SIR,—I see by your issue of to-day that in the debate in the House of Assembly last night on the personalty tax, Mr. Hamilton (the hon. member for Glenorchy) went out ...
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Advertising : 908 wordsThe members of the Hobart Fox terrier Coursing Club held a meet at Bellerive yesterday. The attendance, owing probably to the counter attraction of the football match ...
Article : 391 wordsA special meeting of this board was held at the Chief Secretary's office yesterday. Present: Hon. P. 0. Fysh (president) in the chair; Messrs. J. W. Syme and C. ...
Article : 913 wordsA horrible tragedy occurred at Malvern on Monday night in a house occupied by Win, Dick, ex-postmaster of Maryborough. The inmates of the house on the night in ...
Article : 926 wordsThe third of the series of matches arranged between local clubs and that of Goelong was that they should meet Holebrook, but with true sportsmanlike spirit they consented to ...
Article : 1,350 wordsSIR,—Alderman Crouch in submitting his resolution on the management of the Fish Market stated the "returns were incorrect," the statement of fish brought to Hobart ...
Article : 400 wordsSIR,—Your correspondents in Saturday's issue evidently imagine that their desertion of the classes of the Technical School will add weight to their strictures; this, ...
Article : 835 wordsSIR,—By advertisement the midland pack —save the mark—met at Timsbery, Glenorchy, this afternoon. There was a large concourse of people assembled to witness ...
Article : 826 wordsThe latest cable quotation for tin ore in the London market is £89 per ton. The Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 15a. 6d. ...
Article : 147 wordsThe Maritime Labour Council have addressed a communication to two of the large Chinese shipping firms, informing them that after 12th September next, they will do no ...
Article : 83 wordsA correspondent writes as follows:- Dear Mr. Editor,—May I trouble you with an extract from a letter written by a young friend residing in the country. I ...
Article : 568 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on Change yesteray:- HOBART. ...
Article : 398 wordsThe steamer Britannia, trading on the Murray, has been burned to the water edge, and sunk at Craigies Creek, on the Murray, 150 miles above Morgan. Twenty persons, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 58 wordsA truce has been agreed to between the hostile natives in the north, pending a visit of the Native Minister to settle the affairs in dispute. ...
Article : 30 wordsA large meeting of ladies and gentlemen was held this afternoon in the hall of the Young Men'a Christian Association, to consider the question of giving the franchise to ...
Article : 303 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the members of this board was held yesterday morning. Present—The Master Warden, Mr. A. G. Webster (chairman), Wardens Bayley, Crisp, ...
Article : 818 wordsHea[?]ewood Extended, July 16.—Since my last report the tunnel has been extended 40ft., the ground has been a little harder, and blasting required in consequence. The ...
Article : 273 wordsSIR,—Permit me to correct some inaccuracies in the report in your issue of the 14th inst., of the interview between the deputation and members of the Ministry, with ...
Article : 498 wordsSIR,—During the last four months my crusade in the great temperance reform bas been continued in Tasmania. My Victorian engagements now compel my return. Will ...
Article : 211 wordsSIR,—Knowing that your columns are ever open to forward reward for acts of bravery. I think that the heroic conduct of the chief officer of the s.s. Flora (Mr. Mason) ...
Article : 240 wordsAt the Marine Board to—day, the Chief Secretary wrote, stating that the new cattle jetty would not be suitable under the Act for landing foreign and Tasmanian cattle, ...
Article : 501 wordsThe returns for the quarter ended June 30 show that the population of the colony was 41,911, or 175 less than in the preceding quarter. ...
Article : 90 wordsThe following is a synopsis of this bill, which was introduced into the Legislative Assembly by Mr. Abigail on July 16:— Part I. Relates to mining management and ...
Article : 340 wordsCury, one of the French convicts from New Caledonia, who was recently arrested here, has been surrendered to the French consul. ...
Article : 74 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 11th inst. Mr. Hamilton is reported to say (in support of freetrade principles) in such a thing as a simple pony plough it was impossible to get ...
Article : 509 wordsSIR,—Iaitnecessary thateither thenew pier should be erected, or the present New Wharf be extended to accommodate the present and future shipping traffic to Hobart, especially ...
Article : 459 wordsThe West Coast mail arrived yesterday at 4 p.m. The mailman reports 18in. of snow on Long Plains and Magnet range. The mailman was 11 horns cutting his ...
Article : 129 wordsQUESTIONABLE COCOAS are now in the the market. The public need to be warned against the Dutch Cocoas and their English imitations, erroneously called pure, which ...
Article : 56 wordsWe (San Francisco paper) have made brief mention of the fact that Mr. Gideon Frisbee, one of the inventors of the Frisbee-Lucop mill, has devised a plan for working ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 26 Jul 1888, Page 3
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