The Grand National Meeting of the V.R.C. concluded at Flemington on Saturday, the weather being glorious, and the attendance very large, including vice-regal ...
Article : 1,859 wordsThe Australian Eleven continued their match against Gloucestershiie at Clifton to-day. When stumps were drawn yesterday the scores stood at ...
Article : 157 wordsIt in understood that the new [?] pointed London Board will acc[?] management of the Bank of New Zealand affairs as they at present stand, ...
Article : 294 wordsSir J. C. R. Colomb inquires in the House of Commons whether the Canadian Government had been yet consulted as to the feasibility of ...
Article : 50 wordsFinancial affairs in the Argentine Republic are improving land the commercial crisis is now nearly over. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe Mineral Exhibition at the Crystal Palace will be opened on the 28th inst., but it is now understood that the Earl of Fife will not perform ...
Article : 39 wordsSIR,—I think the present movement re the railway to the West Coast is rather premature, as the Zeehan line when completed will afford sufficient accommodation, ...
Article : 346 wordsThe Right Hon. E. Stanhope, in reply to a question asked, in the House of Commons as to whether the officers Of H.M.S. Calliope would receive ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Privy Council has affirmed judgment in the cases Lyons v. Hoffvuny and Barter v. Bank of New South Wales. ...
Article : 31 wordsLord Dunlo has returned to London. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe prospectus of the Edinburgh and Ballarat Gold-mining Company for operations at Lintons, Victoria, has been issued with a proposed capital of ...
Article : 27 wordsIt is reported that the Turks have actually burnt many Armenian peasants who had neglected, or were unable to pay the taxes levied upon ...
Article : 44 wordsThe memorial erected to the memory of the late Hon. W. Bede Dalley, the New South Wales statesman, was to-day unveiled in St. Paul's ...
Article : 140 wordsHopes are expressed that the Agents-General will assist in the movement to legalise the establishment of a silver coinage in Australia in addition to the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Guards leave on Tuesday, and will be away from London for a period of two years. Six of the Grenadier Guards who ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Australians commenced the return match against the Players of England to-day, the ground on this occasion being the Sheffield. Burn ...
Article : 337 wordsRAILWAY v. CITY.—These teams met for the second time this season on the Risdon ground on Saturday afternoon. On the occasion of the former meeting, the City won ...
Article : 1,163 wordsIt has been decided to float the John Knox Silver- Mining Co. with a capital of £60,000 in August next, and the promoters say success is assured. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Empress Frederick is writing the memoirs of her late husband, the Emperor William. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. Parnell stated in the House of Commons that his party would be willing to adopt the Government proposals for purchase of land in Ireland. ...
Article : 89 wordsDhuleep Singh, who has been living in exile on account of political offences, is now in a precarious condition of health. He has apologised to Queen ...
Article : 37 wordsSIR,—Mr. G. Innes refuses to own the pateruity of his youngest child—the Sydney auction sale. He has, however, contributed to its maintenance, and as far as the Huon ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Rev. R. W. Dale, M.A., presides at the International Congregational Council in 1891. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Australian representative rifle team now at Wimbledon have failed to secure any prominent prize, and Bisley, their leading shot, has been ...
Article : 42 wordsThe proposal to reduce the capital of the New Zealand Shipping Company has been confirmed. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Right Hon. E. Stanhope, Secretary of State for the War Department, has declined to disclose the result of the inquiry respecting the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe telegraph clerks have postponed their threatened strike pending negotiations. ...
Article : 19 wordsTrials of the Gifloid rifle prove the weapon to be a success. Liquified carbonic acid gas is substituted for gunpowder. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Wilson, a separatist candidate, has been returned for the representation of Mid-Durham in the House of Commons. The seat was previously ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Queen has presented Madame' Melba (Mrs. Armstrong), the Australian prima donna, with a diamond and pearl brooch. ...
Article : 38 wordsSIR,—Your report of the speeches made at this meeting makes very amusing reading, but that is the best that can be said. If farming cannot be made to pay in a country ...
Article : 162 wordsGreat excitement prevails at Buenos Ayres, owing to the financial Crisis there and the garrison are under arms nightly. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Shaw Savill and Albion Co.'s well-known sailing ship Merope, bound from New Zealand to London, has been burnt at sea. An American ship ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Perth Enabling Bill defining the new Constitution of Western Australia, has passed through committee in the House of Lords. ...
