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Advertising : 888 wordsThe meeting of the shareholders of the St. Clair T.M. Co. called, to be held yesterday afternoon, lapsed for want of a quorum. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Bank of England returns for the past week show the proportion of reserve to liabilities to be 41 per cent. as compared with 38 per cent. last week. ...
Article : 110 wordsA distressing and fatal accident has taken place near Rangiora. A waggon containing a party of people going to a pic-nic was crossing the railway line, when the waggon ...
Article : 63 wordsMr. E. H. Butler has selected the following nine players to form part of the team to represent the Southern Tasmanian Cricket Association in the above match. The ...
Article : 187 wordsThe s.s, Tannadice brings news from Hong Kong to the 25th ult. The latest reports state that the Chinese are still in occupation of Tamsui. A large ...
Article : 456 wordsAlpine, December 13.—The stone in the stopes keeps about the same average in size and quality as what I commenced to stope. In anothor week I will cease stoping here, ...
Article : 264 wordsOn the Stock Exchange to-day Maxwell, Inglewood, scrip had a rise consequent on a good prospect having been reported from lower level. Present price, 30s. ...
Article : 369 wordsMounted-Constable Mackay, of Portarlington, noticed, on Thursday, the wife of a Chinese resident of St. Leonards land from one of the metropolitan steamers with a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 148 wordsThe municipal council met on Friday, 12th inst., at noon. Present; The Warden, Mr. W. Gunn, Councillors Barwick, Brock, Jones, and Tonks. Mr. J. J. Butler, ...
Article : 583 wordsBen Lomond, December 13.—We have not made much progress in opening out on the new lode. Six feet has been sunk on its course, which I find to underlay east at a ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Attorney-General (Mr. J. S. Dodds), and Treasurer (Mr. W. H. Burgess) attended yesterday afternoon at the Chief Secretary's office, and received a deputation of ...
Article : 1,909 wordsYesterday several lots of Crown lands were put up for sale by auction in the Alliance Rooms, Macquarie-street. There was a good attendance, and Mr. G. S. Crouch was ...
Article : 774 wordsThe funeral of the late Miss Grace Bryan, fifth daughter of Councillor J. Bryan, and late teacher in the Presbyterian Sabbathschool for many years, took place at 4 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 301 wordsOwing to a complete oversight the representative of Beach has failed to pay the second deposit of £50 a-side for the sculling match between Beach and Clifford for the ...
Article : 238 wordsThe children attending St. Mary's Roman Catholic Parochial School, Grafton, gave an entertainment on Tuesday evening in the schoolroom. During the evening the dress ...
Article : 596 wordsA public meeting was held at the Lucky Hit Hotel last evening to urge upon the Government the necessity of extending the road as far as Loane's reef. Mr. Lewis was ...
Article : 162 wordsFor the Handicap Steeplechase to be run on the 20th inst., the following are among the weights declared:—Denmark, 11st. 7lb.; Echo; 11st. 6lb.; Blackthorne (top weight), ...
Article : 51 wordsSIR,—Will you kindly inform me how it is that the successful tenderer for the Derwent Valley Railway happens to be the one that did not conform to the conditions laid down ...
Article : 70 wordsAmongst the passengers by the steamship Pateena, which arrived to-day, was M. E. Remenyi, the eminent violinist, whose performances have been received with the ...
Article : 878 wordsAt the Supreme Court to-day sentences were passed in connection with the cases of kidnapping aboard the labour schooner Hopeful. The captain, Shaw, and Scholefield, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 523 wordsMessrs. Hatton and Laws. DEAR SIRS,—A few days ago I called at your establishment whilst suffering from excruciating rheumatic pains in the arms, ...
Article : 489 wordsA special meeting of the Council of Education was held at 3 p.m. yesterday, to receive the reports of the examiners in the examinations for the Tasmanian scholarships and the ...
Article : 1,958 wordsThe gold production in the Territory is improving, the quantities brought by the fortnightly escorts increasing on account of the plentiful supply of water for the mines. ...
Article : 108 wordsMr. L. Tenmert, master of the School of Painting, with the consent of the Board of Governors of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery, proposes establishing a ...
Article : 208 wordsA man named Rice, employed with the Northern telegraph construction party, has shot himself. Mr. Venn, a defeated candidate for the ...
Article : 65 wordsA gardener named Vandyk, residing near Dunedin, fired a revolver at a girl, aged 17, named Wadsworth, while she was dancing at a party, but the bullet missed; a second ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 17 Dec 1884, Page 3
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