About half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, says the Age of Thursday, what appeared to be a large "waterspout was observed passing over the country to the westward of the city, at the ...
Article : 1,018 wordsSIR,—On the 19th July the Colonial Treasurer stated "that some donkey "had been writing to the papers, saying that the Main Line Railway would cost the colony £2,000,000, and he ...
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Article : 3,300 wordsSIR,—The Bishop has, in your issue of the 5th inst., given some valuable hints to our legislators. Why not strike off, say, £10,000 per annum from the present education grant, and give the people an ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 411 wordsThe following statements appear in Herepath's Railway and Commercial Journal of 25th May 1872:— "GREAT WESTERN.—GAUGE ALTERATION. ...
Article : 537 wordsSIR,—During the present changeable season in the political world of Tasmania, and while the cry " retrenchment " is heard in every quarter, the views of a Tasmanian, and one who hopes to make ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 685 wordsSIR,—The knights of the cleaver judging from their conversation at the cattle sale on Monday, fool groatly obliged to you for raising a lance in their defence, but take exception to that part of ...
Article : 302 wordsThe periodical recurrence of diseases in stock has caused many practical graziers to consider the question, whether the rotation of crops, which is one of the conditions of successful farming, may ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 7 Aug 1872, Page 3
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