The present is the season at which our farmers are busy preparing their fields for the next year's crops, and on the suitableness or the weather for ploughing, and the efficiency with which that necessary labor is performed, the luxuriance ...
Article : 542 wordsMELBOURNE, WEDNESDAY, 19TH MAY, 8 P.M. The Privilege Committee of the Assembly have brought np their report, which is opposed to the re-arrest of Messrs. Glass and Quarterman, and recommends an appeal to the Privy ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Bellerive Social Institute was opened for the season on Wednesday evening, April 28th, when the President, Mr. T. Westbrook, gave an opening speech preparatory to the musical entertainment which followed. He said be reckoned upon the ...
Article : 659 wordsSir,—Perceiving a paragraph in your paper of the 18th inst. respecting the Tickner murders wherein a man by the name of James Halter has openly declared that he was the man who committed those foul murders, I feel myself in duty bound to ...
Article : 1,190 wordsOn the 11th ult. a harvest thanksgiving service was conducted at Colebrooke Dale. On the 26th the parishioners of St. David's, Hobart Town met, and passed a resolution acquiescing in the determination of the Synod that the cure ...
Article : 692 wordsThere has been little doing in Volunteer matters during the month. On the 27th ult., the Artillery had a march out and sham fight, for which there was a good muster, and a number of field evolutions were very creditable gono through. The ...
Article : 204 wordsIn last month's summary we chronicled the opening of the Church of England Diocesan Synod, at the Hall in the Harrington-street, on the 20th April. The sittings were continued until the 23rd, and resumed on the 27th, concluding on the ...
Article : 2,154 wordsA scratch race meeting took place at New Town on the 6th and 7th inst. extending over two days. The programme embrace eight events, including a hack race, and hurry skurry, and of these some three or four were well contested. The ...
Article : 299 wordsThe public amusements of the month have been confined chiefly to the efforts of amateurs. A series of Monday evening promenade concerts were commenced in the Town Hall on Monday, 3rd inst., under the management of Messrs. Dentith ...
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Advertising : 2,857 wordsThe cricket season has gone out during this month with two or three events of a somewhat exciting character. The match botweon the Wellington and Break O'Day Clubs, which commenced on the 17th ult., was concluded on the 24th, in favor ...
Article : 192 wordsTHE Colebrook Dale harvest thanksgiving service was celebrated at the Village Church on the 11th April. The church was prettily decorated, and there was a large attendance. MR. B. SHORT, the travelling agent and lecturer of the ...
Article : 2,811 wordsBEFORE the Stipendiary Magistrate and Mr. Maxwell, J. P. LARCENY.—John Davey, charged by Detective Morley with stealing a pair of thigh boots the, property of Henry Sargent, butcher pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to two months' ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 20 May 1869, Page 4
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