SIR,—I drafted the petition to His Excellency in Council on behalf of Mr. O'Hare, and that after most careful investigation of facts and a like careful perusal of the whole ...
Article : 599 wordsLaunceston tin quotation per unit, 17s. 3d. The s.s. Pateena took yesterday, to Melbourne, 84 ignots of tin, valued at £50, shipped by J. Williams. ...
Article : 254 wordsMembers of the Tasmanian Temperance Alliance were called to a meeting at the Memorial Hall lastreverilng to hear a progress report upon the budding of the new ...
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Article : 147 wordsCentral School musical festival at the Town Hall this evening. Public Meeting at New Norfolk to-night re Cottage Hospital. ...
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Article : 579 wordsA Gazette Extraordinary was published yesterday containing the following notification:- The Governor-in Council has directed that, ...
Article : 88 wordsWe have received the following telegrams from our correspondents:- BOTHWELL, Thursday. Messrs. Langdon, Nicholas, and Bowden, ...
Article : 370 wordsThe Agricultural Show ander the auspices of the Ulverstone Farmers Club was held to-day, but with unfavourable circumstances as regards weather, for rain set in early in ...
Article : 1,390 wordsAn English company has applied to the French Government for a concession to enable them to bridge the Straits of Dover. ...
Article : 34 wordsArgent, November 28.—During the fortnight the following, amongst other work, has been executed:—Getting square timber out of bush, cutting line through for ...
Article : 510 wordsAn excited meeting of shareholders in the New Zealand Shipping Co. was held to-day. Mr. Thomas Johnson, who recently issued a circular declaring, the ...
Article : 134 wordsThe United States Congress has been formally opened with the usual [?]remonies. In his address, President Harrison referred to the Samoan Treaty with ...
Article : 115 wordsThe attendance at this popular, place of amusement increases nightly to a degree Which justifies the management in describing it as a circus "boom." Last night not ...
Article : 258 wordsSIR.—I cannot understand Mr. Mice's remarks re the above appealing in your issue of the 4th. I can only repeat that the reports complained of are quite at variance ...
Article : 116 words"Why little children die; on what all mothers should know," was the subject Dr. Bingham Crowther chose for his public health lecture, given under the auspices of ...
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Article : 55 wordsAt the City Police Court this morning John Wilson, a resident of Launceston for some 35 yean, and occupying a respectable position, was proceeded against by William ...
Article : 367 wordsThe amnesty firman issued by the Porte to the rebels in Crete has been received in the island, and does not give satisfaction as it is found to deprive the ...
Article : 49 wordsIn making, his financial statement on Wednesday, the Colonial Treasurer showed how in the face ofdrought and other unfavourable circumstances they had secured a ...
Article : 521 wordsThe debut of Mr. Frank Thornton at the Theatre Royal last evening, was witnessed by a large and fashionable audience including the vice-regal party. The drele was ...
Article : 506 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on Change yetterup:HOBART. ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Dockers Union has advued the B istol dock labourers now on strike to resume work. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe fire which broke out in the headquarters of the Salvation Army, Queen Victoria street, London, was extinguished after three top floors of the building had ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Colonial Trust Investment, Committee have met, Sir Graham Berry being absent. The proposed cloutes in the Act as to investments of unclaimed dividonds ...
Article : 68 wordsMooulight, s. 1s. Tasmania, b. £6 8s.; s. £6 15s. SILVER. Monte Christo, b. 3s. 6d.; s. 4s. ...
Article : 186 wordsThe South London gas stokers are on strike to compel exclusion of those who have signed an agreement with employers for sharing profits. Objection is raised ...
Article : 42 wordsThe estate of Lovely Banks, comprising 679 acres of land, the property of Henry Griffiths, situated at West Tamar, was put up by auction to-day. The biddings did ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Right Hon. J. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, has been accorded an unequalled ovation at Edinburgh. In the course of his remarks at the banquet ...
Article : 68 wordsSupplied by Ernest T. Simonds— Broken Hill Proprietary (?), b. £87 6s.; s. £88 15s. Broken Hill, Block 10, b. £6; s. £6 2s. ...
Article : 477 wordsThe following matches will be played to-morrow:- BREAK O'DAY V. WELLINGTON.—Teams— Break o'Day: Kirby, Briggs, Vautin, Eady, ...
Article : 265 wordsMr. H. M. Stanley and Kain Bey, together with the English officers accompanying them, and their native followers, arrived safely yesterday at Bagamoya, the ...
Article : 65 wordsHow OLIVAR WENDELL HOLMES FORESHADOWED THE WATEREURY WATCH. EDITOR WATERBURY. Dear Sir,—In reading again the other day Holme's "AUTOCRAT ...
Article : 208 wordsAmerican Ministers have been instructed to cordially recognise the newlyformed Republic of Brazil when, the majority of the Brasilian provinces have ...
Article : 84 wordsIn the Assembly last night it was decided that Government should communicate with the other colonies suggesting an Intercolonial Conference of Railway Commissioners to ...
Article : 121 wordsOur beautiful cousin, Miss Mary Anderson, is good enough to say of Pears' Soap:—" I have used it for two years with the greatest satisfaction, for I find it the very best." ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Colonial Truit and Inveitment Company has been folly floated. The Australian Ochre Company has been partially floated, and it is anticipated ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 6 Dec 1889, Page 3
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