The following sales were effected on the Stock Exchange this morning: — Balstrup, 6s 10d. Comet, 8s 5d. Oceana (paid up), 6s 3d. Broken Hill, £6 15s, £6 14s 6d; ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe Rev. Mr. Woods, of Clapton, has been appointed secretary to the Congregational Union. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe schooner E. and H. [?]very has been released from quarantine. The debite on the estimates was resumed in the Assembly yesterday, Mr. Canning ...
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Article : 2,163 wordsIn course of an interview with the Premier (Mr. Ballance) to-day, he stated that the Government intend to make 15 new appointments to the Legislative Council, including ...
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Article : 355 wordsIt is announced that the natives of Rangoon, India, have decided to organise a mission to England, by which they hope to secure the ...
Article : 53 wordsI have again to record another [?]erious accident, which unfortunately has had a fatal ending. It happened to the son of one of the oldest residents of this district, I allude ...
Article : 592 wordsGeneral Garza, the rebel leader on whose head the Mexican Government have placed a price of £50,000, has assembled a force of 5,000 men, who are ...
Article : 47 wordsAt Maestri's preparations are being made to begin stoping whenever the smelting works are ready to purchase ores. The north drive at the bottom level is advanced 45ft., ...
Article : 278 wordsThe garrison at Chaco, in the Argentine, has revolted, and it is reported that the rebels, who have assembled in force, are marching on Corrientes, the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe appointment of Cardinal Ledochowski, Archbishop of Gnesen and Posen, and Primate of Poland, as Prefect of the Propaganda of the Roman ...
Article : 41 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,422,000 quarters, being 104,000 quarters more than last week. ...
Article : 120 wordsThomas Triffet, of Gladfield, Ouse, was this day fined £5 and costs for cruelly overriding and ill-treating a horse. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe following were the stock and share quotations and sales on 'Change yesterday:- HOBART. GOLD. ...
Article : 471 wordsThe day was close and warm, but perfectly fine. The Australians were dismayed to find the wicket roll up splendidly and perfectly dry and hard, with a gloss like shirt ...
Article : 387 wordsThe directors of the Victorian Mortgage and Deposit Bank Limited, in consequence of a continuous drain on thoir resources, caused by withdrawals of deposits, have ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 15s. 6d. per unit. Forfeited shares in the following companies are advertised for sale:—Star of Mathinna ...
Article : 321 wordsMoet 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 ...
Article : 63 wordsA deputation to-day asked the Minister of Trade and Customs to make a concussion to Tasmania in respect to the duty charged on timber or hops, with a view to obtaining ...
Article : 106 words"I have used Pears' Soap for two years with the greatest satisfaction, for I find it the very best" (Signed), MARY ANDERSON. Pears' Soap for the toilet and nursery ...
Article : 406 wordsThe St. Joseph's Investment and Building Society has suspended payment. Depositors will be asked to re-deposit their money for, five years, the principal to be repayable in ...
Article : 42 wordsAlameda, January 30.—Struck lode in tunnel; carbonate and galena. Barker, January 30.—Main tunnel extended further distance of 56ft., total 327ft; the ...
Article : 695 wordsBrandy Creek, s. 6d. North Golden Gate, s. 2s 9d. Tasmania, b. £6 14s, s. £7. West Pinafore, b. 10s, s. 11s 6d. ...
Article : 150 wordsA large block of buildings at the eornor of Oxide and Argent streets, Broken Hill, was destroyed by fire last night. About a dozen business people were burnt out. The ...
Article : 44 wordsA cricket mutch was played on the North Hobart Recreation Ground yesterday afternoon, between the Muffs and Brownell's, the former team winning easily on ...
Article : 138 wordsAt Carcoar yesterday a young man named David Ogle loaded a gun with what he thought to be a blank cartridge, and fired at a young woman named Sarah Jane Keens. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 4 Feb 1892, Page 3
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