Herbert Gardner, the agricultural labourers' advocate, and a crowd quietly removed 400 yards of railway off common lands at Layton, near ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Treasurer, Mr. John Henry, arrived by the morning train from Latrobe, and afterwards met the heads of the departments in Launceston under his control with a view of ...
Article : 259 wordsOn Saturday the billiard match for Championship of Australia and £100 aside was concluded between Henry Evans, tho present champion, and Charles Memmott. ...
Article : 367 wordsSIR,—I am pleased to note that Mr. Eekford in his letter, which appears in your columns of this date, in the main confirms the correctness of my complaint ...
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Article : 32 wordsThe Financial News comments on the Ballance Government policy in New Zealand as a great and grand departure, and declares that the colony ...
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Article : 415 wordsIt is proposed by the Irish party that Mr. John Redmond should be sent as a delegate to Australia to collect funds for evicted tenants. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 109 wordsTo-day's Gazette contains the following notifications, in addition to those already published:— Supplement to the assessment book for ...
Article : 287 wordsSIR,—Mr. Higgs appears to have written his letter re the above property with the object of having a shot at Mr. Profett and the New Golden Era mine. Judging from ...
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Article : 326 wordsMr. Karl Blind has written two letters of some length to The Times, showing foreign public opinion on the Home Rule question. He says:— ...
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Article : 170 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Sydney and Suburban Hydraulic Power Co. Limited, was held this alternoon. The report set forth that ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 23 Aug 1892, Page 3
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