It is astonishing that wiht all our boasted advancement in [?] etc., there is so little common-sense displayed in the management of matters which ...
Article : 1,239 wordsH.M.S. "Society" still carries her flag half ma[?]t high, mourning the loss of Pleasury. The smartestact, to whom money is no object have hied them either to Melbourne or ...
Article : 1,587 wordsSIR,—I notice in your issue of to-day that the fruit-growers met last evening for the purpose of organising messures to secure a market abroad. ...
Article : 197 wordsLaunceston quotation for tin ore yesterday per unit 16s. Half-yearly meeting of Mathinna G.M> Co. on Saturday, March 29. ...
Article : 281 wordsA circular hsa been issued by the Sullan of Turkey proclaiming a general am[?]esty in Crete except to some 18 noterious criminals. ...
Article : 57 wordsThe divers' work at the s.s. Quotta has been suspended through rough weather. The divers were down on Saturday, and found the ship lying on her side, but the ...
Article : 41 wordsThe following weights have been declared for the Burnie Racing Club, to be held on the 24th inst:- HANDICAP HURDLE RACE. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe Irish Land Tenure Bill has been rejected on its second reading in the House of Commons by 52 votes. ...
Article : 29 wordsParliament will probably be dissolved on the 19th inst., preparatory to general elections. Dr. Cockburn, the Premier, will aunounce the Ministerial policy next ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Maryleboue Club condemns Giffen for his recent action reference to the forthcoming matches. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Rev. Brooke Westcott, Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, is now spoken of as the Bishop of Durham. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Spanish Government have resolved to send three delegates to the International Labour Conference to be held in Berlin. Mr. Monde, of New ...
Article : 105 wordsA sad case of drowning occurred here this afternoon. A little girl named Nellie Jeffrey, aged about 11 years. Was returning home from school at North Bridgewater, in ...
Article : 160 wordsThe expenses of the recent Irish Commission are set down at £37,000 ...
Article : 18 wordsBest Australian tin is £1 higher, viz., £91 to £91 10s., and for delivery at three months, £92. Chilian bar copper is steady, at £46 ...
Article : 53 wordsSIR,—Your sub-leader of Tuesday concerning the ill using of certain of the Hobart omnibus horses, as also the able letter of your correspondent[?] "Vidi," ...
Article : 465 wordsThe following matches will palyed to-morrow:- WELLINGTON V. BREAK o'DAY.—The following are the teams selected to play in the ...
Article : 205 wordsIt is stated that the Irish delegates, Sir T. Esmonde, Mr. Deasy, Mr. Dillon, and Mr,. Cox, M's.P., during their visit to the Australasian colonies in the ...
Article : 112 wordsThe Liverpool dock labourers now advocate the appointment of a Committee of Conciliation, on which employers and employed shall be equally ...
Article : 148 wordsGod[?]n's Extended, March 8. — During the last fortnight we have been engaged cleaning a paddock for the ore, and getting the tramway laid to it, and split a quantity of timber ...
Article : 486 wordsThe petition now in course of signature for the removal of Post and Telegraph Office front Macquarie Plains into New Norfolk district is, I believe, being largely ...
Article : 50 wordsAn influential deputation, consisting of Messrs. Lawder, J. Baily, Beedham, Curzon Allport, Atkins, and Dr. Hardy, yesterday waited upon, the Minister of Lands (Hon ...
Article : 1,094 wordsThe body of J. Byrne, late of Avoca, who fell overboard from the steamer Coogee on Sunday, has been recovered near the Fisherman's Bend. He was supposed to have a ...
Article : 431 wordsThe Right Hon. H. C. Raiker, Postmaster-General, has definitely declined to comply with the request of the Agents-General of the colonies to ...
Article : 48 wordsOn Saturday, 8th inst., the Black Brush cricketers jonrmeyed to Tea Tree to try conclusions with that club. The weather was all that could, he desired, and a very ...
Article : 226 wordsJackson, the pugilist, has been mobbed by admirers of Sullivan in a Baltimore theatre, and pelted not only with eggs but with stones. He escaped ...
Article : 32 wordsSir H. Stafford Northcote and Messrs. J. Henniker Heaton, C. Bradlaugh, and F. A. Channing, M.'sP., have declined to act on the Committee of Enquiry, ...
Article : 83 wordsSIR,—A letter signed J. S. Laurie, formerly H.M. Inspector of Schools, in your issue of the 10th fast, would appear to be an indirect reply to one signed "Flo" ...
Article : 719 wordsAt the Police Court this morning Agnes Hunt, on a charge of using, filthy language in Wellington-street, was, fined £l and costs, and told that if she offended in a like ...
Article : 241 wordsThe placing of the Cape Colony loan on the money market will precede the Victorian loan, of which it was intended to place a first instalment of £1,600,000 ...
Article : 68 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on 'Change yesterday:- HOBART. ...
Article : 184 wordsThe fire in the Morfa pit has been extinguished, and the work of rescue recommenced. The number of bodies recovered ...
Article : 53 wordsThe schooner Agues, owned by Mr. Alexander Kethel, of Sydney, has been totally wrecked at Brunswick Heads, and the officers and crew of eight drowned. ...
Article : 306 wordsSir W. C. Robinson, Governor-Elect of West, Australia, has secured an intoduction for Miss Adela McKnight, the Australian lady medical ...
Article : 43 wordsGOLD.—Amalgamated West Tasmania, b. 5s., s. 6s.; Brandy Creek, b. 9d.; s. 1s. 3d.; East Tasmania, b. 2s. 6d., 3s.; Ph[?]nix, b. 7s., s. 8s.; Tasmania, s. £10. ...
Article : 156 wordsKenny Burn, the cricketer, was a passenger by the s.s. Flinders to-day. Several of his old cricketing friends assembled to wish him good luck and a big score. ...
Article : 170 wordsMiss Leah Thompson, daughter of the well-known and successful bookmaker, Mr. Joe Thompson, has been admitted as a pupil at the Academy of ...
Article : 33 wordsSilver market weak. The following sales were reported to-day on the Stock Exchange: —Broken Hill Proprietary, £12 10s., £ 12 8s., Broken Hill Block 10, £13 5s., £12 17s., ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. W. Schlich, P.H.D., Professor of Forestry at the Royal Indian Engineering College, Copper's Hill Staines, read a paper on Wednesday night at the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 14 Mar 1890, Page 3
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