Notice given of intended sale of forfeited shares in the Montagu S.M. Co. on February 15. Mr. George Adam[?] has been appointed ...
Article : 92 wordsFine warm weather again prevails here. At the annual meeting of St. George's Anglican Churach last night, Mr. F. Knowles Miller was re-elected lay representative of ...
Article : 44 wordsThe New South Wales banquet, held at the Hotel Cecil last night in celebration of the Australian anniversary, was attended by 120 guests, including the ...
Article : 298 wordsThe Federal Convention met again this morning at 10.30, and at nnce went into committee on the Commonwealth Draft Bill. The debate on Mr, Higgins' proposal on ...
Article : 782 wordsThe scheme propounded by the International Commission for controlling Greek finances is largely on the line of Germany's suggestions. It is ...
Article : 62 wordsWhil[?]t going aboard his yacht Sunbeam in Hobson's Bay last evening, a lurch of the vessel threw Lord Brassey into the water. He got a nasty blow on the head, but was ...
Article : 45 wordsNews has been received from St Louis, North-East Minnesota, U.S.A. that a corn elevator containing 3,000,000 bushels of grain and also 85 corn-laden ...
Article : 161 wordsTowards the close of last November Mr. Samuel Lewis, a money-lender, sued Lieut. H. H. S. Clay,of the Second Life Guards, for £11,113, due on two ...
Article : 201 wordsMATCHES PLAYED ON SATURDAY. Hawks v. Mathinna.—Won by Mathinna one innings and 15 runs. South Gate v. St. Mary's.—Won by South ...
Article : 39 wordsNEW GOLDEN GATE, January 27 (by telegraph).—The 4,244oz of amalgam obtained yesterday from 1,680 tons of quartz orushed yielded 1,363oz, of retorted gold. ...
Article : 100 wordsAt the annual general meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society to-day it was announced that the Government Board of Experts had decided to give at the next show ...
Article : 200 wordsThe sixtieth intercolonial match between Victoria and New South Wales was conoluded to-day on the Sydney cricket ground, when Victoria won by three ...
Article : 265 wordsThe Glasgow and Sheffield workmen who have been out on strike have accepted the Federated Employers' terms, and will go back to work on Monday. ...
Article : 35 wordsAt a meeting held at Launceston yesterday, those of interested in section 2529—93M, situated half a mile from L[?]ke Spicer, in the Dora district, an offer from Melbourne to ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Canadian Government, has sanctioned a land grant concession for construction of a railway from Glenora, on the Stickeen River, to Teslin Lake, ...
Article : 49 wordsAn extraordinary meeting of shareholders was held yesterday at Launceston. Mr. H. I. Rooke presided, and the Manager of the company read an offer received for the ...
Article : 164 wordsLord George Francis Hamilton, Secretary of State for the Indian Department, addressing a meeting at Chiswick, said India was exhibiting remarkable ...
Article : 70 wordsMr. Justice Wright, of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, has, at the instance of the New Zealand Shipping Co, ordered the winding-up ...
Article : 110 wordsThe disturbances caused by BashiBazouks at Herakleon are now being quelled. The Admirals of the European ...
Article : 40 wordsFurther attempts made to pump out the wrecked steamer Runelaghat Bundaberg have proved a failure. It is understood that no serious attempt will be made to get the ...
Article : 236 wordsLady Tatton Sykes, who is implicated in the alleged forgery of her husband's name to bills on which a money-lender named Gay claims ...
Article : 36 wordsThe second performance by Messrs. Williamson & Musgrove's admirable Oper[?] Concert Company was given last evening at the Theatre Royal in the presence of an ...
Article : 1,098 wordsThe telegrams from Lagos reporting that the British have occupied Okuta, near Ilesha, a town in the Yoruba country, some l55 deg. N. W. of Lagos, ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Commissioner Dawson held a Court here on the 25th inst., to hear an application for the forfeiture of a water right at the Columbia Falls, George's River, The ...
Article : 969 wordsThe committee appointed by importers and dealers in frozen meat have decided to ask shipowners and brokers concerned in the question of carriage ...
Article : 35 wordsIn commenting on the announcement that a treaty has been concluded between England and the Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia, resulting in the ...
Article : 55 wordsBullion silver is to-day still quoted at 2s, 2[?]d. per ounce. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe seventh annual communication of the Grand Lodge of Tasmania was held at the Masonic hall last evening, when there was a good attendance of members and visitors, ...
Article : 1,036 wordsThe American visible supply of wheat east of the Rockies is estimated at 52,149,000 bushels, as against 52,680,000 bushels a week ago. ...
Article : 26 wordsMr. W. E. Gladstone's health is improving. Fighting still continues in North Borneo. A fort at Fanu has been ...
Article : 56 wordsA steamer bound for Baluchistan coast has been seized at Muscat by H.M.S. Lapwing. The vessel seized was laden with ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the wool sales to-day the market was firm, and there was keen competition. Prices remained unaltered. The following prices were realised ...
Article : 44 wordsLarge contingents of visitors are arriving by the intercolonial steamers in view of the Cup meetings, which commence at Launceston on Wednesday next, and conutinue at ...
Article : 121 wordsA collision took plece on Tuesday night between a goods and water train near Tammin on the Eastern Railway. Both englues were deralled, also a number of ...
Article : 37 wordsWe have received the following, and shall be glad to acknowledge further donations:- Already acknowledged—£134 4s, 4d. ...
Article : 58 wordsA Cigarette, that's so good, it would be impossible to better it, manufactured by Thomas Ogden, Ltd., Liverpool (England). ...
Article : 23 wordsIn connection with the pastrycooks' dispute at Dunedin, the Conc[?]tion Board decided upon 8½ hours for a day's work, or 51 hours per week; overtime for the first ...
Article : 273 wordsA Court of Revision for the electoral district of Selby was held this forenoon, Mr. P. Boland presided. The number on the roll before revision was 1,117. There ...
Article : 429 wordsAnother rack stick contest has been [?]rranged to take place between W. Lucifer and J. Barker on Saturday, February 5. The conditions are the same as in the last ...
Article : 85 wordsThe following [?]tchings for the Tasmanian Turf Club summer meeting are notified:- Launceston Cup.—Battalion and Monard. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe loug-looked-for bowling match between the Launceston and Hobart Clubs took place ye[?]day on the beautifilly. situated bowling-green which forms a part ...
Article : 504 wordsThe Tasmanian-bred Elwick won another race at A[?]cot on Monday. The Musk Rose golding curried 8.0, and ran the half-mile in 524-5th sec. Ma[?]gregor (8.5) was among ...
Article : 261 wordsVisited Colebrook disrict to-day, and found work preceeding vigorously at most of the mines. At the Colebrook the approach for the ...
Article : 615 wordsSIR,—In your issue of yesterday, in your report of the annual inspection by the Commissioners of Fisheries, I notice that a committee has been appointed to inquire ...
Article : 406 wordsThe following is the 17th annual report of the above institution for the year ending December 31, 1897. The hospital premises are in a good ...
Article : 276 wordsAt the Hospital Board meeting to-night an alteration was made in the rules to allow of the appointment of more than three honorary medical officers to the hospital, [?] ...
Article : 259 wordsIf, we think of soap as a means of cleanliness only, even then PEARS' Soap is a mater of course. It is the only soap that is all soup and nothing but soap—no free fat nor free al[?] in ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 28 Jan 1898, Page 3
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