Since a stated sum only has been allowed for the maintenance of the hospital the Board has had to exercise the greatest care to keep their expenditure within their ...
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Advertising : 832 wordsCalls payable at Launceston on 9th December:—Eastern Proprietary, 10s. Montagu Nc. 1, 6d. Half-yearly meeting of shareholders in ...
Article : 167 wordsSIR,—I thank your correspondent "Tasma" for his suggestion of coloured paper for certain portions of the Red Book. If he were familiar with the detail work of a ...
Article : 119 wordsThe long spell of hot weather which set in last Saturday and continued oppressive by night as well as day broke this afternoon. A southerly buster swep[?] over the city raiaing ...
Article : 367 wordsSIR,—After endless delay, knowing that the summer months were so[?], I seo our respected Corporation have at last consentad to try and give as a copious supply ...
Article : 462 wordsSeveral leading French newspapers are urging the observance of better relations towards Great Britain. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Pall Mall Gazette says the Salisbury Government, propose to ask Parliament to increase the military grant by several millions sterling, for the purpose ...
Article : 64 wordsMr. P. Johnson has purchased Stuart's painting, "Golden Autumn," for 400gas,, and presents it to the Adelaide Art Gallery. ...
Article : 42 wordsSIR,—Although I quite agree that the New South Wales authorities are justified in refusing to let our inferior and diseased fruit be landed in Sydney, and further, that ...
Article : 171 wordsThe General Post Office authorities at St. Martin's le Grand have invited tendert. for supply of 10,000 bicycles for the use of postmen in suburban ...
Article : 33 wordsBLOCK 396, November 21.—Tunnel driven further 6ft.; country very hard, but settled. Have met occasional splashes of galena, orossing formation mentioned in my ...
Article : 618 wordsCaptain Campbell-Urquhart Sydenham Smith, R.A., has been appointed Commandant of the New South Wales Artillery. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe dock labourers at Bremen are [?]ining the Hamburg and Altona strikers. ...
Article : 17 wordsBarry and Gaudaur will contest the sculling championship on the Thames in April next, the stakes being £500 a side. ...
Article : 22 wordsIt is expected that an order will be speedily made for the release of Dr. Jameson from prison in consequence of the precarious state of his health. ...
Article : 34 wordsIn a despatch referring to the famine now prevailing in India, His Excellency the Earl of Elgin, Viceroy and Governor-General, states that prospects of ...
Article : 53 wordsSIR,—I trust, with your usual courtesy, you will kindly grant me space to answer your correspondent, "W.G. W.," upon some points in the letter in yesterday's Mercury. ...
Article : 1,281 wordsAdvices from Seoul, the capital of Corea, report that a number of Corean officers have been arrested for plotting the seizure of King Li Hsi, to compel ...
Article : 76 wordsA Japanese man-of-war has been ordered to Manila, the capital of the Philippine Islands, to safeguard Japanese interests there during the ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Mixed Court, Shanghai, is an institution unknown outside of China. It ia a Chinese Court of Justice conducted on entirely Chinese lines, and the law ...
Article : 1,800 wordsMr. C. T. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, states that inquiry as to the extent of exports from Germany to British colonies and other parts of ...
Article : 67 wordsThe second day of the Axemen's Carnival was again favoured with rine weather, and there was as large an attendance as on the first day. The chief attraction was the ...
Article : 620 wordsMr. Sleigh, of Melbourne, has ordered from a Glasgow shipbuilding firm two steamers for the Westralian trade. ...
Article : 19 wordsPressure of business prevents the Premier carrying out his original intention of visiting Brisbane on Friday. He has accordingly postponed his departure for one week. ...
Article : 244 wordsBaron de Hirsch's colt Grafton is to be shipped per steamer Damascus for Sydney. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Belle Vue Proprietary G.M Co. of Westralia, with a capibal of £160,000, is making a first issue of shares to the extent of £40,000. ...
Article : 26 wordsAt the wool sales to-day biddings were better than on the opening day, and the advance in price has been maintained. ...
Article : 46 wordsThere is an article in a late issue of the Gentleman's Magazine which will be read with interest by a very wide public. It is entitled" Extremes of ...
Article : 862 wordsThe half-yearly report of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited shows that the gross earnings amounted to —193,193, leaving ...
Article : 80 wordsA bright,interesting,and animating picture was presented last evening in the Tempersnoe-hall by a gathering of about 600 children on the enlarged platform of the hall at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 90 wordsThe Pinafore still continues to look well, and about 20in. of stone is being put into hoppers to be tested at some future date; some very nice prospects may be obtained ...
Article : 367 wordsA meeting of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society was held this afternoon, and a resolution carried that a telegram of sympathy be sent Mr. L. A. Wells, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 249 wordsOn arrival of the s.s. Duke of Devonshire at Keppel Bay yesterday a fresh case of smallpox was reported, and Dr. Voss, Government Medical Officer, wired to the ...
Article : 198 wordsSIR,—Some few days ago, being canvassed by an agent of the above-mentioned society, great stress was placed upon the fact that if I assured before December 31, 1896, I ...
Article : 353 wordsSIR,—I observe that a Northern contemporary of yours does not seem absolutely pleased at a suggestion of mine that Devonport, instead of assisting Launceston to ...
Article : 348 wordsMrs. Yates, formerly Mayor of Onehunga, has been again a candidate for that office, but has been defeated by a majority of 133 votes. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 114 wordsSIR,—I have read with interest several letters replying to my suggestion that during December the Wednesday half-holiday should be suspended, and shops remain open ...
Article : 206 wordsThe match Australian Eleven v. New Zealand was begun to-day. The weather was fine, and about 2,000 persons were present. The visitors, who won the toss, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 27 Nov 1896, Page 3
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