A tour up the Derwent Valley, around Brighton, Bagdad, and Brosdmarsh yesterday, supplemented by reliable reports obtained during the day from other districts, ...
Article : 1,265 wordsMattens in connection with the removal of the dredge Davenport to Launceston will soon approach a crisis. The engineer of the Launceston Marine Board has been down to ...
Article : 799 wordsFor some few years past the exintence of large mineral formations in the vicinity of Lake Dora has been known to prospectors. More than four ...
Article : 1,359 wordsThe annual meeting was held on the 10th ins, Present:—Councillors Finlay, Gibson, Nicolson, and David and John Taylor, ...
Article : 185 wordsThe Council met on the 10th inst. Present—Councillors H. G. Stieglitz (Warden), F. Napier, L. J. Steel, R. McKenzie, R. G. Talbot, R. Wardlaw, and ...
Article : 436 wordsThe usual monthly meeting of the Richmond Road Trust took place on Saturday. 11th inst. The following members were preaent:—Messrs. K. A. Ogilvy (chairman), ...
Article : 281 wordsMessrs. H. Herd & Co.'s usual stock sale was held on the 9th inst., and a fair amount of stock changed hands at satisfactory prices. There was not so much stock yarded ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Council met on the 5th inst. Present: —The Warden (Mr. O. Flexmore), Councillors E. O. Bisdee, Joseph Johnson, G. C. Swan, James Johnson, A. E. Gorringe, and ...
Article : 1,269 wordsOn Saturday, 11th inst., a meeting of fruitgrowers was hold to consider Government aid to the fruit industry by the guarantee of freight on the experimental ...
Article : 1,009 wordsThere is to be a regatta here on Boxing Day, for which our local crews are energetically practising. The Rev. D. McCarthy, from Sydney, is ...
Article : 43 wordsThe survey of a route for the proposed railway line for the North Mount Lyell Co. has been completed, the oil launch Eagle having brought the Party up from Kelly's ...
Article : 475 wordsThe annual bazaar and produce fair in aid of the debt on the now rectory took place on the 8th inst., at the Railway Station, under vary adverse circumstances ...
Article : 365 wordsA meating for general business and the annual meeting for the election of Warden were hold on Friday, December 10. Present: —Couuoillors Thos. Riggall (Warden), W. ...
Article : 902 wordsThere was a large and fashionable audience in the Convent-hall on the evening of the 8th inst., to witness the annual entertainment given by pupils of the Convent of ...
Article : 462 wordsThe election for the Municipal Council here resulted much as had been anticipated: —C. Ellis, 121; A. E. Lord, 116; R. Storey, 34. The polling was not at all ...
Article : 144 wordsSIR,—Will you kindly grant we space to recount my experience at the polling-booth on Thursday? On approaching the entrance to the ...
Article : 610 wordsOn Saturday, 4th instant, a cricket match was played on the recreation ground between teams representing East and West Devon. There was a fair attendance, and ...
Article : 388 wordsGlorious summer weather during the past week, fine Bunny days with cool sea breezes, in fact regular Bay weather. To-day, 8th inst., we have had a glorious rain from ...
Article : 725 wordsSIR,—In criticising Mr. Innes' "Track to the West" from Mole Creek, some little time since, I pointed out that the distance could have been made shorter by 15 or 20 ...
Article : 279 wordsA meeting of fruitgrowers was hold in the commercial-room of the Picnic Hotel on Tuesday evening, 7th Inst. Some 40 growers attended, and Mr. Thomas Barnott, of ...
Article : 740 wordsThe Luke Dora mines are situated some 10 or 12 miles to the north of Queenstown, and six or seven miles from the end of the Reid-Tyndall track, by means of which they ...
Article : 1,196 wordsA very pleasing little entertainment has been given here by children attending the local Anglican Sunday-school. The first part consisted of Pears' soap tableau—he ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 15 Dec 1897, Page 1
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