Bunk of England returns for the past week show the proportion of reserves to liabilities to be 39 per cent., being 1, per cont lower than last week. ...
Article : 64 words'Frisco, 25th inst; Torres Straits, 25th inst. OUTWARDS. Orient, 25th inst; Messageries, 29th inst. THIS DAY. ...
Article : 40 wordsMarie Laurie, barque, 329 tons, J. McFie, from Port Adelaide. Agent—Captain. ...
Article : 18 wordsAcacia, barque, 233 tons, T. C. Herbert, for Lyttelton, July 20. Agents—F. W. Belbin and Co. Santon, s.s., 1,622 tons, James Coull, for ...
Article : 33 wordsThe following are the Customs Returns at Hobart for the week ending July 18, 1891:— Spirits, £851 16s. 3d.; tobacco, £545 14s.; other goods, £1,942 16s. 3d.; wharfage, £126 ...
Article : 335 wordsVictoria, barque, 311 tons, J. Shimmins, for Adelaide. Agents—Facy and Fisher. Santon. s.s., for Sydney. Passengers.— Saloon: Mesdames Johnson (2 children) and ...
Article : 55 wordsA boy named Frederick Mathers, aged 12, residing at his parents residence, prahran, committed suicide with a revolver on Saturday, his father having reprimanded him. ...
Article : 182 wordsA special charge is made to consignees wishing to particularise their imports or exports] Victoria, barque, for Adelaide—130,000ft. ...
Article : 512 wordsTasmanian 4 per cent inseribed stock quoted at £102. ...
Article : 20 wordsBullion silver is quoted [?] 3s. 10¼d. per oz. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has slightly improved, the delirium under which he has been suffering having subsided. There are now some hopes of his ...
Article : 59 wordsThe steamship companies have raised Australian freights from 30s. to 35s. per ton for rough measurement. ...
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Advertising : 1,428 wordsThe co[?] porters in Dublin, after having been on strike for some weeks past, have succumbed, and are resuming work on the old terms. The employers ...
Article : 56 wordsThe police raided the Chinese dens in George-street on Saturday, and arrested 42 fan taners. The Naran lera district is again flooded, ...
Article : 79 wordsThe wheat crop in Russia has been seriously damaged by bad weather, and the present farmers will have no seed wheat left for the next sowing. ...
Article : 77 wordsTHIS EVENING, at 8.—The Irish Detectiv ...
Article : 28 wordsRoad District of Wellesley aboli[?] House of Assembly meets at 4 o'clock to-day. Rechable meeting in Temperance Hall ...
Article : 4,675 wordsThe Brisbane and Gympic railway was oponed on Saturday amid much rejoicing. ...
Article : 24 wordsMr. Parnell is reorganising the platform of the Irish National League. His object, as announced, is to extend Home Rule and secure the return of ...
Article : 103 wordsA public meeting of fanners has been held to take steps to form a Farmers' Export Association, with the object of growing orchard, farm, and dairy produce for export ...
Article : 417 wordsThe following are the particulars of the Koonya-Pioneer collision:—The Pioneer, s.s., was coming from the northward on the morning of the 16th inst., and at 6 a.m. she ...
Article : 195 wordsTurkey sends troops to release the girl Greenfield from the custody of the Khurds, who have made her a prisoner. ...
Article : 29 wordsWork was resumed at this wreck on Friday, but the discharging of cargo was hampered by the non-arrival of enginepower. The donkey-engine is still ...
Article : 143 wordsMr. Duncan (Conservative), and the Hon. Mr. Brand (Liberal), have been nominated for the Parliamentary seat for the Wisbech division of ...
Article : 59 wordsOut of 350,000 French railway employees only 3,000 struck in accordance with previous threats to do so, and the movement has therefore virtually ...
Article : 42 wordsPateena, s.s., H. Sams, for Melbourne. Passengers—Saloon: Hons. E. Morey, R. A. Reed; Mesdames Ferguson, Henry, Holland, Schivotasch; Misses J. Gray, Ferguson (2), ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Liberals are opposed to the proposed vote for a railway survey from Mombassa to Victoria Nyanza in Africa, in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe ketches Annie and Governor Weld arrived to-day from Hobart. Had N.E. gale until passing Schouten Island, thence moderate S.E. winds. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Imperial Arcade, erected at a cost of about £60,000, which forms an avenue between Pitt and Castlereagh streets, was formally opened to-day by the mayor, Mr. ...
Article : 51 wordsJuly 20.—Flinders, s.s., for Launceston. Passengers—Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Baker, Major and Mrs. Dane; Mesdames Pearce, Agnew, Sparrow; Misses ...
Article : 93 wordsThe threatened wholesale expulsion of Jewish artisans from St. Petersburg has been postponed by order of the Czar. ...
Article : 43 wordsH.M.S. Rapid, which arrived to-day from Noumea, brought as passengers Dr. Selwyn, Bishop of Melanesia. Mrs. Selwyn, and Dr. Welchman from Norfolk Island. Dr. Selwyn ...
Article : 144 wordsThe monetary situation in Portugal is getting serious. Tradesmen will only accept notes at a heavy discount, and workmen at Oporto refuse to take ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 251 wordsThe Etata has given bail in 150,000 franes, and sails to San Francisco for repairs. ...
Article : 21 wordsWe have received a number of letters for which we cannot, possibly, find room to publish in full in the present domands upon our space. ...
Article : 211 wordsThe half-yearly repot of the Royal Bank of Queensland shows that the net profits amount to £13,318. The directors propose to declare a dividend at the into of 6 per cent., ...
Article : 130 wordsPresident Balinaceda has shot 10 men who had been attempting to destroy the fleet at Valparaiso. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe immediate cause of the failure of the Bank of River Plate was the refusal of bills drawn by the Argentine Government, which the English Bank ...
Article : 57 wordsOn July 14, during the passage of the s.s. Alameda from Sydney, to Auckland, Lientonuaut Philip J. Hodges, R.N., a, saloon passenger, jumped overboard and was not ...
Article : 65 wordsThe French Senate has decided to consider the tariff in the coming autumn, but the Chamber has passed a good many amendments prior to [?] ...
Article : 36 wordsMeet and Chandon, champagne growers are proprietors of the best growths around Epernay, many of which have been in the possession of their house since the year ...
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Advertising : 100 words"I have used Pears' Soap for two years with the greatest satiafaction, for I find it the very best." (Signed) MARY ANDERSON. Pears' Soap for the toilet and nursery, ...
Article : 109 wordsMr. Burston, the well-known amateur cyclist, formerly of Melbourne, has just, completed an extensive bicycling tour in Norway and Sweden, riding 1,500 ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 21 Jul 1891, Page 2
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