To the Editor of the Hamilton Spectator. SIR,--your notice of Mr. Mayson's presentation you gave me credit for having "supplied the champagne." I desire to state that ...
Article : 69 wordsTHE ESTIMATES.--It is proposed by the estimates presented to the Assembly on Tuesday, to expend the following sums in the Western District, viz.:--Repairs and ...
Article : 4,775 wordsThe meeting held at the Foresters' Hall on Monday night was not sufficiently large to justify those who attended it in settling the basis on which a ...
Article : 419 wordsMessrs. Powers, Rutherford and Co. report :-- 1450 cattle yarded, which sold at an advance of 20s. per head. 15,000 sheep ...
Article : 146 wordsSIR,--On or about the 1st August, 1878, our teacher, who was also our Post-master, was about to leave the district, and the Post-office was removed from the State School to a selector to a ...
Article : 213 wordsThe action for a breach of the Copyright Act, brought against Bennett for producing Taylor's "Ticket of Leave Man," has been decided in favour of the defendant, who was ...
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Advertising : 4,198 wordsAnother crowd expectant this evening, in the rations galleries of the Legislative Assembly, awaiting the entrance of the Speaker, who preceded by that solemn ...
Article : 1,143 wordsMr. M'Intyre.--To ask the Premier if the hon. member for Castlemaine, Professor Pearson, now in England, is acting in any official position in connexion with the public business of Victoria. ...
Article : 88 wordsOn Saturday a very interesting game of football was played here, between the members of the Coleraine and Merino clubs, the principal feature of which was the marked ...
Article : 746 wordsThe platform of the Catholic Education Union was pithily and explicitly at a meeting of the St. Francis's branch on Monday evening (the Telegraph, says) ...
Article : 441 wordsMelbourne ox-hides, best heavy, are worth 4¾d to 5d per lb; best light are worth 4½d per lb. Sydney oxhides, best heavy, are worth 5¼d per ...
Article : 51 wordsThe building is rapidly approaching completion, and the large dome will be finished in a few days. Extraordinary progress been made in the erection of the exterior ...
Article : 310 wordsThe all engrossing topic of conversation in the city is last night's Budget speech, and proposed fiscal alterations. The general opinion is adverse; even those not objecting ...
Article : 482 wordsBy Cr. Farie: 1st. "That tenders be called for draining, forming and metalling 20 chains of Hamilton to Belfast road, between Orford and Deep Creek, immediately to the north ...
Article : 184 wordsIn the legislative Council yesterday, Mr. R. D. Reid introduced his bill to emend the Constitution Act, and to reduce the qualification of doctors for the Council. He was prepared to ...
Article : 308 wordsA magisterial inquiry was held this afternoon, before Mr. Puckle, J.P., concerning the death of Mary Jane Lindo, who was found drowned in Oliver's Gully Reservoir ...
Article : 132 wordsSIR,--As I see my name mentioned in connection with a slight inaccuracy in a late letter from your Coleraine correspondent regarding the Digby Friendly Society; if you will allow ...
Article : 155 wordsThe Ministerial Budget statement was made to a thronged House yesterday evening. There was much excitement out of doors with regard to the fiscal changes to be made, and the number ...
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Hamilton Spectator (Vic. : 1870 - 1918), Thu 31 Jul 1879, Page 3
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