Article : 36 wordsGold in the Argentine Republic is at a premium of two hundred per cent. ...
Article : 18 wordsLydia Becker, the authoress, is dead. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Hon. Rhodes, Premier of the Cape Administration, has arrived in London, the objcct of his visit being to watch the interests of that colony in ...
Article : 91 wordsSlavin and McAuliffe have signed articles to fight for the Ormond Club prize during the first week in October. JULY 17. ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Coldstream Guards, the regiment which refused to parado when so ordered, have been replaced at Wellington Barracks by the Yorkshire ...
Article : 35 wordsThe return match between the Australians and Surrey was commenced to-day on Kennington Oval. The visitors won the toss, and elected to act ...
Article : 216 wordsThe Australian Guards Band (Salvation Army) marched into Latrobe last Friday afternoon, travel-stained, but apparently not greatly fatigued after their long tramp of 20 ...
Article : 554 wordsThe United States Congress has passed the Shipping Bounties Bill. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe doubts existing as to the continuance of the present mail service between San Francisco, Auckland, and Sydney is preventing tourists from ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Saumarez Smith, new Anglican Bishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia, sails on August 15. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. J. C. Saville has leased the racehorse Chicago, the Caulfield Cup winner, for a period of two years. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is understood that the committee on the question of Colonial Defence generally approve of Major-General Edwards' advocacy of the fortification ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Bishop of Limerick, replying to Mr. John. Dillon's attack upon him in the House of Commons refers to the latter's miserable whine for release from ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the Newmarket July meeting odds of 50 to 1 were offered against Lady Betty for the Thousand Guineas Handicap. She finished nowhere. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe following is the general report of the exploring party in connection with extension of Derwent Valley Railway from the Ouse to a point on Loddon Hills:- ...
Article : 663 wordsNew Zealand oats are quoted at 28s to 29s. ...
Article : 9 wordsThe Chilling and Freezing Co. has been successfully floated. ...
Article : 18 wordsA cyclone has occurred at St. Paul's, Minnesota, crusing heavy mortality. During the raging of the gale a steamer capsized and it was feared that at least ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Harbour master at Devonport was interviewed to-day by Mr. Henry Law, of Launceston, to obtain a site for coal wharf, he having made a contract for delivery of ...
Article : 61 wordsThe unemployed assembled in force on the wharf to-day currying an effigy of J. B. Patterson, Minister of Public Works. They then proceeded to the Corporation tip, tore ...
Article : 445 wordsThe Murquis of Salisbury has intimated to President Harrison that if the United States fail to pay the indemnity awarded in Behring Straits difficulty ...
Article : 32 wordsA warship has been despatched to Newfoundland to make inquiries into the alleged action of a Newfoundland cruiser, which is stated to have fired on ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Perth Enabling Bill has been read a second time in the House of Lords. Lord Kuutsford took occasion during the debate to enlogise the late ...
Article : 68 wordsSouth Australia wired last night as follows:—"The cable interruptions were caused by a very severe earthquake. The duplicate cable, which was repaired this ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. H. M. Stanley has been suffering from gastritis, but is now recovering. ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe wool sales continue animated, and prices are firm. The series will [?] on the 24th inst. Merino has ruled 5 per cent higher ...
Article : 43 wordsO'Donovnn Rossa, chief of the Irish-American dynamite party, proposes to visit I[?] in January next. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is reported that the Grenadier Guards are under orders to proceed to Africa. ...
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Article : 17 wordsIt is reported that the Hon. J. G. Blaine, Secretary of State for the United States, is resigning in consequence of the Behring Straits ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Rev. Jefferies has accepted the pastorate of the new Congregational College at Hampstead. ...
Article : 21 wordsA terrible fire has occurred at Stamboul, doing damage to the extent of one million sterling. ...
Article : 24 wordsDr. Peters, leader of the German-African Expedition, is now at Zanzibar, and is about to resign his position. ...
Article : 23 wordsThere was a very large assemblage on the Association Ground to-day, when a team representing the Essendon Football Club, of Victoria, played a match against a ...
Article : 1,079 wordsThe Bristol Mercury states, and apparently with authority, that the Right Hon. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, member for that city, will succeed ...
Article : 86 wordsThe third reading of the Perth Enabling Bill was unopposed in the House of Lords. ...
Article : 24 wordsLord Lothian has finally refused the position of Governor of New South Wales. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 21 Jul 1890, Page 3
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