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Advertising : 1,843 wordsIn our advertising column[?] [?]ppears the summer programme of the Tasmanian Turf Club, the date of the fixture being February 9, 10, 11. In addition to the extra day's ...
Article : 177 wordsA meeting of shareholders and depositors in the City of Melbourne Building Society was hold to-day to receive report of the committee appointed to inquire into the ...
Article : 549 wordsAttempted suicide at Parattah yesterday by man named McKenna. Mr. Allan Smith, Crown lands ranger, Straits Islands, has died at George Town. ...
Article : 7,442 wordsThe Chilian Government have satisfactorily settled the claims made by Germany and Sweden for compensation for damage sustained by their subjects ...
Article : 46 wordsSIR,—Without desiring to become ap[?]logist for the Ministerial "high jinks" you refer to in your leader of yesterday, m[?]y I ask is it not rather premature to anticipate ...
Article : 235 wordsThe directors of the British South Africa Company have decided to obtain a close valuation of their entire properly and territory. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe movement in Germany in favour of erecting a national monument to Prince Bismarck in commemoration of patriotic services is meeting with ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following weights have been declared for the New Year's Day meet of the above:- HURDLE RACE, 1½ miles.—Sirius, Milton, ...
Article : 174 wordsOn Monday evening Mr. L[?]wrence Campbell gave a recital to a large and highly appreciative audience in the Lec[?]ure Hall. His recitations were varied, from grave to ...
Article : 401 wordsIt is stated that in the event of war occurring between Chili and the United States the Chilian Government has arranged to purchase the Australian ...
Article : 56 wordsAn intercolonial military tournamen[?], under the auspices of the New South Wales Cavalry, will be held at Rosehill on the 22nd and 23rd January. In the programme events ...
Article : 137 wordsSIR,—An old maid from the country wishes to know why the Government prefer aliens' money for these bills, and make her put her mite in the banks, which she has ...
Article : 46 wordsWalt Whitman, the American printer, journalist, author, and essayist, who for some time past has been residing at Camden, New York, in a precarious ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following horses have been left in the Hopetoun Cup Race, to be r[?]n at the V A.T C. meeting on Boxing Day:— Tiraillieur, Benson, Tarcoola, Pontoon, ...
Article : 70 wordsSIR,—Now that all the injustice that can be done the poor man by the passing of the unequal and grasping Residence Area Bill is accomplished by putting off the poor man ...
Article : 124 wordsOut of a host of applicants Miss Louisa Macdonald, M.A., of London, has been appointed Lady Principal of the Women's College at Sydney. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Labour societies intend holding a great political demonstration together with a sports meeting on Boxing Day. Speeches will be delivered by Mr. Tr[?]nwith, M.L.A., ...
Article : 205 wordsG. W. Hastings, the defaulting M.P. for Worcestershire, has been brought up before the local bench and remanded, bail being refused. ...
Article : 32 wordsNORMANBY STAKES.—Halifax. STEEPLECHASE.—Acrobat. V.A.T.C. JUVENILE STAKES.—Moscow, Donation, Aquadus, Warpaint, Lord ...
Article : 26 wordsSIR,—The news of the passage of the Catholic Bill has given great satisfaction to the people of this parish. It has given them power to sell more land than they had ...
Article : 645 wordsThe Corporation of Liverpool has refused to sanction the granting of the Freedom of the City to Mr[?] Gladstone. ...
Article : 29 wordsDuring the pa[?]t five days the we[?]ther has been unusually tempestuous, and the rainfall the heaviest throughout the year, 4in. being registered from Saturday morning till ...
Article : 317 wordsThe three Grand Dukes of Russia have subscribed a hundred and twenty thousand roubles to the Famine Fund, and the Czarevitch has subscribed fifty ...
Article : 64 wordsA fatal boat accident happened here on Thursday last. Constable John Quintell, st[?]tioned at Southport, and William Muskett left the latter place before dinner ...
Article : 490 wordsAs Mr. Charles Pearce, grocer, of Hyde-park, was returning from his shop to his lodgings in Wood-street at about a quarter to 12 o'clock last night, a masked man ru[?]hed ...
Article : 238 wordsM. Boucherville has formed a Tory Ministry in Quebee to supersede the Mercier Ministry just dismissed by Lord Stanley. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe mat[?]h between Lord Sheffield's team and 16 of the Melbourne Cricket Club was commenced to-day, but the excessive heat rendered play unpleasant, and largely ...
Article : 218 wordsWithin six months the American military forces on the Canadian frontier will be trebled, as a matter of necessary precaution. ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Robinson, District Inspector of Roads, accompanied by Mr. J. Cleary, has commenced the laying out of the extension of road from Ragged Tier East to Bull's Hill. ...
Article : 245 wordsFrost in England is severe, and skating is general. A hundred miles of ice can be traversed between Northampton and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, owing ...
Article : 49 wordsIn the Assembly yesterday the Premier stated that the G[?]vernment intende[?] to ask for the approval of the House for the employment of a specialist to examine and ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire is dead, after a somewhat prolonged illness. His Grace was in his eighty-fourth year, and will be succeeded by his ...
Article : 78 wordsFINGAL V. MAN[?]ANA.—On 19th inst., the elevens of the above clubs met for the third time this season on the Fingal ground, and the game resulted in a victory for the Fingal ...
Article : 203 wordsJohn Harris, of Change-park, reputed to be a millionaire, was killed this morning at Harris-park by a passing tram. He was in the act of going over a level crossing at the ...
Article : 38 wordsThe M[?]sonic brethren held their annual ball at Willi[?]ms' Hall last night, their own hall not being large enough to accommodate their friends and visitors. The room was ...
Article : 740 wordsSIR,—I notice in the "Agricultural Notes," in the Launceston Examiner of today's date, that in recent advices from Victoria it states that "it is thought that the ...
Article : 169 wordsAt a meeting of shareholders in the Commercial Bank, which failed six years ago, the Shareholders' Committee reported that the assets realised £20,000 (?), and that the ...
Article : 37 wordsSIR,—Your excellent article in your issue of the 15th inst. re rewarding the Richmond Municipal Police out of Government cash, in addition to the annual sudsidy ...
Article : 477 wordsMr. Allan Smith, who has for many years been employed as Crown land ranger and special constable in the Straits Island, died suddenly at George Town to-day, from ...
Article : 389 wordsThe first of the new lot of 25 locomotives to be manufactured by the Phoenix Foundry Company for the Victorian railways was delivered this morning, and successfully ran ...
Article : 735 wordsUnited States Consulate, Sydney, N.S.W. —I, Charles Kahlo, Consul of the United States of America at Sydney aud its Depend[?]ncie[?], do hereby certify that C. C. Cohen ...
Article : 75 wordsSIR,—I wish to draw your attention, and that of the ratepayers of Hobart, to what you and they will consider unfair treatment concerning myself and the sanitary contract. ...
Article : 373 words"Three years ago injured my leg and kneecap. The knee twice its natural size. The leg contr[?]cted and shortened. Could not walk. Thought injury permanent. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 23 Dec 1891, Page 3
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