The following summary of news is taken from files up to the 26th of January:— The elections may now be said to be over, as of the 84 members (not including the Maori ...
Article : 531 wordsSIR,—I can scarcely call myself a political opponent of Dr Crowther, and I am not a personal one; so that, as you may imagine, it has cost me some reflection how I should vote in the impending election. ...
Article : 529 wordsOn Saturday the 5th inst., the Green Ponds cricketers arrived in Bothwell at an early hour, in Mr. D. Brown's now four-in-hand trap, for the purpose of contesting the annual match with their ...
Article : 533 wordsThe tin mines at the North East Coast seem to be rapidly increasing both in extent and productiveness. Two coasting crafts, both loaded with tin ore from the Mount Cameron and Ringarooma districts, arrived at ...
Article : 439 wordsThe Argus of last Friday says:—"The Legislative Assembly adjourned yesterday afternoon, out of respect for the memory of the late Hon. J. F. Sullivan, who died yesterday. Sir James M'Culloch ...
Article : 1,503 wordsThe match between an eleven of Southern Tasmania and a similar number of the Bohemian club, the members of which team hail from Victoria and New South Wales, was commenced yesterday on the ...
Article : 1,593 wordsSIR,—This morning, about half-past 8, I was called to the shop to look at a salmon trout brought in by a bushman who said that it was picked up on the banks of the stream near the residence of Mr. Thomas ...
Article : 181 wordsSIR,—In a notice of a recent issue of the Christian Witness you take a writer in that paper to task for condemning theatres because it has been shown that in Melbourne they are much frequented by fallen ...
Article : 262 wordsAfter the Geelong meeting, of which this is the last day, the thoughts of racing men will turn towards Tasmania, and we may be sure that as many as can possibly escape from the summer heats ...
Article : 742 wordsThe following letter has been sent us in all apparent sincerity1:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY. SIR,—I saw in your issue of the 27th of January an ...
Article : 461 wordsSIR,—When reading your sub-leader a few days since on the cruelty practised upon tho orphan children in the Randwick Asylum, Sydney, I was reminded of a statement made some two months ...
Article : 315 wordsBy the s.s. Derwent, which arrived at Launceston on Saturday from Melbourne, we have Victorian files of the 3rd and 4th inst., and South Australian of the 31st ult. and 1st inst. ...
Article : 893 wordsSIR,—My attention was arrested by seeing in your issue of the 19th ult. an account of the proceedings of the last Council meeting at Spring Bay, where a speech strongly in praise of the superintendent is ...
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Advertising : 2,420 wordsSIR,—Allow me a comment on a local of yours of 5th inst., headed as above, as to a man named "Walch," who is remanded to campell Town for trial, which states "it is generally understood that it is to prevent ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 9 Feb 1876, Page 3
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