The annual meeting of the Drapers and Grocers Assistants' Early Closing Association was held last evening at the Temperance-hall, Melville-street. Mr. G. Harrison, ...
Article : 1,887 wordsThe value of industrial exhibitions in cornection with Sabbath and other schools is becoming generally recognised. They serve a two-fold purpose; first in that they are ...
Article : 1,580 wordsThe spring show of the New Norfolk Horticultural and Agricultural Society took place yesterday in the Library-hall, New Norfolk; the opening ceremony being ...
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Advertising : 960 wordsLondon tin quotation, £60. Market dull. A dividend of 1s. in the Broken Hill Junction S.M. Co. is payable at the commercial Bank of Tasmania on the 21st prox. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe weather continues oppressively hot, with a northerly wind, and the Government Astronomer holds out no hope of a change for two or three days. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Launceston Horticultural Society's rose show was held in the Albert hall to-day, but owing to the exceedingly dry spring the exhibition could[?] not claim to be ranked ...
Article : 281 wordsIn the absence, through indisposition of H.R.H. the Duke of Conn[?]ught, who had promised to preside at the delivery of Major-General Hutton's lecture at ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Paris Figaro, referring to the proposed evacuation of Erythrea by the Italians, and the return of the Provinces of Massowah and Kassala to ...
Article : 63 wordsCOLONEL NORTH, November 14.—Have fixed safety door over winding shaft. Centred up to top brace, and are shifting the centres in the shaft, and when completed will ...
Article : 1,323 wordsAs the Government insisted on reduction of military expenditure, Major-General F[?]rench has effected savings to the extent of £20,000. ...
Article : 24 wordsPresident Kruger has ordered the arrest of the entire staff of The Critic under the new Transvaal Press Law, which gives him absolute power to ...
Article : 78 wordsWhen the Assembly met this afternoon the Premier announced that Sir Henry Norman had been appointed Agent-General at a meeting of the Executive to-day. ...
Article : 40 wordsM. Billot, the French Minister of War, has made a remarkable speech concerning editors in the service of French journals. He says fifty per ...
Article : 76 wordsThe captain of the steamer James Comrie, which arrived last night from Kangaroo Island, reports the sudden disappearance of a passenger named Buick shortly after the ...
Article : 225 wordsA public meeting was held in the Penitentiary on Saturday evening, 21st inst., to consider the necessary steps to be taken for carrying out the Carnarvon sports on Boxing ...
Article : 522 wordsLeading European and British financiers have intimated to the Sultan of Turkey that it will be impossible to afford him any financial help until ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Times reports that the Philippine rebels have laid a successful ambush to entrap a Spanish military force, and succeeded in killing 300 of the ...
Article : 37 wordsAt Barcelona 127 anarchists are now being tried for complicity in dynamite outrages committed in June last. Two explosive bombs were found near ...
Article : 110 wordsThe London County Council, in consequence of recent disclosures of cooked accounts, have appointed a committee to inquire into the ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Sportsman says Mr. Muir and any other Australian sportsmen will be heartily welcomed in England. ...
Article : 18 wordsMr. Byron Moore reports a net pro[?]it of £8,588 over the V.R.C. Cup meeting. ...
Article : 24 wordsPreparations have been concluded for despatch of a party to search for missing members of Calvert exploring expedition, in the event of their not being found by the ...
Article : 75 wordsIn October last Lady Scott and two men named Cockerton and Kast were arrested on a charge of having published a criminal libel on Earl Russell, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 131 wordsMr. Bell has been elected Mayor of Wellington by a majority of five hundred over Mr. Fisher, one of the Ministerial candidates for Parliamentary honours, and who ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 694 wordsThe outlook in the West Indies and British (Guiana is serious in face of the threatened ruin of the sugar-growing industry by competition against heavy ...
Article : 55 wordsSIR,—In reference to your leader of the 21st, among the questions that will be brought before the Federal Convention will be the question whether we are to have a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsThe Sulphide Corporation, recently formed for amalgamating several leading chemical works and manufactories, has resolved to increase its capital by ...
Article : 31 wordsBROWNELL BROS. v. GROCERS. — The return match came off yesterday on the S.T.C.A. ground, and resulted in an easy win for the Drapers by 226 runs on the first ...
Article : 146 wordsThe sixth series of wool sales opened to-day with brisk competition, prices ranging to 5 per cent. above October closing rates. ...
Article : 25 wordsSIR,—With so many interests involved, the compulsory closing movement will be most difficult of accomplishment. The want of una[?]imity on this question has been very ...
Article : 248 wordsThe dry weather prevailing is causing a water famine here. The excursion train to Strahan was well patronised this afternoon. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 401 wordsA telegram was received by Mr. Commissioner Shaw at 12.30 yesterday from Superintendent Hedberg, Spring Bay, stating that at 2 o'clock that morning William Tapner, ...
Article : 121 wordsSIR,—Mr. Bufton, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., Etc., describes one of the commonest of our[?] Longicorn beetles, Phoeodes lentiginosus. It is either that or Phoracanthus dorsalis. ...
Article : 219 wordsThe McKimmie Co. sampled 19 tons of ore realising £268. The company are calling for tenders to sink a new main shaft. Mr. Gascoyne Williams, who is looking ...
Article : 152 wordsWould it not be desirable to consult the doctor as to which soap commends itself to our uses, as so many skins are r[?]ned past redemption by infer[?]or soaps 1 PEARS' SOAP is recommonded ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 26 Nov 1896, Page 3
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