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Advertising : 1,888 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 17s. 6d. The Tasmania G.M. and Q.C. Co. have declared a dividend (the 119th) of 2s. per ...
Article : 62 wordsThe annual sports in connection with the Hutchins School took place on the upper cricket ground yesterday afternoon. The weather was exactly suited to out-door ...
Article : 722 wordsPresident Cleveland, whose term of office expires in March next, contemplates, on his retirement, to visit Europe. ...
Article : 41 wordsAmalgamated West Tasmania, December 4 (by telegraph),—Since my last report the contractors have driven 23ft. west on track of lode, making total distance 85ft. ...
Article : 1,170 wordsBOOTLE'H BABY.—If the popularity of the St. Maur Company had shown any sings of waning the production of Booth's Baby last night must have given it a fresh innings; ...
Article : 1,547 wordsThough Mr. John Bright has recently rallied a little from his severe attack of congestion of the lungs, and may yet live for a little while, his case is considered hopeless. ...
Article : 34 wordsPresident Cleveland opened the United States Congress to-day. In life message he refers to the neccssity for the early and radical revision of the tariff, in order to ...
Article : 198 wordsThe Australasian Champian Four-Oared Race was started on Saturday afternoon, the course being from The Brothers to Btaxlend's Point, on the Parramatta River. A strong ...
Article : 732 wordsThe British-India Steam Navigation Co.'s R.M.H. Duke of Sutherland arrived at Co. lombo on November 28 outwards. The P. and O. Co.'s R.M.S Massilia, from ...
Article : 64 wordsA slight recovery in colonial Government stocks has taken place, some of the Victorian and New South Wales issues, as well as New Zealand 4 per cents., being quoted ...
Article : 675 wordsIt is stated that the fires at the Calumet and Hecla Copper Mines, on the shores of Lake Superior, were the work of incendiaries, and were ignited whilst 200 miners ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Government have decided not to proceed with the prosecution of three miners accused for rioting at Wallsend, about whose case the jury failed to agree. ...
Article : 51 wordsSome rumours are afloat, said to be received by way of Bonny River, West Africa, that Mr. H. M. Stanley has been heard of in the great river centre, where he has ...
Article : 60 wordsAt the police court to-day a cattle dealer named Carter was charged with stealing a steer the property of William Doorty, line repairer. On October 29 the accused ...
Article : 997 wordsThe Russian military authorities propose to victual Warsaw with provisions, for 56,000 men, exclusive of the regular garrison, and to also largely increase the present store ...
Article : 38 wordsIt is anticipated that the coming elections in France will result in the return of members pledged to sanction the suggested amendments of the constitution and the ...
Article : 43 wordsAt the wool sales today 10,000 bales were catalogued. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Agents-General have signed a joint memorandum to the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to needed re-arrangement of the ...
Article : 32 wordsIt is reported that Mr. D. B. Morehead, the newly appointed Premier of Queensland, is insisting on the right of being consulted in the appointment of a governor for that ...
Article : 35 wordsTHE HUTCHINS SCHOOL V. COMMERCIAL. —These clubs meet for the second time this season on the upper ground this afternoon, play to commence at 2.15. The following ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. W. C. Roberts-Austen, chemist and assayer of the Royal Mint, who was recently asked by Sir Francis Dillon Bell to report on the Frieburg system of treatment of ores ...
Article : 44 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on 'Change yesterday.- HOBART. ...
Article : 252 wordsSir Francis Dillon Bell is hopeful of obtaining a British subsidy for the proposed Canadian and New Zealand line. He disparages the Ottawa proposal and urges that ...
Article : 42 wordsDr. C. F. Marks has been appointed a member of the Legislative Council. A Oazette Extraordinary has been issued appointing Mr W. H, Groom, A. S. Cowley, ...
Article : 202 wordsArrived —Richmond Hill, s.s., from Sydney (sailed October 2, stranded in Gulf of Venice on 14th ult); Guy Mannering, barque, from Adelaide (sailed Auguat 5); ...
Article : 48 wordsLord Balfour of Burleigh will succeed the Earl of Onslow, new appointed Governor of New Zealand, as Political Secretary in the Colonial Office. ...
Article : 40 wordsAn interim report from the directors of the Orient Steamship Co. shows that the trade with Australia has of late improved, and they anticipate being able to recommend ...
Article : 47 wordsDaylight, b. 3d. Little Woudor, b. 2s. 9d. Mathinna, b. 1s.; s. 1s. 6d. Mercury, b. 4d.; s. 9d. ...
Article : 273 wordsMr. R. H. Francis, general traffic manager of the Victorian Railways, starts on a holiday trip round Tasmania on Friday next Robt. H. Farrar, a speculator, has been ...
Article : 693 wordsThe Government have awarded £800 each to the men Brunuaghen and Murphy, whe were wrongfully imprisoned for a term of ten years. ...
Article : 37 wordsAt meeting of Fruit Board held on Monday it was decided to petition the Governorin-Council to levy an additional tax, as the present amount was found insufficient to ...
Article : 348 wordsA meeting of the Trades and Labour Council was held last night, when the strike of compositors on the South Australian Register was considered. It was decided ...
Article : 204 wordsThe match between the Maori and Trinity football teams at Dublin has ended in a draw. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe affairs of the Panama Canal Co. remain in a critical condition, and it is doubtful whether sufficient capital from all sources Will be raised to carry on operations. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Government is in favour of altering the present Act to permit trustees to invest trust moneys in colonial stocks. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Times this morning, referring to the appointment of Sir Henry Norman, deprecates the action of the Colonial Office in rewarding Queensland fer her obstinacy by ...
Article : 552 wordsSt. Andrew's Day was celebrated to-day by a banquet, given by the Caledonian Society, at which the Governor waa present. In responding to the toast of his health, His ...
Article : 263 wordsDOUBTFUL COCOAS,—A caution is issued by Messrs. Cadbury warning the public against Duteh Cocoas and their English imitations, erroneously called pure, which contain about ...
Article : 145 wordsHenry Saunders, late secretary to the Coal Lumpers' Union, was to-day sentenced to a month's imprisonment on a charge of embezzling the funds of the union. Saunders ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 5 Dec 1888, Page 3
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