The autumn meet of the Longford Racing Club was held to day. The weather was wet and miserable in the morning but cleared up, and the afternoon was a beautiful ...
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Article : 217 wordsThe Hospital Committee—Messrs. Oberlin-Harris, Sinclair, Coombs, Young, Evans, and Curtain—interviewed the Hon. A. T. Hillingor, who promised that, provided the ...
Article : 108 wordsThe Hon. Sir. Francis Jeune, Justice of the Prrbate, Divorce, and Admiralty Court, succeeds the late Sir Charles Butt as President, of that Court and ...
Article : 35 wordsThe following is the latest betting on the Derby, which will be run on Wednesday:- Seven to 4 agst La Flecho; 7 to 1 ...
Article : 59 wordsThe young Australian, pianiste, Wilhelmian Mather, has gone to Berlin to study. ...
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Article : 431 wordsThe prospectus has been issued of Pears' Soap Company. The subscribed capital is to be £810,000, with a working capital of £85,000 paid-up. ...
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Article : 351 wordsDuring the polling for the Bogaa electorate yosterday, Mr. Wilkinson, one of the candidates, was declared bankrupt. His deposit had been previously attaohed. ...
Article : 61 wordsThis afternoon the Minister of Lands visited the Zeehan and Dundas smelting works, and appeared to be very much impressed with the importance of the work. He ...
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Article : 337 wordsThe Chief Secretary has forwarded a reply to Mr. Playford, the South Australian Fromier, re a conference on coloured labour recognising that coloured labour is of more ...
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Article : 342 wordsThe yacht Inverna has defeated the Iimperor William's yacht Meteor at the Harwich yachting contests. ...
Article : 19 wordsAt a meeting of the Launceston Stock Exchange held to-day the revised rules were adopted. Plans have been prepared for a floating ...
Article : 136 wordsA young man, named Richard Williams, while engaged in roping a ferocious boar in a stye the animal charged him, ripping up his thigh and inflicting injuries from which ...
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Article : 262 wordsIf Mr. Steward's Free Coinage of Silver Bill passes the United Statps Legislature, President Harrison will probably veto it, which will almost ...
Article : 43 wordsJem Hall ismatchcd to box Pritchard for £1,000 a side in three months' time. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe government have purchased the steamer Torra Nova, to be fitted up as a cable repairing vessel. This course has been adopted on consequence of the great cost f employing ...
Article : 81 wordsYou should take SCOTT'S EMULSION, is that your appetite is gone, and you[?]re all run down. SCOTT'S EMULSION will quickly restore the appetite and ...
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Article : 95 wordsMessrs. Huddart, Parker and Co.'s new steamer the Tasmanian has averaged 14½ knots per hour on her trial trip. Sir E.N.C. Braddon, the ...
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Article : 382 wordsSir,—Having leen not a few laudatory paragraphs upon the management of the Hobart Royal Society's Museum in the local Press on many occasions, and having heard ...
Article : 435 wordsTo-day's quotation for silver bullion is 3s. 4½d. per oz. ...
Article : 11 wordsM[?]ot 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 wordsAgricultural exhibits from Queensland will be shown at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show to be held at Warwick. ...
Article : 23 wordsBookmakers can obtain licenses to field at Bellevue at the race meeting to beheld on Wednesday next by applying to the secretary, Mr rights are to be sold to day at 11 a.m. by Mr. ...
Article : 162 wordsI have had occasion to purchase from Mossrs. Carter and Werner both Pince-nez and Spectacles; and I have every reason to be satisfied with their skill as Opticians and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 2 Jun 1892, Page 3
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