News from Afghanistan states that despite the precautions taken by General F. S. Roberts, the British Commander in Afghanistan, to ensure pacification throughout the country, and ...
Article : 216 wordsTasman. s.s., 491 tons, W. D. Lyon, from Sydney 9th inst. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes, Mr. and Mrs. II. Swann, Mr. and Mrs. Burton and 2 children. Mr. and Mrs. H. Moore and servant, ...
Article : 157 wordsVICTORIA AND OTHER COLONIES.—Via Launceston, due on Thursday, Per s.s. Southern Cross, due on Thursday. NEW ZEALAND POETS.—Per s.s. Albion, due ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Government expect the session to close on Tuesday. The Public Works statement shows the balance available from the loan £1,800,000. It will be three ...
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Advertising : 43 wordsThe annual meeting of the City Council, and first meeting of the new municipal year, was held at the Town Hall buildings on Saturday. All the Aldermen were present. The Council proceeded to ...
Article : 970 wordsHally Bayley, schooner, for Dunedin. Acacia, barque, for Melbourne, via Spring Bay. ...
Article : 17 wordsMELBOURNE.—The Argus of Friday says:- "Breadstuffs are quiet as usual between the seasons, and there is not much disposition evinced to operate largely as yet. Supplies of new wheat are not, ...
Article : 360 wordsTasman, s.s., from Sydney—2 css plants, 3 css drapery, 1 bdl leather, 3 css marble, 4 css wine, 7 bgs oysters, 20 kgs beef, 3 css clocks, 50 kgs butter, 61 css fruit, 4 prs sculls, 298 hlf-chsts tea, 75 head cattle, 1 ...
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Article : 159 wordsThe New Zealand loan of five millions, at five per cent., minimum £97 10s., has been very successful. Nearly three, times the amount required was subscribed. ...
Article : 31 wordsHis Excellency the Right Hon. Lord Lytton, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, while arriving in Calcutta to-day, was twice fired at by a man in the crowd, but escaped unhurt. The ...
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Advertising : 547 wordsMELBOURNE.—Arrived, December 9—Celia, from Foo-chow-foo. December 10—John Lewis, from River Cam. December 11—Rosedale s.s., from N.W. Coast (Tasmania); Maid of Erin, from Ulverstone; ...
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Article : 18 wordsAt an excited meeting of 6,000 persons, held at Castlereagh in support of the present agitation, the committee refused to admit the Government reporters, who attended under police ...
Article : 523 wordsThe Government Gazette announces sales of the leases of runs in the settled districts for five years, to take place on the 22nd January at the land offices, Ipswich, Gympie, Maryborough, ...
Article : 380 wordsOn Saturday the dog show and trial of hunters and trottera, held under the auspices of the Southern Tasmanian Agricultural and Pastoral Society, which had been postponed from the ...
Article : 3,244 wordsAt the meeting of the Municipal Council to-day, Alderman Adye Douglas was elected Mayor. The voting was as follows:—Alderman Douglas, 4; Alderman Thompson, 3; Alderman Harrap, 2. ...
Article : 152 words"An Irishman" correctly states the known feeling of his countrymen, but it is not worth white correcting the ex-Superintendent of Police. Anything coming from that source will be taken quantum valeat. ...
Article : 34 wordsTHE advantages of Exhibitions, international or intercolonial, are beyond tho sphere of discussion. It is au admitted truth of individual and collective application that such Exhibitions are not ...
Article : 3,574 wordsIn the Assembly to-day, further petitions were presented for and against the Education Bill. Leave was given to the Treasurer to introduce a bill to enable Mr. Duncan, collector of Customs, to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 15 Dec 1879, Page 2
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