In the second round of the "fours' match on the Launceston Bowling Green, Mr. Wilkin's rink defeated Mr. Ferrall's by 40 points to 28 this afternoon. ...
Article : 231 wordsA final reminder is given intending nominators for the two Cups, etc., to be run at Mowbray and Elwick in February next that entries close at Launceston and Hobart ...
Article : 124 wordsTenders were opened this morning for the £1,000,000 loan at 4 per cent., the minimum of which had been, stated at £98. ...
Article : 340 wordsPOSTAL TELEGRAPH V. BELTANA, played at Beltana.—Postal Telegraph won by four wickets and 47 runs. Sores; Postal-Telegraph, 70 for six wickets; Beltana, 29. ...
Article : 229 wordsSIR,—The excellent account of the Ho[?]ar[?] Police Court in this morning's issue contains what amounts to a very hard hit at the junior legal profession. Your contributor ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 205 wordsSIR,—The Launceston Municipal Council has, this year, made substantial reductions in the assessment ef all ratable property in Launceston, ranging from £1 to £10 on the ...
Article : 271 wordsThe committee met on Saturday evening at the Mechanics'-institute. Present: — Messrs. J. Chapman (chairman), Polston, A. Ward, Scollick, Hayton, Gibbons, Anthony, ...
Article : 401 wordsEdward Daley, remanded on a charge of theft, made his escape from prison yesterday afternoon. He climbed a wall and got into a yard at the rear of the female quarters ...
Article : 111 wordsMonson, recently tried for the alleged murder of Lieut. Hambrough, and released from custody on the Scotch jury returning a verdict of ...
Article : 98 wordsThe innovation of the S.T.C.A. in permitting New Town to meet Break o'Day on the upper ground on Saturday did not prove a success, a most uninteresting day's cricket ...
Article : 395 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore on Saturday was 12s. 6d. per unit. Call notified—Zeehan Tramway Co., 1s., January 20. ...
Article : 163 wordsBoxing Day down here opened very unpromisingly, but as it advanced became one of the finest we have had this year. Holiday folks soon flocked in, together with over 600 ...
Article : 320 wordsOwing to complaints having been made that the fraiterers and confectioners in Richmond kept open on Sunday, and so tempted children to apend their pennies in fruit ...
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Advertising : 1,315 wordsThe Times says the reaction in favour of colonial loans in justified by the improved prospects of the colonies generally, but it has been carried far ...
Article : 34 wordsNORTH WESTERN, January 5.—The poppet heads are raised, and the biggest part of engine delivered at Zeehan end of Western tram. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe British Government has ordered the building of four battleships like the Magnificent and Majestic, four station gunboats, and twelve torpedo ...
Article : 41 wordsSinking the main shaft at the Western has been resumed. Mr. Matthew May arrived here on Saturday afternoon to make arrangements for and ...
Article : 99 wordsRioting, as a protest against the heavy imposition of taxes, continues in Sicily. A desperate conflict has taken place ...
Article : 87 wordsOn Saturday afternoon the second heats for Mr. A. Clarke's trophy, and the D.S. Club Purse were competed for by the 28ft. and 21ft. yachts respectively. The field in ...
Article : 764 wordsSir Henry Loch and the Hon. Cecil Rhodes have arranged terms for settling the Matabele country. Lo Bengula, with two thousand ...
Article : 77 wordsAt the meeting of the Municipal Council, held on Thursday, there were present the Warden and all the members. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and ...
Article : 317 wordsWe were not favoured with Queen's weather for our Christmas Day. The clerk of the weather gave us a steady rain the whole day, consequently the first cricket ...
Article : 653 wordsThe Esk and Tamar commenced their fixture, in the second round of Association matches to-day. Sidebottom winning the toss from the Esk captain and sending the ...
Article : 147 wordsFurther information elicited in the Ravenhill case goes to prove that after leaving the man Wood Eliza Ravenhill lived for many years with a man named ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Rev. Canon Danks, of Richmond, Yorkshire, has expressed his willingness to accept the Bishopric of Wellington, New Zealand, but requires information ...
Article : 37 wordsCount Xavier Chapelle is suing General and Mrs. Browne, who are resident at Nice, for damages for libel. The alleged olfence is said to be a statement ...
Article : 57 wordsThe National Bank of New Zealand has declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent. The directors of the Peel River Land ...
Article : 39 wordsThe unfavourable weather on Saturday afternoon had the effect of limiting the attendances at the important matches played for Hood's Sports Depot Trophy. ...
Article : 591 wordsThe official liquidator of the New Oriental Banking Company estimates that the total amount of dividends will be only 12s. 6d. in the £1 instead of ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Right Hon. H. Campbell-Bannerman, Secretary for War, has confirmed the adoption of the eight hours principle in all Government workshops ...
Article : 30 wordsMr. Gladstone spends the short parliamentary recess at Biarritz, the popular sea bathing village in Basses-Pyrenees, South France. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe prices of colonial butter remain unchanged. ...
Article : 9 wordsAt the local court on the 14th inst. John McLennan was charged with rescuing 11 head of cattle from Joseph Foster, while on his way to the pound. Defendant pleaded ...
Article : 143 wordsHeavy fighting is reported to have taken place in connection with the war between the neighbouring Republics of Honduras and Niearagua. An attack ...
Article : 62 wordsA Star Chamber inquiry held at Dublin Castle has revealed, beyond doubt, the murderers of Reid, who is alleged to have been sacrificed by the ...
Article : 54 wordsThe scrip of the new £1,000,000 loan recently floated is now at 3½ premium. ...
Article : 16 wordsSevere wintry weather and intense frost still prevail throughout England, and most of the rivers are wholly or partially frozen over. ...
Article : 49 wordsPeall has won eight out of the twelve matches between himself and Memott of 700 up, spot barred. Fresh matches have been arranged, Memott to receive ...
Article : 36 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 3rd inst. uuder the above heading only the silver-lead, 1,655 tons, £19,860; tin ore, 10 tons 4cwt., £510, and nickel, 17 tons 6cwt., £173, ...
Article : 164 wordsThe returns of the year's commerce issued by the Board of Trade show that the imports into the port of London have decreased to the extent ...
Article : 58 wordsSufferers are net generally aware that these lisea[?]es are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrane of the nose and custachian ...
Article : 261 wordsA Reuter's message from Sierra Leone states that a body of French attacked the British camp at Warina before dawn on the 23rd ult. The British ...
Article : 355 wordsForty degrees of frost (—8Fah.) have been registered in many parts of Germany, and the weather is colder in England than it has been for the past ...
Article : 58 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 3rd inst. 1 noticed a letter re the religious disorder at Richmond, signed "Campania." After reading his letter I came to the conclusion that ...
Article : 235 wordsWhilst the River Mersey was in high flood on 19th September last, Mr. Geo. Clarkson courageously saved the life of a little girl at the risk of his own, and ...
Article : 513 wordsThe weather on Saturday, although not so unpleasant as might have been expected, was far from being favourable for yachting. The wind was up from the southward, ...
Article : 628 wordsThe opinion of the loading skin authorit[?] of the world, vir., the late Professor Sir Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Dr. Redwood, Ph.D., P.C.S., F.I.C., Mr. John L. Milton, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 8 Jan 1894, Page 3
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