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Article : 1,186 wordsBusiness is beginning to show signs of improvement. The wharfs look brisker, more vessels being in port, and as the wool season has act in, and ships are loading produce for England, there is some ...
Article : 710 wordsThe Oatlands Municipal Council, at the request of the Attorney-General, has resolved to submit the name of Mr. Thomas Littlechild, of Hilly Park, to fill the office of additional coroner for Oatlands ...
Article : 926 wordsNovember 9 (Prince of Wales' Birthday) was generally observed as a public holiday throughout the island. In Hobart the principal events were the Derwent Rowing Club Regatta (more fully referred ...
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Article : 1,921 wordsThe forty-first anniversary services of the Tamarstreet Congregational Sunday-schools, Launceston, was held in the Mechanics' Institute on the 28th ult. The Rev. C. S. Y. Price, of Victoria, preached ...
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Article : 461 wordsThe Tasmanian crew, that unsuccessfully competed at the Balmain Regatta, returned from Sydney on November 19, speaking in the highest terms of the hospitality which had been extended to them ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 26 Nov 1877, Page 2
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