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Advertising : 1,826 wordsSorell Race Club Eastsr Monday meeting programme published this morning. Nominations close 8 p.m., Saturday, March 3. Weights a week later. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe Tasmanian Art Society's pictures for the year are on view as the Exhibition-building. A feeling of astonishment comes over one as this wretched display of psuedo ...
Article : 978 wordsThe Art Society of Tasmania is steadily and surely growing in strength, usefulness, and importance, and the 10th annual exhibition which was opened yesterday in the ...
Article : 1,626 wordsThe despotic government of the German Colony of Cameroon, on the West Coast of Afria, is causing general discontent there. The recent revolt was ...
Article : 57 wordsThe first of the race meetings annually hell on metropolitan courses in Tasmania during the month of February takes place to-morrow and Friday next, when the ...
Article : 1,127 wordsIt is believed that Russia is making preparations to seize the island of Quelpaert, which occupies a commanding position at the entrance to the Yellow ...
Article : 76 wordsAt the Agricultural and Pastoral Society's meeting to-day the secretary stated that the financial position had considerably improved during the past year, the indebtedness to the ...
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Article : 66 wordsHarding heat Bubear by twenty lengths in a sculling match at Mortlake to-day. ...
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Article : 23 wordsThe French authorities in Dahomey have arrested King Bohanzin, who is being sent to Fort St. Louis, a French settlement on the Senegal River. His ...
Article : 47 wordsAt the wool sales competition is stronger and prices firmer. Averages.— Wyuna Downs Yank, 7½d.; Con, 7¾d; Boonoke, 8½d.; Gondaryan, 9?d. ...
Article : 23 wordsA meeting of shareholders in this company was held last evening at the office of Mr. R. H. Price, for the formation of the company. Dr. Thompson occupied the ...
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Article : 27 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. George Childs, a will known American journalist, publisher and philanthropist, in his 65th year. ...
Article : 150 wordsThe Bondi tram extension to the beach is now ready, and will be opened immediately. The new Lambton colliery starts to-morrow to load a 5,500 ton cargo. The places of the ...
Article : 452 wordsThe Emperor William has announced the signing of a Russo-German commercial treaty, and has warned the Reichstag that a tariff war will ...
Article : 77 wordsThe asual course of events has not been much disturbed. Lately we have had a slight outbreak of measles, bat nothing very serious, everyone so attacked having quickly ...
Article : 429 wordsJumna, from Queensland, left Port Said on the 2nd inst., homeward bound. Merkara arrived at Colombo on the 2nd inst., from Queensland. ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Rev. John McNeill, formerly of Regent-square Chapel, pays an evangelistic visit to Australia. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe House of Lords continues to make radical amendments in the Parish Councils Bill. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. Gillies, the new Agent-General, was entertained at a banquet at Parliament House to-night. A splandid demonstration was made. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe French forces in Sierra Leone engaged against the rebel Sofas tribe have again fired on the British frontier police in Sierra Leone, and in the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe condition of the constables injured in the affray with two burglars, Milledge and Williams, shows material improvement to-day. Constuble Alford is the greatest ...
Article : 78 wordsJ. R. Fitt, late secretary of the North London Commericâl Permanent Building Society, who was recently arrested on a charge of falsifying the books of ...
Article : 441 wordsThe prisoner Schmidt, who escaped from the Warsick train on Tuesday, was arrested at Middle Ridge last night. He had been on the Tin Mountain, near Drayton, most of ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was 12s. per unit. Huzzur adjourned extraordinary meeting this evening, at 7.30, Cook's-chambers. ...
Article : 195 wordsThe local banks have reduced the rate of interest on deposits by one-half per cent. A fund has been opened for relief of the families of the officers and crew of the ...
Article : 49 wordsThe delegates representing the village settlement scheme who inspected the Murray lands returned to Adelaide yesterday afternoon, having selected a site between ...
Article : 216 wordsThe anniversary services in connection with the Wesleyan Sabbath-school, was celebrated on Sunday last, 4th inst. The Rev. A. T. Holden, B.A., of Port Cygnet, ...
Article : 503 wordsCaptain Prentice, of R.M.S. Duke of Argyle, reports a serious fire aboard the s.s. Dorunda when he met her last Thursday. The fire broke out in No. 1 ...
Article : 270 wordsCHUMS PROPREITARY, February 3.—During the week fairly good progress has been made in the mine. No. 5 Level East—Drive has been extended 15ft. since starting the ...
Article : 781 wordsA fishing boat capsized in Auckland Harbour yesterday, a[?]d one of the occupants named Robert Mellis was drowned. A man has been arrested at Christchurch ...
Article : 57 wordsSIR,—The Chairman of the V.D L. meetings held last week did not reply to my question in yours of the 30th ult., viz.—What amount did he pay for the use of the s.s. ...
Article : 71 wordsOn the second day (Saturday) the weather was fine, and the attendance better than on Cup Day, Mr. D. S. Wallace's Taupo, by Malua, beat the odds-on favourite Hova a ...
Article : 133 wordsIf we think of soap as a means of cleanliness only, oven then PEARAS' SOAP is a matter of course. It is the only soap that is all soap and nothing but soap-no free fat nor free alkali in ...
Article : 330 wordsAn extraordinary tragedy has been perpetrated at Florence. A soldier in the garrison, who had shown symptoms of mania and had been confined in the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe scarcity of water at Coolgardie goldfields is becoming more serious' every day, and it is feared that a water famine is inevitable unless rain falls soon. ...
Article : 32 wordsNumerically speaking, the entries for the general events of the V.R.C. Autumn Meeting are disappointing, a decrease in numbers being shown in every event with the ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Premier has replied to the Labour party, officially stating that the Government declines to recommend the Governor to summon Parliament before the next ...
Article : 33 wordsIt is stated that ex-King Milan, now at Belgrade, the capital, where he is practically directing the Government of Servia for his son, the young King Alexander, ...
Article : 39 wordsH.M.S. Lizard, which has arrived from Milford Sound, reports encountering a severe gale on Friday, during which seas washed overboard two of the crew named W. Tucker, ...
Article : 125 wordsAsk ydur doctor what soap he recommends for the skin and he will uphold the opinion of the highest medical authorities on the skin.[?] vts., Dr. Red wood, ph.D., F.C.S., F.I.C., the late ...
Article : 18 wordsIt is reported that Count Von Caprivi, Chancellor of the German Empire, is about to resign that office. On the passage last year of the Army ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 7 Feb 1894, Page 3
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