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Advertising : 1,461 wordsThe second autumn meet of the Tasmanian Racing Club is to be held to-morrow afternoon on the Elwick course, and if weather anticipations are realised, the gathering bids ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Ministry has definitely decided that Parliament shall be opened on Wednesday, May 29, and that the first business shall be consideration of the Tariff Commission's ...
Article : 97 wordsSeventeen French soldiers have died at Vitre, in Brittany, from eating tainted American tinned meat. Thirty-four others are in a critical condition ...
Article : 45 wordsThe directors of the Bank of England have reduced the charges for inscribing and managing colonial loans by £100 per million sterling. This will effect a ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Duncan Gillies, the Victorian Agent-General, has engaged an analyst to discover whether excessive freezing or prolonged cold storage is the cause ...
Article : 132 wordsAt a meeting of the S.J. Clu[?] held this evening it was decided to advertise for a handicapper to fill the position rendered vacant by the death of the late J. Scarr, at ...
Article : 51 wordsLatest bulletins state that the Duke of Orleans, who is suffering from injuries sustained in the hunting field, is to-day much worse. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe forty-sixth annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, which will be presented to the members at the annual meeting to be held on the 10th inst., ...
Article : 578 wordsThe London Stock Exchange Committee has suspended for four years Messrs. Coleman & May, the brokers associated with the late cashier scandals ...
Article : 33 wordsJ. G. Loughran, late postmaster at Boulia, has been arrested on a charge of setting fire to the Boulia post and telegraph office. The body of a man, about 40, same ...
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Article : 279 wordsAt the Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, Justice Sir Charles Hall in his summing up in the Wilde-Taylor scandal case, spoke at great length, his ...
Article : 96 wordsTRINITY V. ENDEAVOUR—This match will be played on Saturday afternoon at West Hobart at 2 o'clock. Teams—Trinity: Hanson, Kirby, Harper (2), Andrews, Cleary, ...
Article : 271 wordsBritish annexation of Umbegesa territory deprives Transvaal of an outlet to the sea, and much indignation is expressed, the English Government ...
Article : 32 wordsDuring the last few days a good deal of attention has been centred in the proposed issue by the South Australian Brewing Co. of £200,000 worth of 5 per cent. debentures. ...
Article : 127 wordsThe United States and other Powers advise Great Britain to withdraw the blockade of Corinto on a Nicaraguan firm's offer to pay the £15,000 indemnity ...
Article : 83 wordsMay Day has passed off quietly on the Continent, there being no disturbances during the labour demonstrations. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Scottish and Australian Investment Co. pay a dividend of 2½ per cent., and carry forward £550. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe bulk of the Austral's apples are selling at 7s. to 12s: per case, and a few at 13s. to 16s. Victorian Five Crown Pippins and Stone Pippins 9s. ...
Article : 49 wordsSIR,—Amongst others I have been waiting patiently for some bimetallists to tell us what they propose doing. What has hitherto been placed at our disposal has been too ...
Article : 1,655 wordsA daring robbery was committed at the Horse and Groom Hotel, in the heart of the city, on Saturday night. Some person, evidently well acquainted with the house and ...
Article : 128 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 5th inst. a letter appears signed by Mr. Thos. Searell, who asserts, in a very self-satisfied manner, that his contention that unseasoned ...
Article : 911 wordsM. Tricoupis, Premier and Minister of Finance at Athens, has, in consequence of the defeat of the Government party during the recent elections ...
Article : 35 wordsJapan is making great preparations for renewal of the war with China in the event of non-ratification of the treaty. Captured Chinese men-of-war are all ...
Article : 72 wordsThe stranded steamer Tibet, which had blocked traffic in the Suez Canal, has been got afloat, and the canal is again free for transit of shipping. ...
Article : 31 wordsA private cable message has been received stating that Mr. Thomas Russell has been successful in floating the Waitekora mine [?] the London market, with a capital of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThe Bendigo Goldfields Mining Company has been registered, with a capital of £25,000. Of this amount stockjobbers have taken £22,000 for ...
Article : 32 wordsAdvices received at Ottawa, in reference to cable construction proposals, state that it will be impossible to secure a cable station at the Hawaiian Islands. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin yesterday was unchanged at 10s. 9d. per unit. Pukaki, s.s., had among her cargo for Sydney via North-West Coast and Eden, ...
Article : 113 wordsThe coroner's inquiry into the cause of death of one of the seamen of the steamer Elbe, which was in collision with the British steamer Crathie off ...
Article : 77 wordsSmith and Pritchard will fight for 200sovs. a-side on the 10th inst. ...
Article : 14 wordsIt is notified in advertising columns that members' tickets for the present footbal season are now ready, and can be had from Mr. F. Milsom, secretary S.T.F.A., or from ...
Article : 399 wordsThe Tasmanian Garrison Band will play this afternoon and evening. At night Mr. Jules Simonsen, Miss Florrio Simonsen, and Mr. J. Brown's mandolin ...
Article : 198 wordsA large and influential deputation, representing commercial and pastoral interests, waited on the Premier to-day, and strongly urged the necessity for further Government ...
Article : 53 wordsDERBY, May 2 (by telegraph).—[?]rushed 74 tons of quartz for a return of 13oz, gold, MOUNT REID, April 26.—The following is the result of assays made from the 19th to ...
Article : 656 wordsSher Afzul and other captured rebel chiefs are to be interned in India, awaiting future disposal. ...
Article : 19 wordsIt has been officially intimated that Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the Governor-designate of South Australia, will, with his wife and five children, ...
Article : 50 wordsThe shipment of live stock to West Australia has attained large dimensions. Since the beginning of the year 8,197 sheep, 1,506 cattle, and 195 horses have been shipped. ...
Article : 150 wordsAn immense audience spent last evening with Shakespeare. The idea of hearing the great poet presented musically apparently struck the popular fancy. And it is possible ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsJames Rogers, theatrical agent, is again proceeding for divorce from his wife, Minnie Palmer, the co-respondent on this occasion being Jarrard, manager ...
Article : 30 wordsAt a meeting of directors of the South British Insurance Co. it was decided that Mr. Henry Cane should continue to manage the Tasmanian business of the Mutual Union ...
Article : 50 wordsMessrs. Buxton, Ronald & Co., wool-brokers, of Basinghall-street, state that wo[?] is still suffering from the effects of un[?] depression in the colonial ...
Article : 89 wordsA potato digger[?] employed at St. Mary's, about four miles from Warrnambool, found a gold watch, under one of the tubers. It had evidently been there for many years, ...
Article : 216 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the committee was held last evening at the secretary's office. Present: Messrs. S. T. Tinning (chairman), Peacock, Wignall, ...
Article : 434 wordsMr. Tucker, of Hull, desires Mr. Duncan Gillies, the Victorian Agent-General, to quote a price for large shipments of rabbits, delivered in ...
Article : 90 wordsFruit cases on sale at lowest rates. A full supply of patent triangular nails now in stock. Address — New Wharf, Hobart. ...
Article : 92 wordsIt has been decided that Cobbitty cannot race again, and he will go to the [?]tud at Inverlochy. Ju[?] Alden, aged 105, years, died in the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 3 May 1895, Page 3
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