Present: The Warden (Mr. H. Lamb), Councillors Young, Strachan, McRorie, McDermott, Chipman. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. ...
Article : 736 wordsThe London boilermakers have struck. Strikes of patternmakers, nut and boltmakers, and kindred trades affected by the reduction, will also take place. ...
Article : 328 wordsSIR,—I am not about to enter into the question of wages as between owners and seamen, but merely request permission to contradict a portion of the statement made in your journal of to-day's date, under the ...
Article : 368 wordsThe Governor of Eastern Siberia sends advices that Professor Nordonsjold's aretic expedition steamer is icebound 40 miles from East Cape. A special relief expedition of reindeer and dog sledges ...
Article : 158 wordsMr. W. H. Smith, in his speech on Tuesday, 11th February, gave some figures with respect to the savings banks which are most satisfactory at this juncture. If the savings of the working classes of ...
Article : 222 wordsAs anticipated in yesterday's Mercury the Southern Cross, with the February. English mails on board, reached Launceston yesterday in time to allow the Hobart Town portion to be ...
Article : 814 wordsSeveral letters published Pope Leo's Encyclical letter in full. The whole of it was written by the Pope himself, and much of it gives hopes of a great change from Pius IX's policy. There is no reason ...
Article : 89 wordsThe definitive treaty between Russia and Turkey declares peace and cordial relations to be re-established between Russia and Turkey. It provides that the articles of the San Stefano treaty, which ...
Article : 208 wordsBefore Messrs Lamb and Chipman, J.P's. WHEATLEY v. PULLEY.—For defendant Mr. SARGENT. The Registrar (Mr. Pedder) said this was a claim for £1 for a veterinary operation on two colts. ...
Article : 353 wordsA meeting of the creditors of the Cornish Bank was held at Truro yesterday—Mr. H. S. Mackenzie presiding. Mr. Bain, of Redruth, referring to last meeting, said he went there prepared to sympathise ...
Article : 443 wordsRichard Henry Dana, poet and essayist, is dead. Stewart's marble palace, New York, is to be converted into an hotel. The crop prospects of the Pacific coast are ...
Article : 139 wordsBefore Messrs. Limb and Chipman. ABSENT SERVANT.—Robert Grubb charged Robert Bond with absenting himself from his service before his agreement had expired. Defendant said he was ...
Article : 605 wordsPresident MacMahon resigned his office on Jan. 30, and M. Jules Grevy, President of the Chamber of Deputies, was elected in his place. He was nominated by M. Gambetta. The following is the ...
Article : 686 wordsA meeting of the shareholders of the Chesterfield and North Dorbyshire Banking Company was held at Chesterfield yesterday. The report of the liquidator, Mr. Tansley Witt, of London, stated ...
Article : 221 wordsThe following is a summary of telegraphic news compiled by the Argus correspondant at San Francisco:- GREAT BRITATN. ...
Article : 193 wordsThe Idea of an immediate advance on Herat and Ghuznce, if ever contemplated has been abandoned. The troops under Generals Stewart and Biddulph are to return from Khelat, Ghilzie, and Sirsk, ...
Article : 2,449 wordsBefore the Warden and Mr. Shoobridge, J.P. DISTURNING THE PEACE.—Four young men, named respectively George Hill, James Peace, Thomas Mur[?], and Henry Hill, were charged on information ...
Article : 346 wordsMonsignor Desprez, Archbishop of Toulouse and Harbonne, has been created a cardinal. Henri Danmier, caricaturist, is dead; also, Princess Caroline, widow of Prince Lucien Murat. ...
Article : 133 wordsI have to report three fresh accidents admitted to the Campbell Town Hospital since my last. The first a woman of the name of Mary Butler, from Mr. Headlam's Vancluse, having sustained a fracture of ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 28 Mar 1879, Page 3
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