The Glilzais continue attacking the British in Afghanistan, but unsuccessfully. ...
Article : 33 wordsTo-day will be observed as a general holiday in honour of the birth of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICES. The General Post Office will be closed between the ...
Article : 525 wordsA pressure of local matter compels us still to hold over a number of letters. " Cui Bono." We intend dealing with the subject, and therefore hold over your remarks. ...
Article : 36 wordsMaud Myra, Peppermint Bay, firewood; Shamrock, Port Cygnet, timber; Cyclone, Oyster Cove, firewood; River Cihef, Sounds, timber. ...
Article : 23 wordsParliament is further prorogued to December 23rd. The arrivals of persons during the quarter ending September exceeded the departures by 400. ...
Article : 200 wordsMessrs. Burrows and Perks report on September 26:- Our wheat crop, oven now only partly secured, has proved on thrashing to be even more deficient than ...
Article : 749 wordsTHIS EVENING, at 8. KELLY AND LEON COMIC OPERA. ...
Article : 14 wordsHarry Wood, ketch, 35 tons, C. Jephson, for River Don. ...
Article : 15 words[A special charge is made to consignees who wish to particularise their imports.] Pet, barque, from Newcastle.—414 tons coal. Agnes Jessie, burquentine, from Wangaron— ...
Article : 30 wordsTin is still falling, the value to-day being £91. ...
Article : 24 wordsWHATEVER reason there may have been in the past to doubt the actual feeling among English politicians in regard to the Constitutional difficulty in Victoria, the mail just to hand enables ...
Article : 3,064 wordsNovember 8, noon.—Harry Wood, ketch, passed to east. TAMAR HEADS. INWARD. ...
Article : 766 wordsFive per cent. New South Wales loan, with 2 per cent, annual drawings, from 1872 to 1898, £105; four per cent. New South Wales loan, 1903-1905, £97; six per cent. Tasmanian loan, ...
Article : 356 wordsA letter from Dr. Browne in this morning's Advertiser relative to the settlement of the Northern Territory has excited much comment. Dr. Browne suggests that small freeholds for cultivation and ...
Article : 332 wordsThe first match of the season between the Derwent and Break o' Day Clubs was continued and concluded on Saturday afternoon on the Association Ground, the weather being again fine and suitable ...
Article : 868 wordsA great many men are at work at the new goldfield here, all finding gold. The best claim, O'Boyle's, is yielding loz. 1dwt. to the load of washdirt. The stripping is seven thick, the wash ...
Article : 91 wordsPearce, the editor and proprietor of the Fremantle Herald, has recovered £50 damages in a suit against Stirling Bros, for publishing a libel committed by a writer of a letter in the Inquirer criticising the ...
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Advertising : 565 wordsA case of robbery under arms by a woman was reported to the police at Timor yesterday. A woman named Sarah Frazer stated that shortly before 1 o'clock in the morning a woman wearing a ...
Article : 289 wordsThe race meeting at Flemington was brought to a conclusion to-day. The following were the results:- THE FLEMINGTON STAKES, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsVICTORIA AND OTHER COLONIES.—Per s.s. Southern CroBS, due to-day. NEW SOUTH WALES AND QUEENSLAND.—Per s.s. Tasman, due on Friday. ...
Article : 78 wordsIn the Assembly this afternoon Sir H. Parkes moved for leave to bring in a bill to make more adequate provision for public education. He explained that the measure would repeal the bill of ...
Article : 698 wordsGUESDON AND WESTBROOK, at Slaughter Yards, fat sheep and cattle. ROBERTS AND CO., at Slaughter Yards, at 8 a.m. sharp, Bheepskins. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Port Cygnet Goldfield.— Our telegraphic column contains some interesting information concerning the goldfield at Port Cygnet. Mr. Garth, a resident of Port Cygnet, visited town on Saturday, ...
Article : 555 wordsMELBOURNE.—The Argus of Friday last says:- "Breadstuffs have been moved off quietly, but no large lines of either flour or wheat have been placed. Of the former sales in 20-ton parcels have been ...
Article : 311 wordsResults of observations taken at New Norfolk, Tasmania, for October 1870, in accordance with new forms, at 7·30 a.m. and 4·30 p.m.:- Barometer.—Mean of two daily readings, corrected and ...
Article : 353 wordsMessrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. report on 5th November:- Wool.—We catalogued 4,016 bales for auction to-day and had again a very spirited sale, 3,254 bales being ...
Article : 375 wordsTO-DAY being a PUBLIC HOLIDAY, this Office will only be OPEN in the EVENING, from 7 to 8 o'clock, for the reception of advertisements. MERCURY OFFICE. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 10 Nov 1879, Page 2
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