A proclamation was issued on September 29 proroguing Parliament to November 11. Parliament will prohably meet about the end of May. The Government has agreed to a proposition from ...
Article : 289 wordsThe racing season 1879-80 was inaugurated at Bothwell on the 2nd instant, when the Southern Hunt Club held their annual meeting on the Dennistoun course, and the meeting was the most ...
Article : 1,036 wordsA meeting of the Hobart Town Regatta Committee was held on Ootober 16. The treasurer preaented the balance-sheet of the last regatta, which showed a small sum on the debit side. A meeting was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 128 wordsA Property and Income Tax Bill, which is estimated to raise £80,000 per annum, has been introduced by the Government. Incomes exceeding £300 are to pay threepence in the £, and persons ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 183 wordsThree sharpers have been arrested for attempting to swindle a countryman named Alfred Lord by means of a alight variation of the "box trick." After Lord had been inveigled into an hotel in the ...
Article : 408 wordsThe officer who was alluded to in our last sums mary as illegaly holding upwards of a million acreof picked land at Murchison, has been exonerated. The rainfall has been abundant everywhere, and ...
Article : 155 wordsThe whaling barque Asia arrived from a cruise on October. Sheleft Hobart Town on January 23, 1879, and proceeded to the So[?]ders, on the S.W. Coast of New Zealand, but, finding the weather there too bad, went ...
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Article : 242 wordsParliament has been sitting continuously during the month, the principal business being the revision of the tariff. The charges are principally increased in the protective duties on imports of all descriptions, ...
Article : 264 wordsGENERAL STATEMENT showing the average amount of the Liabilities and Assets of the BANK OF AUSTRALASIA, within the Colony of Tasmania, taken from the several Weekly Statements made up during the Quarter from ...
Article : 644 wordsThe boat-yards, especially those of Mr. L. Macquarie and Messrs. Whitehouse Bros., look very brisk, several boats having already been finished, and others being in progress. Mr. Macquarie has completed a ...
Article : 254 wordsThe business of the month has been of a very quiet character, and the falling off in our produce exports is being severely felt. Not many years since we exported a large quantity of grain to the ...
Article : 799 wordsThe Hon. J. B. Thurston, Colonial Secretary of Fiji, bas been appointed secretary to the High Commissioner of the colony, which post he will hold in conjunction with his present appointment. ...
Article : 164 wordsOct. ARRIVALS. 2. Mercury, brig, from Melbourne. 3. Maniana, s s., from Melbourne. 4. Rosedale, s.s., from Melbourne. ...
Article : 1,378 wordsThe International Exhibition continues to be a great attraction. The attendance has much increased lately, and over 100,000 persons have visited it. At the International sheep show most of the best ...
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Advertising : 1,311 wordsThe atmospheric phenomena of this month wera on the whole favourable to health and life, as well as pleasant, being more than usually calm, sunny and warm, with no great variations of pressure or ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 29 Oct 1879, Page 2
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