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Advertising : 770 wordsThe third football match of the season for premiership of the Mount Lyell district took place on the Queenstown recreation ground yesterday afternoon, when the ...
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Article : 326 wordsSir George Turner replied on Saturday morning to the last message from Mr. Reid, which he received late on Friday evening. ...
Article : 693 wordsThe Sydney Premier (Right Hon. George Reid) states that the referendum on the Commonwealth Bill has cost the colony £17,000, or equal to about 2s. 11d. per ...
Article : 145 wordsDebate has been raised in the House of Commons chiefly against Mr. Chamberlain's recent speech at Birmingham. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Q.C., ...
Article : 267 wordsDon Praxedes Mateo Sagasta, the Spanish Premier, states that Spain will nob take the initiative in any peace proposals with America. ...
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Article : 36 wordsThe Premier delivered his promised speech on Federationt Malt[?]on Saturday night. He justified his vote on the Commonwealth Bill, and said his honest ...
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Article : 631 wordsThe American Senate and House of Representatives have adopted the conference's report on new taxes for war purposes. ...
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Article : 51 wordsWashington reports that the transports for movement of American [?]troops to Cuba are delayed at Key West, waiting convoys. ...
Article : 27 wordsOne may speak in somewhat similar terms of the proposed Anglo-American Alliance, an idea with which Americans are gradually becoming familiar. The ...
Article : 109 wordsThe belief is gaining strength in the approaching European intervention between America and Cuba, especially as Germany desires a conference in ...
Article : 34 wordsAdmiral Dewey's men are entitled, under the old law, to a bounty of nearly 200,000dol., this being increased by the curious discovery that the ...
Article : 48 wordsSir Charles Stewart Scott, British Minister to Denmark, and who has had varied diplomatic service in Berlin and other places, succeeds Sir Nicholas R. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe erection of a substantial verandabed balcony in front of Fairfield Private Hospital (Campbell-street), with enclosed glass ends, has added considerably to the good ...
Article : 920 wordsThe marines landed at Guantanos, to establish a naval buse for Santiago de Cuba, are starving on a handful of beans per day. Each ration costs ...
Article : 51 wordsCrossing now to Cuban waters. On the day following the attack by the Spanish gunboats, when Ensign Bagley and four seamen were killed on the ...
Article : 59 wordsRussia has declined to permit construction of Japanese railway between Chemulpo and Reoul, owing to British capital being invested in the ...
Article : 34 wordsThe fact of Admiral Cervera seeking refuge in the harbour of Santiago de Cuba has given that town a prominence as a theatre of war which it at one time ...
Article : 367 wordsJames Kenny, miner, working on the Tasmanian Copper Co.'s mine, Rosebery, sustained a fractured leg yesterday through, a fall of earth. ...
Article : 107 wordsIn a sharp engagement on the llth in the harbour of Cienfuegos, the Americans showed great bravery initier trying circumstances. The cruiser Marblehead ...
Article : 310 wordsBritish newspapers publish the text of the Russian-Chinese treaty concerning occupation of Port Arthur. The document states that the port is ...
Article : 138 wordsThe sugar manufacturers of the Bundaberg, Maryborough, and Isis districts have agreed to accept the proposal of the Colonial Sugar Company that the company ...
Article : 40 wordsSIR,—An article appears in your Hobart contemporary of yesterday on the above subject, which seems to me so full of errors, and to be written by one who has not ...
Article : 747 wordsProspects of the South Jupiter have unproved during the week. The tunnel is in about 180ft., and has penetrated 4ft. into lode formation trenched on surface. The ...
Article : 155 wordsOn Tuesday, 7th inst., the winter evening lectures and discussions were resumed, Mr. Blackwood opening the session with a paper on. "The Evolution of Language." ...
Article : 602 wordsIn connection with the fanatical outbreak of Turcomans in the province of Ferghana, Turkistan, the Emir of Bokhara advised the Czar to remove ...
Article : 79 wordsMuch is heard about the beauty snots of Tasmania, but a great many people hardly know there is such a place in existence as Catamaran, and therefore a few words ...
Article : 619 wordsSIR,—The belief of the Federationists-atany-price in Mr. Barton as the over-raling providence of New South Wales is positively touching. But their confidence that ...
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Article : 118 wordsBy the San Francisco mail steamer Mariposa, which arrived to-day, the following interesting notes on the chief events of the war from the New York ...
Article : 61 wordsIt is expected that Viscount Garnet Wolseley, present Field-Marshall and Connnader-in-Chief of the British Army, will succeed the Earl of ...
Article : 49 wordsFor some days past there has been a great game of hide and seek in the Caribbean Sea. Admiral Cervera's squadron of four cruisers and three ...
Article : 641 wordsLord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, purposes, on his return trip to the colony, sailing on September 2, travelling via America and Vancouver. He ...
Article : 37 wordsThe protected cruiser Charleston sailed to-day from San Francisco for Manila with ammunition and supplies for Admiral Dewey. There was an ...
Article : 191 wordsLeather is in short supply, and is ?d. per lb. dearer. The trade in basils is flat. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Gill-McDewell Jarrah Timber Co., with a capital of £2,500,000, are offering a first issue of shares to the extent of £166,668. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe following safes of Australian miningstocks have been made on the London Exchange:—Broken Hill Proprietary, 43s. 9d.; British Broken Hill, 9s; Mount ...
Article : 55 wordsAll Functional Derangements or the Liver. Temporary Congestion arising from Alcoholic Beverages, Errors in Diet, etc., etc. ...
Article : 51 words[?] think of soap as a means of cleanliness only, even than PEARS' 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 : 72 wordsGeneral Merritt, who is a fine soldier, feels that he has been. badly treated by Mr. Alger, the Secretary for War, who left the army after the civil war under ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 13 Jun 1898, Page 3
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