The following items are from the Argus:— A sad case of disease and suffering has come to light in Mundy-street, Sandhurst. A hut was on Saturday morning entered by some men, owing to a ...
Article : 647 wordsSIR,—Parliament will shortly be in session, and the incidence of taxation will claim consideration. The property tax is doomed, and being a "class tax," is wrong in principle. The word property ...
Article : 1,207 wordsThe mineral indication and outerop so frequently met with over a considerable extent of country on the West Coast of Tasmania seem, from observation gained from a prospecting trip of many ...
Article : 938 wordsSIR,—Cannot anything be dono to compel the Hobart Gas Co. to improve the quality of the gas which they supply to the citizens? The gas is of the worst description. You have to turn the taps ...
Article : 209 wordsSIR,—Observing in to-day's issue that the directors of the above company had resolved at a special meeting, held on Monday last, to discontinue raising stone from the present level, "owing ...
Article : 370 wordsSIR,—In the report of the proceedings of the City Council contained in your issue of this day, I note that the council refuses to do anything in the way of forming roads and footpaths in the above ...
Article : 418 wordsIt is pretty evident (says the S. A. Register of the 19th inst.) that there is some mystery about the wheat trade in South Australia during the present season, which is not capable of easy comprehension ...
Article : 502 wordsSIR,—As I do not know who are the officers connected with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, I must ask to call their attention, through the medium of your valuable journal, ...
Article : 1,043 wordsSIR,—I note with much pleasure the efforts being put forth by the committee to make the Exhibition an unequivooal success. They have acted wisely, in my opinion, in postponing the opening, for not ...
Article : 382 wordsSIR,—In the election speeches of the member elect for Sorell we were led to hope that a new era of prosperity and progress would shortly begin —a glad and happy time when every man's pigs and ...
Article : 456 wordsA correspondent writes as follows:— I have not been asked to Burvey the Tamar, and the port of Launceston, and to report thereon, but I took the trouble, five years ago nearly, on my ...
Article : 790 wordsFor a quarter of a century the Suez Canal has been the subject of a deep interest to Great Britain. Never, however, has the work attracted more attention, nor has it ever been the object of so much ...
Article : 2,514 wordsSIR,—I was much surprised by having placed in my hands a circular signed by a firm of this city, in which they stated it was their intention to keep open their house of business during the forthcoming ...
Article : 397 wordsSIR,—The enclosed letter, signed "Sandhurst Brewer," came accidentally under my notice in the Melbourne Argus, It is the first public protest by the consumer (that I am aware of) against, the ...
Article : 341 wordsSIR,—As Government subsidi[?]es the "Twins" ferryboat for the public good, I think when the "Twins" is laid up Government should insist on the subsidised proprietor supplying her place. The ...
Article : 233 wordsSIR,—Your correspondent "Reform" in to-day's issue has drawn public attention—and not before it was wanted—to the reformation in the Public Works Department of the Colony, so indispensably ...
Article : 636 wordsSIR,—As the affairs of the colony are, and are likely to remain, in a prosperous state, I think the present a fitting time to bring the subject-matter of this letter before the Parliament, Press, and people ...
Article : 933 wordsSIR,—By the Union Co.'s fine steamer Manipouri, which arrived at Hobart on Thursday evening last, from New Zealand, I had a valuable consignment of forest trees and plants; of one variety ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 13 Jul 1882, Page 1
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