The V.A.T.C. were favoured with beautiful weather at the Grand National Meeting at Caulfield yesterday. Great interest was taken in the meeting, and consequently the ...
Article : 1,062 wordsIt is officially notified that the Imperial Institute will allow reasonable additional space for colonial exhibits. ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Sonaputty and Tonquel instigators of the recent revolt in Manipur are to be publicly hanged as a warning to their countrymen. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on 'Change on Saturday:- HOBART ...
Article : 460 wordsThe Queen has cabled to President Harrison her sympathy with the friends and countrymen of Rushell Lowell, in their sorrow for his death. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Secretary Blaine is still improving in health, and the Republican movement to nominate him for the Presidency is increasing ...
Article : 29 wordsThe prohibition of rye exports from Russia has caused a grain panic in Germany, and rye is selling there at 16s. higher than wheat. ...
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Article : 105 wordsThe Chillan insurgents have hailed with enthusiasm the arrival of a vessel bringing them 7,000 rifles at Iquique. ...
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Article : 22 wordsAt the Metropolitan Quarter Sessions to-day, a man named Samuel Gibson pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing 8d. worth of iron from the P. and O. Steam Navigation ...
Article : 240 wordsIn the Somerset v. Surrey match Somerset beat Surrey by a hundred and forty just on the stroke of time. ...
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Article : 34 wordsThe Court has annulled the order made for Mr. W. O'Brien's bankruptcy in the Salisbury libel case, as the costs have been paid. ...
Article : 28 wordsSIR,— Will you kindly allow space for a few words. For over 20 years in this colony the rabbit is monarch of all he surveys, notwithstanding that his right has been ...
Article : 532 wordsHeavy floods have occurred in Lancashire, swamping many mills and causing serious damage. ...
Article : 20 wordsTen thousand workmen at the Ocean Collieries in South Wales have struck work. ...
Article : 22 wordsAll sealing vessels have been notified that they must leave Behring Straits during the close season. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Cunard Company have contacted for the construction of a 12,000 ton steamer, with a speed of 22 knots per hour. ...
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Article : 217 wordsSix trunks full of servants' clothes have been found at the house occupied by the Schneiders at Berlin, who, under the guise of keeping a registry office, ...
Article : 59 wordsA Council of Ministers has been held at Berlin, and it has been decided not to reduce corn duties at present, but to lower the freight of cereals carried on ...
Article : 40 wordsOwing to the insolvency of the Trieste banking and trading firm of Morpurgo and Parente, the Paris branch of the Rothschild family, who ...
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Article : 31 wordsA cable message has been received in Adelaide by a member of the local committee of the South Australian Proprietary Mining and Smelting Co., intimating that ...
Article : 206 wordsThe United States war cruiser Charleston, which recently returned from Chili, whither she went in pursuit of the insurgent steamer Itata, has been ...
Article : 63 wordsThe International Geographical Conference at Borne has expressed sympathy with Mr. H. M. Stanley in his recent accident. ...
Article : 62 wordsAn expert who was sent to examine the ruins at Zembayle reports that he has found a Phalic altar and other emblems of Persian worship. ...
Article : 203 wordsAmalgamated West Tasmania, b. 1s 6d. Moonlight, b. 3s. Mount Lyell, s. 21s. New Pinafore, b. 21s, s. 25s. North Golden Gate, b. 9s, s. 10s. ...
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Article : 297 wordsThe unparalleled enthusiasm with which Booth, General of the Salvation Army, has been received in Cape Colony, continues. The Governor, ...
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Article : 26 wordsThe Russian inhibition of grain exports has caused a general rise in the wheat market. English wheat has further advanced 6d. per quarter. ...
Article : 141 wordsThe steamer Bulimba, which grounded yesterday near the pile light, was towed off at 10 minutes past 4 p.m. to-day, and left for Melbourne. ...
Article : 29 wordsYesterday Robert Kicrk, the chief officer of the barque Spinaway, was crossing from the south jetty to the barque in Fremantle Harbour in the ship's cutter, when the latter ...
Article : 128 wordsThe British Bank of Australia stopped payment yesterday. The directers held a meeting on Friday evening and decided to take this stop. The bank has its head office in ...
Article : 517 wordsDr. Knight, President of the Hygienic Conference, has received her Majesty's command to appear at Osborne. ...
Article : 123 wordsThere was an active market for silver scrip to-day. Broken Hill saw a large business at advanced rates, and Tasmanian stocks were all brisk. Sales:—Block 10, £10 5s, £16 ...
Article : 124 wordsSIR,—Kinldy allow me space in your paper to give the correct version of the anecdote alluded to by Mr. Fenton in the House of Assembly during one of the debates last ...
Article : 397 wordsThe man Moss, who attempted to murder his wife and commit suicide at Ashburton, has been found not guilty, on the ground of insanity when the act was committed. ...
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Article : 383 wordsThe Roman Catholics at Argenteuil, a small town in the Department of Seine-et-Oise, seven miles below Paris, are exhibiting a coat which they say is ...
Article : 57 wordsSIR,—I see a note from Mr. Fincham in your columns of the 13th inst., in which he states that he had never met me nor conferred with me upon the scheme that I have ...
Article : 175 wordsRussophile ovations are being continued throughout France, notwithstanding thw avowed desire of the Government to discountenance such ...
Article : 128 wordsThe proposal to exempt all improvements from the operation of the land tax has been opposed by the Government as premature, pending a year's experience, and was ...
Article : 104 wordsThe press at Vienna is urging European action to prevent Russia forcing Turkey to permit the passage of Russian vessels through the ...
Article : 27 wordsThe reported recognition by the Porte of Prince Ferdinand, as King of Bulgaria, has been officially denied. ...
Article : 22 wordsSir,—Your well-timed sub-leader calls attention to a subject in which every one in Hobart is interested. These workshops in time are bound to become an immense source ...
Article : 617 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore on Saturday was 15s. 9d. per unit. The Herbert, from Emu Bay, has brought to Launceston 927 bags of tin from the ...
Article : 210 wordsNine persons have been injured, some of them seriously, by the fall of a seaffold at the Travellers' Club in Pall Mall. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe annual meeting of the members was held on Friday. Mr. E. Mace (chairman) presided, and there was a good attendance of members. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 17 Aug 1891, Page 3
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