I have been prevented by various reasons lately from forwarding any communication to your paper, but I will now endeavour to pen a few words. ...
Article : 752 wordsThe Commissioner of Customs has announced his intention of placing a sum on the Estimates for deepening the south channel in the Bay. ...
Article : 382 wordsGREAT CONSOLS T. B. Co.—The adjourned half-yearly meeting of this Company was held last night in the Launceston Stock Exchange room. Mr. Harrap occupied the chair, then ...
Article : 1,149 wordsBefore his Honor Mr. Justice Dobson. James H. Walch v. Walton.—An action for £16 19s due on a piano sold to defendant. Mr. A. I. Clark appeared for plaintiff, who proved ...
Article : 1,049 wordsNothing marks the permanent character of a township so much as the existence of local industries. In most mining townships one sees little beyond the ...
Article : 1,697 wordsPresent—D. Collins, Esq., Warden, Councillors Boyes, Dowie, McKinnon, Viney, and Bryan. Minutes of last meeting read and confirmed. ...
Article : 252 wordsA meeting of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and a few other gentlemen interested was held at the Mechanics' Institute yesterday afternoon ...
Article : 932 wordsSaturday last was the day fixed for the annual election of three trustees for this district, or which is more absurdly called the Northern Macquarie River Road District. ...
Article : 771 wordsThe Sydney Corporation Act Amendment Bill is meeting with great opposition in the Council, and it will probably be shelved for the session. ...
Article : 252 wordsWe are quieting down again after the excitement of the Ministerial visit. The glorious Indian summer which we have enjoyed for some time past was interrupted the day after the ...
Article : 848 wordsSIR,—"The system of education in Tasmania is a characteristic feature of the colony, and its liberality is proverbial." This is what I read in the "Hand-book of ...
Article : 393 wordsThe directors of the Salt Creek Oil Coal Prospecting Company propose winding up and forming a new company to bore with a diamond drill. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe Walker family of bellringers gave two of their very enjoyable entertainments in the Wynyard Assembly-room on the 25th and 26th insts. to crowded houses. This talented ...
Article : 166 wordsThe number of sheep infected with scab in the colony is 4000, of which over 3000 are in Champion Bay district, and 1000 in the Gascoyne. ...
Article : 31 wordsThis being the day appointed for the election of road trustees, Mr. E. Smith, of this place, and Mr. John Cocker, of Barrington, were elected to fill the places of Mr. Wooton and Mr. ...
Article : 97 wordsSIR,—I have noticed several communications of late in reference to railway from Launceston to Ringarooma via Scottsdale, and having Court-house and police buildings erected at the ...
Article : 302 wordsMassey, who was charged with stealing debentures, has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. His wife was acquitted. The property in his possession has been seized in ...
Article : 110 wordsI notice that for a long time you have had nothing in your valuable columns referring to this place, once a flourishing gold field, but now almost deserted. Still there are a few ...
Article : 359 wordsA tea meeting and entertainment were held in the Town Hall yesterday, in connection with the Church of England, the object being to raise funds towards the erection of a building ...
Article : 706 wordsBefore John Whitefoord, Esq., Commissioner. £10 JURISDICTION. Ballarat United Gold Mining Company ...
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Advertising : 290 wordsSIR,—As a resident of Scottsdale I cannot allow the remarks published in to-day's Examiner to pass unchallenged. I will, therefore, try to show you that the apparently ...
Article : 244 wordsThe weather is all that can be desired for this season of the year, and the usual avocations of the year are progressing favourably. Farmers are commencing to get out the potato ...
Article : 210 words"Your Own" makes a great mistake when he says the establishment of an agency of the Land League is possible in Gladstone; no such thing. We seek only an alliance with the ...
Article : 341 wordsSIR,—Can you inform me why oatmeal is so dear in Launceston, while oats are so cheap? Oats can be bought from 1s 10d to 2s 9d per bushel. I paid 4d per lb. for oatmeal at one of ...
Article : 117 wordsBefore H. T. A. Murray, Esq., P.M. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Peter Gillies, Robert Goodwin and Martha Westlake, pleaded guilty to the charge of having been drunk and ...
Article : 322 wordsOn the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm about two hundred of the parents and friends of the children attending the school partook of a social tea provided by general ...
Article : 516 wordsSIR,—In your issue of to-day appears a description of the Chinese Camp at Thomas's Plains. Whilst admitting that the portraiture may be literally correct in details, I strongly ...
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Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Thu 3 May 1883, Page 3
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