It is to be hoped that the Exhibition Commissioners will not adhere to the date, August 1, which they have fixed for the opening of the big show. It would ...
Article : 1,635 wordsSIR,—As the financial statement comes on for discussion in the House of Assembly on Thursday, I wish, previously, to call the attention of members of the House to the ...
Article : 645 wordsTin in the London market on Wednesday was quoted at £83 per ton. The Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 14s. 6d. ...
Article : 1,888 wordsSIR,—In your isiue of to-day I observe a paragraph from your correspondent of George's Bay, in which it is stated that a meeting is to be held there among some local ...
Article : 205 wordsI am glad to be able to say that the Uxbridge people behaved very handsomely to Mr. J. Salter, whose house was burned a few weeks since, and it has made his ...
Article : 464 wordsIt must have been a sore trial to the ordinary readers of a newspaper—those happy mortals whose ideas do not include Within their ken, the ups and downs of ...
Article : 3,700 wordsSIR,—Amongst the articles proposed to be raised in duty I notice that of "tinned meats," formerly rated at 1s. 6d! per 100lb. gross, to be ad valorem. I think if our ...
Article : 344 wordsSIR,—Major-General Tottenham cau fairly claim from me the most ample apology for failing, though inadvertently, to give bim the full courtesy of his military title, which ...
Article : 565 wordsThe following wert the stock and share quotations and sales on Change yesterday:- HOBART. ...
Article : 429 wordsSIR,—Permit me through your valuable paper to call the attention of the authorities to the overcrowded and disgraceful state of the State school in this township. It will ...
Article : 211 wordsSIR,—One again we have had the disgraceful sight of a large steamship unloading in the stream, for want of suitable wharf accommodation. The Marine Board may say ...
Article : 351 wordsAn inquest was held last week before the coroner, Mr. W. H. Glover, and a jury of seven, touching the death of a young man named Alexander McCullam, whose body ...
Article : 371 wordsSIR,—I would like to ask, is the rabbit pest in Tasmania of so serious a character as to warrant the introduction of disease germs such as are proposed by M. Pasteur? We ...
Article : 335 wordsSIR,—In your sub-leader of this morning, in reviewing certain alterations of the Customs tariff, you refer to one alteration as being considered " preposterous," viz., the ...
Article : 582 wordsAt the police court to-day a number of informations were heard against publicans in the town charged with neglecting to deface the beer duty stamps on casks of beer. ...
Article : 94 wordsSIR,—I notice in the report of the conference held yesterday, re wharf extension, that there is a statement that I made to the meeting, rather important, which is not ...
Article : 157 wordsA shooting match took place here on Wednesday last, when a goodly number of crack shots put in an appearance. The first event was for a sweep of 10s. each; 5 birds; ...
Article : 641 wordsThe Premier arrived to-day en route for Sydney for the conference on the Chinese question. Mr. G. T. Collins made an application ...
Article : 180 words—Take all the Kidney and Liver Medicines, —Take all the Blood purifiers, —Take all the Rheumatic remedies, ...
Article : 506 wordsSIR,—As the Union Steamship Co, have arranged excursion fares at prices inducing the New Zealand people to visit the great International Exhibition to be opened in ...
Article : 156 wordsThe juniors of the Hutchins School and Christ's College played their first match this season on Wednesday, on one of the Risdon grounds, kindly lent by the S.T.F.A. The ...
Article : 533 wordsSIR,—I hope the Hon. Mr. Bird congratulates himself on his victory over the Geeveston fruit-growers. When the collector of the Central and South Huon Fruit Board ...
Article : 211 wordsSIR, — Though the Colonial Treasurer evidently is desirous of distributing the incidence of taxation, so far as regards real and personal estate, more fairly than perhaps ...
Article : 252 wordsSIR,—That the police force of this colony require to be amalgamated there is hardly any person that would attempt to deny, from day to day the necessity is becoming ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 7 Jun 1888, Page 3
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