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Advertising : 2,335 wordsTasmanian six per cent, debentures are £1 higher, being quoted at £116. The wool sales have closed. The market was animated, and prices show an advance of ...
Article : 61 wordsAt a Conservative meeting which was held this evening, Sir Stafford Northcote, referring to the war in Zululand, said that he anticipated that the campaign would be successfully brought ...
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Article : 370 wordsAn enquiry into the circumstances connected with the burning of the schooner Bright Planet, near Port Davey, some weeks ago, was commenced at the City Police Court on Friday, June 20, ...
Article : 4,030 wordsA turbine, which will replace the steam engine in driving the stone-breaker at the Corporation quarry, is on board the Ilione. At the meeting of the Town Council to-day, it ...
Article : 148 wordsVery little worth recording has taken place here lately, even the excitement formerly prevailing about the Savage and Donaldson gold-fields has subsided, not that the fields can by any means be ...
Article : 433 wordsThe petition of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank for winding up the Provincial and Suburban Bank, has been dismissed with costs by the Supreme Court. ...
Article : 38 wordsA very large number of exhibits from Austria via Trieste per P. and O. mail steamer Avoca, consisting of wine, beer, pictures, statues, hardware, glassware, and general manufactures of all descriptions, are ...
Article : 525 wordsSIR,—It is not often I venture to write in the interests of those engaged in the liquor traffic, but I do like to take sides with the oppressed. In common with others, I am perplexed to know ...
Article : 303 wordsThe bill to give a second member to Fortitude Valley was thrown out by twenty-two votes to nineteen, the Government voting against it. Mr. Mereon withdrew his Pension Act ...
Article : 104 wordsSIR,—I perceice with astonishment and regret that Mr. Chiniquy and his friends are to be allowed the use of the Town Hall for their orgies to-night and during the week. ...
Article : 195 wordsAt the fete held in the Exhibition grounds in connection with the Hibernian Society, Thos. Shepherd won the Twenty-five Mile Race. He accomplished the distance in two hours fifty-five minutes and thirty ...
Article : 62 wordsThe Southern members of the Exhibition Commission met yesterday at the Board room of the public buildings. There were present—Sir James Wilson (chairman), and Messrs. Green McGregor, ...
Article : 560 wordsSIR,—Although I am not an old soldier of H.M. 99th Regiment, permit me to answer the latter of Mr. Lilley, by the fallowing quotation from the Queen's Regulations, sec. 3, par. 16.—"When it is deemed ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 24 Jun 1879, Page 3
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