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Article : 130 wordsThe sequel to the alleged conspiracy to defraud the Government Insurance Company and another association in this city, of which the discovery of a severed hand on ...
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Article : 43 wordsThree and a half per cent. New South Wales inscribed stock 10s. higher, £94; four per cent. Queensland do. 10s. higher, £102. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe weather to-day was. very hot, and during the forenoon a strong northerly wind, accompanied by clouds of blinding dust, was blowing. The thermometer at half-past 2 ...
Article : 197 wordsThe return match between these teams was played on Saturday on the lower ground, and resulted in an easy victory for the former. The Foundry eleven were first ...
Article : 177 wordsSIR,—In your issue of last Wednesday I noticed a report of the meeting of the above society. As only little reference is made to their action in connection with the ...
Article : 888 wordsThe following China news is to hand by the s.s. Catterthun, which arrived at Cooktown to-day from Hong Kong. The Peiho River at Tientsin was closed on ...
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Article : 456 wordsThe s.s. Devon arrived at Launceston on Saturday afternoon from North-West Coast ports, with 1,049 bags tin ore from the Mount Bischeff mine. ...
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Article : 384 wordsThe trophy presented by Mr. Charles Davis, of Elizabeth street, was sailed for by boats of this club on Saturday afternoon, and nover has a yacht race been greeted ...
Article : 952 wordsAt thE police court to-day, before the Warden (Mr. J. L. Smith) and Mr. James Cox, J.P., the Hon. Donald Cameron, M.L.C. was charged with neglecting to ...
Article : 91 wordsThe summer meet of the Tasmanian Turf Club takes place on the Moubray course, Launceston, on Thursday and Friday next 14th and 15th insts. ...
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Article : 127 wordsMr. John Morrisby, jun., who was [?] surivor in the recent sad and fatal boat accident, has supplied me with full particulars of the lamen'able occurrence, which I ...
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Article : 75 wordsThe department of Mines has received a telegram from Cloncurry, dated the 4th inst., as follows:—Returned Saturday from top camp. Protections are being applied for ...
Article : 110 wordsBush fires, are burning in all directions. The forest country about Wirranda is on fire, and evidences of an extensive confiagration are visible in that locality. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 11 Jan 1886, Page 3
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