French stock holders in the Panama Canal Company, alarmed at the prospect of losing the whole of their investments, have offered to subscribe to a further issue of bonds to ...
Article : 83 wordsVia San Francisco, due on 19th inst. Per German line, due 22nd inst. Per Messageries line, about the 22nd inst. Per Orient line, due on the 26th inst. ...
Article : 96 wordsAcacia, barque, 2.13 tons, T. C. Herbert, from Melbourne llth inst. Passenger— Mr. J. Elleker. Agents—Belbin and Co. ...
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Article : 66 wordsArrive at Hobart Wednesdays and Saturdays. Ship mails will be closed at the General Post Office as under:- TO-DAY. ...
Article : 62 wordsKoonya, s.s., 120 tons, J. Cordell, from Macquarie Harbour. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Bromley, Messrs. Fraser, Coxon, Longson (2). Agents—C. [?] and ...
Article : 48 wordsSir Grabans Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, is inviting applications for three professorships for the Melbourne Uni versity. ...
Article : 24 words[A special charge ia made to consignees wishing to particularise their imports.] Acacia, barque, from Melbourne—21 pkgs soda, etc., 150 bls cornsacks, 6 pkts hops, 97 ...
Article : 85 wordsThe death is announced of Sir William Pearce, Bart, Conservation member of the House of Commons for the Govan Division of Lanarkshire. Deceased was born in ...
Article : 52 wordsThe general meeting of shareholders of the Pastoral, Finance, Trust and Agency Co. of Australasia (Limited) was held at the Chamber of Commerce, Exchange, Sydney, ...
Article : 318 wordsDecember 19. 7 p.m.—Active, s.s., for Western Port, Victoria. EAST COAST STATIONS. SWAN ISLAND. ...
Article : 460 wordsThe death is announced of Baron Alexander de Jomini, who was Plenipotentiary of Russia in the Brussels Coulerence on war, in 1874, and in 1875 was [?] interim Minister of ...
Article : 72 wordsGeneral Sir Charles Warren, who recently resigned his position as Commissioner of the Metropolitan police in consequence of strictures passed upon the force in ...
Article : 53 wordsSeveral persons possessed of capital are emigrating to the Mildura settlement in Victoria, among them being Frenchmen, who intend to embark in vine growing and ...
Article : 36 wordsA motion is the House of Commons to reduce by £900 the salary of Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia, has been rejected, and the items, ...
Article : 125 wordsThe London correspondent of the Argus, writing on November 9 last says:—"The hop market has fallen into a very inanimate condition. The finest growths have been to ...
Article : 321 wordsIn the House of Commons Sir James Fergusson has expressed a hope that British subjects and others would be compensated for losses and trouble experienced in ...
Article : 61 wordsThe London correspondent of the Argus writes under date London, October 27:- "There is reason to believe that the Imperial Government are not unfavourable to ...
Article : 510 wordsIn the House ef Commons, Sir A. C. Campbell urged that Australia should respect the Chinese Treaty. Sir James Fergusson said the Government were still ...
Article : 48 wordsMessrs. W. Westgarth and Co. report under date London, November 9, for the period since October 12:- From advices to hand on November 3, we ...
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Article : 62 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazettes says Lord Knutsford is yielding up possession of Bechuna. Land to a handful of Cape people, and surrenders half a million miles of country in ...
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Article : 67 wordsThe Servian elections have proved so enormously Radical that the present Ministry has no alternative but to resign. ...
Article : 23 wordsOur Fortnightly Summary of News for Home Readers will be published NEXT SATURDAY MORNING. ...
Article : 19 wordsSouth Australian 4 per cents. are to-day quoted at £104 5s. ...
Article : 13 wordsPrizes will be presented at Ladies' College, Glebe, this afternoon. Silver Spray P.A. last night, floated into company of 20,000 shares at 8s ...
Article : 5,246 wordsThe annual report of the New Zealand Shipping Company shows a loss to the end of October last of £80,000, but there is a hopeful future fox the company under revised ...
Article : 37 wordsDecember 19. 4.44 p.m.—Moreton cleared the Heads for Melbourne. ...
Article : 36 wordsMr. Brooke, a Tay candidate, has been elected for the Colchester seat in the House of Commons, vice Mr. H. J. Trotter, deceased. ...
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Article : 27 wordsThe Austral's mails were delivered on the 17th inst. ...
Article : 22 wordsWe have received the following cable message:- "MELBOURNE, Wednesday. "We have sold during the week 3,600 ...
Article : 103 wordsThe Maori footballers met a Wigan team yesterday, and scored one goal two tries to one try by their opposents. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe British steamship Torkington foundered last night in the Solway Firth, 11 lives being lost. Arrived.—Caitloch, ship, from ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 20 Dec 1888, Page 2
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