The "committee of the Tamar Regatta Association met last evening for the transaction of the usual business of the regatta. Several sub-committees were appointed to ...
Article : 158 wordsThe total revenue returns for the quarter ended December 31, 1891, amounted to £791,026, being an increase of £45,831, as compared with the ...
Article : 111 wordsA revolt against British authority on a small scale has broken out in the Malay Peninsula, or Malaya, the most southern portion of Asia, and of Further India, ...
Article : 96 wordsNews has been received from Paris that Mons. Henri Rene Albert Guy de Ma[?]passant, the celebrated French author, has made two attempts to ...
Article : 162 wordsJan. 5—Rotomahana, s, 1727 tons, H. Sams, commander, from Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mesdames Burge, Giffen, Innis, Sach[?], Welstenholme, Allen, Edwards, Dabson, ...
Article : 1,848 wordsAt an early hour this morning the house occupied by Walter Martin, a poundkeeper, was absolutely destroyed by fire, and two children who were sleeping on the premises ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Grand Duke Sergius, formerly Governor of Moscow, who made himself notorious in connection with the persecution of the Jews, went in the disguise of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe annual meeting of the parishioners of the above church was held in the school-room last evening. The Rev. R. C. Nugent Kelly, M.A. ...
Article : 1,135 wordsIt is stated that the Ports is disposed to enter into a direct agreement with Great Britain in regard to the occupation of Egypt. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe weather to-day has been very changeable, and at times heavy showers fell, after which the sun came out with summer-like serenity. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Queen of Roumania, Princess Elizabeth Von Neuwied, who has been suffering from illness, is reported to be in a critical condition. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe eldest daughter of Sir William C. F. Robinson, K. C. M. G., Governor of Western Australia, was to-day married to Captain Turner, of the 24th Regiment of ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Australian Mortgage and Agency Company report:—We offered today 25,080 bales wool and sold 22,015 of that number. Competition was brisk and prices were fully ...
Article : 65 wordsThe opera of "The Mountebank" composed by the late Mr Collier, whose death was recently reported, has been produced, and has proved a great success. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe firm of Messrs Alexander and Co., grain merchants of the Baltic, who failed in July last, with a deficit amounting to £42,500, has been reconstituted, and the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe bazaar in aid of the Women's Christian Association was formally opened to-day by Lady Hamilton with an appropriate address. The stall-holders ...
Article : 47 wordsThe prevalence of the influenza epidemic is universal throughout the southern half of England. ...
Article : 16 wordsClose at Launceston as under:— ENGLAND.—R.M.S.Ophir, Monday next, noon. VICTORIA, — S.s. Rotomahana, this day, 3.30 p.m. ...
Article : 45 wordsH.M.S. Curacoa arrived to-day from Sydney, and will be followed by other vessels of the squadron. She is a screw cruiser of the third class, has tonnage of ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Persian priests, having succeeded in securing the popular abstention from the use of tobacco, have been seeking to compel the Shah to abandon the new ...
Article : 82 wordsThe spectacle of a dead heat in a steeplechase such as occurred at Epsom on Saturday is very seldom seen, and, though probably such a thing has occurred before, ...
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Advertising : 256 wordsOwing to the action of Messrs Tyser and Co., the London shipping firm, in placing additional vessels on berth to New Zealand, the freights by the steamer ...
Article : 60 wordsKing Humbert, alluding to the present situation in Europe, stated that Italy was labouring to maintain peace, and the condition of affairs at present existing ...
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Family Notices : 20 wordsThe Duke of Devonshire (Marquis of Hartington) has been elected Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, in succession to his father, the seventh Duke[?] of ...
Article : 32 wordsAs a result of the action of the hon. George Graham, Minister of Agriculture for Victoria, In excluding butter of inferior quality from ...
Article : 73 wordsThe second day's racing of the Western Australian Turf Club's New Year's meeting took place yesterday. The Western Australian Derby was won by Karratha, ...
Article : 43 wordsA movement has been set on foot in the city among investors in colonial securities with a view to the establishment of a council of colonial bondholders ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Conara and Kelvin Grove toams (writes a correspondent) met at Conara on January 4. For Kelvin Grove only one man managed to reach double figures, the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe international cricket match between Lord Sheffield's team and United Australia was resumed to-day on the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The weather was ...
Article : 506 wordsThe Melbourne Associated Banks have decided that the credit discount for buying 60 days' drafts on London banks be fixed at from 12s 6d to 15s per cent. ...
Article : 74 wordsFrank Slavin, the pugilist, having failed to induce Messrs Piesse or Dougharly to back him with money in the proposed fight with J. L. Sullivan, ...
Article : 45 wordsWith this issue of the Examiner we present our subscribers with an almanac for the current year. It contains a large amount of information on every-day ...
Article : 88 wordsTHE completion of the railway from Strahan to Zeehan will, we trust, mark a new era in the history of mining on ...
Article : 945 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazette says that all the men-of-war in the British navy furnished with boilers similar to those of the new Australian cruisers have been proved by ...
Article : 67 wordsThere seems likely to be some trouble at the Newcastle collieries in consequence of the reduction made by the mine-owners in the price of coal from 11s to 10s per ton, ...
Article : 103 wordsMR E. WHITFELD, J.P., presided at the City Police Court yesterday. Henry Heslop was fined 10s, in default three days' imprisonment, for having been drunk and ...
Article : 3,415 wordsThe death is chronicled of Sir George Bidwell Airy, K C.B., D.C.L, L.L.D., F.R.S.. formerly Astronomer Royal, at the age of 90 years. ...
Article : 211 wordsA fire broke out in the ship W. H. Lincoln at 4 o'clock this morning, and slowly spread over the vessel. The foremast fell two hours later; the mainmast ...
Article : 128 wordsThe Premier intends to leave with his wife for India for his holidays. By the same ateamer Sir J. C. Bray goes to England as Agent-General for the colony. The ...
Article : 84 wordsIt is reported that Professor P[?]iffer, a son-in law of Dr. Koch, has discovered the bacillus of influenza, which has hitherto baffled the investigations of ...
Article : 30 wordsThe following, sales were made on Change to-day:— SILVER.—Australs, 3s 10d. Comets, 9s to 8s 11d. Grey Ores, 2s 9d, 2s 8d. ...
Article : 71 wordsThe charges laid by the Marine Board against James Anderson, master of the British ship Milwell, for gross ill-treatment of the second mate, who died on the ...
Article : 74 wordsIt is reported that the police have succeeded in tracing the recent outrage at Dublin Castle, in which a quantity of gun cotton was exploded in a dollar under ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Wed 6 Jan 1892, Page 2
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