A public meeting was held at Shipwrights' Point on Tuesday, 6th inst., to make arrangements for the annual local regatta. The following business was transacted:- ...
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Advertising : 1,998 wordsMany good books have been written on the subject of teaching. Most of them, however, are too theoretical to be of much practical use to teachers in public schools. ...
Article : 668 wordsBefore Mr. JUSTICE ADAMS and juries. The SOLICITOR GENERAL (Mr. E. D. Dobbie) prosecuted for the Crown. A juror, James Brindley, who was fined ...
Article : 1,088 wordsThe following are the acceptances for the Oakes:—Mantilla, Tourbillon, Volley, and Pearl Sh[?]ll. S[?]ratchings—Foal Stakes.—Tibro[?]k[?]y, ...
Article : 383 wordsMajor D. Pitt, at present stationed at Bombay, has been appointed to succeed Colonel Walker in command of the Victorian Artillery Forces. ...
Article : 276 wordsIn the Supreme Court the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Co. sued J. and A. Brown to recover £414 damages in connection with the collision in N[?]wcastle Harbour between ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 165 wordsIn the Assembly to-day a message was received from the Administrator of Government, stating that this Chinese Restrictions Bill had been reserved for Her Majesty's ...
Article : 135 wordsAn extraordinary meeting of shareholders in the Mount Lyell G.M. Co. was held tonight[?] Mr. G. Horne in the chair. The meeting was convened to authorise the ...
Article : 112 wordsSIR,—I am asked by Mrs. Ferguson to convey her deep and sincere gratitude to all those who have so readily and heartily, indiver[?] ways, befriended her. Mrs. Ferguson desires ...
Article : 440 wordsMay be but little good will result from anything I can write upon the above wellworn theme; but having come in contact pretty freely lately with the denizens of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 wordsA dramatised version of a somewhat celebrated French novel, Le Ma[?]tre de Forges, entitled The Ironmaster, was substituted for The Candidate at the Theatre Royal ...
Article : 886 wordsThe Rev. Dr. Moore, R.C. Bishop of Ballarat, has arrived from London by Ormuz, bringing 36 religieuses, o whom 13 are pri[?]ts, nine being Fathers of Holy ...
Article : 109 wordsMuch interest is being centred in the match to be played on the New Town Ground to-morrow between the St. Joseph's and Nil Desperandum (Launceston) clubs. ...
Article : 382 wordsThree cases of objections against issue of mining [?]asement to the New Golden Gate Co. were decided at Fingal to-day all in favour of that company. Two of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 260 wordsThe following nominations were made yesterday of candidates for the seat in the Ho[?]se of Assembly rendered vacant by the retirement of the Hon. E. N. C. Braddon:- ...
Article : 70 wordsSIR,—I am instructed by the committee of the Oatlands F.B. Club to contradict the assertion of your Hamilto[?] correspondent that our team, although every inducement ...
Article : 344 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 17s. 9d. The manager of the Mount Bischoff Co. has received a cablegram, dated November 6, ...
Article : 218 wordsSince my last the M.R.C. have received ent[?]es for the regatta to be held at Lindisferne Bay on the 9th inst., and it must be highly satisfactory to the committee that ...
Article : 407 wordsThe forty-seventh anniversary of the birth of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales will be celebrated to-morrow. The day will be observed as a public holiday throughout ...
Article : 1,057 wordsThe Commissioner, Mr. G. W. Water[?] house, gave his decision in the goose case this morning. Verdiot for defendant. At the meeting of the Licensing Bench ...
Article : 228 wordsBrookstead Freehold No. 1, November 7. —The tributors have only four men at work, but are daily, expecting more. Thirty-three bags of tin ore o[?] hand. Will be forwarded ...
Article : 874 wordsSIR,—My letter'of November 2 was written with a[?] honest desire to pave the way for a better state of matters musical, and more in keeping with our ample material ...
Article : 199 wordsOur beautiful cousin, Miss Mary Anderson, i[?] good enough to say of Pears' Soap:—"I have used it for two years with the greatest satisfaction, for I [?]nd it the very best." ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Inspector of Police, Mr. Bernard Shaw, and the Attorney-General, inspected the municipal police to-day, and congratulated the superintendent on having such a ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 8 Nov 1888, Page 3
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