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Advertising : 967 wordsThe annual picnic of the Victorian Railways Mutual Benefit Society was held at Queenscliff yesterday, and 5,000 guests were present. ...
Article : 88 wordsAbout 7 o'clock on Saturday evening, Martin Wheeler, aged 49, a lumper residing at 80, Goulburn-street, was stabbed by his father-in-law, Riohard Ronayne. He w[?] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 187 wordsIn the House of Commons last evening General Hamley curried a motion by 33 votes for the more liberal treatment of the Volunteers. Although the motion ...
Article : 127 wordsAgricultural Show and stock sale at Cascade to-morrow. s.s. Cygnet runs direct. Yacht race on Saturday resulted thus:- Sunbeam, Mabel, Iolanthe. ...
Article : 7,397 wordsAn outbreak of a somewhat serious nature has occurred in Afghanistan. The rebel tribes have beheaded the Chief Ishalgan, and are massing in ...
Article : 36 wordsHerr Coleman do Tisza, 15 years Premier of Hungary, has formally resigned his position, but promises to support his successor, Count, Julius ...
Article : 42 wordsMurphy has defeated, Warren in a prize fight at San Francisco. ...
Article : 13 wordsM. de Freycinet still retains his portfolio as Minister of War, and M. Countans will hold that of Minister of Foreign Affairs vice M. Eugene Spuller. ...
Article : 30 wordsIn the Canadian Senate a motion uffirining the desirability of representatives of the Dominion having seats in the Imperial House of Commons has ...
Article : 38 wordsKing Dom Carlos, of Portugal, replying to a deputation of students from Oporto, who demanded the romoval of the British Consul, Mr. Oswald J. T. ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Cranbrook sale to-day by Roberts und Company (Limited), eclipsed all their preceding ones in the district, all sheep sold briskly to the number of 4,000, and several ...
Article : 45 wordsDetails to hand of the floods in N.S.W. show most disastrous results. Many farmers have been mined, and the Government have already decided to make special grants ...
Article : 199 wordsThe new cruisers for the Australian squadron are now taking in stores and munitions at Devonport, as also their guns, which will be at once tested, and ...
Article : 42 wordsA syndicate has been successfully formed to provide capital for expansion of the cable service between England and Australia. It is admitted ...
Article : 57 wordsYesterday afternoon Lewis Dowling, son of Mr. E. Dowling, of Quorn Hall, was bitten in the calf of the leg by a whip snake. He cut out the piece, tied a string tightly round ...
Article : 147 wordsSir Charlea Russell, Q.C., has been engaged as counsel in the Dunlo divorce case, shortly to be brought before the Courts, in which the young ...
Article : 48 wordsThe delegates of the various Powers appointed to meet at Bellin and debate the International Labour Question assembled to-day, and were welcomed ...
Article : 62 wordsIn view of the forthcoming Easter Encampment, a reporter from this journal waited upon the Assistant Commissary General, Major Just, when the following interesting ...
Article : 1,154 wordsTenders will be culled on the 21st inst. for a Queensland loan of £2,265,000, the minimum being fixed at £97. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir James Ferguson has stated in the House of Commons, in reply to a ques tion asked by an honourable member, that he expects an amicable settlement ...
Article : 126 wordsThe Statist once again comes to the attack on Australasian borrowing, especially condemning Victoria making persistent attempts to obtain British ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Patchett Martin is credited with having assisted Sir Cliarles Dilke in his sketches of Sir Henry Parkes and other colonial notabilities in his new work, ...
Article : 453 wordsThe athletic sports held here yesterday were succesful. The Leven Band was in attendance and played selections during the intervals. Mr. Alcock acted as an efficient ...
Article : 88 wordsTelegraphic communication was restored late on Friday, and there is a terrible tale of damage done by the floods. Another landslip occurred on the railway ...
Article : 616 wordsThe Economist expresses opinion that whatever may be the result of the debate on the Perth Enabling Bill, the northern portion of the West ...
Article : 56 wordsThe quiet little town of Fingal was the scene of unusual stir and bustle last Thursday and Friday owing to the sitting of the Supreme Court, which was presided over ...
