A meeting of the Municipal Council waS., held at the council-chambers, RosS, on the 9th inst. Present: Mr. G. W. Keach (Warden), and Councillors Blyth, Riggall, ...
Article : 484 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on Change yesterday:- HOBART. COLD. ...
Article : 200 wordsThe first half-yearly ordinary general meeting of this company was held at the offices No. 1, Lurd's-place, Hobart, yesterday. There were present:— Mr. A. ...
Article : 1,197 wordsThe SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock. NOTICES. Mr. LEWIS to move,—That an address be presentad to His Excellency the Governor, ...
Article : 5,347 wordsThe Bank of England minimum rate of discount is 2½ per cent. The market rate of discount is 15s. to 16s. below the bank rate, Tasmanian 4 per cent. £1 higher, viz., ...
Article : 93 words"Sir Francis Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, is endeavouring to obtain the services of a professor from the Royal Agricultural Colloge at Cirencester to ...
Article : 50 wordsSir Graham Borry is inviting contributions to the Fisheries Court in connection with the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, and is being assisted by Mr, Birbcck. He is hopeful ...
Article : 38 wordsArrived.—The ship Thalia. ...
Article : 9 wordsMr. Parnell, in replying to a letter from the Hon. Cecil Rhodes, a member of the ape Assembly, and one of the Executive Council, stated that he favoured the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe match Australians v. Players of England, at Huddersfield, was continued to-day, and the Australians closed their innings for 242. Worrell scored 36, Ferris 30, and ...
Article : 812 wordsHidden Tressure, b. 35s.; s. 55s. Princess, s. 8s. Princess Extended, b. 1s.; [?]. 1s. 5d. Tasmania, b. £10. ...
Article : 273 wordsThe New Zealand Weekly Times says:- " About two years ago Mesara. Evans contracted to supply to Messrs. Bellen, at their Phoenix Gold Mine, Skippers, an electrical ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Indian tribes at Hazelton are in rebellion, and have slaughtered several of the white population and committed other ravages. A battery of artillery has been ...
Article : 37 wordsNews has been received at Buda-Pesth that 30 Macedonian brigands surprised and suaceeded in taking possession of the railway station at Bellorar, a town in the province ...
Article : 64 wordsIt is announced that Cavaliere Crispi, President of the Italian Council; Prince Bismarck, the German Chancellor; and Count Kalnoky, the Austrian Minister of ...
Article : 41 wordsThe newly-formed rifle club is growing space, every member doing his best as a recruit at drill and as a recruiting cergeant among his acquaintance. It is quite ...
Article : 580 wordsThe death is announced of Sir John Henry B[?]and, L.L.D., G.C.M.G., President of the Orange Free State. He was born in 1823. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Russian Government, after a some what prolonged delay in deciding, has now accepted the decisions of the Sugar Bounty Conference. ...
Article : 25 wordsAt the Hospital Board to-night the Finance Committee reported the receipt ot £122 17[?]. 3d. for June, and that the amounts outstanding were £449 10. 1d. uncollected. The ...
Article : 565 wordsThe London quotation for tin ore on the 17th inst had advanced to £85 15s. per ton. The Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 14s. ...
Article : 197 wordsIt is reported that the Marquis of Normanby, formerly Governor of New Zealand, will succeed Sir Win. C. F. Robinson as Governor of South Australia. ...
Article : 30 wordsElaborate preparations are being made to celebrate the approaching tercentenary of the destruction of the Spanish Armada, Forty-two ironclads have assembled at ...
Article : 80 wordsThe Czar has issued a ukase addrcssod to every branch of the army notifying that the period of service will be extended to l8 years, the first five to be passed in active ...
Article : 42 wordsAge, July 19 (by telegraph).—Have 12 chaina tail-race in No. 1,759 section laid down, and one and a-half more chains will finish it, and then the work of sluicing can ...
Article : 1,130 wordsPrince Alexander of Battouburg has narrowly escaped being dashed to pieces, the horse he was driving haviug bolted over a precipice. The Prince leaped out of the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe American tariff proposals to withdraw law wool from the free list has been negatived. JULY l8. ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo French fishing vesssls have been seized for purloining bait within the limits of Newfoundland waters. ...
Article : 20 wordsAn animated debate in connection with the emigration section of the County Government Bill has taken place in the House of Commons, and has resulted in Mr. Ritchie, ...
Article : 90 wordsThe doings of Parliament are being care fully watched by many just now, and the Looal Government Bill now before the House of Assembly is commanding attention down ...
Article : 514 wordsThings on the move here. The kilns for burning the lime are going up fast, and stripping of the stone and the embankment to the kilns is also going on well, and that ...
Article : 429 wordsThe reported intention of an early despatch of the Prussian Antarctic Expedition is not generally believed. Mr. W. H. Smith, replying to the Hon. C. ...
Article : 55 wordsMr. Bent, M.L.A., has improved sufficiently to be removed to his private residence, but it will be several weeks yet before he can hope to return to ...
Article : 131 wordsThe Geelong team of footballers play their second match to-morrow afternoon on the association ground, meeting a combined Hobart 20. With their usual energy, the ...
Article : 206 wordsThe Earl of Carnarvon, in a letter to The Times, highly commends the defence preparations in Australia, which he says quite put to shame the tardy and inefficient ...
Article : 33 wordsTin (Australian and Straits) is to-day quoted at £85 15s. per ton, being an advance of 55s. on the quotations of the 10th inst. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Queen's Prize for volunteer marksmen has been won this year by Private Fulton, of the 13th Middlesex Rifles, with an aggregate of 280. ...
Article : 30 wordsA tender has been accepted for erecting the towers of the new building for the Imperial Instituto, at a cost of £18,800. ...
Article : 25 wordsA man named Reid has been arrested at Wanaring for murdering his wife. The man who is evidently mad chopped his wife's head with a tomahawk until tired. ...
Article : 77 wordsThe County Government Bill has passod through committee in the House of Commons. ...
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Advertising : 159 wordsProposals for the defences of Brest and Cherbourg have been adopted by the French Chamber of Deputies. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe s.s. Mangana took exhibits from Maria Island to-day for Melbourne. ...
Article : 23 wordsBaron de Worms is at Berlin trying to arrange for accoptuncu of the proposals recently made at the Conference on Sugar Bounties but his success is extremely ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 20 Jul 1888, Page 3
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