General Mitre, who headed the revolution in Euenos Ayres in 1874, has declined to accept an invitation to become a candidate for the Presidency ...
Article : 66 wordsTHIS EVENING, at 8 —The AcharcaCharrington Company. Written in Sand and The Ladies' Batti[?]. ...
Article : 27 wordsWarrentinna, s.s., 14½ tons, R. A. Hall, for Launceston and East Coast ports. Agents—J. R Fryer and Co. Banks Peninsula, s.s., 237 tons, T. J. Chaplin, ...
Article : 426 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 1,439 wordsManchester Unity Ball on the 28th inst. Bates Band in Barrack Reserve to-night. Mutual Fire Co. pays 10 per cent dividend. Pacific Lodge, No. 5, T.O., meets this ...
Article : 4,654 wordsThe alleged defaulting Simpson's-road Postmaster, James Hamilton Smith, charged with embezzling £363, has been committed for trial. ...
Article : 125 wordsThe Standard expresses opinion that prime colonial apples will find a ready market in England during the ensuing season. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe well-known racehorse St. Blaise, by Hermit—Fusee, has been sold to Mr. Reed for £10,000, and York has been sold to the same buyer for £20,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Czar has decided to visit he famine stricken districts of his dominions, and judge for himself the extent of the distress prevailing. ...
Article : 28 wordsGeo. Fox, a young man, this morning received a sentence of six months' imprisonment at the Central Court, for forging and uttering. When the police went to arrest ...
Article : 159 wordsThe French Government has decided to strengthen the fortifications of Tunis on the North Coast of Africa. [The French Governing Resident at Tunis, ...
Article : 80 wordsDisheartening news comes from the Arctic seas as to the ill-successes of the Greenland whale-fishing this season. The ships from the east and north-east of Scotland are coming ...
Article : 138 wordsMr. F. O. Licht states that the production of beet sugar for the first month of the season shows a decrease of 16,000 tons on the production for the ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Limited, of Glasgow, have received instructions to build for the Cunard Co. two steel twin-screw steamships, which are to be ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Societe Scientifique Europeenne, of Brussels, has awarded the gold medal to Grist and Son, of Melbourne, for excellence in the manufacture of baking ...
Article : 29 wordsA scene occurred in the Legislative Council to-day between Mr. Kirkpatrick, President of the Trades Council and Labour member, and Mr. Ebenezer Ward, the farmers' ...
Article : 120 wordsThe Chilian elections' are progressing peaceably, and there is very little evidence of party feeling. ...
Article : 20 wordsFlinders, s.s., 4,948 tons, J. P. Sharpe, from Melbourne. Captain Sharpe reports as follows:—Left the wharf at 2 p.m. on Monday; entered Low Head at 9.30 a.m. to-day and ...
Article : 166 wordsA railway collision has occurred at Kohlfurt, in Silesia, in which five persons were killed and many injured. ...
Article : 23 wordsExciting scenes have occurred at the Erfurt Socialistic Congress, and six of the leading Anarchists have had to withdraw to avoid expulsion ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. James Crawford, farmer, of Toolamb[?], on returning from Murchison Agricultural Show with waggon laden with exhibits of pigs and fowls over balanced himself and ...
Article : 754 wordsOctober 20.—Flora, s.s., for North-West Coast ports, via Launceston. Passengers— Saloon: Mr. and Mrs. Turner; Mesdames Vaur and child, Wren; Misses Stephens, ...
Article : 92 wordsMr. Murray Smith embarks at Brindisi on December 6 on his return trip to Australia. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Hansard Union Publishing Co. claim over a million sterling against the Debenture Corporation for illegal seizure of property. ...
Article : 25 wordsA terrific gale has again raged in the English Channel. A French brig has been wrecked at the Isle of Wight and five of the crew drowned. The ...
Article : 51 wordsDomestic life and the inner workings of that mystic piece of machinery known as a woman's heart are what Ibsen is supposed to have made his special study when framing ...
Article : 447 wordsBarometer corrected to 32deg. F., and mean sea level. Curve showing state of barometer to 3 p.m., October 20. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 25 wordsThe Russian military expeditionary force has entered Pamir, Central Asia, regardless of protests made by the Chinese frontier officers. ...
Article : 39 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 280 wordsThe French Government has issued orders forbidding the Salvation Army Parades in the Republic. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe rain makers have averted a threatening drought in Texas by the use of dynamite explosives. ...
Article : 21 wordsCholera is still spreading in Syria, and the daily list of fatal cases is extending. ...
Article : 22 wordsM. De Giers, the Russian Minister of War, has assured Signor Rudini, the Italian Premier, than the FranceRussian entente is devoid of any ...
Article : 30 wordsThe use of Dr. Koch's specific for the alleged cure of tuberculosis has been forbidden in the Russian military hospitals. ...
Article : 26 wordsP. and O., to-morrow. Orient, 28th inst. OUTWARDS. P. and O., 20th inst. Torres Straits, 26th inst. THIS DAY. ...
Article : 49 wordsTo the Editor of The World, New York, N. Y Dear Sir,—The case of Mrs. John Gemmill presents a striking example of suffering and marvellous cure. She has lived in and ...
Article : 329 wordsThe Czar has received a deputation from the Sultan of Turkey headed by Djevad Pasha. ...
Article : 21 wordsInfluenza is very prevalent in Paris, and many Ministers are ill. ...
Article : 18 wordsMELBOURNE, October 20 (by cable).—Little done in wheat either at auction sales to-day or privately, and prices are nominal at 5s. 6d. to 5s. 7d. Flour, £12 5s. to £13 for stone, to £14 for ...
Article : 76 wordsThe Ecumenical Conference held at New York has made an estimate that the Methodists of the world total thirty millions. ...
Article : 26 wordsWe have received the following cable message:- Our opening wool sale to-day attracted a Crowded attendance of English, Continental, ...
Article : 173 wordsGeneral Benjamin Harrison (President of the United States) and Sir Julian Pauncefote (British Minister at Washington), paid a visit to the session ...
Article : 142 wordsOne of the most terrific gales known for many years passed over Cooma on Friday night, and did much damage. It blew in the gable end of Mr. Charles Hain's jeweller's ...
Article : 162 wordsTo-day, the day of the Annual Exhibition of the Southern Tasmanian Agricultural and Pastoral Society, this OFFICE will be CLOSED at Noon, but will re-open in the ...
Article : 47 words"Inquirer."—The Queen's salary, etc., is £185,000. President of America, £10,000; 66 Senators each £1,000), £66,000. ...
Article : 23 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 21 Oct 1891, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: