SIR,—I think the following extract from Mr. Proctor's writings will be of general interest, besides having some hearing upon questions which have of late occupied some space in your ...
Article : 677 wordsThe representatives of the Amalgamated Miners' Association and the Parliamentary Committee of the Intercolonial Trades Congress waited on the Chief Secretary ...
Article : 280 wordsMr. Gladstone stated in the House of commons yesterday that an honourable settlement of the Afghan frontier difficulty would probably be arrived at between ...
Article : 253 wordsPresent:—The Mayor (Mr. Hy. Button), Aldermen Barrett, Carter, Dean, Farrelly, Ellis, Scott, and Sutton. The minutes of the previous meeting ...
Article : 2,403 words"Hope deferred maketh the heart [?]k." Any reasonable individual doubting the truthfulness of this maxim has only to reside in Tasmania for a short period and ...
Article : 520 wordsAn amicable arrangement has been arrived at between the Commandant and the members of the Engineer Corps as to payment during the time they will be ...
Article : 52 wordsSailed—T.S.N. Co.'s s.s. Pateena, for Launceston. Passengers—Saloon:—Lord and Lady Lymington; Mr. and Mrs. WV. H. Dodery, Mr. and Mrs. Gant, Rev. Mr. ...
Article : 91 wordsBefore his Honor Mr. Commissioner Whitefoord. JUDGMENT SUMMONSES. ROBERTSON V. THOMPSON.—Claim for £15 ...
Article : 142 wordsThe case, Elder v. the Launceston and Bridport Steamship Company, was commenced to-day, before Mr. Justice Williams, and adjourned to Wednesday. ...
Article : 28 wordsRear Admiral Tryon, commander on the Australian station, has been directed by the Admiralty to visit the various Australasian ports, and confer with the colonial ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is understood the Government do not consider it necessary at the present time to give effect to the proclamation recently gazetted with reference to blocking the ...
Article : 390 wordsMessrs. P. W. Spence and Co.'s London metal circular of 5th March reports:—Tin on the whole has been very firm throughout the month, the higher prices in the ...
Article : 342 wordsBefore H.T.A. Murray, Esq., P.M. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Ann Sells was reprimanded and discharged for having been drunk and disorderly in a street of Launceston ...
Article : 230 wordsSIR,—It is not often that the views of your correspondent, Mr. T. Hogarth, on matters of fiscal policy agree with mine, inasmuch as he is an avowed protectionist, and I a freetrader, but ...
Article : 377 wordsIt is rumoured that the German annexations are not concluded, and that other are contemplated, pending the establishment of colonies, which will cause surprise ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Right Rev. Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, and brother of the late Archbishop Vaughan, of Sydney, is a passenger for Australia by ...
Article : 42 wordsMiss Georgie Smithson gave another of her enjoyable entertainments in the Town Hall on Monday night. The attendance was better than on the previous occasion, ...
Article : 474 wordsThe French Government has presented an ultimatum to the Khedive of Egypt demanding the re-licensing of the Bosphore an Egyptian weekly newspaper printed in ...
Article : 57 wordsWe have had two days' rain, and it still continues. Nothing has been heard yet relative to the acceptance of tenders for the bridges, and now the rain will make ...
Article : 187 wordsThe Burrumbeet, a new steamer recently built for Messrs. Huddart, Parker, and Co., of Melbourne, and which was launched in February last at Newcastle-on-Tyne, made ...
Article : 44 wordsThe third half-yearly general meeting of shareholders in the Krushka Company, appointed to be held in the office of Mr. E, H. Power, yesterday, lapsed for want of ...
Article : 494 words"Her Majesty's Government are bound to say that the measure proposed by the colonial Governments seems to them inconsistent with those principles of free trade which they believe ...
Article : 450 wordsThe University of Cambridge has conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. John Kinross, B.A., Principal of St. Andrew's College, Sydney University ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Samuel Percy Crisp, the youngest son of the late Samuel Crisp, was admitted as a practitioner in the Supreme Court to-day. He has joined his uncle, Mr. David ...
Article : 959 wordsThe Spectator, in discussing the Australasian Federation Enabling Bill, declares that the right of secession and the power of seceding from the federation proposed by ...
Article : 58 wordsThe sudden onslaught of the Russians may have proved a matter of surprise to our Afghan allies and Mr. Gladstone, but it certainly occasioned no ...
Article : 606 wordsA telegram has been received by the Secretary of State for War from General Graham, in which he states that on Saturday last the New South Wales contingent, ...
Article : 334 wordsYesterday morning at 11 o'clock his Excellency, accompanied by Colonel Legge, Captain Hunt, and Lieutenant Harrap, visited the Volunteer Buildings for the ...
Article : 610 wordsTwo Victorian clergymen, Canon Chalmers and the Rev. T. W. Glover, took part in the services at Christ Church here yesterday, the former preaching both morning and evening. ...
Article : 307 wordsSIR,—In your leading ar[?]cle of Tuesday, the 14th inst., you refer to a torpedo corps being formed at Tamar Heads consisting of two (2) electricians, pilots, pilotsmen, and ...
Article : 208 wordsThe Secretary of the Hobart Stock Exchange reports the following quotations for to-day:—Florence Nightingale, b 23s; Tasmania, s £6 10s; Mount ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Tue 21 Apr 1885, Page 3
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