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Advertising : 804 wordsThe Fryer's Creek Gold-Mining Co. (Victoria), with a capital of £125,000, and the West Tokotea Gold-Mining Co. (New Zealand), with a capital of £126,000, have been ...
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Article : 172 wordsThe adjourned meeting of the electors of Kingborough was held at the Longley Hotel on Saturday evening. There was a large attendance. Mr. W. Webster occupied the ...
Article : 232 wordsThe British-India Steam Navigation Co.'s R.M.S. Chyebassa left here yesterday en route for Queensland port). SUEZ, August 8. ...
Article : 100 wordsIn the case brought by the Mogul Steamship Co. against a number of rival shipowners to recover damages arising from alleged illegal combination to bribe China ...
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Article : 512 wordsThe Irish Catholic newspaper announces that an almost immediate notification will be made of the conversion of a female member of the Royal Family to the Church of Rome. ...
Article : 32 wordsA Treasury Minute has been issued advising that perpetual pensions and sinecures should be abolished, and those now existing should be commuted by final money ...
Article : 36 wordsThe R.M.S. Lusitania, with mails to July 13, arrived at Albany on Saturday. A meeting of the Ironmasters' Association was held to-day to consider the strike of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 253 wordsWhile a number of Maori boats were out chasing a school of sperm whales near Gisborne to-day, one of the whales rushed at the boats, and smashed one to atoms, and ...
Article : 54 wordsThe final report of the Education Commission has been issued. The majority of the members generally support the Australian system of free, secular, and ...
Article : 36 wordsA new line of steamers, to trade between Hamburg and Australian ports, is announced, and two vessels are now building, which are expected to be ready for the new service ...
Article : 61 wordsThe usual weekly, meeting of the City Council was held yesterday afternoon. Present: His Worship the Mayor (Alderman Crisp), Aldermen Amott, Hiddlestone, ...
Article : 1,653 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament meet to-morrow, 13th inst., and will-then adjourn until November 6 next. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Costa Rica Congress has ratified the Nicaraguan Canal scheme. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe council having resolved itself into the Local Board of Health, the minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. SANITARY INSPECTOR'S REPORT. ...
Article : 303 wordsA large reservoir has suddenly burst in Valparaise, and 200 persons have been drowned by the escaping water. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 210 wordsThe cricket match, Australians v. Gloucestershire, was concluded at Clifton on Saturday. The Australians in their seoond innings made 126, the Home team thus being ...
Article : 138 wordsA private letter received by a Chinese merchant in Sydney from China states that the action of the New South Wales Government in refusing to allow the Chinese ...
Article : 744 wordsJames Fisher, a kangaroo hunter on Tobar run, Broken Hill, has been found dead, shot through the side. A Winchester rifle was found near the body. Deceased ...
Article : 344 wordsA public meeting was held to-day to consider the proposed tax on personal property. The Warden (Mr. John King) in the chair. The following resolutions were passed ...
Article : 148 wordsIn the House of Commons, Mr. Henry Broadhurst, member for Nottingham, has presented a petition from New Zealand, asking for aid in promotion of European colonization on ...
Article : 63 wordsThe aldermen who form the Board of Advice then met. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, some accounts passed for payment, and the board ...
Article : 39 wordsSIR,—The meeting called this evening is to consider the taxation scheme of the Ministry, and it will be well that speakers remember this. As to whether Ministers ...
Article : 149 wordsA public meeting of electors was held in the Templars' Hall, New Town, last night to consider the taxation proposals. There was a good attendance, the hall being ...
Article : 2,334 wordsThree brothers have been convicted at Liverpool of selling indecent photographs, and have each been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and to pay a fine of ...
Article : 632 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 16s. 3d. The s.s. Flinders which left Launceston yesterday, for Melbourne, took 24 tons 1cwt. ...
Article : 32 wordsCampbell's Reward, August 11 (by telegraph).—Extended drive 34ft.; total, 81ft. Am still on gold. The best of it seems underfoot, as there are places where I cannot ...
Article : 702 wordsSIR,—And so they are going to put more taxes on, and the people are making a stir about it. Well, it's a pity they don't make a little inquiry as to how the money is being ...
Article : 395 wordsThe new sale of Tasmanian stud sheep by the Union Mortgage Agency Co. on Saturday last was unsuccessful. Only half the number catalogued being sold, and at low ...
Article : 36 wordsA silver lode is reported to have been found at Manfred, in this district, near where the unsuccessful gold rush took place a few months ago. A company of three or ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 14 Aug 1888, Page 3
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