Article : 661 wordsThe shipment of Australian potatoes sent home per the s.s. Orient has realised 4Os. per cwt. Those sent by the Valetta are in better order, having ...
Article : 51 wordsIn reply to a question asked in the House of Commons, the Rights Hon. W. H. Smith lender of the Government party, said that Ministem had declined ...
Article : 95 wordsMr. Gower, a Separatist, has been elected member for Stoke-upon-Trent. ...
Article : 12 wordsA good deal of amuscmont has been created by the announcement that a steeplechase of a very novel character has taken place near Melton Mowbray, ...
Article : 106 wordsThe application money deposited for shares in the Gippsland Proprietary Tin Mining Co. has been returned, the required number of shares not having ...
Article : 32 wordsThe Government of Cape Colony announce the issue on March 20 of a loan of £1,350,000 at 3½ per cent., the minimum being placed at par. ...
Article : 31 wordsIn reply to a question, the Secretary of State for the Colonies has stated that an inquiry would be made by the Board of Trade as to whether the steamer ...
Article : 82 wordsMr. David Anderson, of the firm of Messrs. Anderson, Anderson, and Co., has been appointed to the management of the Adelaide branch of the Orient ...
Article : 37 wordsThe firing for the Government prizes in connection with this branch of the Defence Force took place at Sandy Bay on Saturday last, under the following conditions:— ...
Article : 217 wordsThe French expedition in Dahomey have bombarded Abomey, the capital, and also the towns of Kelery, Painea, and Daboniegat. They have also ...
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Advertising : 235 wordsSevere [?]oods have been caused by the Mississippi River having overflowed its banks. Thousands of cattle have been drowned, and the loss of property ...
Article : 70 wordsSir Henry Havelock has been gazetted Governor of Ceylon. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Birmingham Tories are indignant at Lord Randolph Churchill deliberately ratting against the Government in the recent division on the ...
Article : 32 wordsThe hearing of the charge against Birchall and his wife of having [?] Mr. Benwell, a wealthy Englishman, to Princetown, Canada,and then murdered ...
Article : 40 wordsThirty thousand engineers employed on the Tyne and Wear will strike to secure the cessation of work at 12 noon on Saturdays, unless the demand is ...
Article : 134 words"No Medicine introduced to the public has ever met with the success accorded to Dr. Soule's American Hop Bitters. It stands to-day the best known curative article in the ...
Article : 295 wordsOn Saturday the competition for this trophy was continued, and resulted in J. Tinker securing a second "leg" in the prize. His score of 85 was far the best ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Porte declines to admit that it has recognised the sovereignty of Prince Ferdinand in Bulgaria. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Colonial Office has advised the Hon. A. C. Onslow, Chief Justice of West Australia—who is now seriously ill at Cannes, France—to accept ...
Article : 34 wordsTo-day, being St. Patrick's Day, will be kept by many as a holiday. By custom long established, Hibernian Societies always hold their sports and demonstrations on this ...
Article : 345 wordsC. H. WALKER, Broughton, Ohio, April 7, 1888, wrote:—"This wotch has kept as good time as any I over had. I recommend the Waterbury Watch as the cheapest watch ...
Article : 392 wordsConsiderable excitment has been caused throughout France, especially in Paris, by the arrest of another Frenchman on the German frontier. ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Moulden has resigned his position of Attorney-General. His successor is not yet announced. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe death occurred yesterday of Mr. George Withy, who has been a resident of this district for 52 years. He first came to Oxley and was employed by the late Mr. ...
Article : 393 wordsThe Privy Council has allowed the appeal in the case Brown v. Dibbs, arising in the Colonial Courts. ...
Article : 22 wordsA trial of the Zilanski gun, which projects missiles further than any other weapon, has been made in Delaware, with splendid success. ...
Article : 28 wordsMr. Charles S. Scott, C.B., the British Minister at Berne, Switzerland, has been appointed as one of the delegates to the Berlin International Labour ...
Article : 126 wordsM. Pasteur still complains of the perfidy of Australian parties in denying the right of a reward to him, as a foreigner, even though he proved the ...
Article : 38 wordsChinese have been ordered to remove from the Central Ward of San Francisco, and a strong detachment of military has been quartered there to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 17 Mar 1890, Page 3
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