a demand for the establishment of a British ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 198 wordsNo allotment of shares has yet been made in the Land and Agency Co. of Western Australia, floated a few months since with a capital of £1,000,000. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Finance Committee, to which the Recidiviste Bill was referred by the French Senate, have reported favourably on the measure. ...
Article : 23 wordsSIR,—The hon. member for North Hobart (Mr. Salier), who never bores the House by darkening counsel with a multitude of words, was completely silenced on Friday ...
Article : 414 wordsThe Admiralty has decided to re-commission the Lark, at present employed on surveying service on the Australian station. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. PETITION. Mr. LETTE presented a petition, signed by 43 residents of Launceston, asking for ...
Article : 2,096 wordsLast evening Miss Genevieve Ward, the celebrated actress, opened her short season of four nights in the Mechanics' Institute. Seldom, if ever, has that hall held a larger or ...
Article : 1,637 wordsA Roman Catholic Mission is about to proceed to New Guinea. ...
Article : 18 wordsGeneral Brier De Lisle, the French commander at Tonquin, has demanded reinforcements to the extent of 10,000 men. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the police court on Friday, 17th inst., before Hon. C. O'Reilly, S.M., and Messrs. C. S. Button and E. W. Bonner, J.'sP., Robert Taylor was charged by Augustus ...
Article : 617 wordsFrench authorities have formally notified that the Island of Formosa is blockaded by their war vessels. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe strained relations existing between the various heads of the Railway Department have culminated in a vote of noconfidence in the Government. ...
Article : 419 wordsThe Tichborne claimant, who was sentenced on the 28th February 1874, to fourteen years' imprisonment with hard labour for perjury, was released from custody ...
Article : 44 wordsTin (Australian and Straits) is to-day quoted at £77 5s. per ton. ...
Article : 13 wordsSIR,—The letter which appeared in The Mercury of the 13th inst. re the ease of A. J. Cox certainly ought to be looked upon as a matter of public interest. In the first ...
Article : 534 wordsA large fire, involving great destruction of property, is reported from Moscow. The theatre and 80 shops were burned yesterday, and the damage is estimated at fully ...
Article : 37 wordsThe enquiry into the Botany train mystery was concluded to-day, and the jury returned a verdict that the young woman, Rebecca Wilkinson, deceased, was ...
Article : 60 wordsMr. Cleveland, Governor of the New York State, and democratic candidate for the Presidency, was assaulted in the City of Albany yesterday. Fortunately he escaped without ...
Article : 54 wordsMr. Chester, police mngiatrate at Thursday Island, has been instructed to represent Queensland at the ceremony of proclaiming the British protectorate of New Guinea. ...
Article : 107 wordsLatest advices from Tonquin state that a large body of Chinese troops attacked the fortress of Tayenguang, north of the Red River, recently occupied by the French ...
Article : 50 wordsA special extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Little Wonder Co. will be held at the Mechanics Institute, on November 13, at 7-30 p.m. ...
Article : 645 wordsThe Government have taken steps to stop the importation of apples, with a view of preventing the introduction of the codlin moth. ...
Article : 126 wordsFurther communications have passed between Lord Northbrook and the Egyptian Government, relative to the proposed abolition of the Native Army, and, in ...
Article : 67 wordsThe Swede named Dalgren, recently imprisoned for larceny, was arrested at Blackwood yesterday on a charge of burglary at several houses on Mount Lofty. His tent ...
Article : 132 wordsLord Northbrook, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, returns to London at the end of this week. [From the Melbourne papers.] ...
Article : 78 wordsA correspondent at New Caledonia, under date Noumea, 10th October, writes as follows:— The transport Navaria came into port on ...
Article : 271 wordsSIR,—I observe a letter in your issue this morning from Mr. Richard Copping, denying my statement in the House respecting the number of years the people of the above ...
Article : 77 wordsThe mails per Orient Steam Navigation Company's R.M.S. Sorata, which left Melbourne on the 6th of September, were delivered in London to-day, via Naples. ...
Article : 153 wordsSIR,—Seeing a letter in your paper signed "Observer," I write to contradict him in his statement as to Mr. Hart, the Launceston wheelman, riding the smallest machine in ...
Article : 125 wordsAt the meeting of the borough council a communication was received from Mr. Service with reference to diamond drills for the district. The mining inspector for ...
Article : 428 wordsSIR,—The ignorance, spleen, and wilful perversion of facts with which the letter in to-day's issue, signed "No Log Rolling," abounds, is fortunately seldom matched even ...
Article : 675 wordsThe United States of America is the home of some very large enterprises, but none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr. G G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey, U.S.A. ...
Article : 386 wordsIt has been remarked, with regret, that in all committees of supply in the House no provision whatever has been made for public servants or buildings at Alberton. Hon. ...
Article : 207 wordsConsols remain unchanged at 101?. The market rate of discount is 2¾ per cent., 1/4 below bank rate. October 16. ...
Article : 231 wordsDerry, October 18.—Cleaned up [?]7 bags of tin ore. No. 4 is into deep ground, and we have got very good tin. No. 5 has been let to a good party, who have promised to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 22 Oct 1884, Page 3
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