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Advertising : 1,642 wordsThe Council has rejected the Stamp Duty Bill. A vote of £307 has been passed for the subsidy asked from this colony towards the maintenance of the duplicate cable. ...
Article : 135 wordsThe annual race gathering of the Southern Hunt Club will take place on the Dennistoun Course, Bothwell, on Thursday next, and present appearances indicate that the meeting will be a very ...
Article : 844 wordsHis Excellency the Governor and Mrs. Weld, accompanied by Colonel St. Hill, Dr. Agnew, and a number of ladies, visited the Parliamentary Buildings yesterday and inspected Mr. Piguenit's pictures. ...
Article : 1,340 wordsThe Matilda is safe in harbour. She lost 90 fathoms of chain. September 24. The crew of the Messenger is safe, but the vessel ...
Article : 172 wordsThe steamer Gunga arrived from Fiji last night with the ex-Governor Des V[?]ux and wife on board as passengers. Sir Arthur Gordon returned to Fiji on the 10th ...
Article : 156 wordsPresent: Aldermen Harcourt (Acting Mayor), Addison, Daly, Esple, Maher, Pike, and Seabrook; with the Assistant Town Clerk, Mr. W. T. Birch. THE TOWN CLERK. ...
Article : 758 wordsSome very interesting details have come to hand with refercnco to the recovery of guns taken at Isandula. A correspondent writing from Ulundi, under dato of 13th August, says a cavalry patrol ...
Article : 1,031 wordsCaptain H. A. Westbrook is appointed to discharge the duties of tide surveyor and wharfinger at Hobart Town vice Mr. J. E. Howard, who has been appointed to the charge of the light-house at ...
Article : 426 wordsBy the arrival of the Union Company's s.s. Rotomahana, news from the Cape to the 2nd September, conveying the important intelligence of the capture of Cotewayo, the Zulu King, has been ...
Article : 1,343 wordsSIR,—A client of mine has £20,000 now deposited in a bank in this colony, and by the next English mail a further remittance of £4,000 will arrive for other members of his family. In the course of a ...
Article : 170 wordsIn spite of gloomy anticipations and dark forbodings, the day appointed for the opening of the International Exhibition was a bright and jo[?]nd one. It was no wonder that black prophets ...
Article : 1,901 wordsBefore Messrs. Harcourt and Addison, Js.P. VAGRANCY.—A boy named William Sikes was charged with being an idle and disorderly person, Constable Beard deposed to seeing the prisoner ...
Article : 185 wordsSIR,—Will you allow me space in your columns to explain a misconception, which has arisen in the minds of many, regarding a notice of motion given by Mr. Dooley in the House of Assembly, on ...
Article : 199 wordsThe steamship Avon, which arrived from Ringarooma on Saturday, brought 665 bags tin ore from the following claims:—HPW, 51; Frome River, 139; KBH, 103; C Tribute, 24; Pounama, 17; Spring, 22; ...
Article : 237 wordsSIR,—As I live "opposite a certain church in Davey-street," please allow me" space to say that the water (which to my knowledge has been running to waste for the past three months) is not in my yard, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 30 Sep 1879, Page 3
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