SIR,—I have read in your valuable columns where a number of sportsmen had petitioned Government for further protection for bronze-winged pigeon and wattle ...
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Advertising : 870 wordsThe Royal Society of Tasmania has just issued its report of the work of two sessions, and,as is usual with this society,the subjects taken up cover a wide range, and embrace ...
Article : 1,314 wordsThe expert delegates to the conference on the tick plague met again early yesterday morning, and proceeded to further consider the answers they were ...
Article : 480 wordsSIR,—With your permission, a few words to Mr. F. W. Piesse re his letter in Saturday's Mercury His pleasantries about my democracy I shall pass as irrelevant to the ...
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Article : 803 wordsThe river section of the Spottiswoode tunnel has at last been safely completed. The tunnel was the scene of a dreadful accident on Good Fridiy of last year, some of ...
Article : 213 wordsMining meetings are advertised as follow: —Central Mount Lyell, half-yearly meeting at Launceston, on the 24th last.; Tasmania G.M. and Qturtz-crushing Co., at ...
Article : 52 wordsThe French steamer Quatre Amis and the Cape York, bound to Australia, have collided in the River Scheldt. The Cape York's bowsprit was broken, and ...
Article : 65 wordsCLARENCE, August 17.—No. 1 level extended 18ft; total, 202ft. On Wednesday new make of stone came in back of drive, 3ft. wide, and carrying a little gold, but has ...
Article : 801 wordsIntense heat still prevails in America. Sixty-five deaths from sunstroke were reported last week. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe wages of natives working in the mines on the Rand have been reduced one-half. ...
Article : 24 wordsSIR,—"Anti-Black Spot" may be disappointed to hear that Iam, not an orchardist, and that therefore his sneers about what I "plaintively ask "you to do for me are of ...
Article : 520 wordsGeneral Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian Minister of War, has resigned owing to friction with the Emperor William's military cabinet. General ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Spanish Government is preparing an extremely heavy claim against the United States, on account of losses and damages arising from the ...
Article : 52 wordsAt the cycling meeting on Saturday the Intercolonial Teams Race resulted in a win for New South Wales, with Victoria 2nd. Representatives of Tasmania, Queensland, ...
Article : 94 wordsThomas' column, having built a fort on the Gwai er, subsequently repulsed an attack made by three impis of rebel warriors. ...
Article : 26 wordsBritish gunboats have passed the second cataract of the Nile, conveying military forces, ammunition and stores. ...
Article : 19 wordsAt the Logan election on Saturday Mr. Stoddart, a Ministerialist, was elected by 432 votes against 250 polled by Mr. Reid, the Labour candidate, and 114 by Mr. ...
Article : 64 wordsReports of rich crushings of golden quartz in Kootenai County, NorthWest Idaho, on the British Columbia border, are exciting much interest in ...
Article : 40 wordsArmed with the desire to elicit a few interesting details of the previous performances and methods of training of the champions, I called upon them at ...
Article : 899 wordsMr. Watson, President of the Bank of New Zealand, was examined before the Parliamentary Banking Committee to-day. His evidence was to the effect that the directors ...
Article : 52 wordsThe Times says France and Russia have decided to protect the Cretan Christians from further ill-treatment by the Porte. ...
Article : 23 wordsSIR,—I have not yet had the pleasure of reading the Surveyor-General's report on the West Coast surveys, to which you allude in your issue of the 4th inst., but I claim to ...
Article : 947 wordsThirty-nine German men-of-war, including the largest ironclad of the German navy, have safely passed through the Wilhelm Canal in fifteen ...
Article : 30 wordsMessrs. Robertson & Hunter's store, Penghana, was broken into last night by burglars, who effected an entrance by forcing the lock of the Post Office next door. Goods ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Auckland correspondent of the Otago Daily Times telegraphed to that journal on the 8th inst., as follows:— "Amongst the through passengers ...
Article : 684 wordsThe V.A.T.C. Committee had a long discussion to-day upon the merits of the "lalse" rail which was used experimentally at Caulfield at the entranee to the atraight, ...
Article : 183 wordsThe following notifications among others appear in to-day's Gazette:— Notice of intention to forfeit mining lease 642 87g at Branxholm for non-fulfilment of ...
Article : 123 wordsSIR,—As a graduate, and one who has given many years of his life to educational work, perhaps I may be permitted to say a few words on the measure now before ...
Article : 683 wordsThe Curtin-Davis mine is opening up well. A great deal of interest is at the present time centred in the South Curtin-Davis mine. ...
Article : 78 wordsMaruea was installed to day as favourite for the Caulfield Cup, 160 to 6 being the best price on offer against him. Newhaven hardened 2 to 1 for the Darby. ...
Article : 41 wordsAt the Junction an improvement has taken place in the witze from shaft near the Ooaah boundary. This shaft is 80it. deep, and the drive passed through a lode in a ...
Article : 78 wordsSIR,—In your issue of August 13 there is a local giving details of a paper read by a Dr. R. N. Tucker before an assemblage of 200 physicians, the title being "The Status ...
Article : 531 wordsGlenmore, the residence of the Messrs. Munro, was our trysting point on Saturday, 15th inst. An old friend of last season (a fine stag) had made his reappearance lately ...
Article : 520 wordsSIR,—There have been some wild writings in The Mercury lately as to the weight of fancy bread. As none of the writers seem, in my view, to understand the question, I ...
Article : 496 wordsSIR,—Upon the subject of an elective Civil Service board: For years the promotions and transfers in the Victorian Education Department were under a committee ...
Article : 247 wordsIn Wolfe's Schnapps, an invigorator of the organs of urination and ths bowels, and an invaluable cleanser the kidneys. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 18 Aug 1896, Page 3
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