At the request of a number of members Mr. R. Grice has decided to stand for one of the vacancies on the V.R.C. committee, and his nomination was handed in on Tuesday. ...
Article : 391 wordsThe Australian Agricultural Company has declared a dividend at the rate of 12¾ per cent, for the year. ...
Article : 32 wordsHartam will suit. Case for plaintiff closed. Through communication on the Main Line restored yesterday afternoon. City Band plays in Barrack-reserve ...
Article : 7,027 wordsThe Governor has assented to the Railway Border Tax Bill. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Treasurer announces that on August I next, and thereafter until further notice, he will receive applications for Treasury bills, to be issued at par, and having a ...
Article : 46 wordsThe match between the Australians and Somersetshire was commenced at Taunton today. In the morning the weather was wet, and a start was not ...
Article : 270 wordsThe shareholders of the New South Wales Mortgage and Loan Agency Company have approved of the directors' scheme for the reconstruction ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Customs revenue for the June quarter of the current year shows an increase of £4,650 over that of the corresponding period of last year. ...
Article : 31 wordsOne of the bills already formally introduced to the House of Assembly this week by the Attorn[?]y-General, and which will be issued to numbers to-day, is that relating to ...
Article : 1,226 wordsThe market in Australian and New Zealand wheat, ex warehouse, is flat. South Australian wheat, ex warehouse, is quoted at 31s. 6d. per 496lb. ...
Article : 62 wordsMr. Curzon, in a letter to The Times, points out that if France claims to have the entire left bank of the river Mekong under her jurisdiction, and the ...
Article : 183 wordsAt the court-martial yesterday an able seaman deposed that Rear-Admiral Markham directed the telegraph of the starboard engine of the Camperdown ...
Article : 179 wordsSIR,—Public opinion, as shown by the letters appearing in your columns, seems unanimous as to the unnecessary severity of the punishment awarded to this ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Conference held under the auspices of the Miners' Federation has decided by a majority of four to one to refuse to accede to the request of ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Government steamer Lady Loch was despatched last evening for Kent's Group, it having been reported that a light had been seen at night on one of the islands, and that ...
Article : 421 wordsThe following is Mr. W. Crosby's proposal:— The Statistician's Tasmanian Official Record for 1892 gives the annual assessment ...
Article : 864 wordsLitigation is likely to be set in motion to decide whether £18,000 worth of debentures of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. ...
Article : 100 wordsSIR,—In the report of the meeting held at the Horse Shoe Inn last Saturday, which appeared in yesterday's Mercury, I notice that some of the committee favour the ...
Article : 105 wordsLord Jersey has been offered the Chairmanship of the Agricultural Committee appointed by the Imperial Parliament. ...
Article : 22 wordsA motion has been carried in the Servian Parliament, impeaching the ex-Ministers of that country who were summarily dismissed by the King. ...
Article : 43 wordsSIR,—The imposition of extra taxation on tea and sugar will press heavily on a portion of the community who are already overburdened, for a large number of people ...
Article : 244 wordsThe trial of M. Clement, the Metropolitan of Bulgaria, for sedition, is causing some excitement in Tirnova. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe panic which broke out in Denver, in consequence of the determination of (President Cleveland to call Congress together in September for the purpose ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Coal Porters', Sailors', and Firemen's Unions have announced that they will assist the miners if the general strike which the latter are ...
Article : 323 wordsBetter news has been received from Victoria, Mashonaland. The Chief Lobengula is not unfriendly to the British. A few of Matabele's followers have ...
Article : 91 wordsbecome plump and rosy children through the use of Scott's Emulsiou of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites of Linie and Soda. ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Figaro publishes an account of an interview a representative of that journal has had on the Siamese difficulty with Sir Charles Dilke. He ...
Article : 98 wordsThe Government hope, by the exercise of rigid economy, to effect a saving equal to the deficiency for the year. The expenditure in the Public Works Department has ...
Article : 292 wordsAn outbreak of cholera is reported at Cardiff, the disease having been brought from Marseilles. ...
Article : 18 wordsLord Dufferin, the British Ambassador, who recently left Paris on account of continued attacks by the Press, has returned to that city in order to ...
Article : 41 wordsAn apprehensive feeling has been excited among the European residents of Shanghai by the refusal of the Chinese Government to undertake the ...
Article : 74 wordsThe quotation for silver to-day is 2s. 8¾d, per oz. ...
Article : 11 wordsDon't swallow ice-water, danger it breeds, Don't stand in the treacherous breeze, Don't call for fat meat when you sit down ...
Article : 103 wordsThe bill authorising construction of the Channel tunnel to connect England and France has been withdrawn from the House of Commons, there being no ...
Article : 35 wordsYesterday's quotation for rupee paper was £69 10s. per 1,000 rupees, which is equivalent to 1s. 4 68-100d. per rupee. ...
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Advertising : 2,232 wordsThe closure has been again applied in the Home Rule debate, and created some small excitement and cries of "Shame" and "Gag." ...
Article : 240 wordsOrotava left London on the 14th inst., and Plymouth on the 15th inst., outwards. Ormuz left Suez on the 15th inst., ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 22 Jul 1893, Page 3
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