The race meeting of the Hobart Polo Club held st Elwick on Saturday was quite a success, and but for the rain which fell towards the close of the proceedings would ...
Article : 1,430 wordsLaunceston quotation on Saturday for tin ore, per unit, 16s. Extraordinary general meeting of McLean Prospecting Co. to consider future ...
Article : 417 wordsEarly on Saturday morning a fire broke out at Irwin's Provincial Hotel, Lydiardstreet, Ballarat. The alarm was given about midnight, and in a short time the whole of ...
Article : 296 wordsThe late Mr. J. G. Biggar has left £20,000 to be expended on Education in Ireland. ...
Article : 30 wordsSpring Bay and Maria Island regatta programme published this day. Thatch making machine on view at Messrs. A. G. Webster and Sons. ...
Article : 7,347 wordsThe Paris daily journal. Le Matin states that the Government intend to issue a loan of 700,000,000 francs (£30,000,000), for the purpose of ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Waterloo Cup has been won by Colonel North's Fullarton, the runnerup being Mr. Trevor's Downpour. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe elections for the German Reichstag commenced on the 20th inst. Herren Liebknecht and Singer (Socialists) have been elected for Berlin. ...
Article : 139 wordsSir T. Cockburn Campbell, one of the delegates on the West Australian constitution question, is suffering from an attack of influenza and bronchitis. ...
Article : 32 wordsLittle Elsie Hall, the Australian juvenile pianiste, born in Queensland, is giving a series of recitals in the houses of the nobility in ...
Article : 30 wordsThe shares of the British Broken Hill mine are quoted at £6 5s. ...
Article : 18 wordsR.M.S. Orotava, newly built, will replace R.M.S. Iberia in the Australian trade, and takes up the latter's berth next trip. ...
Article : 23 wordsMdlle. Louise Michel, the French Communist, has expressed her intention of proceeding to Noumea to nurse lepers. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe efforts for some time past to establish a Customs Zollverein in Europe have ended in failure, and any further attempt, at least for the ...
Article : 36 wordsWilliam B. Astor, the American millionaire, is dead. He was the son of John Jacob Astor, merchant and philanthropist, who died at New York on ...
Article : 42 wordsThe mortal remains of the late Joseph Gilles Biggar, M.P. for Covan West, will be interred at Belfast, and a large number of members of the House of ...
Article : 40 wordsBritannia, February 17.—During the week No. 1 and 2 shafts have been sunk on the lode a farther depth of 8ft. and 10ft. respectively, this being all the depth I ...
Article : 574 wordsThe trial of Francis Smith, a jockey, and George Paxton, a plasterer, for the murder of Henry Blackburn, who was stabbed to death in Devonshire atreet in November ...
Article : 200 wordsThe motion for the disuse of the French language in official documents, tabled in the Canadian Federated Parliament, has been defeated. The ...
Article : 36 wordsKilrnin, who has been defeated by Corbett in a pugilistic encounter in America, declares that his opponent is little short of being a murderer. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Committee of the House of Lords and House of Commons will proceed with the discussion of the Perth Enabling Bill on Monday next. ...
Article : 33 wordsIn the Privy Council appeal case, Brown and Others (plaintiffs and appellants) v. the Commssioner for Railways of New South Wales, judgment has been ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Unionists are issuing a pamphlet strongly censuring The Tinten for its action in denouncing outrages in Ireland. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Victorian, wedding gift to the, Prince and Princess of Wales will be presented on Monday at 2 o'clock. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe rumoured death of Father Ignatius has proved upon investigation to be entirely unfounded. ...
Article : 20 wordsThere were no wool sales yesterday owing to the intense prevailing fog, and 5,050 bales have been withdrawn ...
Article : 21 wordsIrwin's Provincial Hotel, in Lydiardstreet, one of the leading and most extensive public houses in Ballarat, was almost totally consumed by fire, shortly after midnight. ...
Article : 500 wordsIt is rumoured that Sir Napier Broome will be appointed to the Governorship of HongKong. ...
Article : 19 wordsBest New Zealand butter is quoted at 90s. to 102s. The butter from the Cobden, New Plymouth, Camden, and Anchor ...
Article : 71 wordsIn the House of Commons the amend ment in favour of free education has been defeated by a majority of 60. The Irish members supported it, Mr. ...
Article : 81 wordsThe motion by the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, Leader of the Government party, asking the House to adopt, the report of The Times-Parnell Commission, ...
Article : 109 wordsThe reported West Ham tragedy turns out to be an entire hoax. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Victorian Amateur Turf Club meeting was held on Saturday afternoon. The weather was fine and cool, and there was a good attendance. ...
Article : 489 wordsCanada is making large shipments of butter to England. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe report of the discovery of a very rich reef at Flagstaff, abutting on the Flagstaff Co.'s lease, about a mile and a half out of Maryborough, Victoria, is fully confirmed ...
Article : 149 wordsMr. Gillies' letter respecting the Divorce Bill addressed to Sir Graham Berry has been read by the Cabinet, and influenced their decision. ...
Article : 25 wordsMr. Gladstone is indisposed and Bullering from a severe cold. Lord Tennyson is also similarly indisposed. ...
Article : 28 wordsAt recent election meetings held at the towns of Mulhausen and Leignitz, the Socialists present created riots of so serious a character that the police were ...
Article : 446 wordsPope Leo XIII. has received M. Albert Reville, the pastor of the Walloon Protestant Chinch, at Rotterdam, well known for his writings on ...
Article : 51 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on Change on Saturday:- HOBART. ...
Article : 178 wordsThe owners of the German steamship Essen, now loading at Hamburg, have accepted contracts for the discharge of South Australian goods at ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the House of Commons Mr. A. Staveley Hill, Q.C., Conservative member for the Kingswinford division of Staffordshire, gave notice of a motion ...
Article : 68 wordsMr. Henry Coates, 11, Cheetham place, Adelaide-street, Hull, stited that the St. Jacob's Oil people had for a long time publishsed testimonial, which has follows: ...
Article : 299 wordsAmalgamated West Tasmania, b. 5s. 6d.; s. 5s. 1Od.; sales, 5s. 6d. Little Wonder, b. 3s. 3d.; s. 4s. 3d. Moonlight, b. 9d.; s. 1s. 9d. ...
Article : 211 wordsIn connection with the Grand International Exhibition which it is proposed to hold in the United States in 1892, in commemoration of the ...
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Advertising : 1,920 wordsThe Western Australian delegates have been entertained at St. George's Hall. Sir W. Robinson spoke advocating Federation in very strong terms. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 24 Feb 1890, Page 3
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