Present: The Mayor (Alderman G. H[?]dd[?]-one, M.H.A.), Aldermen Crouch, Smith, Crisp, Baily, Watchorn, Reynolds. A special meeting of the City Council was ...
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Article : 49 wordsThe United States Government will convene a conference to establish an International Bureau for the exchange of intelligence relating to mercantile ...
Article : 31 wordsCaptain Forbes, of the Cameron Highlanders, has been appointed aidede-camp to Lord Hopetoun at Melbourne. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe house of Bishop Methodius, at Sofia, has been searched by the police, and all his archives seized and taken away. He is suspected of being ...
Article : 44 wordsEnquiries as to the effect of the McKinley tariff indicate that it occasions much less injury to the trade of the United Kingdom than was expected. ...
Article : 48 wordsThe New York Times says it is important to have and American war vessel at Honolulu, in the event of Great Britain endeavouring to make ...
Article : 36 wordsLord Sheffield's team play at Colombo en route for Australia. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe Paris police have searched the houses of promoters of the Panama Canal scheme, presumably for evidence of fraud. ...
Article : 22 wordsMr. J. J. C. Abbott, Premier of Canada, has opposed the resolution of the Senate, urging that Canada should initiate overtures with other colonies ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Intercolonial Rifle Matches were continued yesterday, when the Smith Challenge Trophy was fired off, and won by the Gladstone team, with a total of 549. As this ...
Article : 96 wordsLord Salisbury writes to The Times explaining that Russia, has obtained no exclusive rights to the passage of the Dardanelles. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe September wool sales have opened. Messrs Jacomb, Bauline and Co. report that 13,638 bales have been ...
Article : 82 wordsSyndicates of European capitalists out of sympathy with the Congressional Junta of Chili offer to advance half a million for present requirements. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. George Scrimger's Hotel, at Dunally, has been burnt down, and nothing but the brick walls remain. Part of the furniture was saved. ...
Article : 60 wordsA terrific cyclone in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has wrecked the town and shipping. The damage is estimated at £12,000. ...
Article : 27 wordsDuring the last six weeks the appearance of the Sylvester mine has undergone a most marked change for the better, fully justifying the sanguine expectations that were ...
Article : 474 wordsMajor Lovett, of Adelaide, has gallantly saved the life of a drowning lad in the Thames. ...
Article : 21 wordsUnder the new mail service the Japan mails have arrived at New York in nineteen days, ten and a-half hours: the calculated time being twenty days ...
Article : 37 wordsAdams Dundas South, August 22.—Tunnel in 11[?]ft. At 95ft. a lode was cut, running about 25deg. west of north. It seems to be just the cap of lode, showing small on top of ...
Article : 1,834 wordsThe cargo of the Roderick Dhu, which left Port Augusta (S.A.) on June 2, has been sold at 42s. 6d. per 4961b. ...
Article : 52 wordsMr. Parnell refuses to attend the Chicago Convention to be held in October next. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe pony meet held at the Victoria Sports ground, New Town, yesterday, was fairly well attended. Following are the results:- HURDLE RACE, 14.2, of 8sovs.; second, ...
Article : 343 wordsThree gendarmes have been killed in rescuing a kidnapped Jew named Babaeski, who had been captured by Italian brigands. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has so far recovered from his lengthy and severe illness that he was able to-day to spend half an hour in his garden. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Russian Government is evidently uneasy at the warlike attitude of China, and in preparation for eventualities is storing immense munitions of war at ...
Article : 30 wordsThe attendance at the London Board schools under the new Free Education Act has already increased to the extent of eight thousand scholars. ...
Article : 29 wordsA Chinese Consul has been appointed at Singapore. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva), who has been stricken with paralysis, is still getting worse, and grave fears are entertained as to the ...
Article : 35 wordsAt the Oriental Congress now sitting in London, Mr. Sterndale read papers on "Asiatic Architecture" and "Immigration to the Pacific," and ...
Article : 32 wordsBank of South Australia shares are to-day quoted at £18 10s. ...
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Article : 2,323 wordsThe Silverton Broken, Hill Co. has been registered with a capital of £150,000, all of which has been pri vately subscribed. ...
Article : 25 wordsRussia is massing large bodies of troops on the Austrian and German frontiers. ...
Article : 16 wordsAt the meeting of the Queen's Domain Committee held yesterday there were present: Messrs. James Barnard (chairman), A. Crisp, M.H.A., C. E. Walch, Dr. E. J. ...
Article : 478 wordsIn consequence of reports which have been circulated that the Bank of England has been defrauded of sums of money amounting to £200,000, the ...
Article : 555 wordsMr. T. Burt, M.P., Chairman of the Trades' Union Congress now sitting at Newcastle, in his opening address said he preferred self-help to State ...
Article : 159 wordsHUTCHINS SCHOOL (Juniors) V. SCOTCH COLLEGE.—These clubs met on the Hutchins School ground yesterday afternoon, and the game resulted in an easy win for the School ...
Article : 101 wordsThe seventh annual meeting of this club was held in the committee-room of the Town Hall last evening. Mr. A. M. Stuart in the chair. ...
Article : 406 wordsIn consequence of recent revelations in connection with the Bas Chaleur Railway, in Canada, of which Mr. H. Mercier, Premier of the Province of ...
Article : 57 wordsThe educational force of the Waterbury Watch has been felt all over the world. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia have shared in its civilising and ...
Article : 220 wordsContributions to the Irish Tenants' Defence Fund now amount to £22,500. ...
Article : 21 wordsIt is officially announced at Stamboul that the recent change of Ministry implies no change in European policy. The Porte takes occasion to apologise ...
Article : 48 wordsIt is rumoured that the contract for floating of the Russian loan of twenty millions sterling providas for the transfer of seven millions of gold from ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 10 Sep 1891, Page 3
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