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Article : 137 wordsThe June Dramatic Company opened at the Theatre Royal last evening with a performance of G. R. Sima' Lights o'London, a drama full of very stirring situations, and ...
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Article : 42 wordsIt is reported that the Crown will repurchase German New Guinea for half a million marks. ...
Article : 21 wordsSIR,—Some time ago a movement was started by leaseholders of Church property in the vicinity of Hobart, having for its object the right to purchase from the Church ...
Article : 199 wordsA wealthy gentleman and his coachman have been killed in Lisbon by a dynamite bomb thrown in to his carriage. The perpetrators of the outrage have ...
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Article : 550 wordsNothing has yet been done in the matter of appointment of a successor to Mr. Mathieson as Railway Commissioner, but the Cubinet will meet on Tuesday to ...
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Article : 43 wordsPreparations are already being made for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections, and at present we are promised a plentiful supply of candidates. Besides the sitting members ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 21 Apr 1896, Page 3
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