A public meeting, convened by his Worship the Mayor on the requisition of a number of the inhabitants of the city, to consider the subject of "Intemperance and its legislative remedies," was held last ...
Article : 9,791 wordsSIR,—In my formor communication I selected from the mining regulations for your porusal a considerable number of clauses to convince you of the faulty nature of the existing code. My present ...
Article : 758 wordsNumbers of volunteers have arrived from the country to take part in the review on Flemington course to-morrow. The Assembly is now debating the budget, and ...
Article : 88 wordsEsther, South Port, paling; Matchless, South Arm, firewood; Perseverance, Old Beach, hay; Queen, Kate, Oyster Cove, firewood; Happy Jack, North West Bay, timber, Thistle, Hospital Bay, pa[?]gs. ...
Article : 1,431 words"An attendant of St. John's Church," Goulburn-street, complains of a poor man having been deprived of aid from the Benevolent Society on an unsupported charge of the Sexton's. But as the case is under ...
Article : 51 wordsBEFORE the Police Magistrate. DRUNKENNESS.—Two offenders were each fined 5s., or soven days' imprisonment for dunkenness. BEFORE the Police Magistrate and Mr. Geo. Wilson, ...
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Advertising : 40 wordsThis Evening: THE GREGORYS. Commence at 8 o'clock. ...
Article : 11 wordsTHE hon, the TREASURER of Victoria, while the debate on the budget was proceeding in the Assembly on Thursday night, illustrated the truth of the saying that one crime is the parent of ...
Article : 4,294 wordsSIR,—For some time past the subject of immigration has engaged our joint attention for the purpose of [?]nabling us to lay before the immigration societies in England and Scotland certain suggestions ...
Article : 136 wordsRESPECTED FRIEND,—The columns of The Mercury have been so liberally open to the discussion of the above question that I thought I might be allowed a little space also; and this being conceded I hope to ...
Article : 494 wordsMr. Justice Dobson will preside at the Civil Sittings, to be held at Launceston on Tuesday next. There are only two causes in the list, namely:—Gee v. Aikenhead; Douglas and Collins, plaintiff's ...
Article : 62 wordsSIR,—The Saint Patrick's Society, I am informed, are to have some amusements on the New Town racecourse, to celebrate Her Majesty's birthday, and, according to the programme of proceedings as agreed ...
Article : 263 wordsThe trustees met in the public board-room this morning at 11 o'clock. PRESENT: Mr. J. R. Scott (chairman), Messrs. Hopkins, Walker, Cook, Colvin, and the hon. Mr. ...
Article : 253 wordsThis has been another dull day in commercial circles, and business transactions have been confined to the supplying lo local requirements. Quotations in the breadstuffs market remain unaltered. ...
Article : 669 wordsSIR,—A short time since the Corporation passed a bye-law prohibiting itinerant bollringers from practising their vocation, in othor words, stoppod the "auctioneers' bells." Now, with all due deference to ...
Article : 208 wordsSIR,—I am a thorough advocate of roligious toleration, but surely the principle was carried to an oxtreme in the liquor law meeting this evening? This community is ossentially a Protestant one, and the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 24 May 1871, Page 2
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