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Advertising : 970 wordsA tragedy was enacted at an hotel in Bourke-street to-night. A respectable-looking middle aged couple were quietly seated in one of the rooms of the hotel. ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin yesterday was unchanged at 12s. per unit. The legal manager of the Grabb's S.M. Co. (Mr. W. C. Grabb) reports that a parcel ...
Article : 103 wordsMuch consternation, allied with thankfulness, prevails at Washington and throughout the United States at a timely discovery made by the police. ...
Article : 107 wordsSIR,—Living isolated as I have done for so many years, never leaving home except to visit some of my old cronies who were here long before your time, we don't often ...
Article : 1,739 wordsBRITANNIA, June 16 (by telegraph).—No. 1 Face—Cleaned up for 4 bags. The wash is narrow, and we are now taking out a paddock, the width of good wash. No. 2 Face ...
Article : 1,054 wordsAt an important meeting of wholesale pro duce traders to-day the ill effects of the present system of prolonged and unrestricted credit was discussed in view of recent ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Prince of Wales new yacht Britannia, which gained leading honours last season, winning 33 prizes out of 43 starts, has been matched to ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Rev. Father Beechinor having left for his new sphere of labour, carrying with him our hearty good wishes, the Rev. Father O'Regan has again taken up his ...
Article : 274 wordsThe Rev. E. Dunstan, of Perth, has accepted the pastorate of the Pitt-street Congregational Church, Sydney. ...
Article : 19 wordsA favourite mode of raising funds for relieving distress is what is called a self-denying week. It is very difficult to do good without ...
Article : 567 wordsThe English mails which arrived by the s.s. Britannia were despatched to Melbourne by this afternoon's express. ...
Article : 21 wordsMr. C. B. Young, who is taking steps to place the London trade in South Australian wines on a satisfactory basis, is at present weighing the ...
Article : 72 wordsThis appeared in the Daily Telegraph to-day:— "Mr. P. A. Bizant, a mining expert, who is well known, and whose abilities are highly ...
Article : 596 wordsSevere gales and heavy rains reported in the North Island. Several buildings have been wrecked, and the weather is bitterly cold. ...
Article : 30 wordsOn board the s.s. Wairarapa, which left here yesterday for Melbourne, were the racehorses Foxhall and Parkham, the former being engaged in the V.R.C. ...
Article : 67 wordsThe quotation for bullion silver is 2s. 4¾d. per ounce. ...
Article : 11 wordsThe cargoes of Victorian wheat ex barque Earlshall (March 9) and William Wilson (March 8), from Melbourne, have been sold at 24s. per quarter. ...
Article : 56 wordsOn Friday next, June 22, at 9 o'clock, entries close for events contained in the July programme of the Belle Vue Proprietary to be run off on their course on ths 4th prox. ...
Article : 77 wordsFEDERAL BRITAIN, by F. P. de Labilliere Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. This new work on the unity and federation of the Britsh Empire is the best we ...
Article : 1,337 wordsVery little occurs here worthy of notice. Houses and shops unoccupied, and men unemployed are the principal features of the place. ...
Article : 98 wordsA terrific explosion has occurred at Brussels, a warehouse being utterly destroyed. It is believed the explosive material was dynamite. ...
Article : 24 wordsPetty larc[?]nies by boys are committed so frequently in Launceston that the Police Magistrate (Mr. G. W. Waterhouse) has time after time expressed the opinion that ...
Article : 286 wordsIn reference to the inequitable character of the proposed new estate duties, Professor Dicey holds opinion that a colonist may under the bill be domiciled ...
Article : 36 wordsSIR,—I notice that the Exhibition Committee have decided to send to England for £100 worth of flags for decorative purposes. Why not keep this amount in the colony, ...
Article : 92 wordsThe French Government has decided on a forward movement in Algeria that will claim the attention of other nations. It has been decided to extend the ...
Article : 115 wordsSIR,—He must surely be a wise man who first applied the word State-improved to the value of land. For, evidently, it contains the argument that the revenue has a ...
Article : 443 wordsAt a meeting of ratepayers held on 9th inst., convened in accordance with a resolution passsed at the May meeting of the Municipal Council, it was unanimously ...
Article : 243 wordsSignor Crispi, the Italian Premier, has received 18,000 telegrams congratulating him on his escape from death at the hands of an Anarchist, and praising ...
Article : 40 wordsA numerously signed petition, praying that the suburb of Invermay be veated with powers conferred under the Town Boards Act, was forwarded to Hobart to-day for ...
Article : 241 wordsThe public are watching with great interest developments in connection with Mount Huxley mine. A meeting of subscribers to the syndicate held yesterday was ...
Article : 293 wordsThe Transvaal Courts have ruled that British residents within Transvaal territory are liable to render military Service when called upon by the ...
Article : 30 wordsAt the Hobart Police Court yesterday morning Isaac Bertram Barker appeared before the Bench, and was charged with " conspiring to defraud, with others, between January 1, ...
Article : 278 wordsA monster meeting of colliers has been held at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and measures were passed expressing determination to resist any ...
Article : 44 wordsA special meeting of the Latrobe Water Trust was held on the 16th inst. at the office of the chairman. Gilbert-street. Present:— Messrs. G. C. Rudge, J. T. Bramich, M. D. ...
Article : 250 wordsThe Russian detectives have unearthed a Nihilist plant at Warsaw, the capital of Poland. The detectives, having suspicions, ...
Article : 62 wordsA special meeting of this Board was held at the Board-room on Monday evening for the purpose of making arrangements to fill the position of secretary, etc. to the ...
Article : 331 wordsSIR,—Mr. Somers, in letter dated June 18, states the price of large perch at 2s. 6d. per dozen. I this day paid Mr. Somers 2s. 6d. per half-dozen, so that Mr. Somers ...
Article : 132 wordsA great fire has been raging in the city of Jersey, United States. The cold stores, abattoirs, and many other large buildings have been completely ...
Article : 40 wordsThe allegations concerning the tunnel driven into the ground at Mount Huxley having been " salted " have naturally given rise to the question by many, " How is a ...
Article : 908 wordsThe opinion of the leading skin authorities of the world, viz., the late Professor Sir Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Dr. Red wood, Ph.D., F.C.S., F.I.C., Mr. John L.Milton, Senior Surgeon St. ...
Article : 247 wordsSIR,—A statement has gone out to the world through your columns that, " the repairs to this vessel would cost twice as much here as at Sydney." ...
Article : 272 wordsTo-day Mr. W. W. Perkins (Perkins and Dear), who has the case in hand on behalf of the accused, will apply for Mr. Barker's release from custody on bail, and will, we ...
Article : 538 wordsOn Thursday evening, 14th inst., a most enjoyable concert was given in the Creasy-hall by Mrs. Geo. Lee and the pupils attending her school, assisted by lady and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 20 Jun 1894, Page 3
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