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Advertising : 1,538 wordsMr. Ornant, legal manager of mines at— Port Cygnet, received information yesterday afternoon of another important dis covery of gold at Port Cygnet, near the ...
Article : 44 wordsA meeting of the Royal Society was held in the Art Gallery at the Museum last evening. Mr. R. M. Johnston presided, and there was a moderate ...
Article : 628 wordsThe "battle of the lights" is still going on. The Electric Light Committee have had under consideration the memorial presented to them by the manager of the Gas ...
Article : 436 wordsMr. Jas. Cubit, a well-known and much respected farmer of Chudleigh, succumbed on Saturday night to a short, but severe attack of pneumonia. Deceased, who was ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Premier hopes that debate on Federal resolutions will be finished on Wednesday week, and that he will be able to deliver his budget speech on the 27th ...
Article : 82 wordsThe dreadful accident at Caulfield on Saturday has been the absorbing topic of conversation to-day. Hearn, rider of Mischief, had his wrist ...
Article : 732 wordsThe friendlies have defeated a large body of rebels, and captured the chief Dervish Emir, between the Blue and White Nile. ...
Article : 34 wordsCLIFTON, October 8.—Good progress made with work S drive new tunnel driven 15ft, total, l00ft. Have also cut into the W. wall a distance of 8ft, making ...
Article : 793 wordsVienna reports that a large Abyssinian force, believed to be intended to reinforco Bonchamp's French expedition, has appeared in the Nile Valley. ...
Article : 30 wordsMarusa, Burrabari, Superb, and Rowdy were scratched to-day for the Melbourne Cup. Australian has been scratched for all ...
Article : 207 wordsThe annual prize meeting of the National Rifle Association began to-day at Randwick ranges. The weather during the whole day was most unfavourable. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe Pa[?] Mall Gazette advocates the establishment of a British naval station at Port Darwin, as an essential basis of opfrations for either eastern or ...
Article : 29 wordsFigaro declares that the Duke of Manchesteris implicated in an Orleanist conspiracy. The Duke, who is now in Paris, has ...
Article : 45 wordsMatches were commenced to-day. The weather was [?]ine till 10 a.m., then a southerly gal[?] blew down the tents and targets. Clouds of dust rendered the ...
Article : 363 wordsThe following deaths have been announced.:- Lady Cromer, wife of Baron Evelyn Baring [?]rumer, British Agent, ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the Council meeting to-day it was reported that the revenue from the electric light for the last quarter was £1,019, and for nine months £3,375, as against an ...
Article : 103 wordsOnly a limited amount of wagering on the Melbourne Cup. During the settling at the Victorian Club to-day there was a good run on The ...
Article : 173 wordsThe Tsung-li-Yamen has informed Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Ambassador at Pekin, that the Emperor's health is improving. ...
Article : 63 wordsThe ladies committee for arranging the hospital bazaar have collected to date £71 4s. 6d. This sum is considered sufficient to obviate the necessity of holding a ...
Article : 953 wordsThe Cosgrove Comedy Company, after a successful season at the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne, opened a short season in the Theatre Royal last evening with the ...
Article : 887 wordsThe funeral of the late Queen Louise of Denmark has been solemnised with impressive obsequies at Roskilme Cathedral. ...
Article : 49 wordsA meeting of the Council of the University of Tasmania was held at the Executive Council chamber yesterday afternoon. The Chancellor (Rev. G ...
Article : 431 wordsHeld at Melbourne on October 5. Dr. A. P. Merrill was voted to the chair. The meeting was called for the purpose of electing directors, auditor, ana adopting ...
Article : 171 wordsThe Sultan of Turkey has at last agreed to unconditional evacuation of Crete. Announcement of this has caused a ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Porte has issued a peremptory order summoning for active service l50,000 Reservists. The object of this movement is at present unknown. ...
Article : 27 wordsA disastrous fire occurred at Long Reach on Thursday afternoon. It originated in Bryden's Imperial Hotel, which was completely destroyed, as also a block ...
Article : 72 wordsM. Lockroy, French Minister of Marine, is storing 30,000 tons of coal, [?]n addition to the usual supply, at Bizerta, in Tunis, the most northerly ...
Article : 53 wordsAt the Red Hills mine in the open cut at the north end the ore is making more solid as the cut is advanced. Excellent solid pyrites is ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Daily News urges that a national movement should be made to support the Czar's proposal for goneral disarmament. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe ceremony of opening the Perth Zoological Gardens was performed to-day by the Governor. The weather was very stormy and unpleasant. ...
Article : 119 wordsCassagnac's Paris journal Au[?]oritt says France must evacuate Fashoda, since if refusal led to hostilities France would find herself unable to oppose the ...
Article : 31 wordsGold,—Chums, b. 1s. 4½d., 1s. 4d., s.1s. 5d., 1s. 6d., sales 1s. 5d. Little Wonder, b. 9d. New Pinafore, b. 6s. 2d., 6s., s. 6s. 9d. Volunteer, b. 1s. 2d., 1s. 3d., s. 1s. 6d. ...
Article : 549 wordsSir,—Once more we hear the deathknell of the above unfortunate line. And why, [?]ir? The reasons are threefold:— "Three years of drought having left us ...
Article : 252 wordsSir,—In your report of the discussion on the Curfew Hill on Thursday evening Mr. W. H. T. Brown is stated to have said that the law against supplying young ...
Article : 418 wordsThe ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Tasmanian Loan, Guarantee and Finance Co. Limited was hold last evening at the Imperial Collins-street. ...
Article : 343 wordsThe Nautical Court has found that the recent wreck of the s.s. Mapourikion Greymonth bar was caused by a heavy roller, and has exonerated the captain from ...
Article : 263 wordsSIR.—Will Mr. A. J. Taylor favour the public by answering the following [?]tions:- 1. Was the Gambling Act made solely ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 18 Oct 1898, Page 5
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