This tax does not bid fair to bo a very productive one. As yet the number of licenses taken out does not, we understand, exceed four hundred and fifty, from which a revenue of£1,350 only has been received. A much ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsIN a former Summary, we reported the discovery of what was then believed to be a pine forest on the banks of the Forth, in the Devon district, on the north coast of the island. Specimens of the timber from this forest ...
Article : 244 wordsOUR brightest hopes may fade, and are at times doomed to disappointment. Early in the season, the promise of fruit was most abundant, and so it continued untill the apple blight visited some of the apple-growing districts. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsPrairie, brig, 140 tons, A. Griggs from Dunedin, 12th inst., in ballast. Agent, E. M. Fisher. Highlander, brig, 196 tons, H. Boor, from Sydney, 10th inst., with sundries. Passengers—Mr. and Master ...
Article : 63 wordsThis Evening.—Bartine and Barlow. ...
Article : 8 wordsTHIS is our last Summary for 1863, and the year has been an eventless one. Politically, it has been big with promise, and little in performance. Nor has it been much ...
Article : 1,730 wordsShannon, Port Arthur, coals. ...
Article : 9 wordsMacquarie, schooner, 126 tons, G. Graves for Melbourne. ...
Article : 15 wordsAT this moment the weather is all that could be desired, with the promise of a coutinuance of much of the same kind. Of the crops, we should have said a month or six weeks ago, that they were unexampled in their ...
Article : 285 wordsUrania, schooner, 101 tons, Roberts, for Melbourne. Louisa, brig, 145 tons, W.A. Gerdwood for Invercargill N.Z. Passengers—Mr. J. Hamilton in the cabin; and 10 in the steerage. ...
Article : 31 wordsLouisa, brig, for Invercargill. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsSHEEP shearing is now at its height with us, and the clip is much above the average. This is partly to be accounted for by the fact of its being a month later this year, and the sheep, consequently, have another month's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 words8.30. a.m.—Wind, N. light, fine. Bar., 30.10. Ther., 49. Ozone, 9. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 wordsAn important paper was lately read bofore the Royal Society of Victoria, having for its subject "the Precious Stones of Victoria." In this paper the existence of precious stones in various parts of that Colony was ...
Article : 324 wordsPARLIAMENT still stands prorogued until May next, and there is a complete luli in politics. His Excellency the Governor has been on the north side of the island during the greater part of the mouth, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 wordsSHIP MAILS will be closed at Hobart Town, as under:— For London, via Suez and Marseilles, per R.M.S. Northam, on to-morrow, at 1.30 p.m. For London, via Suez and 1 Southampton, ditto ditto, ...
Article : 288 wordsThe annual elections of Councillors to serve in the Municipal bodies throughout the Island have taken place during the month with the following results:— ...
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Family Notices : 960 wordsAT the last reported meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania, notes on the six months meteorological registers from the lighthouses of Tasmania were read by Mr. Abbott, and Colonel Chesney called attention to ...
Article : 253 wordsSHIPS.—Heather Bell, Windward, and Percy, loading for London, Thomas Brown. BARQUES.—Isabella, Crishna, Eucalyptus, Indus, Lombard, Cherokee, (U.S.), Desdomona, (U.S.) ...
Article : 1,820 wordsSince the dispatch of our last monthly Summary, matters commercial have somewhat improved, but not to the extent then anticipated, owing to the very unseasonable and boisterous nature of the ...
Article : 1,310 wordsWE have sent away another, hatch of volunteers to Auckland. This makes the third portion of our contingent to their military settlement scheme, and we are beginning to grow weary of the movement. We ...
Article : 386 wordsTHE regatta in commemoration of the discovery of the island by Tasman, instituted by Sir Johu Franklin, has been the event that has been most talked of during the month, but it does not come off until to-day. Owing ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 22 Dec 1863, Page 2
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