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Article : 455 wordsThis morning's Gazette contains the new bye-law of the City Council to prohibit the ringing of auctioneers' bells. Notices are also given of the making of rates, ...
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Article : 4,734 wordsSIR,—My attention was called a few days since to an article in the Church News for this month, and which also appeared in The Mercury, wherein that writer states that £1000 had vanished from the funds ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 14 Feb 1871, Page 2
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