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  2. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS

    In the Assembly this evening all preliminary business was suspended to enable the Minister of Lands to move the second reading of the Amending Land Bill. In a ...

    Article : 188 words
  3. EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.

    Refugees and deserters from the Khalifa's army continue to arrive in the Anglo-Egyptian camp, and bring with them more or less important, news ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.

    The Czar's proposals for a conference to consider the feasibility of a general international disarmament have aroused widespread attontion. ...

    Article : 126 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 182 words
  6. THE MERCURY.

    Cake Fair All Saints' schoolroom to-day. Shooting match at Cooley's Hotel, Moonah, to-day. Election of director of Hobart Gas Co. ...

    Article : 5,320 words
  7. SHIPPING.

    Mahinapua, s.s., 158 tons, G. J. R. Wald, from Strahan. Passengers — Saloon: Mesdames [?]ainton, Hill, King; Misses Smallhorn, Firth; Messrs. Johnston. F. J. Jacobs, G. Dehle, ...

    Article : 61 words
  8. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,003 words
  9. VICTORIAN ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

    The Shropshires at the show of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria to-day formed a large and very representative collection from Tasmania, South Australia, and ...

    Article : 145 words
  10. THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.

    The famine is causing acute and increasing distress among Russian peasants and small farmers, especially in the Yazan district. There is no hay ...

    Article : 54 words
  11. SAILED.—August 30.

    Yolla, s.s., 100 tons. R. Reid, for Maatsuyker Island. Cox's Blight, Macquarie Heads, King's Island, and N. W. Coast [?]ighthouses. Passengers—For Cox's Bight: Messrs. Meredith, ...

    Article : 55 words
  12. EXPORTS.—August 30.

    Kassa, barque, for Lyttelton—160,000ft. sawn timber. Mabinapua, s.s., from Strahan, arrived here at 2.3 p.m. yesterday. As she has to leave ...

    Article : 225 words
  13. CAPE COLONY ELECTIONS.

    The Hon. Cecil Rhodes, in his final speech to the Cape Colony electors, said that notwithstanding the present success of the Afrikander Bund party ...

    Article : 70 words
  14. ANOTHER ALPINE FATALITY.

    Another fatal disaster has been adde to the unusually long list of misadventures which have occurred in the Alpine regions during the present ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. SPAIN AND AMERICA.

    The Spanish Commissioners to attend the Peace Conference at Paris have been at last selected. They are—Dons Castillo, Urrutia, ...

    Article : 71 words
  16. THE ANNIE MACDOUGALL.

    The prespects for refloating the Annie Macdougall are not now over-bright. Captain; Wald, of the s.s. Mahinapua, reports that the schooner has canted to seaward, her weather rail is under ...

    Article : 61 words
  17. QUEENSLAND.

    In the Assembly to-day Mr. Glassey formally announced that he had been reelected leader of the Labour party. He further stated that the party, after very ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]

    STRAHAN.—SAILED. —August 30,. 7 a.m.—J. C. Taylor, ketch, cleared the heads for Stanley. 8 a.m.—Moonah, s.s., for King's Island. DEVONPORT.—ARRIVED—August 30, 11.20 ...

    Article : 111 words
  19. BUBONIC PLAGUE IN BOMBAY.

    The bubonic plague continues to increase in virulence at Bombay, the number of cases being very great. On an average there are sixty deaths ...

    Article : 62 words
  20. SHIPPING NEWS.

    Departures.—For Sydney — Prince Regent Luitpold, steamer, from Bremen via Fremantle, Adelaide, and Melbourne; Ivanhoe, Dechmont, and ...

    Article : 821 words
  21. LAUNCESTON.

    Patee[?]a, s.s., 1,212 tons, J. V. Bentley, for Melbourne. Passengers — Saloon: Mesdames Gatehouse, Bishop and son. W. Griffiths, Sims, McQueen; Misses Moore, Thomas, Hornman, ...

    Article : 95 words
  22. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The steamer Egremont Castle, recently stranded, has been safely floated off. Examination will be made of her hull to ascertain if any damage has been done. ...

    Article : 49 words
  23. GREAT FIRE AT SMYRNA.

    A great fire bus occurred at Smyrna, the chief commercial emporium of Western Asia. No details are to hand beyond the ...

    Article : 32 words
  24. INTERCOLONIAL SHIPPING.

    SAILED.—August 29, 4 p.m.—Meeinderry, s.s., for Dovonport. August 30, 6.20 p.m.—Coogee, s.s., for Launceston. ...

    Article : 24 words
  25. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    The British barque Sbowden, bound from Bangkok to Peru with a cargo of rice, has been towed into port at Fremantle in a damaged condition. The damage ...

    Article : 42 words
  26. METEOROLOGY OF AUSTRALIA.

    Synopsis.—Overcast, nazy weather o[?]s over West Australia and New South Wales, while in Victoria it is cloudy, and in South Australia showery and hazy. The prevailing ...

    Article : 375 words
  27. WHEELING ROUND THE WORLD.

    The three cyclists, Fraser, Lunn, and Lowe, who have been making a tour round the world on bicycles, in the interests of a cycling journal, have ...

    Article : 38 words
  28. NEW ZEALAND.

    News has been received that Malieton, King of Samoa, died on August 22 of typhoid. Administration of government in the ...

    Article : 50 words
  29. TRADES UNION CONGRESS.

    The Trades Union Congress has been opened at Bristol, and Mr. James O'Grady has been elected President. He is a pronounced Socialist, and this ...

    Article : 80 words
  30. WELLINGTON, TUESDAY.

    The Government intends to place a sum on the Estimates to give the House of Representatives opportunity of considering whether New Zealand will take part in the ...

    Article : 41 words
  31. A LIFE SAVED.

    SIR,—We often see in The Mercury accounts of bravery rewarded, so I ask you kindly to publish the following facts, where the presence of mind in the Recherche ...

    Article : 173 words
  32. THE FAR EAST.

    There is a distinctly improved spirit existing between Russia and Groat Britain in the Far East, and something like a return to the old feeling of ...

    Article : 97 words
  33. MAIL TABLE.

    This Day.—Victoria and other colonies. To-morrow.—United Kingdom (expected), Victoria and other colonies. OUTWARDS. ...

    Article : 45 words
  34. Advertising

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    Advertising : 163 words
  35. TAXES ON MEAT.

    SIR,—Mr. Fenton was right in calling attention to my statement that the consumer of meat here pays the duty and growls, and the exporter of timber, fruit, ...

    Article : 245 words
  36. SILVER.

    Bullion silver is quoted to-day at 2s. 3[?]d., being a fall of [?]d. per oz. ...

    Article : 18 words
  37. A GENTLEMAN'S SMOKE.

    Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes cannot be improved, they cannot be equalled, the choicest of all Cigarettes. ...

    Article : 18 words
  38. ASTHMA CURE.

    Difficulty in Expectoration, Asthma, Nervous Coughs, Catarrh, Sleeplessness, and Oppression immediately relieved by GRIMAULT & CO.'S INDIAN ...

    Article : 25 words
  39. THE HABIT OF HEALTH.

    If we think of soap as a means of cleanliness only, evan then PEAKS' Soap is a matter of course. It is the only soap that is all soap and nothing but soap—no free fat nor free alkali in ...

    Article : 73 words
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