SIR,—In reading the journals of the day I notice that Mr. Bushman, like the majority of public officials who try to do their duty, has come be in for his share of abuse and criticism ...
Article : 154 wordsI am informed that the contributions for the bazaar to be field n the Church school room on show day are now being sent in, and that the ladies committee are in hopes ...
Article : 314 wordsOut of 8,000,000 boys in Russia, only 3,770,000 attain the age of military service (25 years), and 1,000,000 of these are found to be unfit for military duties. ...
Article : 626 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning, Alfred J. Cox was brought up on remand from Saturday last, on thee charge of having embezzled certain sums in London ...
Article : 546 wordsLast, evening, about: forty-five minutes past eight o'clock, we had an earth tremor which caused great excitement. herd. Many. persons rushed. outside their houses ...
Article : 283 wordsThe Secretary of the Hobart Stock Exchange reports the following quotations for Saturday:—North Victoria, b 4d;s 1s; Hope, b 15s, s 21s ;.Caxton, b 3s 9d, s 4s ...
Article : 46 wordsOn Saturday evening Mr. Burnett spoke on the subject of "Battles Fought and Victories Won " to a crowded audience, in the Wesleyan Church. The chair was taken by Canon ...
Article : 1,533 wordsThe severe earth wave with which we were visited on Friday last seems to have been generally felt throughout. the island. So far as we. have heard the most serious ...
Article : 1,210 wordsTHROWING STONES— Samuel Downes or Adams pleaded not guilty to a charge of having wilfully thrown stones in a street in Launceston the previous day, and was ...
Article : 51 wordsFrancis Bacon, in his essays, somewhere says "that. most men keep diaries at sea where there is little to recount, whilst few on land diurnally chronicle the petty ...
Article : 618 wordsSIR, —Much has been already said and written re the repeal of the meat tar, and there: may, be no harm just now in keeping the ball rolling, for to me it seems no less ...
Article : 352 wordsThe Waratah Cricket Club held their annual meeting a few nights since, when a statement of accounts was submitted, and officers elected for the ensuing year. ...
Article : 58 wordsSome short time ago we made reference to a project that had been entertained by a Melbourne syndicate, viz, to dredge the Ringarooma River. This matter has now ...
Article : 589 wordsSIR—It was my intention to be present with my family at Mr. Faulkner's recent lecture on Pickwick" had it not been for the inclement weather. Having heard from ...
Article : 152 wordsThe brief account in Friday's Herald of the extraordinary operation performed Thursday afternoon at St. Vincent's Hospital upon Michael Hoffman's brain among ...
Article : 640 wordsFlorence Nightingale.—Sept. 20 (by telegram)—Crushed 100 ton, of quartz with a yield of 97 oz amalgam from the plates and ripples. ...
Article : 22 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 284 wordsSIR,—I called and saw, the. fish's head sent you by Mr. Reibey, and found not reason for not classifying it as the head .of an; ordinary brown trout (saline fario), a male fish, and I ...
Article : 194 wordsTwelve months have passed (says the Argonaut) since the awful cataclysm off the coast of Java, yet, despite that interval, only the most meagre details have been ...
Article : 1,924 wordsSIR,— I felt very much, surprised at a local. which appeared in your issue of yesterday re the accident to the late Mr. F. Swifte. The statement is to the effect "that no legal claim ...
Article : 284 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 475 wordsSIR,—I am glad to see the Longford Regatta Committee moan business this year, and hope. their efforts will be successful I would: like to draw attention to the resolution passed ...
Article : 184 wordsA general meeting of the Lefroy Company will be held at the registered office of the Company, Patterson-street, Launceston, on the 30th inst., at 8 p.m. ...
Article : 918 wordsA COLONIAL FALLACY.—The London correspondent of the S. A. Advertiser, writing on August 1st, states:—One of the greatest of colonial fallacies of thought is the idea ...
Article : 138 wordsTHE BRAZEN SERPENT.—Like the brazen serpent that the great Jewish leader lifted high in the sight of the perishing followers, whereby they where saved from death, the ...
Article : 48 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 28 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899), Mon 22 Sep 1884, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: