Another twelve, months have passed away, a period which has been marked by prosperity in all directions, and moreover by a prosperity which is the more to be ...
Article : 424 wordsThe following figures relating to the population of Tasmania for the year 1898 have been supplied by Mr. R. M. Johnston, the Government Statistician:—Estimated ...
Article : 136 wordsThe past year has been a fairly prosperous one for our railways. At the end of the first six months there was an increase in traffic receipts of £5,000, and ...
Article : 623 wordsUndiminished interest has been the rule throughout the year in the leading colonial out-door pastime. If the country racing clubs did not fare as well as heretofore, it ...
Article : 554 wordsMining still remains one of the most important, factors in the industrial life of Tasmania. Operations throughout the colony have beon unceasingly continued ...
Article : 716 wordsThere has been much federation talk and planning during the year, but very little progress, the result of the Convention, premieral gatherings, and extra ...
Article : 497 wordsFrom Walch's Tasmanian Almanac for 1899 we take the following list of deaths of prominent colonists of Tasmania during the year 1898:—Thomas Af[?]leck, at ...
Article : 802 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Lord Gormanston, has this year spent what was all along understood to be the last year of his term of office as representative of Her ...
Article : 416 wordsIn connection with art in Tasmania during the year, the Tasmanian Art Gallery has been enriched with several paintings loaned or given, including a ...
Article : 175 wordsThe machinery of education, primary, higher, and University, has been working during the year in the ordinarily efficient way. In April a committee of the Council ...
Article : 297 wordsAt the beginning of the year a team from the New South Wales Public Teachers' Association toured Tasmania and played a series of matches at different ...
Article : 657 wordsThe financial year, as indicated by Sir Philip Fysh when he called himself a "most fortunate Treasurer," has been a decidedly favourable one. The revenue ...
Article : 410 wordsIn scientific matters many new appliances and discoveries the being constantly made on the Tasmanian mining field, and are for the most part set out in papers ...
Article : 402 wordsIn April, Mr. E. A. Counsel, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Lands, furnished to the Minister an exhaustive and interesting report on a visit to the West Coast ...
Article : 389 wordsThe history of agriculture in Tasmania for the year is a chequered one. It commenced with a continuance of the most terrible drought that the colony has, ...
Article : 1,289 wordsThe usual number of exhibitions and shows were held in different parts of the colony during the year. The Tasmanian Juvenile Industrial Exhibition was opened ...
Article : 281 wordsIn the first week of the New Year Mr. George Steward resigned his position as Town Clerk of Hobart and returned to his former office of Under Secretary and ...
Article : 417 wordsThe following fatalities occurred during the year:—William Archer (32), smothered in sludge in Sylvester mine; Joshua Hodge (79), found dead at Black Bottom, ...
Article : 763 wordsThe year of politics has been a subdued one, as quite as it is natural for it to be when one strong hand is at the helm of affairs, and the winds, especlally those from ...
Article : 542 wordsVery little interest was taken in the football season of 1898. The ground at Risdon, the scene of many an exciting and splendidly-fought battle, passed out ...
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Advertising : 925 wordsAt the commencement of the year Mr. Napier Bell submitted his report to the Government on the practicableness of removing the sand bar at the entrance to ...
Article : 672 wordsIn so far as crime is concerned, the records of the post year bear very favourable comparison with preceding ones. There was one serious tragedy committed ...
Article : 242 wordsThe year has been an eventful one in legal matters. The death of the Chief Justice, Sir Lambert Dobson, K.C.M.G., in March last from typhoid fever was learned ...
Article : 600 wordsDuring the year music has been decidedly looking up in both cities, but especially in Hobart. The visit of Madame Sherwin, the Tasmanian Nightingale, to ...
Article : 617 wordsThe earliest event of the year in religious circles was the visit to Tasmania of Commandant Herbert Booth, youngest son of the General of the Salvation Army, who ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 31 Dec 1898, Page 1
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