Nathaniel Kinsman, of matrimonial fame, died yesterday, aged 83. The weather continues very hot; no presen indications of a change. ...
Article : 119 wordsA meeting was held last night at the Commercial Hotel, Zeehan, of applicants for sections on the Mount Lyell reserve. Mr. A. D. Sligo was chairman, and 31 applicants ...
Article : 178 wordsChina has authorised an American syndicate to construct a railway from Tientsin to Chinkiang, passing through Shantung. ...
Article : 129 wordsReports are current in Paris' that M. Grimaux has been dismissed, and other witnesses who testified in favour of M. Zola have been punished. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Hon. Sir Robert Romer, Judge in Chancery, has ordered Sir Robert Peel to restore to the Trustees sixteen heirloom pictures removed from ...
Article : 54 wordsMajor Lugard, who has been in England for some time past making arrangements for the organisation of a force tolbe maintained permanently on ...
Article : 120 wordsA cable from Seoul reports that an attempt has been made to assassinate Count Kimberingrick, a Japanese, nobleman/ holding strongly pronounced ...
Article : 30 wordsThe Hon. G. N. Curzon, Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, states that all the Chinese concessions to Great Britain are explicit ...
Article : 40 wordsThe autumn meeting of the Victoria Racing Club opened yesterday at Flemington in hot and oppressive weather. The attendance was large and representative, including ...
Article : 1,120 wordsThe United States Congress is discussing a bill nullifying the value of the Stickeen-Keslin route to Klondyke unless Canada surrenders present ...
Article : 70 wordsAn exceptionally rich find has been made in the Sovereign mine at Mangana. Atthe82ft. level they have come across someof therichest stone ever seen in this colony. The quartz ...
Article : 163 wordsThe tribesmen of Kordofan or the White Land, formerly a province of the Egyptian Soudan, but lost to Egypt during the Mahdi's revolt in 1883, have ...
Article : 57 wordsLabouchere, member for Northampton Borough, while the estimates were under discussion, moved for a reduction of the vote for the West African frontier ...
Article : 258 wordsThe will of the late Alexander Hay has been lodged for probate. Value of property sworn under £170,000. ...
Article : 28 wordsA hundred firms connected with the trade in Australian products have approved of the proposal to hold a vast Colonial Exhibition at Earl's Court. ...
Article : 31 wordsAt Gisborne a native witoh doctor is being tried before the Resident Magistrate on a charge of murder, by causing the death of a native, who was taken to him for ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Hon. Wm. St. John Brodrick, Parliamentary Secretary for the War Office, has explained in the House of Commons the proposed reforms in the ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Turkish Commissioners appointed to inquire into alleged ill-treatment of Bulgarians at Uskub have released 127 prisoners who were awaiting trial. The ...
Article : 38 wordsA court-martial to try the captain of H.M.S. Victorious for getting his vessel ashore will be held at Port Said on the 21st inst. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe fifth test match was commenced yesterday on the Sydney Cricket Ground. Fine, warm weather prevailed, and a perfect wicket was prepared. ...
Article : 398 wordsBullion silver is quoted at 2s. 1[?]d., being a decline of ?d. per oz. ...
Article : 16 wordsMr. James Huddart, in a letter to the Financial Times, makes explanation as to the causes which have led to the winding-up of the company. ...
Article : 130 wordsShort supplies are hardening butter prices, and colonial is in brisk demand at 102s. to 106s. per cwt. Danish is selling at 110s. to 114s. ...
Article : 84 wordsNorth Dora starting to drive tunnel. Dora busy trenching. Dora Reward trenching. Lady Dora sinking shaft; now down 20ft. Royal Dora trenching and sinking, ...
Article : 169 wordsThe Glamorgan County Council are prosecuting sellers of colonial butter brought to England per steamers Millewa and Corangamite, on the ground ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Comet Co.'s office, assay office, etabie, engine shed, and poppet-legs, and also a number of tools and valuable papers were completely destroyed by bush fire ...
Article : 50 wordsThe following sales of Australian mining stocks are reported on the London Stock Exchange:—Broken Hill Proprietary, 42s. 7d.; Great Boulder, ...
Article : 49 wordsThe visible supply of American breadstuffs east of the Rockies is 48,244,800 bushels, against 49,237,000 reported last week. ...
Article : 74 wordsA second shift started working at the Oonah concentrators to-day. The plant generally is working well. The mine is unwatered for a few feet below No. 3 level. ...
Article : 56 wordsA serious rising has occurred among the natives of the Sierra Leone hinterland, and the Houssa police have been attacked by overwhelming ...
Article : 37 wordsThe monthly circular of Mr. F. O. Licht, Magdeburg, states that the production of beet sugar in Europe shows a decrease of 44,000 tons as compared ...
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Advertising : 1,428 wordsOur town was en fete yesterday. By special train, punctually at the appointed hour, 30min. past noon, His Excellency Viscount Gormanston, Governor of ...
Article : 1,241 wordsThe Spanish cruiser Vizcaya, 7,000 tons, which recently arrived at New York, has sailed for Havana. Owing to the strong anti-Spanish ...
Article : 69 wordsM. Hanotaux, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has assured the Right Hon. Sir Edmund Monson, British Ambassador at Paris, that ...
Article : 132 wordsArrivals. — Duke of Westminster, steamer, from Queensland ports, via Port Said; Gulf of Siam, steamer, at Liverpool, from Sydney; Bungaree, ...
Article : 64 wordsGeorge Barrett, the veteran jockey, is dead. In their pugilistic encounter, Curley defeated Murphy in the twelfth round. ...
Article : 85 wordsBush fires have been burning to-day around Launceston, and the city was, in consequence, enveloped in smoke till the afternoon, when a southerly breeze sprang ...
Article : 305 wordsThe Bank of England returns for the week ending February 24 are as follow, the figures for the previous week being also given in parentheses:—Issue ...
Article : 199 wordsYesterday atternoon a young man named William Haze was accidentally drowned in the West Arm while bathing with two companions named Dally. The deceased's ...
Article : 555 wordsA Greek loan of £6,600,000 has been arranged, Great Britain, France, and Russia guaranteeing four millions at 3 per cent. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe following entries have been received for H.T.C. races at Risdon-park on Saturday, March [?], 1898. Handicaps declared on Wednesday or Thursday. ...
Article : 129 wordsMr. Chamberlain has stated in the House of Commons that Germany is at present infringing the agreement of 1888 by occupying Yenai, that being in ...
Article : 68 wordsThe bush fire on Cataract Hill burned fiercely till a late hour last night, but the Corporation men succeeded in checking it before there was any serious damage done. ...
Article : 51 wordsSir,—Would you be kind enough to allow one space in your valuable paper concerning the fire relief. I am one of the sufferers of Black Friday, ...
Article : 386 wordsThe Wesleyan anniversary was commemorated on Sunday afternoon, 20th inst., at the Ranelagh Chapel, when suitable hymns were rendered, and prizes distributed ...
Article : 301 wordsSIR,—While undoubtedly the Legislature has in the past done much towards the conservation and protection of our Tasmanian native game and fish, there is yet ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 223 wordsHalf-yearly meetings of the following mining companies will be held this afternoon and evening:—Silver Queen, at the Imperial, at 8; Mount Reid, at ...
Article : 80 wordsA representative meeting of gentlemen interested in the numerous leases recently pegged out on the Mount Lyell reserve was held on Saturday. ...
Article : 106 wordsA meet under the auspices of Tattersall's Pony and Trotting Club was held this afternoon in fine weather. Results:- Pony Trot, of 5sovs.; second leov. from ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 28 Feb 1898, Page 3
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