The anniversary of the birth of H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, heir-apparent, was celebrated on the 9th November, when the day was observed as a general holiday. The weather being ...
Article : 368 wordsTHE Legislative Council met yesterday at 4 p.m. A petition was presented by Mr. FYSH from the Rev. D. Tinning and others referring to a burial place at Richmond. ...
Article : 8,053 wordsThe hon. secretary of the Hobart Town Benevolent Society has acknowledged the receipt, of £5 for the funds of the Society from "A Working Man." The report of the Royal Commission on ...
Article : 435 wordsAt the City Council, on the 6th November, the Assessment Roll for 1872 was presented, approved, and ordered to be gazetted. The Ways and Means Committee was appointed at the meeting of the ...
Article : 499 wordsThe several works noticed in previous summaries as having been undertaken in connection with the Public Works Department are in progress, the new battery at One Tree Point, being constructed by ...
Article : 527 wordsThe Fifth Parliament of Tasmania met on Tuesday, the 7th of November, and was preliminarily opened on that day by the Hons. F. M. Innes, A. Kennerley, and Donald Cameron, Esqs., ...
Article : 1,990 wordsThe weather throughout November has been most propitious to the agriculturist, but had the fine showers which have fallen during the month visited us some weeks earlier the effects would have ...
Article : 255 wordsThe business before the judges in banco during the last term was but scanty. On the 7th November a special case was brought on for hearing in Sargeant v. Screen. It was in the nature of an ...
Article : 502 wordsThe lovers of aquatic sports are actively preparing for the above named annual event, which is take place on Tuesday, the 30th proximo, on the Dorwent. The chief feature in the programme is ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Board of Education held meetings on the 4th and 18th November. Amongst the correspondence at the former meeting was a letter from the Rev. J. Burrowes, of Pontville, Chairman, of the ...
Article : 1,040 wordsAdvices from the Black Boy gold-fields continue of a favourable character, and indicate that the miners have confidence in the permanency of the gold-fields in that district. The population is ...
Article : 388 wordsThe visit of Lyster's English Opera Company to Hobart Town has given the music-loving and playgoing sections of the community an opportunity of gratifying their tastes seldom offered to them. Mr. ...
Article : 337 wordsThere was a good attendance at the National Agricultural Society's Show to-day. The Ballarat Handicap of 150 sovs. (one mile and a half, the second horse to save his stake), was won ...
Article : 89 wordsOn the 5th November a meeting of clergymen and laymen interested m religious services for the promotion of Christian union, and making aggression on the heathendom of the city, was held at the Alliance ...
Article : 1,461 wordsMeetings have been held in various districts on the subject of the projected Main Line Railway, not ostensibly to object to the railway, but to secure an exemption from a presumed rating in respect to the ...
Article : 869 wordsThe anxiety which will doubtless be felt by all classes of the community, as day after day passes without the arrival of the Raugoon, and the interest which will assuredly be excited, when on the ...
Article : 2,256 wordsThe annual steeplechase meeting at Melton Mowbray was held on the 9th November, and passed off very successfully. The weather was favourable, and as the meet was fixed for a public holiday ...
Article : 407 wordsHis Excellency Mr. Du Cane and the Hon. Mrs. Du Cane have resided at Government House during the month. The Governor oponed the new Parliament with the usual formalities on Wednesday, the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 2 Dec 1871, Page 3
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