The Council met on Saturday, 8th inst. Present:—The Warden (Councillor F. Mace), and Councillors Salmon, Morey, Pitt, Gatehouse, Wagner, and Turvey, ...
Article : 577 wordsThe transfer journal of the Mount Bischoff Co. will be closed from the 20th inst. until after payment of dividend. Application is made to register the ...
Article : 93 wordsAshtield v. Beltana Juniorr, at Beltans to-morrow. Ashfield from the following:— Hornsey, Miles, Nuttall, Roberts, Turner, Hemingway (capt,), Ocborne (2), Crookes, ...
Article : 111 wordsRain badly wanted. Several cattle burat and miles of fencing through bush fires still raging to the south of Burnie. ...
Article : 32 wordsDry weather has broken up, and a real West Coast downpour is now on. Madame Amy Sherwin's second concert tonight is being given to an even better house ...
Article : 59 wordsA now Japanese Cabinet has at last been formed by Count Ito who has appointed himself Premier; Count Nishi, Minister of Foreign Affairs; ...
Article : 73 wordsTelegrama from various parte of Gippsland show that bush fires have extended in all directions, and not only destroyed many thousand acres of timber and grass but have ...
Article : 148 wordsThe annual meeting of the Hobart Garrison Rifle Club was held last evening at the Committee-room, Town-hall, Lieut-Colonel Wallack pres ding. ...
Article : 1,254 wordsAt the Oonah No. 2 copper show the drive south is in about 12ft. The formation extends right across the drive, and there is no footwall yet. The crossout will be run ...
Article : 351 wordsKING-FEWCOFSKI PROPRIETARY, January 4.—Continued prospecting as usual. No new discoveries to report. NEW BROTHERS' HOME, No. 1, January 4. ...
Article : 332 wordsAlthough two of the five teat matches set down for decision between Stoddart's English Eleven and Australia have been played within a month—one at Sydney and one at ...
Article : 781 wordsAn earthquake has occurred at Amboyna, chief island of the Moluccas, Malay Archipelago, resulting in fifty people being killed, and two hundred ...
Article : 29 wordsThe York branch of the Amalgamated Engineers is supporting Sir Christopher Furness in his candidature for the vacant seat for that city in the ...
Article : 62 wordsA few days ago a woman, disguised as a man, arrived at Coolah, and died on Monday last. Her sex wai not discovered until the body was being prepared for ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Manchester Federated Employers are re-opening their works and engaging non-unionists at the terms laid down at the last Labour Conference. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe following tables have been prepared from returns furnished by the Inspector of Gastoms, and are now published for general information. ...
Article : 165 wordsAt a meeting of sbareholders in the North Colebrook Mines Co., No Liability, held on the 10th inst. at the company's office, Queenstreet, Melbourne, the following resolution ...
Article : 382 wordsAn Egyptian battalion is now marching from Suakim to Berber, to cooperate with the Anglo-Egyptian force already concentrated there. ...
Article : 49 wordsH.M.S. gunboat Swift, 756 tons, Commander R. K. McAlpine, has been despatched from Hongkong to the island of Hainan, to watch French ...
Article : 82 wordsThe river reached it highest, about 19½ft., last night, being 1ft. below the flood of 1890. The water then began to gradually recede, and is now falling at the rate of 6in. an ...
Article : 113 wordsSIR,—Living as I do in the "back blocks." it was not until Monday that I saw in The Mercury our Treasurer's supplement to Colonel Wallack's report on his return ...
Article : 483 wordsGerman banks have been chiefly instrumental in advancing Turkey £1,200,000 on the security of important concessions in Asia Minor. ...
Article : 27 wordsA tornado in Arkansas State has waged immense damage, during which 31 people lost their lives. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe will of Wm. Knox Simms, of Glenelg, has been lodged for probate. The estate is sworn undor £345,000. Bush fires have been raging in the forest ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 wordsRocky Mine.—This, the parent mine of the Brown's Plains and Rocky district, is daily proving to the lucky shareholders that they have a property valued for its high ...
Article : 718 wordsThe Afridis are despondent at the Ameer of Afghanistan refusing to intercede for them with the Indian Government in order to obtain mitigation of ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Cripplegate fire inquiry, after lasting thirteen days, has resulted in a verdict that it was wilfully caused by the ignition of a stack of goods on the ...
Article : 43 wordsThe sentence of death passed on Michael Martin, for murder of Hannah Cubbin, has been commuted to penal servitude for life. ...
Article : 25 wordsSIR,—True heroism enshrines the memory of the here in our hearts, as brave deeds honourably perpetuate a past life. The many heroic actions called forth by the ...
Article : 401 wordsWe have received the following, and shall be glad to acknowledge further donations:- Already acknowledged—£118 3s. 3d. ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Mendle, the Radical candidate, has been elected for Plymouth by 5.966, to Mr. Guest's (Unionist) 5,802. ...
Article : 23 wordsThere is likely to be a general half-holiday here on Wednesday next, when the Tasmanian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition is to be oponed by His Excellency the Governor, ...
Article : 296 wordsThe rival chiefs Lethorodi and Masupha are fiercely fighting in Basutoland. The quarrels of these two chiefs have caused trouble for years past, and have ...
Article : 45 wordsSIR,—Kindly allow me space whe[?] to make two suggestions to the Hobart Council in connection with the forthcoming Appeal Court to be held cn the 19th inst. ...
Article : 243 wordsThe Council met on the 8th inst. Present —The Warden, Councillers Bowden, Jones, and North. Councillor Steele wrote asking for leave ...
Article : 290 wordsThe Sunbeam Society of South Australia has provided funds for dining 1,200 East End children at the Peoples' Palace. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe visible supply of American breadstuffs east of the Rockies is 54,311,000 bushels, as compared with 54,172,000 bushels a week ago. ...
Article : 23 wordsSIR,—I sincerely hope that the latest romour as to what the Corporation intend doing in the North-West Bay River question is not true, for I have beard it said that they ...
Article : 330 wordsThe Australian racer Emmalea has accepted for the Sandown Grand Prize at lOst. 101b. The English press regard the ...
Article : 72 wordsIt Is announced by advertisement that stakes won at the summer meet are payable to-day at 147, Argyle-street. The meet resulted in a profit of about £40. ...
Article : 142 wordsSIR,—I do not know if the inspector for Hobart is aware of the state of some of the gardens in the city, but I can point out at least one from which a considerable quantity ...
Article : 160 wordsThe Chamber of Commerce met to-day and received a communication from Capetown asking whether, in the ocean' mail contract with steamship companies, any clause had ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 14 Jan 1898, Page 3
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