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  2. LOCAL OPTION.

    SIR,—I anticipated that before this you would have had many missives bearing upon the above question, but the temperance champions seem strangely quiet, and this at a time which seems ...

    Article : 419 words
  3. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

    Tin has advanced to £102 10s. per ton. Wheat is quoted at 51s. The current quotation for leather is 10¾d. [ARGUS TELEGRAMS.] ...

    Article : 732 words
  4. LATROBE.

    On Monday evening a meeting was held at Bramich's Royal Hotel, for the purpose of forming a Latrobe Rowing Club, and a very fair gathering mustered. Mr. C. T. Brewer, manager of the Bank ...

    Article : 454 words
  5. SEA-GOING VESSELS.

    SIR,—The sailors of this colouy, or I may say of every Australian colony, will be thankful to The Mercury for the very forcible leading article which appeared in your valuable paper on the 28th of July, ...

    Article : 752 words
  6. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The following are some of the horses, that have paid the first forfeit for the Melbourne Cup:— Bathurst, Cheviot, Creswick, Duke, Dunedin, Euclid, Grip, Heaperian, Hill Top, Iris, King ...

    Article : 126 words
  7. TOWN V. COUNTRY.

    SIR,—In venturing to trouble you with this letter, I attack no gentlemen in power, for no nation can live without a Government, whose conspicuous position must always attract severe ...

    Article : 576 words
  8. SPORTING.

    The above races were held on Saturday with following results:— DISTANCE HANDICAP TROT. A sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each for acceptors, with 30 ...

    Article : 482 words
  9. SCOTTSDALE.

    On the evening of the 31st ult. the second of a series of monthly silver readings was given by the Scottsdale Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association, when the Ellesmere Wesleyan Church ...

    Article : 763 words
  10. THE GAZETTE.

    It is notified in this week's Gazette that a road rate of 1s. in the £1 on private property, and half that sum on lands leased from the Crown, has been levied in the New Norfolk Road District. ...

    Article : 336 words
  11. TAXATION.

    SIR,—I seem to have a recollection that when the real estates duty was laid on the Treas[?]rer said, that he regretted making the duty so high, and that, as soon as the revenue would admit, it should ...

    Article : 192 words
  12. CITY COUNCIL.

    Present; His Worship the Mayor, Aldermen Maher, Gregory, Watchorn, Harbottle, Marsh, Belbin, Brownell, and Espie. MINUTES. ...

    Article : 1,633 words
  13. THE METEOROLOGICAL CONTROVERSY.

    SIR,—The following paragraph from Sir John Herschel's article on meteorology, in the Encyclopœdia Britannica, will throw some light on the difference of registration of temperature of ...

    Article : 257 words
  14. LAUNCESTON.

    There was a large attendance at the Launceston Stock Exchange this morning, to consider a res[?] tion favourable to the removal of the Mining department from Hobart to Launceston. Mr. R. Carter ...

    Article : 845 words
  15. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS AT HOME.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 words
  16. CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT BILL.

    SIR,—As the Church of England Constitution Amendment Act comes before the Legislative Council to-morrow evening, I ask the use of your columns to place before the members of that ...

    Article : 617 words
  17. STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 201 words
  18. THE AGNES JESSIE.

    SIR,—I hope your leading article dated July 28, calling attention to the wre[?]k of the Agnes Jessie, will have the effect of inducing some of our representatives in Parliament to ask for a special ...

    Article : 292 words
  19. ST. MARY'S.

    Things in general are very dull here at present. All the season's produce, with the exception of a few tons of cheese, has long since found its way to market, farmers having obtained fine prices for the ...

    Article : 561 words
  20. TASMANIAN TELEGRAMS.

    At the meeting of the Northern Finance Committee to-day, Archdeacon Hales waa in the chair. He reported that the Revs. J. Dodwell and J. Clampett had been appointed assistant clergymen ...

    Article : 634 words
  21. MINING.

    West Bischoff.—The following telegram has been received from the mining manager of the West Bischoff Co.:—"Battery worked 54 hours. Crushed 75tons tin-stone, yielding 4tons tin ore." ...

    Article : 1,300 words
  22. DISASTERS AT SEA.

    SIR,—Your leading article of this day has fanned into flame a fire that has been smouldering in my mind for some time: bence this communication. The old saying of "throwing oil on the troubled ...

    Article : 509 words
  23. VICTORIA POST OFFICE.

    SIR,—In your issue of Friday last, in a local you say, "the inhabitants of the Upper Huon district will feel grateful to the member for Franklin for endeavouring to get the post office removed." I ...

    Article : 121 words
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