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Advertising : 1,095 wordsThe following correspondent has been forwarded to us for publication:— Imperial Chambers, Bank Place, Melbourne, June 5, 1886. ...
Article : 3,484 wordsSydney Tattersall's winter meeting postponed from 5th inst., came off yesterday. Appended are the results:— GRAND NATIONAL HURDLE RACE.—Two ...
Article : 405 wordsThe match, Australians versus Cambridge [?] was resumed at Cambridge to-day. The weather was splendid, and great interest was taken in the match. The ...
Article : 260 wordsThe discovery of a large supply of timber for railway purposes has been made in Flinder's Range, which the Government expect will provide work in sawing alone for 200 ...
Article : 99 wordsA terrible accident happened at the Clunes Co.'s mine this morning. The victim was a man named John Owen, who had been in the employ of the company for nearly half a ...
Article : 188 wordsIt is hoped that the Governor, the Ministers, the members, for the Territory, and others will visit here for the turning of the first sod of the railway. ...
Article : 95 wordsThree per cent. consols are ? lower, 100?. June 8. Three per cent. Consols are [?] higher, £100½. ...
Article : 54 wordsA deputation from the Victoria Public Service Association waited to-day upon the Premier, and urged the necessity for amendment of the Public Service Act. A variety ...
Article : 330 wordsAn extraordinary was issued to-day by the Northern Territory Times containing the following information regarding the Kimberley goldfields:— ...
Article : 452 wordsThe Rev. James Chalmers, after being for nine years a missionary in New Guinea, proposes to visit England. He has arrived in Sydney, and was welcomed at a public ...
Article : 328 wordsA meet was held at Moonee Valley yesterday, with the appended results:— WOODLANDS HANDICAP.—Essie (Walker), 1; Berkley, 2: The Forsaken, 3. ...
Article : 100 wordsIn view of the forthcoming general election, Mr. Chamberlain has issued a manifesto, to the constituencies of Birmingham, in which he advocates an identical system of ...
Article : 55 wordsIn the House of Commons last night a bill was introduced by the Government empowering them to reduce existing wine duties in accordance with the treaty lately ...
Article : 59 wordsWith the exception of a strong wind prevailing, Saturday was well suited for football. The following matches were played in or near Hobart:— ...
Article : 2,367 wordsThe papers obtained from the Government by Mr. Darley with reference to the recent Spalding-Airey enquiry have just been issued in a bulky printed document from the ...
Article : 540 wordsIt is intended to held a grand review of the regular troops on the 20th July at Aldershot. Invitations have been issued to the Executive Commissioners of the Colonial ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. J. F. Garrick, Agent General for Queensland, has had an interview with Mr. Herbert, the permanent Under Secretary for the Colonies, in reference to the reported ...
Article : 42 wordsThe advance in price of tin in the London market still proceeds, Saturday's quotation being £101 10s. per ton. The s.s. Devon arrived in Launceston on ...
Article : 280 wordsWheat, firmer sales 5s. 5d.; flour, dull, £ll to £11 5s.; oats are advancing, Victorian,0 2s. 2d. to 2s. 5d.; New Zealands, in bond, 2s. 7d. to 2s. 7½d. for prime stout. ...
Article : 31 wordsIntelligence has been received here that Shaw Savill's ship Lyttelton has sunk at Wallington whilst in tow of a tug. The crew were saved. ...
Article : 54 wordsTin (Australian and Straits) is to-day quoted at £101 10s. per ton. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe bill authorising the Government to order the expulsion of French Princes has been passed by both chambers of the legislature. ...
Article : 35 wordsIt is stated that the Government are in possession of information that the railway revenue has been defrauded of large sums by the conveyance of wool on the railways. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe s.s. Arawa left to-day, outward bound. MELBOURNE, SUNDAY. The Argus publishes the following cable ...
Article : 404 wordsThe funeral of Dr. Wigall took place to-day. Deceased has left a large fortune, chiefly to charities. C. Barton has been charged with ...
Article : 49 wordsThe following quotations made on Change on Saturday, June 12:—Specimen Reef, buyers 2s. 6d., sellers 6s.; Victoria, buyers 2s. 9d., sellers 3s. 3d.; Argus, sellers 8s. ...
Article : 117 wordsThe death of Mr. E. A. Bambridge, a tourist from Newcastle on-Tyne, is confirmed, and there is every reason to fear that 80 natives in all have been lost, and ...
Article : 131 wordsTwo young men, named John Miller and John Lewis, while drinking last night, having exhausted their pocket money, demanded a drink on credit from Mr. Joseph ...
Article : 444 wordsA numerously attended public meeting was held in the council-chambers to-night to consider the Ministerial taxation scheme. Rosolutions were carried strongly ...
Article : 250 wordsA meeting of the New Town Football Club and the Glenorohy Football Club was held on June 11, at Mr. W. Barlow's Hotel, New Town, for the purpose of amalgamating the ...
Article : 427 wordsEarly this morning the office at the Golden-square railway station was broken into, and the iron safe carried away. When the porter in charge opened the office he ...
Article : 101 wordsOn Friday last, while returning from Nhill to Goroko, the greater, part of the journey being through a sandy desert in the mallee, a resident of Goroke, named ...
Article : 157 wordsThe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co's. R.M.S. Sutlej, which left Melbourne, 20th April, arrived at Plymouth this morning. ...
Article : 276 wordsAt a meeting of subscribers to the Cahors fund, Mr. W.B. Shaw being present on behalf of the Melbourne subscribers, it was decided to present gold medals to Messrs. Perkins, ...
Article : 196 wordsAn extraordinary shooting case took place at Mepunga last night, at the house of a farmer named George White. It appears that an elderly man named James Frazer has ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 14 Jun 1886, Page 3
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