The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s R.M.S. Valetta left here yesterday evening for Australian ports with outward Brindisi mails to ...
Article : 122 wordsAs indicated yesterday, the strike of union shearers has been postponed for the present. The President of the Union has wired to the various branches, instructing ...
Article : 192 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 16s. 9d. per unit. Calls on the undermentioned scrip:—East Tasmania, 2d.; Proprietary Silver, 2s.; both ...
Article : 532 wordsToo late for cinnerarias, cyclamens primulas, and hyacinths, too early for rhododendrons and azaleas came the special show of the Hobart Horticultural Society, ...
Article : 967 wordsThe following is the result of the voting for the seat in the Fingal Municipality, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Samuel Page:—Mr. A. Becker, 319; Mr. ...
Article : 49 wordsPresent: Hons. G. P. Fitzgerald, B. S. Bird, and A. Dobson, Mr. Justice Dodds, Revs. P. Keish, G. Clarke, and J. Scott, Drs. E. L. Crowther and E. 0. Giblin, ...
Article : 1,467 wordsMr. W. F. Jacobs, who had kept the Vanity Fair fancy goods store, shot himself with a revolver a little after 12 o'clock to-day. No cause is assigned for the act. ...
Article : 51 wordsThree and a half per cent. New South Wales inscribed stock (April-October), 1903-10, is £1 lower—£102. Four per cent. New South Wales ...
Article : 238 wordsThe pigeon shooting competition at Perth commenced to-day under very favourable auspices. The weather was fine, with a moderate wind blowing, and there was a ...
Article : 657 wordsThe Sandhurst and Eaglehawk Electric Tramway Co. has been decided to suspend operations owing to the failure of the storage system. All the hands employed, about 30, ...
Article : 116 wordsIn regard to the shearers' strike, which was ordered to take place to-day, telegrams received from the country show there is anything but unity amongst the shearers as ...
Article : 357 wordsA meeting of shareholders in the Freehold Bank and Building Co. was held this afternoon, when it was resolved unanimously to wind up the company by ...
Article : 97 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on 'Change yesterday:- HOBART. ...
Article : 229 wordsThe R.M.S. Zealandia, which arrived on the 19th inst., brought files up to August 22. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe first steamship of the direct line between New York and Australian ports sailed from New York On August 20 with a cargo of 5,000 tons of miscellaneous ...
Article : 582 wordsThe Countess of Hopotoun, whoso health has not been very good for some time past, will pay six months' visit to England in the hope that the change will do her good. She ...
Article : 500 wordsWe last night received the following urgent telegram:- "LAUNCESTON, Wednesday, 11.10 p.m. "Mining manager reports having struck ...
Article : 41 wordsGOLD—Amalgamated West Tasmania, b. 4s. s. 5s.; Chums, s. 1s. 6d.; Little Wonder, b. 1s., s. 2s.; Moonlight, b. 2d.; Phœnix, b. 4s. 7d., s. 6s. 3d.; Tasmania, b. £6 10s., s. ...
Article : 220 wordsArgus, September 20.—Rain has prevented No. 3 doing the usual amount of sluicing. No change to report from this face, which still shows a good body of ...
Article : 1,404 wordsThe Trades and Labour Council have agreed to union proposal for conference with employers to thoroughly discuss the labour difficulty. ...
Article : 119 wordsSilver stocks firm at good advances. The following sales were reported on Stock Exchange to-day:—Broken Hill Proprietary, £12 7s, £12 12s.; £12 ...
Article : 150 wordsA telegram from Geraldton states that Bishop Stanton, of North Queensland, who was a passenger by the s.s. Palmer, took off his coat, and assisted clerks, oversoors, ...
Article : 88 wordsThe anniversary of the St. Andrew's and Oddfellows' Societies took place to-day. At 10 a.m. a procession was formed, with the Evandale Band in front, then the ...
Article : 416 wordsMr. G. S. Crouch conducted a sale of Crown land at his mart yesterday. Following is an account of tho sales:- Town of Carnarvon.—Lot 1, 2r 34p, upset ...
Article : 709 wordsThe Greymouth coal minors have struck in consequence of coal being supplied to the Union Steamship Co. The Government has issued a circular ...
Article : 73 wordsAmong the passengers by the Flinders to-day were the Rev. J. H. Taylor, Mr. H. Montague Beauchamp, and Mr. Whiteburn, the representatives of the China inland ...
Article : 274 wordsA difficulty is anticipated in the iron trades. The societies affected are the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Modellers and Boilermakers, the total strength of ...
Article : 412 wordsThe Prussian Minister of Commerce has conceded most of the demands of the miners delegates recently submitted, including 8 hour shifts, the reinstatement of all strikers ...
Article : 458 wordsIn the Assembly last night, Mr. Traill moved the adjourument of deb[?]te to call attention to the state of the country in the present crisis. A long discussion followed, ...
Article : 239 wordsI took a severe cold upon my cheat and lungs, and did not give it proper attention; and it developed into bronchitis, and in the fall of the same year I was threatened with ...
Article : 127 wordsWhenever any article has stood the crucial test of public use and opinion for any lengthened period of time, and the public demand for such is continuously sustained, ...
Article : 157 wordsPEARS' SOAP—Pure! Fragrant! Refreshing!—For toilet and nursery. Specially prepared for the delicate skin of ladies and children and others sensitive to tha weather. ...
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Advertising : 933 wordsThe sub-committees appointed by the Broken Hill Conference have been sitting in private all day trying to come to a settlement in regard to disputed points in the ...
Article : 81 wordsA youth named Andrew Wark was fined £5, or three months' imprisonment, this morning, at the Police Court, for having stabbed a companion named Thomas Napier. ...
Article : 262 words"I have used the Waterbury Watch 'Series E,' for six mouths around powerful dynamo machines and by giving it severe tests I find that it keeps perfect time." ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 25 Sep 1890, Page 3
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