Half-yearly meeting of Broken Hill Proprietary Co., at Melbourne to-morrow. The directors of the New Monarch G.M. Co., after a conference with the mine ...
Article : 52 wordsThe installation of officers of the Emu Lodge, T.C., took place on Thursday evening, 18th inst. Bro. James Brickhill, D.G.S., performed the ceremony, and was ...
Article : 290 wordsLieut.-Colonel Eager, whilst in command of the 2nd battalion Royal Irish Rifles, in the attack on Stormberg, under General Gatacre, was severely ...
Article : 136 wordsOonah.—Crosscut from bottom of shaft now in 27ft.; country favourable for lode. Several tribute parties are getting ore from the workings between Nos. 5 and 3 ...
Article : 308 wordsAUTON, January 20.—Finished extension of tailrace thiough to main creek, Putting in tow chains at head through last ground worked,and clearing ground ...
Article : 980 wordsSir Redvers Buller cables that on the evening of the 23rd inst. Sir Churlos Warren still held the same position as previously stated. ...
Article : 180 wordsTne anniversary tea-meeting and concert in connection with the Bicheno Church was held on the 16th inst., in the ha[?] kindly lent for the occasion by Mrs. ...
Article : 303 wordsTattersall's v. Nettlefold's.—Played at Beltana yesterday morning, and resulted in a draw. Tattersall's 122, of which R. Nettlefold scored 40, Pinkerton 20, and ...
Article : 68 wordsIn the engagement at Belmont, Private St. John, champion boxer of the First Grenadiers, killed eleven Boers before he fell, mortally wounded. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe fact that the juniors of South Tasmania can put up a score of 312 runs for nine wickets is the best proof that cricket is slowly but surely advancing in ...
Article : 197 wordsMr. R. S. Siovier, who, in 1892, married Lady Mabel Emily Louise, sister of the first Marquis of Ailesbury, had raised a company in ...
Article : 52 wordsOur patriotic meeting on Saturday as wired was a big thing The hall was beautifully decorated with bunting and flowers. Our member, Mr. C. H. Hall, ...
Article : 463 wordsPrivate Geo. Walker (Hobart), one of the first Tasmanian contingent, writing on December 24 from Enslin to his parents says:- ...
Article : 783 wordsSubscriptions to the War Fund are so liberal that the widow of every married soldier who falls in the battlefield will receive a life pension of ten ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Boers admit that their casualties during Sunday's engagement were heavier than their press censor admits. Their Generals (Pretorius, Botha and ...
Article : 44 wordsA concert in aid of the Fire Relief Fund, arranged by Mr. J. Paul, was given in the Pontville-ball on the night of the 10th inst. Despite the threatening weather ...
Article : 441 wordsThe Commandant sends the following letter, written to him by Captain Cameron in continuation of the one sent to him last month, which we published, and remarks: ...
Article : 387 wordsSIR,—1 have read the report of the Central Board of Health published in your issue of to-day with intense surprise, as it in no way gives the true position of the ...
Article : 764 wordsThe excitement in India concerning the daily issue of events in South Africa eclipses anxiety as to the famine now pressing so heavily upon the ...
Article : 67 wordsTwo additional [?]giments of South African Light Horse, to bo named after Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener, are being raised in Capetown. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of shareholders was held at the Equitable-building, Melbourne, on the 22nd inst., Mr. T. C. Sharp (chairman of directors) presiding. In ...
Article : 464 wordsIn anticipation of the speedy relief of Ladysmith by the British troops now advancing, the people of Maritzburg and Durban are organising supplies of ...
Article : 39 wordsSIR,—It is to be hoped that the new post office, when completed, will meet with more public approval than the new postage stamps. These unfortunate ...
Article : 416 wordsThe Australian horses shipped aboard the steamer Damascus have arrived in splendid condition. Two sons of Mr. David Tweedie, of ...
Article : 98 wordsMr. Walter Beveridge writes as follows to a Natal paper:—" Medium height, slim, blonde, blue eyes." Such was the official description of Mr. Churchill: such ...
Article : 554 wordsThe Attorney General's opinion havings been given that Mr. August Becker's seat in the Fingal Municipal Council is vacant, an extraordinary election of a councillor ...
Article : 383 wordsExtracts from letter received per s.s. Ruahine, from Trooper Harold Hawson, of C Company in Thorneyeroft's Mounted Infantry, dated from ...
Article : 1,153 wordsA strong posse of Boers has crossed Portuguese territory into Rhodesia. Portuguese artillery has been sent to prevent any further breach of ...
Article : 28 wordsThe usual monthly meeting was held at the office of the Trust on Saturday, 20th inst. Present:—Mr. A. Johnstone (chairman), Messrs. P. W. Still, A. ...
Article : 260 wordsAn old officer who served in the Crimea was present as a spectator of the Tugela battle, and in the course of a conversation described the events of the day as ...
Article : 1,300 wordsA splendid body of galena ore has been cut in the low level on the North Farrell mine. It is reported that the Hamburg Metal Co. have secured all the ore from ...
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Advertising : 916 wordsThe long-prevailing drought has at last broken up, copious rains having fallen, doing an immense amount of good to the late crops, and extinguishing the several ...
Article : 454 wordsOur baby has been continually troubled with colic and cholera infantum since his birth, and all that we could do for him did not seem to give more than temporary ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 25 Jan 1900, Page 3
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