The announcement of the death at Torquay on Wednesday of Mr. W. H. Booth, of McLeod & Booth, the well-known stock and station agents of this city, was received ...
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Advertising : 1,227 wordsThough the shops were open to-day, it was generally looked upon as a holiday, all the banks and public offices being closed. The weather was fine, and a large crowd ...
Article : 219 wordsMr. F. J. Moore, telegraph repairer at Ringville, reports that a bush fire was burning all round that township when he left by the 4 o'clock tram yesterday, and ...
Article : 401 wordsA special meeting of the directors of the Sydney Hospital was held to-day for the purpose of electing six rendent medical officers for the ensuing year. Special ...
Article : 300 wordsThe death of a miner named Edward Thomas occurred early this morning uuder peculiar circumstances. About 1,30 some neighbours noticed ...
Article : 156 wordsThe heavy bush fires, concerning which telegraphed yesterday, have been raging ith even increased vigour to-day, and more serious damage is reported at Zeehan and all ...
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Article : 905 wordsCalls due on the 12th inst.:—North Dundas, 5s.; Sunlight, 1s.; Moonlight, 1d. Notifications are given of intended forfeiture and sale of unpaid call shares in the ...
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Advertising : 2,251 wordsAUSTRALIAN, December 28.—Engine on bed and partly fixed. Steam pipes and valves delivered, and being fixed to-day. Weather very dry; stopped dam making ...
Article : 150 wordsA sad revolver accident occurred in the vicinity of Alioe Springs on Christmas Day. A miner named Olvey picked up a revolver with which a companion had been playing. ...
Article : 241 wordsThe great heat, which lasted for the whole of the earlier portion of the week, culminated on Thuraday in a day almost unprecedented in sultriness snd scorching ...
Article : 835 wordsMr. William Rose presided. The directors, in their report, stated that the necessary steps had been taken for the flotation of the company's a property on the London market, ...
Article : 240 wordsWhen the fire came down towards the Queen from the Oaush owners of houses threatened, mostly employees at the former mine, were brought from underground, and with the ...
Article : 829 wordsA cyclone swept over the town of Onslow yesterday, doing considerable damage. The derrick of the Government artesian boring plant was damaged, the hospital was totally ...
Article : 53 wordsViscount Hampden, the Governor of New South Wales, and party, arrived last night from the Mount Cook district. His Excellency is greatly pleased with what he saw of ...
Article : 287 words"The Sohool for Saints," which Mr. T. Fisher Unwin has added to his Colonial Library, is only a first instalment of the formidable work which "John Oliver ...
Article : 545 wordsGlobe-trotters assure us that foreign travel, change of air and scene and diet generally effect a cure in the case of the unhappy victim to dyspepsia and indigestion, ...
Article : 850 wordsMr. Harrison, the local Inspector of Mines, when he heard of the fire being dangerously close to the powder magazine, at once telephoned to Messrs. Match, ...
Article : 140 wordsA terrific fire raged in the vicinity of the Five-mile Siding between the MeKimmie mine and the siding. The heavy bush on both sides of the siding blazed up, and the ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 4 Jan 1898, Page 4
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