The Marine Board met to-day to consider tenders for the proposed new wharf. A telegram was read from the Minister of Lands, stating that the Government ...
Article : 124 wordsOn Tuesday, 10th inst., a child named Vincent Briers, aged 9 years, died suddenly at the Lachlan. He had always been sickly, and at the Inquest a verdict was ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 89 wordsSir Redvers Buller has cabled that Major-General Sir C. F. Clory, with a portion of Sir Charles Warren's force, engaged with the enemy yesterday. ...
Article : 222 wordsA variety entertainment was given last evening in the Temperance hall, Melvillestreet, by the minstrel troupe of H.M.S. Royal Arthur, in aid of the Patriotic Fund. ...
Article : 516 wordsNotification is given of the intention of the Brilseis T.M. Co. Limited to carry on mining operations in Tasmania, Hon. B S. Bird is agent for the company, and ...
Article : 82 wordsSir Charles Warren's field battery on Saturday attacked the northern ridges of Spion Kop. The Boers defending the position ...
Article : 487 wordsAustralasian ASBESTOS, January 1[?]. —Have hugged and sent to Beauty Point another 50 tons of asbestic. Ketches are getting it to Launceston in time for ...
Article : 486 wordsThe second Fort Esperance Exhibition was held in the Dover State school on Wednesday, 17th inst. There was a good attendance of visitors during the day and ...
Article : 206 wordsIt is a truism that success begets success, and it was fully exemplified here on Friday, 18th inst., the occasion being the annual festival and prize-giving to the ...
Article : 521 wordsThe Engineers pontooned the Tugela River in two hours, thus enabling the British troops, with artillery and baggage-train, to cross expeditiously. ...
Article : 36 wordsA public meeting, convened by the Warden (Mr. A. Ibbott) was held in Bowden's Hall, at Bothwell, on Saturday, 20th inst., to take into consideration the best means ...
Article : 552 wordsMr. Peter Barrett has consented to become a candidate for one of the Launceston stats at the forthcoming general election. There are now, in all, seven candidates for ...
Article : 125 wordsMessages have been flashed from Ladysmith. The garrison and people are jubilant [?] hearing the boom of the relief guns. ...
Article : 22 wordsZeehan Bell.—Good improvement is reported in the face of drive in the north bottom level, whence nice ore is now being raised. This is going towards the South ...
Article : 41 wordsMajor-General French has occupied a new camp eight miles east of Engers[?]ntein, on the Orange Free State border. ...
Article : 25 wordsMount Lyell.—No change to report. Everything in full swing. 3,225 tons of blister copper have been consigned for the current half-year. ...
Article : 248 wordsThis afternoon a [?]ad named John McQueen fell off a crane a distance of 30ft. at Knight's foundry. He was admitted to the hospital in an unconscious ...
Article : 47 wordsPretoria reports that Colonel Plumer, with three armoured trains, has arrived [?]at Gaberones, to the north of Mafeking. Gaberones is within 96 miles of ...
Article : 86 wordsColebrook v. Oatlands.—Played at Colebrook on 13th inst. The rain in the morning caused a late start to be made, and the ground around the pitch was very ...
Article : 290 wordsIt is known at the War Office that President Kruger's imports of food from America have been doubled since March last. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 497 wordsCaptain Brabant has been promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, and now commands a strong division of the Colonial Irregulars. ...
Article : 85 wordsSIR,—At this time, when our hearts are thrilled with admiration and affection for our soldiers in South Africa, with sorrow for those who have fallen, and with pity ...
Article : 217 wordsNot only was extreme secrecy observed by Sir Redvers Buller with regard to his movement upon Ladysmith, but it would appear that he adopted a page out of Lord ...
Article : 1,057 wordsA public meeting, convened by the Warden (Mr. W. C. Simmons), was held at the Library on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of taking steps to assist the ...
Article : 208 wordsSir Charles Warren telegraphs to Lord Roberta that he has gained further successes to-day, though the fire from the enemy was occasionally ...
Article : 35 wordsSeven thousand Boers are now guarding Colesberg. Major-General French has commenced bombarding with lyddite shells, ...
Article : 31 wordsSIR,—Shareholders in the above company would much like to know what is being done on the property. No information whatever is given shareholders, and ...
Article : 139 wordsSIR,—May I call attention to what is evidently thoughtlessness on the part of those who have called upon the married women of Hobart to organise a ball on ...
Article : 148 wordsThe Boers have admitted that they placed disloyalists in the forefront at Burghersdorp and Stormberg, because they, themselves, preferred ambulance ...
Article : 31 wordsThe opinion of the leading skin authorities of the World, via., the late Professor air Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Dr. Retwood. Ph.D., F.C.S., F.L.C., Mr. John L. Milton, Senior Burgeon St. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 23 Jan 1900, Page 3
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