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Advertising : 2,587 wordsThe Union Mortgage and Agency Co. report the Tasmanian sheep sales averages were as follows:- Mr. W. H. Gibson's, of Fairfield, 21gns. ...
Article : 216 wordsTasmanian Rowing Association wound up. Popular concert at the Temperance Hall to-night. Rehearsal of "St. Cecilias Day" cantata ...
Article : 6,813 wordsThe storms which have raged throughout France during the last two days have been of almost unprecedented violence. ...
Article : 58 wordsThe return match against Gloucestershire was commenced to-day. The colonials won the toss and elected to bat, and at luncheon time had lost six ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Postal Department last night despatched a small mail of specially addressed letters for Tasmania to Circular Head in the schooner Nowra, including 22 of recently ...
Article : 105 wordsThe mail bag received to-day brings intimation that material is en route for a post and telegraph office here, and the postmaster desires to publicly thank Mr. Henry ...
Article : 312 wordsDr. Andrew Clarke, the celebrated London physician and clinical lecturer, is seriously unwell. Latest reports state that he is in a precarious ...
Article : 143 wordsThe Strike Committee met last night to consider the engagement of steamers to run on the co-operative principal to Newcastle for coal. They had the offer of the steamer ...
Article : 256 wordsThe stud sheep sales were continued today, when the balance of the Tasmanian flocks were submitted. No sensational figure was reached, but a fair average was ...
Article : 284 wordsGeorge Bell, a jockey in the employ of Mr. Henry Haines, while schooling the horse Apropos over some hardles on Tuesday was injured through the horse falling on him, ...
Article : 374 wordsThe London dockers propose to form a company to load and unload vessels on the co-operative principle, and without the intervention of middle ...
Article : 36 wordsLord Loftus, ex-Governor, of New South Wales, is writing reminiscences of his life in Australia. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Uruguayan Government have proposed to return to the metallic currency, this course being forced on them by the citizens of-Monte Video, who ...
Article : 39 wordsNumerous enquiries were made yesterday as to the position the officers and men of the s.s. Kurrara take with regard to the strike. The questions were asked "If they are ...
Article : 633 wordsA meeting of the Employers' Union has been held, at which it was resolved to support the shipowners, and a large sum has been already subscribed for that purpose. ...
Article : 57 wordsBank of New Zealand shares, 5 and 6 per cent., and new issue of 6½ and 7½ find no sellers. It is understood that the Bank will ...
Article : 72 wordsThere are probably about a million men employed in various capacities on the Railways of Great Britain—a number large enough, if they were soldiers, to overrun ...
Article : 950 wordsMatters in connection with the strike are very quiet, few developments to note. A few more men have been added to the ranks of the strikers, which now number 6,000. ...
Article : 520 wordsAn injunction has been applied for to close the Pelican Club on the grounds that the music and boxing there carried on are a nuisance to the ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. William Edmunds, Mayor of Banbury, Oxfordshire, of which borough the Earl of Jersey is High Steward, has given his lordship a ...
Article : 43 wordsIt is predicted that owing to the disease among growing hops the price for new hops of good quality will be 10 guineas at the opening sales. ...
Article : 48 wordsBlack trackers are now searching for the well-known racehorse Cranbrook, which has been stolen from Havilah, near Mudgee, the residence of Mr. H. C. White, the ...
Article : 269 wordsThe Tilbury dock labourers have resumed work, though the dockowners have not yielded to their demands. The Dockers' Executive disavows ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Committee have arranged for today a football match for the benefit of W. Hehir, a Railway player, who for some mouths has been laid up seriously ill. Both ...
Article : 308 wordsGeneral Booth, of the Salvation Army, is starting refuges for the unemployed in London, also co-operative farms and villages in the ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Dock Labourers' Union and other Associations have decided to allow Burns, the leader of the dock strike movement, a pension of £3 pe[?] week. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe shipping strike was continued to-day in a very quiet manner, but the baneful effects of the struggle will be very soon apparent. Tenders which were recently called ...
Article : 471 wordsIt is feared that the barque Assaye, 1,281 tons, which left London for Wellington, New Zealand, on February, 16, has foundered at sea. ...
Article : 35 wordsThis afternoon Sergeant Waters proceeded to deceased's hut; and on making a search he discovered in a corner of the building a small piece of ordinary fencing ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Emperor William of Germany and General Caprivi are still at St. Petersburg. ...
Article : 15 wordsNon-union crews have been engaged for the Birksgate and Derwent. Both Messrs. Howard Smith and the A.U.S.N. Co. are receiving numerous ...
Article : 79 wordsIn the settlement of African delimitation, Portugal has been allotted Mozambique, Loanda, and Algola, and England the Southern Shire country, ...
Article : 57 wordsMR. CHAS. HILL, Cattle Creek, writing to the Waterbury Watch Co., says:—" I have had two of your [?] series watches kept constantly goin[?] [?] two years, ...
Article : 118 wordsIt is understood that the proceeds of the Centennial organ recitals have already reached a sum equal to that guaranteed to Mr. Best when his services were engaged. ...
Article : 417 wordsThe wharf labourers are unloading ocean going steamers and ships in port, but a boycott is being maintained against intercolonial vessels with the exception of the ...
Article : 242 wordsMessrs. Milburn and Co's s.s. Port Pirie, the first of the vessels to be engaged in the Bristol and Australian trade, sails from Bristol to-morrow for ...
Article : 35 wordsThe United States President has been empowered to prohibit imports from countries excluding American ment. ...
Article : 20 wordsJ. H. NICHOLSON, of 175, Williamstreet, Melbourne, has proved otherwise by making a complete cure of DEAFNESS AND NOISES IN THE HEAD OF ...
Article : 76 wordsM[?]T 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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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 23 Aug 1890, Page 3
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