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Advertising : 738 wordsThe s.s. Lusitania arrived at the Semaphore late on Saturday night, after a 40 days' passage (steaming time) from Plymouth, and sailed for Melbourne at 1250 p.m. today. All well on boord, with the ...
Article : 135 wordsThe total arrivals of wool to date, for the sales commencing on August 12, amount to 260,000 bales. Consols have advanced ¼, and are now quoted ...
Article : 109 wordsSIR,—As I find the case of Riordan v. Bussell, heard in the Court of Requests, Launceston, on the 4th ultime, as reported in The Mercury, contains several aspersions on my character, I desire to ...
Article : 121 wordsThe bases of the treaty of peace negotiated between Major Cavagnari and the Ameer Yakoob Khan are understood to comprise the extension of the British frontier to Ali Khel in the Peiwar Pass, ...
Article : 314 wordsThe schooner Windward, 40 tons, owned by Mr, George Atkinson, of Latrobe, was wrecked at Three Hummocks at 10 p.m. on the 2nd inst. The crew were saved, and reached Circular Head in a ...
Article : 150 wordsSIR,—The question of almshouses for aged persons of good character, and who are beyond work, cropped up at the recent meeting of the Benevolent Society. Many colonists will call back ...
Article : 245 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday on the body of the woman Sarah Stockley, found on the rocks in the water at Southport on Sunday morning last. The deceased's husband was present in custody. The ...
Article : 136 wordsRumours of an important engagement by General Newdegate's and Colonel Wood's columns have been industriously circulated, and were at first believed by head-quarters, but have since been officially denied. ...
Article : 365 wordsThe Germon Parliament have adopted the protection duties on iron proposed by Prince Bismarck. The other proposals of the Chancellor for the revision of the German customs tariff in a strongly ...
Article : 74 wordsSIR,—Please give me an inch of space to thank Mr. Seabrook for his motion respecting the Superintendent of Police, and to urge him to push it to a division, as a large number of us are anxious to ...
Article : 195 wordsThe revenue returns for the year ending June 30 show a total revenue of £1,501,000, The credit balance on July 1st this year is £39,182. The expenditure for the past year was £1,678,631. The ...
Article : 193 wordsImportant diplomatic correspondence has been exchanged between England and Russia relative to the execution of the Treaty of Berlin in Eastern Roumclia, from which it appears that an ...
Article : 191 wordsAddresses in reply to the Governor's speech were passed unopposed in both Houses, In the Assembly, Mr. Service made a vigorous attack on the conduct of the Government during the recess. ...
Article : 58 wordsSIR,—In reference to the late meeting of the unemployed, I beg space, through the columns of your journal, in answer to Colonel St. Hill's very uncalled for remark. After I read the petition to ...
Article : 302 wordsThere have been farther arrests of natives for attempting to plough settlers' ground. The wives of the prisoners are urging the prophet Te Whiti to use his supernatural power to release ...
Article : 38 wordsLate last night a telegram reached this (Reuter's) Agency announcing the death of the Prince Imperial. It appears that his Highness, with his accustomed gallantry, had gone out with a party ...
Article : 250 wordsThe revenue for the June quarter is £400,936, tho total for the year being £1,662,036, being £50,000 below the Treasurer 3 estimate. Customs show a falling off as compared with the estimate of ...
Article : 521 wordsLord Chelmsford, having telegraphed urgently for reinforcements, official orders have been issued at Plymouth, Woolwich, Chatham, and Aldershot for the enrolment of military volunteers from the ...
Article : 82 wordsAt about 5 o'clock on Saturday morning the Purnim Hotel, kept by Ann Wicking, at Purnim, seven miles from Warrnambool, was totally destroyed by fire, and the remains of a human being were ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Prince Imperial's body is expected to leave Durban on Thursday, and will be conveyed by H.M.S. Boadicea to Simon's Bay. It will be received at the entrance to Durban Bay by all the ...
Article : 92 wordsA fresh Blue Book of official depatches relating to the South African war has been issued. The most important despatch in the series is that addressed by Sir Michael Hicks-Boach to Sir ...
Article : 134 wordsIn the Council to-day, Sir John Robertson stated that he would move, on Tuesday, an amendment in the Land Bill, making clause 2 retrospective from January, 1875. If that was rejected the ...
Article : 1,292 wordsH,M.S. Wolverine arrived this morning from a cruise in the South Pacitic She called at Tonga and Navigators' Island, and proceeded thence to Lepper Island, the scene of the massacre of the ...
Article : 1,009 wordsGeneral Newdegate's division commenced to oross the Buffalo on the morning of the 29th, and reaohed Koppie Allein, about IO miles east of Landsman's Drift the same evening. A permanent camp is to ...
Article : 463 wordsSIR,—As your Launceston correspondent appears to have "get into a feg" in respect to the above, allow me to state that the 12th July is observed as a holiday by the Protestants (Orangemen especially) ...
Article : 106 wordsAnother week has passed, and we have still no news of an advance. Transports remain the groat difficulty, which indeed appears rather to increase than to diminish. The rumoured forced marah by ...
Article : 1,520 wordsSIR,—Referring to the paragraph headed as above, in your issue of yesterday, may I beg of you to call the attention of the authorities, through the medium of your valuable journal, to the horrid stench which ...
Article : 590 wordsForty-four natives ploughing settlors' land were arrested to-day, making 65 prisoners. All will be brought to Wellington for trial, The Government are advised that other gangs of ...
Article : 165 wordsThe accounts of the manner in which the Prince Imperial met his death are extremely conflicting. The official account states that, on the alarm of Zulus being in the neighbourhood of the small party, ...
Article : 747 wordsThe Legislative Council is summoned for 28th instant. A policeman namod M'Cormish has bee senteneed to three months' imprisonment for the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 10 Jul 1879, Page 3
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