The establshment of the Gardeners' and Amateurs' Horticultural Society has been productive of a large amount of benefit, not only to cultivators, but to the public generally. The ...
Article : 1,064 wordsTHE preliminary steps have been taken for the appointment of a Commission to make the necessary arrangements for the representation of Tasmanian products in the Exhibition of 1862. ...
Article : 112 wordsWE have said that the declining state of the Revenue will force on Parliament the necessity of revising the whole of our financial system, and as far as practicable, introducing a larger measure of ...
Article : 1,279 wordsIN our Summary for January we stated that the offices of Commissioner of the Court of Requests and of Commissioner of Insolvencies for Hobart Town, which the Government had contemplated ...
Article : 625 wordsFOR the present the cable across Bass's Straits has been abandoned. The forty thousands it cost has been lost to the Colony. We have to attribute this result to mismanagement from beginning to end. ...
Article : 331 wordsWITH a view to the enlargement of our population, and to the spread of settlement over the unoccupied districts of the Colony, it has been suggested that some modifications should be made in our land ...
Article : 1,365 wordsMr. Torrens, the Registrar-General of South Australia, whose system for the substitution of a Register and Certificate of Title and Transfer of Land for the present system of Conveyancing, is ...
Article : 206 wordsTHE Colony is justly entitled to complain in the strongest terms of the contemptuous indifference to its remonstrances displayed by the Home Government. We have now waited the arrival of ...
Article : 345 wordsEVERY homeward bound vessel now leaving the Colony is partly freighted with railway sleepers and other forms of sawn timber of the blue gum, &c. This branch of our export trade is likely to ...
Article : 53 wordsWE have noticed the extensive deposits of Guano on the innumerable islands and dislets belonging to Tasmania, particularly in Bass's Straits. This manure is found to be exceedingly rich in the ...
Article : 133 wordsWE have been requested to acknowledge the receipt of 500 copies of a volume entitled "Addresses to Young Children," originally delivered in the Girls' Free School, Bell Lane. These ...
Article : 81 wordsALREADY the notes of preparation are sounding. Circulars, we are informed, have been addressed to the various heads of departments, and other officers usually charged with the task, requesting the ...
Article : 127 wordsAN adjourned meeting of the Launceston Public Library was held on the 23rd ultimo, Dr. Casey, President, in the chair, when the annual Report was read and adopted. It set forth that the Library ...
Article : 5,687 wordsThe following are the entries, in addition to the All Age Stakes and St. Leger, already advertissed:- FIRST DAY. ...
Article : 312 wordsSIGNOR MARTELLI, whose services were engaged by the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the subject of Artificial Irrigation, has completed his survey of the districts of the Colony most suited for the ...
Article : 296 wordsTHE force is most satisfactorily and rapidly progressing in military proficiency, and has been exercised of late in what is called position drill. The butts for rifle practice have been completed, and on ...
Article : 118 wordsConcert last night of Amateur Minstrels for the benefit of the Rifle Band was well attended The Coach arrived in Launceston [?]t 11 last night, having broken the polo at Antill Ponds. ...
Article : 74 wordsTHE Report of Mr. Gould the Government Geologist on the Coal and Shale deposits of the Colony is waiting the preparation of some lithegraphed sections to illustrate it. It is otherwise ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 21 Feb 1861, Page 3
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