On Tuesday evening, 22nd instant, a meeting was held at the Reading Room, in connection with the British and Foreign Bible Society, when the indefatigable agent of the society, Rev. R. E. Dear, ...
Article : 429 wordsIt has been raining heavily throughout the colony. The will of the late Mr. William Skene has been proved for a hundred thousand pounds. ADELAIDE. WEDNESDAY. ...
Article : 144 wordsThe brendstuffs market is much steadier than it was a week or two ago, but transactions are more numerous. Wheat remains at 8s. and flour at £18 to £18 10s. Bran is selling at 1s 3d., and sharps £7. Oats have ...
Article : 1,016 wordsRiver Chief, Sound, timber; Kate, Perseverance, Old Beach, hay; Shamrock, Annie Jane, N.W. Bay, firewood; Alice Maud, Peppermint Bay, firewood; Agnes, Lurline, Long Bay, firewood: Freak, Barnes ...
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Advertising : 147 wordsTo-day, being the fifty-eighth anniversary of the birth of Her Majesty the Queen, will be observed as a public holiday throughout the colony. At sunrise the Royal Standard will be hoisted at the Prince of Wales ...
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Article : 4,659 wordsSIR,—We are reluctantly compelled to depart from our usual course of disregarding newspaper reports or correspondence in which we may in business matters be concerned, but Mr. H. Shirley ...
Article : 331 wordsPresent:—The Mayor (Mr. J. Perkins, jun.), and Aldermen Watchorn, Green, Pike, Maher, Harcourt, Espie, Burgess. HIS WORSHIP stated that he had called the ...
Article : 208 wordsSHIP MAILS will be closed at Hobart Town as under:— For Intercolonial Ports closed in the following rotation:— South Australia, Brisbane. Rockhampton, New South Wales, Twofold Bay. Auckland, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 24 May 1877, Page 2
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