The proportion of reserve to liabilities amounts to 51 per cent. The total reserve in notes and bullion is £19,125,000. At the wool sales to-day 8,900 bales were ...
Article : 324 wordsThe list for the Dean of Melbourne Testimonial Fund will be kept open until 25th June, and it is hoped that £1,000 will be contributed. The presentation to the Dean will probably take place on ...
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Article : 46 wordsThe Governor has returned from Adelaide. Mr. Godfrey Knight has been appointed clerk of the Legislative Council. Upwards of 10 inches of rain have been registered ...
Article : 73 wordsThe valuable services of the Rev. J. Scott, pastor of St. John's Church, in connection with the reorganization and progress of the Presbyterian body, together with the high respect nnd esteem he has ...
Article : 2,122 wordsIn November last Mr. N. J. Brown, then Minister of Lands and Works, sent instructions to the various district surveyors to forward reports on the progress of settlements, the area of land available ...
Article : 1,406 wordsSixty-eight miners and a quantity of carge left by the Rosedale for the Pieman to-day. The deputation from the Hobart Town shareholders in the Mount Bischoff Company, with some ...
Article : 196 wordsAt the meeting of members of the congregation of St. John's Presbyterian Church held yesterday afternoon for the purpose of presenting an address and a purse of sovereigns to the pastor the Rev. ...
Article : 605 wordsA cold-blooded murder was committed here today, between 3 and 5 p.m. A chinman, who for twenty years has been living near Green-hills, two miles fiom town, following the occupation of a ...
Article : 117 wordsThe SPEAKER took the chair atr 4 o'clock. PETITION. Mr. A. DOBSON presented a petition from the Rev. John Storie, asking that the Bill referring to his ...
Article : 1,544 wordsIn the Assembly a considerable time was occupied in trivial questions. On a motion for adjournment, Mr. Cameron called attention to the deportes from Noumea, and Sir Henry Parkes promised to lay ...
Article : 761 wordsUnexpected light has been thrown upon the Bravo case by Dr. Raymond, of Torquay, who lately left for the Cape. He states that he had information respecting tho Bravo case which for private reasons ...
Article : 920 wordsA meeting was held at Mr. Smith's Club Hotel, O'Brien's Bridge, on Tuesday evening last, the 27th inst., the object being to devise the best means of checking the too rapid iucrease of hares in the ...
Article : 439 wordsThe Assembly has voted £572,987, a half year's estimates prepared by the late Government. Mr. G. Thorn took his seat. He denied the assertions of the Minister of Works that he had ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 29 May 1879, Page 3
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