The Customs Union Convention of delegates from Cape Colony, Natal, and Orange Free State has adopted resolutions favouring increase of duties ...
Article : 62 wordsSplendid rain set in at an early hour thi[?] morning and fell until midday, and the afternoon was bleak and uncomfortable. Weather prospects for holiday to-morrow ...
Article : 441 wordsOn Sunday Gladstone memorial services were held in all the churches in the presence of large assemblies. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in ...
Article : 166 wordsThe captain of the Spanish steamer Montserrat has been f[?]led at Coruna for thrice running the Cuban blockade and conveying to Marshal Blance 100 ...
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Article : 65 words[?]A special charge is made to consignees wishing to particularise their imports and experts.[?] Ex Oonah, s.s., from Sydney — 205 pkgs of merchandise: [?]URGESS BROS. ...
Article : 324 wordsSir A. Milner, Governor of Cape Colony, in opening Parliament, said Professor Koch was effecting good work in checking the rinderpest, and, ...
Article : 48 wordsAdmiral Corvera, in command of the Spanish flying squadron, has succeeded in eluding the American blockaders, and has visited Santiago de Cuba, on ...
Article : 77 wordsW. T. MURPTY, New Norfolk.—The Civil War in the United States is estimated to have cost 10,000,000,000 dollars, roughly £2,000,000,000. The war lasted four years. ...
Article : 29 wordsPaul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic, has cabled a message of sympathy to the Gladstone family, adding that the services of the departed ...
Article : 63 wordsTHIS EVENING, at 8.—Maritana. ...
Article : 7 wordsFine holiday weather at Launceston yesterday. Carrick races held yesterday and passed off successfully. ...
Article : 3,586 wordsMany references have been made to Mr. Gladstone in Russian newspapers, and all are unanimous in homage to his merits. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe American squadrons, under command of Captains Sampson and Schley, are now coaling at Key West. ...
Article : 20 wordsAt 8 o'clock yesterday morning a large steamer was reported passing north of Recherche, causing some speculation so to what vessel it was, there being none due. It proved ...
Article : 474 wordsThe Times states that a RussoChinese bank has signed a contract for construction of a railway from Chengting to Taiyuenfu; also for giving ...
Article : 121 wordsDon Sagast[?], the Spanish Premier, has declared in the Senate that, having entered upon the struggle with America, Spain will continue the war ...
Article : 37 wordsAn explosion has occurred in the Spanish fortress at Cartagena, and has killed 10 men and wounded 62 others, including the Governor of the ...
Article : 95 wordsDon Castillo has declined to accept the portfolio for Foreign Affairs in the Spanish Ministry, and remains as Ambassador at Paris, hoping to induce ...
Article : 44 wordsReport has been received at New York that the overdue warship Oregon, new on a voyage from Rio de Janeiro, has coaled at Barbadoes and again ...
Article : 29 wordsKing Menelik of Abyssinia has accorded a splendid reception to Lieut. John Lane Harrington, of the Indian Staff Corps, who, in February last, was ...
Article : 44 wordsMadrid reports that it has been decided to cut all the American cables if the Cuban cable is cut. The Americans desiring to cut the ...
Article : 932 wordsConcerning the much-vexed question as to Great Britain's right of suzerainty over the Transvaal Republic, the reply made to Mr. Chamberlain, as Secretary ...
Article : 63 wordsA bottle, containing what purports to be a message from one of the crow of the missing boats of the [?]ip Atacama, which foundered in mid-ocean in January last, ...
Article : 305 wordsIrene Fletcher, a young Melbourne pianist, has made a successful debut at the Queen's Hall, Langham-place. ...
Article : 17 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Australian Investment Association it has been decided to take £35,000 from the reserve to meet losses ...
Article : 34 wordsTo-morrow.—New Zealand ports, per Monowal. OURWARDS. To-morrow.—Victoria, 9.30 a.m.; other ...
Article : 27 wordsLatest Derby betting:—Disraeli, 7 to 4; Dieu [Bonne, 5 to [?]; Batt, 9 to 1; Archduke, 11 to 1; and 20 to 1 others. ...
Article : 30 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday (by cable).—Strong inquiry for wheat, pa[?]tly for export; about 10,000 bags sold at 4s 5d. About 5,000 bags Algerian cats sold; milling, 2s 1d, 2s 2½d; ...
Article : 147 wordsA fact worth knowing is that Ogden's Guinea Gold are a fine Cigarette— That's all! Obtainable everywhere. ...
Article : 27 wordsLe Temps says France can only concede Boussa to Great Britain with compensations facilitating full development of French commerce in Africa, ...
Article : 49 wordsTerribly cold, not weather for Hobart did not prevent the Theatre Royal being crowded to the doors last night at the opening of a brief season by the Florence ...
Article : 533 wordsAn outbreak of fire damp in the Zollun coal mine at Dortmund, in Prussian Westphalia, has caused the deaths of 45 miners. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 216 wordsThe Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, Q.C., P.C., and Edward Bellamy are dead. The former was formerly Secretary of ...
Article : 62 wordsA case of robbery under arms occurred a few miles from Perth on Saturday afternoon. Three men attacked Mr. Smith, secretary to the Peninsular Brickworks Co., and Ford, an ...
Article : 142 wordsThe Australian Hardwood and Jarrah Timber Company, having its field of operations in Murray district, West Australia, and recently floated with a ...
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Advertising : 42 wordsEngland and America are discussing preliminaries for a Convention to settle effectually all existing controversies between Canada and the United States. ...
Article : 370 wordsSIR,—1. Because we are all one people, and are building up barriers to trade against one another, causing endless disputes and quarrels, that will certainly increase if we do ...
Article : 396 wordsThe Macri prisoners who recently caused disturbances at Rawena, have been committed for trial. The barquentine Aratopu is ashore near ...
Article : 294 wordsWe are requested to publish the following correspondence:- Hobart, May 21, 1898. To the Hon. A. I. Clark, M.H.A. Dear Sir,—Your name has been ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 24 May 1898, Page 2
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