Present:—Hon. Dr. Butler (chairman), Messrs. S. P. H. Wright, Henry Hunter, and W. F. Brownell. The Chief Inspector and Inspector Rule were in attendance. ...
Article : 902 wordsThe ketch Coronella, which arrived at Launceston on Sunday evening, from Bridport, brought 37 bags of tin ore branded EJT. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe flurry and excitement of the Northern Agricultural Show has come and gone, and our peaceful little township was but serenely affected by the doings of her honoured and ...
Article : 220 wordsWe are indebted to the Chief Secretary for an advance copy of a report submitted to him by Mr. W. Saville-Kent, Superintendent and Inspector of Fisheries. The report will be ...
Article : 3,533 wordsThe Chinese claim a great victory over the French in the engagement at Tamsui on the 15th. It was previously reported that the French had been successful. ...
Article : 46 wordsChesterfieeld, October l8.—We have bottomed two bores this week. The following is a section of the strata passed through:— No. 7 bore surface soil, 2ft. 6in.; loose dirt, ...
Article : 74 wordsBargo and Tremando cantered this morning at Flemington, and wound up with a fast half-mile. V.R.C. Hotham Handicap.—Top weight, ...
Article : 130 wordsLoane's Reef.—The shaft has been sunk lift, from the surface, and timbered. Drainage Union (Lefroy claim).—The shaft has been sunk 4ft, for the week, ...
Article : 217 wordsThe panic at Shanghi, caused by the proceedings of the French forces at Foochow, has resulted in a large excdus of the inhabitants. ...
Article : 28 wordsSIR,—The proposal of the Rev. J. B. Woollnough to hold a Loan Exhibition of specimens of art workmanship, etc., simply anticipates in print only what has been ...
Article : 285 wordsRear Admiral Tryon, C.B., who succeeds Commodore Erskine in command of the Australian naval station, will leave England on the 4 th December. ...
Article : 27 wordsAt a meeting of the Executive Committee of N.E. A. and P. Association held here this afternoon, the schedule of prizes was finally revised. The show will take place ...
Article : 311 wordsThe council met on Tuesday, the 7th inst., when Messrs. W. Rust, A. Lyne, E. O. Cotton, Wm. Lyne, and the newly-elected councillor, Mr. Henry Lyne, who, after ...
Article : 338 wordsBlackburne, the champion English chessplayer, who is about to visit Australia for the benefit of his health, sails on the 28th inst. ...
Article : 31 wordsH. A. Forbes, who has received a grant of £250 from the Royal Geographical Society to assist him in exploring the south-eastern portion of New Guinea, will leave England ...
Article : 37 wordsNews received from Panama states that a state of siege exists in that city. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 wordsThe Indian Government have decided that India shall be represented at the Colonial Exhibition to be held at South Kensington in 1886. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe French deny the claim of the Chinese to a victory at Tamsui, and re-asserts that the engagement ended greatly in favour of the French troops. ...
Article : 33 wordsSIR,—In the list of presentations to the Museum, as published in this morning's Mercury, there appears "two moreporks" among the list of birds. I have always been ...
Article : 185 wordsSome uncertainty is felt respecting the succession to the Duchy of Brunswick, the late Duke having died without male heirs. It is announced that the question will be ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is stated that preparations for the Nile expedition will be completed early in November, and that the relieving force will advance from Upper Egypt. ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Fred. Ferguson, who, for some considerable time past has occupied the position of stationmaster at the Launceston and Western Railway in Launceston, to-day ...
Article : 946 wordsMr. Dunning was not so highly favoured last night as he hoped to have been by the clerk of the weather. The rain was greatly against a large audience gathering at the ...
Article : 554 wordsSIR,—Will you kindly insert the following:—Not having an opportunity of seeing the report of the House of Assembly of the 6th inst, in your paper until yesterday, and ...
Article : 187 wordsSIR,—I trust you will allow me space to reply to the remarks of "Observer" in your paper last week. In doing so I may safely add that the letters of both "Observer" ...
Article : 374 wordsThe cholera epidemic has almost ceased in Franco, and advices from Italy state that he disease has also decreased greatly in that country. ...
Article : 31 wordsA moderate business is doing in mining scrip, Aroona, Young Aroona, and South St. Mongo are ruling higher. On application made to-day on behalf of ...
Article : 300 wordsSIR,—The question re the most suitable site for the the terminus of the Launceston and Scottsdale Railway is causing some discussion here at present. Different places ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 455 wordsThe following notifications appear in today's Gazelle:— Valuation roll for the district of Port Sorell for the year 1885. ...
Article : 478 wordsThe Marine Board has decided that every possible means was taken to keep the steamer Madjus afloat, and has exonerated Captain Brewis from blame. ...
Article : 158 wordsSIR,—Do the people of Hobart imagine that the taking off the enormous tax of a fraction above a farthing in the pound on meat will reduce the price they have to ...
Article : 462 wordsThe United States of Amerca is the home of some very large enterprises, but none perhaps greater than the business conducted by Mr. G G. Green, of Woodbury, New Jersey. U.S.A. ...
Article : 148 wordsWheat is unchanged at 3s. 8d. to 3s. 8½d. for shipping parcels at Port Adelaide. Flour is very steady; leading brands, £87s. 6d.; ordinary ditto £7 17s. 6d. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 21 Oct 1884, Page 3
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