The Federal Convention resumed sittings to-day at noon. Sir George Turner (Victoria) presen[?]d amendments made by the Victorian ...
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Advertising : 1,462 wordsCharles Noble, the father of a large family, shot himself yesterday with a revolver. He died [?]oon afterwards. At the meeting of the National Rifle ...
Article : 250 wordsSubscriptions towards the expense of publishing a weekly sermon in this paper will be gratefully received by any member of the Ladies' Christian Association. ...
Article : 1,718 wordsLord and Lady Brassey leave per yacht Sunbeam on Monday for Sydney. They will be the guests of Lord Hampden during a portion of their stay. ...
Article : 657 wordsIn reference to a request that there should be closer commercial relations between France and Russia, M. Boucher states that while Russia is very anxious ...
Article : 67 wordsQueenborough Town Board election to-day. Hobart Hunt Club meet to-day at Rokeby at 1.30. ...
Article : 6,326 wordsColonel Lassetter and officers of the New South Wales Rifles have been banquetted by the Duke of Connaught at the Naval and Military Club. Among the ...
Article : 101 wordsTerrible gales have prevailed on the coasts of Great Britain. Many shipwrocks have occurred, and there have been great disasters on land. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Greek Government assert that the stamp tax yields 11,000,000 drachmas yearly, and have offered bond-holders an additional security, but ...
Article : 91 wordsThe rebel leader, Hadda Mullah, has collected 4,000 Mohmands preparatory to making another attack on the British at Michni. ...
Article : 215 wordsA telegram from Mackay reports destruction of the Victoria Hotel by fire, and that the inmates had a narrow escape. The fire is believed to have been the work of an ...
Article : 37 wordsThe Belfast branch of the Amalgamated Engineers have withdrawn from the strike, being convinced that any continued struggle against the ...
Article : 33 wordsFive natives at Corunna Downs Station, near Marble Bar, ale some honey which had been mixed with arsenic and exposed as a bait for ants. Four of them have died. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe services of two Scotland Yard detectives have been secured to reorganise the detective branch of the police force. One is to be stationed in the North Island ...
Article : 81 wordsSir Alfred Milner, Governor of Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa, addressing a meeting at Capetown, congratulated his hearers on ...
Article : 40 wordsNew York reports that out of 5,000 prospectors in the Yukon goldfield, under 50 have succeeded in crossing the White Pass. ...
Article : 27 wordsMr. Charles Dransfield, an old resident at Bream Creek, has passed away from amongst us at the age of 81 years. The funeral took place at Coppington to-day, and was largely ...
Article : 58 wordsRussell, the Scotch champion, has corapoted with Percy Cavill, at Glasgow, in a quarter-mile swimming match. Russell had the best start, but at 50 ...
Article : 58 wordsA terrible disaster has overtaken a party of English tourists in the Alps. While Mr. Bernard Swinstead, an English tourist, and two [?]others were ...
Article : 50 wordsMr, Richard Hood, a much respected resident of Evandale, fell down dead while working in his garden to-day. He came to the colony in 1855, bringing with him a ...
Article : 45 wordsThe death is announced of Mr. James Anderson, shipowner, of the firm of Trinder, Anderson & Co. ...
Article : 18 wordsAt the monthly meeting of the Glenorcby Municipal Council on Thursday, 2nd inst., there were present:—The Warden (Councillor G. Pierce) and Councillors J. Cook, G. ...
Article : 706 wordsCopper statistics show that total supplies for the month of August amounted to 19,659 tons. Total deliveries including Chilian and North ...
Article : 48 wordsDr. Jameson, leader of the luckless raid into Transvaal territory, and who returned recently to South Africa, is now proceeding to Blautyre, the chief ...
Article : 46 wordsArrivals.—Strathdon, barque, from Newcastle and Sydney. Buckingham, barque, from Sydney. Anglo Norman, barque, from Sydney, at Liverpool. ...
Article : 51 wordsGreat success has attended the labours of the divers who have for some time past been engaged in attempting to recover bullion from the ...
Article : 71 wordsAnnouncement is made in advertising columns of the spring meet of the Tasmanian Racing Club, to be held at Elwick on October 2. The ...
Article : 80 wordsST. MARY'S CRICKET CLUB.—The annual meeting was hold in the Manchester Unity's new hall on Thursday evening, 2nd inst. Mr. F. P. Ryan was voted to the chair. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 96 wordsThe visible supply of American breadstuffs east of the Rookies is 20,362,000 bushels. ...
Article : 16 wordsHindoo has been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. It is doubtful if Pivot will start for Cup. J. Morrison's appeal against decision of ...
Article : 74 wordsOranges shipped from New South Wales by the steamer Australia, bearing the G.W. Co.'s brand, are selling in the provinces at from 11s. to 14s. 9d. per ...
Article : 338 wordsSIR,—I must really spologise for again troubling you re "Tunbridge Water Supply," but really your correspondent William Jones shows such a lamentable ignorance of ...
Article : 348 wordsA word about cod-liver oil, please. You may not bave time to read an exhaustive article on the subject, but a few facts may intersst you, Cod-liver oil is an animal oil, ...
Article : 356 wordsSIR,—On the 1st inst. I forwarded to the Examiner, Launceston, for publication, the written statement of Mr. John Ryan, Deloraine, taken before, and witnessed by ...
Article : 150 wordsAsk your doctor what soap he recommends for the skin and he will uphold the opinion of the highest medical authorities on the skin, viz., Dr. Redwood, Ph.D., F.C.S., F.I.C., the late ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 4 Sep 1897, Page 3
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