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Article : 56 wordsMr. Gladstone has specifically disavowed his intention to grant the demand of the Parnell party that Home Rule should be granted to Ireland. ...
Article : 72 wordsSIR,—In common with others I have this many years bathed at the powder jetty in the Domain before 6 o'clock in the morning, but on Saturday morning, and also this morning, ...
Article : 264 wordsChristmastide, with its gay festivities, pleasant memories, and/happy reunions has again rolled round, and arrangements made for its observance show that time doth not ...
Article : 1,472 wordsSouth Australia has intimated to the Secretary of State that it withdraws its subsidy towards the expenses of a British protectorate over New Guinea after July ...
Article : 40 wordsA fatal accident occurred on board the Duke of Argyle yesterday afternoon. The lumpers were slinging cargo out of the hold, and a Maltose named John Simmonds, who ...
Article : 76 wordsIt has transpired that the scheme for establislnnent of an Irish Parliament, recently announced in several of the London papers as having been adopted by Mr. ...
Article : 242 wordsThe Circuit Court closed yesterday. Nammy, an aboriginal, who murdered Henry Houschildt on the Daly Diver, was sentenced to death. ...
Article : 68 wordsSIR,—Allow me to call attention to an error made by your reporter in his remarks on the final competition in Four-oared Race on Saturday, at Bellerive, which, if not ...
Article : 148 wordsWrits for the elections, rendered necessary by the acceptance of office by the new Ministiy, were issued by the Speaker to-day. Nominations are fixed for the 16th ...
Article : 157 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. T. J. King, one of the oldest citizens of Port Adelaide, and late mayor of that municipality. ...
Article : 303 wordsLord Carrington has forwarded a telegram of condolence to the man Baker, three of whose children were recently burned to death in a house at Nyngan. His Lordship ...
Article : 923 wordsSIR,—The Art Exhibition was closed on Saturday evening, and I beg, through the columns of your newspaper, to return my sincere thanks to the persons who gave their ...
Article : 239 wordsA petition, with 350,000 signAtures, has been presented to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, playing for the release of Mr. Thos. Stead, editor of the Pall ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Cracknell, superintendent of telegraphs in Sydney, is a passenger per s.s. Orient, to confer as regards reductions of cable rates as a preliminary to further ...
Article : 168 wordsMr. Lupton, wool merchant, of Bradford, has suspended payment, with liabilities £60,000. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe result of the conference between Colonel Stanley and the Agents-General of the various Australian Colonies in reference to the appointment of a successor to the late ...
Article : 82 wordsA large fire occurred in Grenfell-street this evening. Coombes' timber-yard, Burford's soap factory, and several cottages were burned, the damage being estimated at ...
Article : 125 wordsSIS,—Your correspondent "A. J. O.," in a letter which appeared in your issue of the 11th inst., ably argues the question from the point of view that he has adopted. But it ...
Article : 1,023 wordsThe Premier will probably leave for Hobart on the 9th January, to attend the first meeting of the Federal Council. Another death from cholera has occurred ...
Article : 101 wordsThe Destitute Board are communicating with the corporations and district councils throughout the colony with a view to ascertaining what work is available in the ...
Article : 147 wordsAt daybreak this morning a couple of very heavy showers of rain fell, and the day continued wet throughout. At a quarter past six this afternoon one of the heaviest ...
Article : 876 wordsA treaty of peace has been concluded between France and Madagascar, whereby the former acquires a protectorate over the island together with complete control over ...
Article : 68 wordsH.M.S. Nelson arrived from Sydney yesterday. It is understood that in the event of the Anglo-Russian war occurring, as was recently feared, Auckland was to have been ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Central Board of Health to-day discussed a report from Professor Rennie, Government Analyst, treating of the recent serious symptoms of poisoning of a whole ...
Article : 406 wordsThe Servian and Bulgarian Governments have agreed to the conclusion of the armistice as proposed by the International Commission, and have arranged for the ...
Article : 54 wordsAt the police court to-day W. Bourke, a publican at Longwarry, wad fined £25 for infringing the Trades Marks Statute, by placing bulk brandy in bottles bearing ...
Article : 291 wordsAn expeditionary party have left Mandalay for Dhamo, a town 40 miles west of the Chinese frontier, and the principal Burmese mart for trade with China. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe annual dinner of the Law Institute was held at Clements' last night. In the Maryborough election, Mr. Outram has been returned by a majority of 567. ...
Article : 583 wordsIf any doubt over existed in the mind of His Excellency the Governor in regard to the loyal feelings entertained by the people of Gippsland towards the representative of ...
Article : 710 wordsSir Julius Vogel is progressing satisfactorily. H.M.S. Nelson will arrive here on Tuesday next. ...
Article : 189 wordsLast night, at the Royal Hotel, a man named Miles shot Henry Green, a storekeeper of Barringun, through the back, afterwards taking two more ineffectual shots ...
Article : 119 wordsThe Government has dispensed with the services of Mr. J. J. Clark, the colonial archi tect. The relations between Mr. Clark and the Government have been somewhat strained ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 24 Dec 1885, Page 3
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