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  2. THE CARRIAGE TAX.

    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 ...

    Article : 92 words
  3. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, For November, 1863, at Hobart Town, taken at noon (in shade).

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 words
  4. PENCIL CEDAR.

    IN 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 words
  5. THE FRUIT SEASON.

    OUR 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. ...

    Article : 191 words
  6. PUBLIC SECURITIES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 words
  7. SHIPPING. ARRIVED.—October 21.

    Prairie, 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 words
  8. THEATRE ROYAL.

    This Evening.—Bartine and Barlow. ...

    Article : 8 words
  9. THE MERCURY.

    THIS 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 words
  10. COASTERS INWARDS.—December 21.

    Shannon, Port Arthur, coals. ...

    Article : 9 words
  11. ENTERED OUT.—December 21.

    Macquarie, schooner, 126 tons, G. Graves for Melbourne. ...

    Article : 15 words
  12. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

    AT 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 words
  13. CLEARED OUT.—November 21.

    Urania, 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 words
  14. SAILED.—December 21.

    Louisa, brig, for Invercargill. ...

    Article : 7 words
  15. IMPORTS.—December 21.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 188 words
  16. RATES OF EXCHANGE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 words
  17. THE CLIP.

    SHEEP 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 ...

    Article : 146 words
  18. HOBART TOWN PRICE CURRENT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,880 words
  19. HOBART TOWN.—December 21.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 14 words
  20. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

    8.30. a.m.—Wind, N. light, fine. Bar., 30.10. Ther., 49. Ozone, 9. ...

    Article : 22 words
  21. FORTESCUE BAY.—December 21.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 365 words
  22. RATES OF INTEREST AND EXCHANGE OF THE HOBART TOWN BANKS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 62 words
  23. THE GEMS OF TASMANIA.

    An 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 words
  24. PARLIAMENT AND POLITICS.

    PARLIAMENT 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, ...

    Article : 176 words
  25. IMPORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 115 words
  26. SHIP MAILS.

    SHIP 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 words
  27. THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

    The annual elections of Councillors to serve in the Municipal bodies throughout the Island have taken place during the month with the following results:— ...

    Article : 493 words
  28. Family Notices

    {No abstract available}

    Family Notices : 960 words
  29. THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

    AT 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 words
  30. VESSELS IN HARBOR.

    SHIPS.—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 words
  31. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    Since 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 words
  32. VOLUNTEERS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

    WE 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 words
  33. THE REGATTA.

    THE 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 ...

    Article : 142 words
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