BEFORE His Worship the Mayor and Aldermen Lewis and Robertson. DRUNKARDS.—Two drunkards were fined 5s., or in default six hours' solitary confinement. ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Council met at 4 o'clock. PRESENT: The Right Worshipful R. Walker, Esq., Mayor, Aldermen Pearce, Lewis, Robertson, Crisp, Green, Peck, Risby, and Barrett. ...
Article : 693 wordsPetrel, schooner, 59 tons, G. P. Harrison, from Launceston, 3rd instant, with wheat, flour, and sundrieBAgent—A.G. Webster. Wild Wave, brig, 180 tons, J. Fisher, from Port ...
Article : 2,032 wordsDEAR SIR,—Now that, steam communication between Great Britain and the Australian and New Zealand colonies (via the Isthmus of Panama) is an established f.ict, and as some,few ...
Article : 5,314 wordsIn every department of trade business is reported dull, and we have no transactions of magnitude to note. The millers inform us that they have bad a dull week, and that purchases have ...
Article : 504 wordsParliament is prorogued by proclamation until the 1st November next. A list of persons to whom carriage licences have been granted for the year ending 14th ...
Article : 149 wordsSIR,—The course pursued by our redoubtable ministry in winding up their " crisis" is, as you justly term it, very unusual; but the production of their elaborate " Memorandum" is read rightly ...
Article : 551 wordsThe twelfth annual meeting of this society took place last evening at the long room of the Royal Hotel, at eiglit o'clock. G. Crisp, Esq., was called to the chair, and read the advertisement calling ...
Article : 1,179 wordsMESSES. W. A. GUESDON & CO, at Murphy's Yards, Richmond, at 12 o'clock, stock, and King John, a handsome youngstallion. MESSRS. BURN & CO, at the mart, at 11 o'clock, ...
Article : 53 wordsTHE issue on which the country has to go the ballot box now is, income tax, or no income tax. This can neither bo Btatod with too much plainness, nor can it be too often ...
Article : 1,465 wordsSIR,—As there appears to be the erroneous opinion in some quarters concerning the income tax, that it cannot hart the poor mau, I beg permission to lift the veil from the arcanum of itsd ...
Article : 307 wordsSIR,—I am delighted to find that the House of Assembly is to be dissolved, and an opportunity afforded the electors, of deciding whether it would be better for the country to adopt the odious and ...
Article : 500 wordsSIR,—I took occasion to write to you some few days since to express my idea that it was the duty of the government at the present juncture to retrench its expenditure, and that " grants in aid" ...
Article : 666 wordsTHE preparatory note to a dissolution of parliament is struck in this day's Gazette. Parliament was prorogued by proclamation under His Excellency's hand yesterday, ...
Article : 190 wordsSIR,—Although, upon the whole, what I said in the Legislative Council on Friday evening last has been faithfully reported, yet there are two or three inaccuracies I would ask permission to ...
Article : 333 wordsThe state of excitement into which the country has been thrown by the government has had ita effect on the customs. The last month's returns are worse than those of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 11 Sep 1866, Page 2
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