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  2. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

    The current, quotation for tin is £94 10s. per ton. The wool market is steady at recent quotations, but the demand is not active. ...

    Article : 97 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,145 words
  4. SUPREME COURT.

    This was an application on behalf of the purchaser, Mrs. Edith Murphy, under the Vendors and Purchasers Act, to compel the vendor, Mr. Frank Edwards, to comply with certain requisitions made ...

    Article : 682 words
  5. STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

    The Secretary reports the following sales on the Hobart Stock Exchange yesterday:—Cosmopolitans,5s. 4d,; United Chum Extended, 2s. 2d.; R[?]b Roys, 4s. 8d; West Leviathans, 1s. 4d.; ...

    Article : 135 words
  6. INTERCOLONIAL TOUCHINESS.

    It is to be regretted (says the Sydney Morning Herald) that the little interchanges of courtesy, or plessure, or sport, which are occasionally attempted between this colony and Victoria can so seldom take ...

    Article : 532 words
  7. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

    It was the fashion to speak of Mr. Emerson's "philosophy," and a favoured few professed to understand its mysteries and derided the herd of commonplace persons who failed to read the riddle. ...

    Article : 538 words
  8. CABLE TO SWAN ISLAND.

    SIR,—In reading the leader in this morning's issue of your paper, having reference to meteorological observations, I was glad to learn that the Government had taken prompt measures whereby ...

    Article : 414 words
  9. MINING.

    An extraordinary meeting of the Great Extended Pieman River T.M. Co. will be held at Campbell Town on July 15. A notice ia published respecting the distribution ...

    Article : 201 words
  10. PEARCE AND LARGAN.

    The scullers, Pearce and Largan, have been matched to row on the Thames from Putney to Mortlake on July 10. ...

    Article : 31 words
  11. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS AT HOME.

    The match between the Australian Eleven and the County of Yorkshire was concluded to-day. at Sheffield. "The Australians, who yesterday had made 25 without the loss of, a wicket, ...

    Article : 336 words
  12. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

    Little Wonder.—A telegram received states that prospects are encouraging, and the stone looks as Well as eyer. Otago Water-race.—The manager reports:— "I ...

    Article : 297 words
  13. ARE METALS VOLATILE?

    Quite different views are held by chemists and practical smelters, and the question implies a waste or saving of about 10 per cent. of all the gold and silver smelted every year, amounting to 50,000,000 ...

    Article : 391 words
  14. CREATION OF AN ARTIFICIAL SEA IN TUNIS AND ALGERIA.

    The [?] Official publishes a decree naming the members of the commission on Commandant Rondaire's projeot. This commission is composed of 10 members of Parliament, 16 representatives of ...

    Article : 446 words
  15. THE LAST OF HER RACE.

    SIR,—In your issue of the 15th inst. a correspondent requests information as to whether there is a really genuine Tasmanian aboriginal woman named Fanny Cochrane still alive, and you, Mr. Editor, ...

    Article : 354 words
  16. TASMANIAN TELEGRAMS.

    A girl named Sarah Beckett was arrested to-night for receiving goods in connection with the mysterious robbery of Mrs. H. Thompson's box from the wharf some time ago. ...

    Article : 42 words
  17. THE VICTORIAN REVIEW.

    The Victorian Review for June opens with a dial criminating criticism of Longfellow's poetry, by George Hamirston, who is unable to find in it the evidences of splendid genius or largeness of aim, ...

    Article : 677 words
  18. LAUNCESTON.

    The members of the Garrison Amateur Dramatic Club gave an entertainment last evening, in the Mechanics' Institute, to an appreciative audience. The comedy draina, entitled The Test of Truth, ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  19. MOUNT BISCHOFF, THURSDAY.

    William McKenzie, who was injured by a blast in the Mount Bischoff Co.'s mine about two months ago, died early, this morning. His death, which was quite unexpected, has caused general regret ...

    Article : 340 words
  20. EXTINGUISHING FIRE WITH LIQUID CARBONIC ACID.

    Mr. W. Raydt, of Hanover, has patonted in Germany an apparatus for the extinction of fire by means of liquid carbonic acid. The apparatus consists of a cylinder filled with liquid carbonic acid, and a ...

    Article : 274 words
  21. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERCURY.

    SIR,—I certainly thought, ore this, that some more able pen than mine would have taken up the subject of the correctness, or otherwise, of the statement contained in your paper of some days ...

    Article : 255 words
  22. CHURCH PATRONAGE.

    Two measures dealing with the subject of Church patrouage are now before the House of Commons. These bills have been introduced by Mr. Stanhope and Mr. Leatbam respectively, and ...

    Article : 378 words
  23. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    The Tamar arrived at Port Phillip Heads this morniug, at 8 o'clock. She lay for shelter for several days under the lee of Hummock Island. In the Assembly last night, in Committee of ...

    Article : 353 words
  24. PRINTING BY ELECTRIC CURRENT.

    In connection with the Crystal Palace electric exhibition's short time since, Messrs. Dickens and Evans, printers of Great New-street, London, had one of their printing machines, ...

    Article : 684 words
  25. THE TEA TREE DEPUTATION.

    SIR,—Having noticed in your issue (20th June) that a deputation waited on the hon. Miuister of Linds and Works, in reference to the bad state of the road from Richmond to the Tea Tree siding, ...

    Article : 135 words
  26. THE TANNA NATIVES.

    The Noumea correspondent of the Sydney Herald, writing on June 8, says:- The captain, Government agent, and crew of the Queensland schooner Magnet, 92tons, arrived here ...

    Article : 542 words
  27. PROGRESS OF BIOLOGY IN ENGLAND.

    Fifty years ago it was the general of opinion that animals and plants came into existence just, as we now see them. We took pleasure in their beauty; their adaptation to their habits aud mode of life in ...

    Article : 488 words
  28. SPORTING.

    The following are the nominations received for the above races:- HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. Of 25 sovs. Nomination, 1 sov. Acceptance, £1 10s. ...

    Article : 415 words
  29. SOUTH ESK NOMINATIONS.

    The nominations for the South Esk district in the Legislative Council closed to-day, when the following candidates were nominated:- Johnston, A.M., nominated by W. H. T. Brown, ...

    Article : 363 words
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