A strike among the engineers has commenceed. Two thousand men, employed by eighteen London firms, have already turned out. ...
Article : 36 wordsFebruary 13.—12 noon, Derwent, s.s., 352 tons, N. Langford, from Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Mrs. Davey and child, Mrs. and Miss Synnot, Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, Mr. H. Kirby, C. H. Turner, R. Clarke, ...
Article : 433 wordsAt a meeting of the Labour League held last night, it was decided to support the men in the strike against Martin and Co., Gawler, and the cause of the eight hour system. A meeting held ...
Article : 135 wordsThe Admiralty report on the cause of the late accident on board H.M.S. Thunderer states, that the gun, having missed fire, was reloaded. On being fired, both charges went off. Hence ...
Article : 46 wordsThe Russian Ambassador and the Turkish Ministor for Foreign Affairs have signed a definite treaty. EVENING. ...
Article : 76 wordsA French man-of-war, bound for New Caledonia, arrived yesterday. She left Java on January 20th. The crew were sick, and 21 deaths oocurred during the voyage. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 74 wordsThe Porte has delivered the town of Podgaritza to Montenegro, which has long desired it. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe British Government have purchased the Crown Domains in Cyprus from the Porte. ...
Article : 27 wordsExactly at midnight on Saturday, Ned Kelly, Dan Kelly, Hart, and Byrne surrounded the Police Barracks here. Hart in a lo[?]d voice shouted out to Devine, "Devine, there's a drunken man at ...
Article : 1,774 wordsVICTORIA AND THE OTHER COLONIES.—Via Launceston, per s.s. Derwent, left Melbourne on the 12th inst., and will reach Hobart Town to-day. Via Launceston, per s.s. Mangana, to leave Melbourne to-day, ...
Article : 159 wordsNews from Africa states that on the 24th of January, a British Regiment and six hundred native troops were almost completely annihilated by twenty thousand Zulus, who suddenly ...
Article : 60 wordsThe third and last day's sport of the Summer Meeting of the T.R.C. took place yesterday, with a continuance of the fine weather, and other favorable conditions which go to make it a success. The ...
Article : 3,189 wordsSir Bartle Frere, Governor of Cape Colony, has demanded that prompt reinforcements, shall be sent from England. The Zulus, in their attack on the British, lost ...
Article : 108 wordsThe holidays this week have greatly interfered with business, and consequently there is very little to report, prices for grain and produce remaining about the same as last week. Now wheat is ...
Article : 397 wordsThe Rev. Fred. C. B. Fairey arrived here last night in his Evaugelist canoe. He lectures to-night, and will leave here to-morrow on his way to Hobart Town. ...
Article : 126 wordsTHIS EVENING, at 8. HOLLOWAY'S DRAMATIC COMPANY. Henry VIII. TOWN HALL. THIS EVENING AT 8. DIORAMA OF THE ...
Article : 24 wordsMessrs. Hastings, Cunningham and Co., held an exhibition of wool at their stores yesterday. Messrs W. Gibson and Son, of Scone, Tasmania, took first prize with fifty owes washed [?]eece; also first prize ...
Article : 137 wordsThe terrible disaster which has befallen the British and native troops engaged against the Zulus will have created consternation in Africa and England. The Zulus, twenty thousand strong, must have come ...
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Advertising : 925 wordsThe Treasurer (Mr.Watson) has made his financial statement. There are to be no fiscal changes, and no extra taxation. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Standley is better, but Ellen Miller is still in a dangerous condition. Bush fires are blazing furiously within three miles of the town, and unless a change of wind comes the fire will be on the town ...
Article : 341 wordsItinerant preaching has been prohibited on the [?] and other public grounds. Those who assembled yesterday were disp[?] by the police. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 14 Feb 1879, Page 2
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