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Advertising : 855 wordsSome moderately fast work was done on the Moubray course this morning and afternoon. In the afternoon the Cup candidates, Hobart and The Knave, were on the track, ...
Article : 259 wordsWE thought that the City Council had resolved to amend its ways, and to display a little more vigour in dealing with the ratepayers' affairs, but, we are sorry to ...
Article : 7,086 wordsThe Marine Board met this afternoon, when the full board was present, with the exception of Warden Hart. A long report was read from Messrs. ...
Article : 2,086 wordsThe Governor has received the following cable message from the Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in Egypt:—"Soudan, February 16.—Please inform troops coming ...
Article : 452 wordsA million ova of white fish, brought by the s.s. City of Sydney from San Francisco, and transhipped to the s.s. Liguria, were landed to-day, and sent to the Ballarat Fish ...
Article : 397 wordsThe Colonial and Indian Forces will be chiefly used for protection of the laying of the railway from Suakin to Berber. ...
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Advertising : 61 wordsLord Wolseley has wired to Lord Augustus Loftus, Governor of New South Wales, that he will feel pride and pleasure in commanding the colonial forces, and that the ...
Article : 49 wordsAt the City Police Court yesterday the Bench was occupied by the Police Magistrate (Mr. W. Tarleton) and Mr. James Harcourt, J.P. ...
Article : 1,678 wordsThe Government are going to ask Parliament for a further sum of two millions for the Soudan campaign. ...
Article : 28 wordsSir Herbert Stewart, who was recently wounded in an engagement with the insurgents, is now dying. ...
Article : 23 wordsMessrs. Falkiner Bros. having determined to clear out their racing stud, offered for sale by auction this afternoon several thoroughbreds, obtained from the Messrs. ...
Article : 234 wordsA further telegram from Lord Wolseley states that a native eye witness of the fall of Khartoum informs him that, after the death of General Gordon and party, there ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. Abbott, speaking at Burrowa on Friday, in reference to the land laws, attacked the conduct of Mr. Garrett, ex-Minister of Lands, in advertising that he was prepared ...
Article : 216 wordsConcentration of troops on the Nile is proceeding rapidly. General Sir Redvers Buller reached Gubat on the 11th instant, with the Royal Irish regiment. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe death of General Gordon caused a profound sensation here as elsewhere, and was made the occasion for a service of a specially solemn and commemorative ...
Article : 304 wordsThe village of Alta, in Portugal, has been overwhelmed by an avalanche. ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Robert Grant, honorary secretary for the Sorell Races, sends as the following telegram:— "The name of Rob Roy should appear ...
Article : 34 wordsNews has reached here to-day of a fatal accident which happened near Karabeal yesterday evening to a farmer named Archibald Cruikshank, a vice-president of the Pastoral ...
Article : 1,357 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match was concluded on the Association ground to-day. Light rain had fallen during the night, rendering the ground soft, and the chances ...
Article : 342 wordsIt has been reported to the police that recently, near Clermont, screams had been heard and a blackfellow had been observed walking away from a gin, who was on the ...
Article : 227 wordsThe Times correspondent at Berlin states that England adheres to her resolution for extension of her protectorate in New Guinea from the Huon Gulf. ...
Article : 28 wordsA lengthy meeting of the Cabinet was held to-day, at which the question of sending a Victorian force to assist the British troops operating in Soudan was fully ...
Article : 860 wordsThe s.s. Valetta, which left Melbourne on 1st January, has arrived at Plymouth. Justice Stawell, who is a passenger by her, is improving in health. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe first call of £10 per share in the Oriental Bank, paid on Saturday, realised £300,000. ...
Article : 20 wordsI regret to say that lately the weather has been very showery, retarding the work of cutting the harvest. Should it continue so for any time a great amount of injury will ...
Article : 437 wordsNegotiations between Russia and England for settlement of the Afghan frontier question are still proceeding. Russia claims that the Paropamisan Mountains, running just to ...
Article : 60 wordsJames Daly, of Williamstown, who was yesterday thrown from his horse at Lyndockroad, Gawler, through slipping on a tram line, has not regained consciousness, and it ...
Article : 139 wordsLatest intelligence in regard to the health of the Queen shows that she is progressing favourably. ...
Article : 21 wordsTin (Australian and Straits) was yesterday quoted at £78 per ton. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe mails per Pacific Steamship Co.'s R.M.S.S. Australia, which left Sydney 1st January, were delivered in London to-day, via San Francisco. ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Premier, the Hon. Robert Stout, addressing a public meeting at Hokitika last night, stated that he would shortly be in Auckland, when he would meet a deputation ...
Article : 56 wordsTullochgorum, February 14.—I beg to report that the distance bored since last report is 19ft. 6in. The bit went through some very hard boulders at 125ft, I am now ...
Article : 78 wordsA fearful storm has been raging for the last three days down here, and at present there is one of the largest floods that has been experienced for many years. Probably ...
Article : 442 wordsPrime New Zealand mutton averages 5[?]d. to 5d. The total quantity of wheat at present afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,350,000 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 401 wordsSIR,—Your correspondent "Well-wisher to Y.M.C.A.," was evidently in a very excited state of mind when he penned the epistle which appeared on Monday last or ...
Article : 375 wordsDear Sir,—Thinking the following cures effected by St. Jacob's Oil may be of interest, I now forward them. 1. Some time ago my wife was laid up ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 18 Feb 1885, Page 3
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