The SPEAKER (Hon. A. Dobson) took the chair at 4 o'clock. NOTICES. Notices of motion were given by hon. ...
Article : 8,879 wordsThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL (Mr. J. S. Dodds) and Sir ARCHIBALD MICHIE, Q.C., (instructed by Elliston and Featherstone), for the plaintiffs. Mr. A. DOBSON (instructed ...
Article : 4,695 wordsMr. C. H. B. Patey, the British delegate at the Berlin Telegraph Conference, has opposed the proposed reduction of Press rates. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsA long Cabinet meeting on the subject of the Pacific Mail Service was held to-day. Two proposals for its continuance have been made to the Government, one by Sir Julius ...
Article : 206 wordsThe following quotations were made on the Hobart Stock Exchange yesterday:— Morning.—Specimen Reef, sellers 3s.; Victoria, buyers 6s. 3d., sellers 7s.; Mercury, ...
Article : 244 wordsBookmakers and backers were yesterday chiefly occupied with the settling, over the Hawkesbury meeting. For the Metropolitan, nothing is mentioned save Despot, whose fine ...
Article : 312 wordsOn Monday, shortly before the arrival of the overdue ship Bengollynm at Adelaide on that day was known in London, a premium of 40 guineas was paid—for insurance. She ...
Article : 46 wordsLouis Reil, leader of the recent rebellion in North-West Canada, has been, respited, pending the decision of an appeal against sentence recorded against him. ...
Article : 30 wordsDr. Marsden, the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst, has resigned on account of ill health. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe Premier announced, in the House of Representatives yesternight, that the Government hoped to prorogue Parliament this week. Referring to the 'Frisco ...
Article : 55 wordsLucas, the well-known cricketer, will leave England for Australia by the Liguria. ...
Article : 14 wordsA large number of country people visited the T.A. and P. thow grounds to-day, when Messrs. W. T. Bell and Co. submitted a catalogue of horses, including some very valuable ...
Article : 1,196 wordsThe New York Maritime Exchange has appealed to the President of the U.S.A. to subsidise the steamers running between 'Frisco and Australia. ...
Article : 31 wordsIt is understood that H. M. Ships Swinger and Undine will sail this week for th New Hebrides, and that Admiral Tryon proceeds to Thursday Island in the ...
Article : 89 wordsAdmiral Sir Erasmus Ommanney advocates the despatch by the British Government of an expeditian to the Antarctic regions for the purposes of scientific discovery. ...
Article : 27 wordsTraining operations at Randwick this morning were principally confined to cantering. Great regret has been expressed at Matchlock having injured one of his feet so ...
Article : 317 wordsThe strike among the hands in Sir W. Armstrong and Co.'s works has been settled. ...
Article : 21 wordsCommercial.—Wheat, 44s. 1d. for shipping parcels at Port Adelaide. Flour, £7 12s. 6d. to £7 17s. 6d. for ordinary, £8 5s. to £8 10s. for leading brands; £9 5s. to £9 ...
Article : 196 wordsThe Times to-day published a paragraph, which states that the British Government have declined to fix the date for evacuation of Egypt. The same paper remarks that ...
Article : 65 wordsIt is understood that the British Government have rccommonded Spain to accept arbitration as promised by Germany regarding her claim to the Caroline Islands. ...
Article : 85 wordsA deputation of the leading importers and merchants in Hobart, consisting of Messrs. John Macfarlane, James Macfarlane, J. Baily, A. G. Webster, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsThe Messageries Maritimes s.s. Occanien, from Melbourne 15th August, passed here to-day, homewards. SUEZ, September 13. ...
Article : 39 wordsSailed; Flinders, s.s., for Launceston. The American warship Enterprise, a small wooden vessel which arrived here last night, lost one of her crew from Asiatic cholera on ...
Article : 492 wordsOur Lower Junction correspondent telegraphed on Thursday:—"One bucket of ore per hour was sluiced from the lode at the late Haley lease yesterday, or three cwt. in ...
Article : 122 wordsAnchor, September 12.—Acting on your instructions to take a trial crushing from the mouth of the tunnel, I commenced last Monday to stack the stone from that part of ...
Article : 664 wordsDear Sir,—Thinking the following cures effected by St. Jacob's Oil may be of interest, I now forward them. 1. Some time age my wife was laid up ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 18 Sep 1885, Page 3
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