The thanks of the public and visitors are due to the Hon. Henry Dobson (president of the Tourist Association), and to the Hon. A. T. Pillinger(Minister of Lands), ...
Article : 885 wordsThe question of providing better facilities for education in the higher branches of mining and metallurgy, and of affiliating the existing schools of ...
Article : 757 wordsHalf-yearly meeting King Jukes Copper and Gold P.A., 30th inst. ...
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Advertising : 1,629 wordsThe match between the Australian Eleven and the Rest of Australia was resumed at noon to-day on the Sydney cricket ground. ...
Article : 426 wordsThe March fixture of the Butchers' Racing Club takes place to-morrow at Risdon-park, when the customary diversified programme will be submitted. There ...
Article : 96 wordsLord and Lady Hampden and party arrived by special train this morning from Sydney. They were met by Lord Richard Nevill ...
Article : 473 wordsA calamity almost unprecedented in the world's records has occurred in France. The Lagouban naval magazine near ...
Article : 257 wordsAMALGAMATED WEST TASMANIA, March 6.—Main shaft sunk 10ft.; total depth, 92ft. Ground in bottom of shaft hard sandstone and cabbage tree. ...
Article : 788 wordsAnother meet of the Hobart Turf Club is to be held on the 18th inst., when half a dozen events will be decided. Entries for the races particularised by advertisement ...
Article : 46 wordsThe following weights for the Junior Handicap and the Bourke Handicap, to be run to-morrow, have been declared:- JUNIOR HANDICAP. ...
Article : 274 wordsAll Engagements.—Whakawatea and Victoria. Junior Handicap.—Chesney and Pauline Louise. ...
Article : 29 wordsPlayed at Tea Tree on Saturday, 4th inst., resulting in a win for the former by an innings and 10 runs. Scores:- SOUTH BRIDGEWATER.—A. Tilyard, ...
Article : 111 wordsHer Majesty Marie Henriette, Queen of the Belgians, is suffering severely from bronchitis. Her condition is critical, and all her ...
Article : 34 wordsMessrs. Yuille & Co. held their annual sale of yearlings at Newmarket to-day. Close on a hundred lots were submitted, and there was a good attendance of buyers, ...
Article : 225 wordsIn preparation for the visit to Cannes of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, great precautions are being taken to guard against any possibility of an anarchical ...
Article : 42 wordsPlayed at Oyster Cove on the 4th inst., and resulted in a win for the former by 41 runs on the first innings. T. Charlton, eight for 42; B. Young, seven for 31, for ...
Article : 156 wordsBaron Penzance, P.C., Q.C., and M.A. (James Plaisted Wilde), has re signed his position as Judge of the Provincial Courts of Canterbury and ...
Article : 68 wordsAbout 50 opponents to the Commonwealth Bill met in the Australia Hotel to-day with the object of organising hostility to the hill. Sir George Dibbs ...
Article : 53 wordsA new feature in Tasmanian mining is being introduced by the Ringarooma Dredging Co., the prospectus of which appears in our advertising columns. The ...
Article : 186 wordsThe return match was played at Rhyndaston on 4th inst., and resulted in a win for Colebrook by six wickets. C. Brain, of the C.C.C., topped the 100 Wickets, and ...
Article : 184 wordsA cyclist named Charles Henry Marsden, aged 29, has been killed by a fall from a bicycle. He was riding with his head down, and dashed into another cyclist who ...
Article : 258 wordsThe death is reported of the Melbourne Cup winner Zulu. Zulu won the Cup in 1881. ...
Article : 19 wordsA trust is now being arranged in New York to secure a monopoly of woollen and worsted factories. The capital to be invested totals ten millions sterling. ...
Article : 35 wordsA meeting of the Hobart[?] Technical School committee was held last evening. Present—Messrs. Alexander Morton (in the chair), Rodway, Bradley, Pemberton, ...
Article : 299 wordsOn Thursday, 2nd inst., at the Police Court, A. Ransly, sen., was proceeded against for driving without lights on the evening of Sunday, 26th ult., the night ...
Article : 361 wordsFollowing upon the resignation of the Sagasta Ministry, the following new allotment of portfolios has been made: —Premier and Minister of Foreign ...
Article : 40 wordsThe sale of the Old Grubb's mine to the Colonel North Co. has been completed, and to-day the manager received notice to take up his residence at the mine manager's ...
Article : 88 wordsThere had been a railroad accident, five persons killed, including the engineer and fireman, of course, and there was the usual talk about the affair. ...
Article : 575 wordsThe Strahan Marine Board met to-day. All members present. It was resolved to write to the Government re handing over present approaches ...
Article : 354 wordsThe Emperor William has cabled a message of sympathy to Rudyard Kipling. Mr. Sutton, at a Toronto banquet, ...
Article : 53 wordsGold.—Little Wonder, b. 9d. Moonlight, b. 6d. Volunteer, s. 1/5. New Pinafore, b. 3/5. Silver.—Colebrook, b. 3/8. Hercules, b. 19/ ...
Article : 367 wordsSome time ago a letter was sent to the Premier, asking that so much of the ground round the Benevolent Asylum as was not [?]quired for the purposes of the institution ...
Article : 243 wordsSIR,—Having read with interest Mr. Bowes Kelly's remarks re communication with the West Coast by rail in Saturday's paper, I would like to endorse the same. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe first match between these detachments of the Clarence Company took place on the Forcett range on Saturday, 4th inst., and ended in a win for Sorell. ...
Article : 328 wordsThe weather has taken up again. The very welcome rains we have had were wanted badly by the root crops, as well as the country in general. It has freshened ...
Article : 305 wordsSIR,—I am sure every well-meaning citizen of Hobart and its suburbs must congratulate the "powers that be" upon the selection of Mr. Pedder to his new sphere, ...
Article : 266 wordsAn inquest was held this afternoon on the body of the infant daughter of George Henderson, of Dilston. The evidence went to show that on Wednesday last Mrs. ...
Article : 172 wordsECZEMA is the condition of thousands who live in ignorance of the fact that a warm bath with CUTICURA SOAP and a single anointing with CUTICURA, the great ...
Article : 121 wordsAt the Gaiety Theatre this evening the Lazern Company are meeting with a good reception. The weather is gloriously fine. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 7 Mar 1899, Page 3
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