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  2. Advertising

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  3. STANLEY.

    Two more cases of diphtheria in the township, and rumours of others in the outlying settlements. On Friday morning we had an agreeable change in the weather. Farmers were glad to get the ...

    Article : 1,596 words
  4. WEST BISCHOFF COMPANY.

    SIR,—As a shareholder in the West Bischeff Tin Mining Co., I have taken the trouble, in consequence of animadversions publicly made, to reassure myself as to the efficiency of the mining management ...

    Article : 591 words
  5. ONE FROM T'OTHER.

    SIR,—Will you kindly permit me to ask our public caterers why their attendants, at ball suppers, are permitted to wear evening dress, without any distinguishing badge? It usually requires a ...

    Article : 123 words
  6. MINING.

    New C[?]m.—Mr. R. H. Price received on Wednesday morning the following telegram from the mining manager:—"Struck reef at 5 o'clock, very rich; into it 2ft., and no sign of foot-wall." We ...

    Article : 89 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY.

    SIR,—A friend of mine (and I don't mind telling you, and not to put too fine a point on it, 'twas J. W.) came round as I was asleep, and called out, " Morning Tom, rouse up! Seen the papers lately?" ...

    Article : 1,223 words
  8. TIN.

    Frome River.—Mr. G. R. Bell, who proceeded to the mine by the instructions of the directors, reports as follows, under date 17th inst.:—"State of the company's works—The faces, of which there are ...

    Article : 405 words
  9. THE KHYBER PASS TRIBES.

    So much has been heard since the Afghan war began of the Khyber Pass and the tribes inhabiting it, that I may perhaps be doing an acceptable service to some readers if I give a short ...

    Article : 1,290 words
  10. MERSEY AND DEL[?]RAINE RAILWAY.

    SIR,—As the above subject is, or lately was, before Parliament, I think it well to express the views of a number of persons living in that neighbourhood, with whom I have recently conversed, ...

    Article : 466 words
  11. NEWS FROM THE CAPE.

    The following is the Age's telegraphic summary of news brought by the Afghan;- Apart from the settlement, of Zululaud, the arrangement of which still agitates tha public mind, ...

    Article : 469 words
  12. PATHWAYS OF ELIZABETH-STREET

    SIR,—Beginning a thing and leaving it unfinished would appear an idiosyncracy peculiar to our Corporation, judging from its works. Some time since a commencement was made to repair the pathways of ...

    Article : 220 words
  13. HOBART TOWN TIN SMELTING COMPANY.

    SIR,—About two months ago there was a meeting of shareholders in the above company, to which no reporters were invited, because things in connection with a sudden discovery of a serious loss of metal ...

    Article : 564 words
  14. AN EXCISE LAW.

    SIR,—My letter on the above has had, to some extent, the desired effect. In drawing the attention of a few of our representatives to the question, I hope to see it more generally so. ...

    Article : 608 words
  15. THE BRITISH ARMY.

    There is no more familiar figure in the range of modern satirical fiction than that of the veteran soldier who is convinced that " the service is going to the devil " because the army ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  16. ENGLISH MAIL NEWS.

    A blind boy and a cripple, residents of Baltimore, U.S., have just built a splendid little yacht, about 20ft. in length, and 5½ft. beam. The boys —one sixteen and the other seventeen—begged the ...

    Article : 1,849 words
  17. THE OPENING OF THE DERWENT.

    SIR,—I have not any intention of entering into a long disoussion with your correspondent "Piscator." My only object in writing was to place the public generally in possession of the opinions of men ...

    Article : 555 words
  18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY.

    SIR,—To say the above-named company are fast asleep with their eyes open is to use a very mild term. The present is a time of harvest in the tin business, and the Hobart Town Company, in which ...

    Article : 243 words
  19. THE RABBIT PLAGUE.

    SIR,—Many thanks for your letterin The Mercury of the 14th inst. It is very gratifying to me to receive the congratulations of both public and private corrospondents in the action I have taken in ...

    Article : 508 words
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