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Advertising : 1,649 wordsA large and influential meeting of the residents of George Town was hold on Monday, the 10th instant, in St. Mary Magdalene Church, for the purpose of taking steps for the ercetion of a now ...
Article : 413 wordsThe Austrian Strauss Band gave their first grand orchestral performance in Hobart, at the Town Hall, last evening. The community is indebted to the fomthought of a member of St. Mary's (R. C.) ...
Article : 1,404 wordsRumours have been floating round town during the last day or two of the discovery of a reef at the Lisle goldfield, but as very little authentic information was available, we declined giving publicity to ...
Article : 707 wordsI am sorry to say the rust has again attacked our wheat crops on the coast, and I am afraid most of the early and heavy crops will be rained. Last week the Rev. Mr. Greenwood, Wesleyan ...
Article : 826 wordsWe are having a rare spell of dry weather, and farmers are calling out for rain; [?]ss there be a speedy response to the call, I fear that the potato crop will be a failure throughout the district. The ...
Article : 250 wordsIntelligence from the King country reports that Tawhia[?] is establishing a large settlement at Kawhia, and constructing a road order to connect that place with Hikurangi. The natives profess to ...
Article : 1,142 wordsA fine nugget, weighing 201oz. 16dwt., was sold at the Bank of New South Wales, Inglewood, on Thursday, having been found in alluvial workings, the exact locality of which has not been made ...
Article : 1,678 wordsTo commence with the weather, which is very hot, in fact, too scorching and dry for our farmers, the crops are badly off for rain, and no sign of it at present. ...
Article : 374 wordsThe Christmas holidays have passed over quietly, and remarkably so; indeed I question if any other township, not only in Tasmania, but in the colonies, possessing the same ratio of working men, can boast ...
Article : 1,403 wordsMessrs. W. R. Harvey and Co. inform us that they sold Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company's shares, yesterday, at £53 10s. This is the highest price yet obtained for those shares. ...
Article : 99 wordsThis goldfield is beginning to assume its ordinary business aspect, and the majority of the claims are again at work. The Tasmania as a matter of course takes the lead, and a large number ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 13 Jan 1881, Page 3
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