SIR,—As the contest for this electorate is proceeded with from day to day, I see a feature in Tasmanian political feeling that in pme important item is peculiar to ...
Article : 1,299 wordsThe following are the conditions and regulations for the rifle competition between Queensland, South Australia, and Southern Tasmanian Rifle Associations, to be fired ...
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The usual weekly meeting of this board took place at the offices, Franklin Wharf, on Friday afternoon. Present: Messrs. E.M. Fisher (
An unusually large number of spectators assembled on the upper ground last Saturday to witness the contest between these two clubs. The weather was ...
Article : 1,014 wordsThe second sixteens of the Railway and Cricketers met on the Battery ground on Saturday afternoon. The weather was over-cast, but it was good for football, and the ...
Article : 255 wordsA meeting of shareholders in the Olive Branch G.M. Co. will be held at Launceston on Thursday next. The cutter Furneaux, which arrived from ...
Article : 369 wordsYou will see we are moving about, as I last wrote from George Town, Tasmania, but we have not been able to cruise for the cable lately. Cables can only be cruised for in ...
Article : 2,232 wordsThe vicinity of the Brighton railway station was quite gay on Saturday afternoon, the occasion being a trial of hunters, followed by a hunt, and a football match—a ...
Article : 132 wordsThose clubs mot on Saturday last to try conclusions on the ground of the former. There was a large attendance of onlookers, the game between these clubs always causing ...
Article : 454 wordsThe trial of hunters took place in Bass's Paddock shortly before noon. The arrangements for this had been made by a committee, which consisted of the following ...
Article : 632 wordsThe secretary of the Hobart Exchange reports the following sales and quotations made on 'Change on Saturday, August 23:— Montana, buyers 11d., sellers 1s., Bales ll½d.; ...
Article : 383 wordsWilliam Charles Coward, 54 years of age, who was tried at the last Criminal Sittings for having, on February 16, stolen from Mr. Jas. Adams' run, of Greenhithe, 39 sheep, ...
Article : 1,125 wordsThe Orient Steam Navigation Co.'s R.M.S. Cuzco arrived at Adelaide to-day, bringing English news to the 18th July. The following are particulars of the rescue ...
Article : 827 wordsThe conquering match between these clubs was played on the Bellerive ground on Saturday. The Bollerive were captained by A. Ward, and the Rokeby by F. Turner (late ...
Article : 137 wordsOur correspondent writes on Saturday:— The final big match of the season came off to-day on the L.C.C. ground between the two premier local clubs, the Launceston and ...
Article : 703 wordsThis morning an old woman had a narrow escape from being killed. She was proceeding down George-street, and while passing a lane between Elizabeth and York streets, a ...
Article : 1,229 wordsThe Southern Hunt Club hounds had been brought by Mr. Law, from Oatlands, and, in absence of a buck or kangaroo, a drag hunt was held, a dead rabbit answering the ...
Article : 255 wordsSIR,—Constitutional reform is, unquestionably, one of the most intricate and difficult questions that can occupy the attention of the statesman or the philosopher. To deal ...
Article : 2,301 wordsA team, selected from amongst the building firms of Hobart, arrived by Cooley's 'bus and engaged in a contest with the local footballers, who proved victorious by three ...
Article : 67 wordsThis is what proves the merit of a preparation. The proprietor of Green's August Flower, knowing its valuable properities, meets this test boldly by preparing sample bottles of this ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 25 Aug 1884, Page 3
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