The race for the Melbourne Cup of 1892 has come and gone, and the anticipations of thousands of people for a year have disappeared in something under the [?] of four ...
Article : 384 wordsThis afternoon the spring, or Derby, meeting of the Tasmanian Racing Club takes place at Elwick, and everything points to a most enjoyable gathering, provided the ...
Article : 233 wordsAn inquest was commenced at Rutherglen to-day on the death of Mrs. Pender, and adjourned for three weeks, in expectation that Hourigan, the other victim, will then ...
Article : 328 wordsFurther particulars of the collision between the P. and O. steamer Ravenna and a Japanese man-of-war in the inner Sea of Japan show that ...
Article : 67 wordsGreen Ponds athletic sports meeting to-night at the Willmot Arms Hotel. Sandy Bay yachting season opens this afternoon. ...
Article : 7,078 wordsThe quotation for bars silver has declinad one-sixteenth of a penny per ounce, being quoted to-day at 3s. 3 3/6d. per oz. ...
Article : 22 wordsSunday, the 27th ult., was the anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Church here, and the building was crowded to overflowing. On Monday the school children and ...
Article : 223 wordsIt is currently reported that the New South Wales Treasury bills, the subject of late acrimonious comment, were forced on the market against the advice ...
Article : 59 wordsAn excellent programme, published elsewhere, is issued for the Boxing. Day meet of the Carrick Racing Club. Commencing with a Hurdle Race of 50sovs., the Trial Stakes ...
Article : 114 wordsButter, ex s.s. Cuzco, factory-made, is selling at 110s. to 116s. per cwt., and a few choice lots at 120s. Dairy butter realises 96s. to 106s. per cwt. The ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsThe Rev. E. H. Thompson, Government Entomologist and Scientific Lecturer to the Council of Agriculture, delivered a lecture here on Tuesday, 22nd inst., on "Rust in ...
Article : 202 wordsThe British Museum authorities have bought for £25 the original parchment deed of Batman's purchase of the site of Melbourne. It is believed they ...
Article : 58 wordsIn the Legislative Assembly last night the debate on the Federation question was adjourned, on the motion of Sir Henry Parkes, until Wednesday next, on which ...
Article : 149 wordsThe return match took place on the 26th ult. at Sorell, and resulted is a win for the Sorell boys on the first innings, due to the good batting of M. Hayton (35 and 34), L. ...
Article : 108 words" They had wandered round and round in that Minding snowstorm hopelessly lost, in a place only a hundred yards square; and when cold and fatigue vanquished them at ...
Article : 958 wordsThe crops throughout the North-Western districts are very promisng, and high hopes are entertained in regard to the coming harvest The visits of the model dairy have ...
Article : 303 wordsOn 'Change to-day the quotation for Broken Hill Proprietary Silver-mining Co 's shares was £5 5s. ...
Article : 21 wordsOn Saturday, November 20, a match was played at Rhyndaston between the local knights of the willow and a' team from Campania. Unfortunately, an otherwise ...
Article : 162 wordsCompetition at the wool sales continues splendid, and prices are very firm. Howlong and Gunbar have sold at 8½d., Brooking, 10½d; Cambridge ...
Article : 29 wordsThe revenue returns for November show the total receipts to be £246,692, or an increase of £25,032 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. ...
Article : 227 wordsIt is considered doubtful whether M. Brisson will be able to form a Cabinet to succeed the Loubet Ministry, which has resigned on account of ...
Article : 38 wordsBy 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning (axemon's day) Latrobe streets were thronged withsight seers, and by 10 o'clock, half an hour before the first event took ...
Article : 511 wordsThe Ameer of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, is making the Chitral chief who murdered his nephew, the Mehtar Afzul, and usurped his throne, ...
Article : 90 wordsIt is believed that the committee appointed by the Monetary Conference, now sittingat Brussels, to consider Mr. Alfred de Rothschild's suggestion as to the ...
Article : 52 wordsA pretty wedding was celebrated here last Wednesday, when a daughter of Mrs. McLean, of Sincluden, was married to Mr. John Adams, at the Presbyterian Church, ...
Article : 1,203 wordsMr. Jay Gould, the American financier and railway magnate, is seriously ill suffering from extreme nervous attacks and dyspepsia. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Chief Justice to-day made an order in Chambers for the speedy winding up of affairs in connection with the Commercial Bank of South Australia. He also ordered ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Union Mortgage and Agency Co. of Australia pays a dividend of 6 per cent, for the year, and carries £2,000 forward. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe London City Council are urging the Government to introduce a bill to create the Municipality for London, and thus unify existing diverse local ...
Article : 35 wordsIn the Assembly last night the Constitution Bill was considered in committee, and the minimum number of members of the Legislative Council was increased from 21 to ...
Article : 112 wordshe Agents-General, Mr. W. P. Perceval (New Zealand), Sir E. N. C. Braddon (Tasmania), and Sir Malcolm Fraser (West Australia), are all willing ...
Article : 265 wordsThe number nine, besides being regarded as a lucky one, is possessed of mysterious properties, intensified from its being the product of three times three. At one period ...
Article : 98 wordsA meeting of the Stcahah Cricket Club was held at the Palace Hotel on Saturday, 19th inst., Mr. Walter Raynolds in the chair, The minutes of the previous meeting were ...
Article : 468 wordsM[?]et 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 : 163 words[?] FOOD.—The most delleious, [?] and digestible. For infants, children and invalids; "[?] when [?] other foods are rajected, and recommended by all the leading physicians and the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 3 Dec 1892, Page 3
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