Two cases under the Manure Adulteration Act were heard at the City Police Court to-day: George Cragg,. manager of the Woolgrowers' Agency ...
Article : 135 wordsHalf-yearly meeting of New Brothers' Home No. 1 T.M. Co., at 31, Queen-street, Melbourne, to-morrow. The secretary of the Hobart Stock ...
Article : 53 wordsA public meeting was held here last night to express regret and disapproval at the Miles election by a section of Hobart electors. ...
Article : 174 wordsThe Premier has telegraphed to the Premier of New South Wales, suggesting that he should communicate to the War Office the fact that the four ...
Article : 101 wordsA great fire has occurred in Graves-Street, Capetown. The Government offices narrowly escaped destruction, and the public ...
Article : 76 wordsComet, March 19.—Main xcut No. 1 level in 162ft. from dolomite winze., passed through a hard bur of diorite and iron, bul is again making a good quality ...
Article : 1,155 wordsAfter the successful run of "Jack and the Bean Stalk," the Pantomime Company put on "Robinson Cruboe" at the Academy of Music to-night. The house ...
Article : 64 wordsOne death from plague and sis new cases occurred on Monday, while other suspected cases are under observation. Walter Haynes, who was quarantined ...
Article : 487 wordsThe Minister of Lands has been inspecting the Mount Cameron water-race, which was found to be in an unsatisfactory condition. The large syphon pipes are leaking ...
Article : 289 wordsThere are forty patients in the two hospitals, mostly typhoid. The provisional committee of the volunteer corps for Queenstown will meet again ...
Article : 110 wordsThe Imperial Yeomanry force of ten thousand men for service in South Africa is now complete. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe distinguished characteristic of most of the present day British blood sports is their inevitable meanness. Hunting boars, buffaloes, elephants, and such ...
Article : 731 words"The Times" says that on a moderate and trustworthy estimate 2,000 Boers have been killed in action; also that their total casualties, exclusive of ...
Article : 70 wordsThe inhabitants of Molteno and Dordrecht have welcomed Sir Alfred Milner, who is now paying the North-Eastern districts of Cape Colony an ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Police Magistrate (Mr. B. Shaw) and Mr. D. Johnstone, J.P., presided at the City Police Court yesterday. On a charge of unlawfully beating ...
Article : 646 wordsThe delay in transit of men and war material towards Bloemfontein, caused by the Boers blowing up the railway bridge at Bethulie, north of the ...
Article : 48 wordsNinety thousand railway sleepers, Intended for the Dundee and Vryheid railway, have been transferred from Dundee to Transvaal. ...
Article : 35 wordsThough the Mafeking garrison and people are steadfastly holding out against their besiegers, trouble is occurring among their native allies. ...
Article : 77 wordsIntending nominators for the Easter meet of the Sorell Racing Club are reminded that entries cloBe at 8 o'clock to-night, with the secretary, Mr. Robert ...
Article : 53 wordsA recently published cable stated that Bathoen, a Bechuana chief, is guarding the right flank of Colonel Plumer's advancing force. This does not imply in ...
Article : 244 wordsThe progressive Deloraine Turf Club has issued a most attractive bill for decision on Easter Monday, nominations for which close with the secretary, Mr. T. ...
Article : 97 wordsThe people of Natal are very much excited at the danger, now apparent, of disloyalists among them escaping punishment. ...
Article : 22 wordsWellington-Break o' Day Match.—The match committee of the S.T.C.A. have upheld the action of the captain of the Break o' Day Club in declaring his first ...
Article : 210 wordsThe Duke of Norfolk, Henry Fitzalan Howard, is goiug to the front as an officer of the Sussex Yeomanry. Ho is Honorary Colonel of the West ...
Article : 82 wordsThe brothers, Miles and Stephen Buck, volunteers, who were lately arrested on a transport in England on suspicion as Boer spies, are defended by their father ...
Article : 94 wordsNotwithstanding the presence of British men-of-war off the port, and the assurances of neutrality given by the Portuguese authorities, it is a fact ...
Article : 49 wordsThe "Spectator" writes.—"We desire to touch on a point which we wish to de[?]op further and in more detail at later period, but which even now may be ...
Article : 318 wordsA clever robbery was perpetrated at Hughendon on Sunday night, a safe in the post office being completely cleaned out. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe final match was played on Monday on the cricket ground between Hutchins School and Queen's College, resulting in a win for the latter by three wickets and ...
Article : 104 wordsSurprise is being expressed at Lord Boberts's continued halt at Bloemfontein. It is semi-officially explained that ...
Article : 97 wordsThe annual meeting was held at the Ship Hotel on the evening of 26th inst. There was an unusually large altendance of members, the captain, Mr. A. Golding, ...
Article : 282 wordsGeneral election for the Legislative Council in four districts of the co[?]ny will take place on Saturday, May 19. Writs will not be issued for another ...
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Advertising : 2,027 wordsQuinn's section, Dundas.—Work on lode recently discovered by P. P. Quinn is disclosing fair body payable ore. About 10 tons firsts on hand. ...
Article : 210 wordsWe will tell you. As people become more intelligent, they see that they should try aud prevent discase. It seems strange, when one comes to consider it, that the ...
Article : 417 wordsOn Sunday the Boulder District police arrested two men on a charge of being in unlawful possession of certain telluride ore, believed to have been ...
Article : 309 wordsThe Hon. A. J. Balfour has agreed to the proposal for appointment of a committee to inquire into the alleged army contract scandals if the Law ...
Article : 41 wordsMr. Harold Ashton, principal touring manager for Mr. J. C. Williamson, writes from Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, sitting that he will arrive in Hobart about ...
Article : 231 wordsCommandant Olivier, of the Free State forces, who has been in charge of operations at Bethulic, Dordrecht, Barkly East, and other centres, is ...
Article : 54 wordsThe second competition for trophy (barometer) presented by Mr. Buyers, engineer, of Hobart, was shot for on the Esperance range on the 24th inst. ...
Article : 134 wordsGold.—Moonlight—cum—Wonder, b. 7d., 8d., s. 1s. New Monarch, b. 3s., a. 3s. 6d. White Pinafore, s. 3s. Tasmania, b. £5 19s., £5 18s., s. £6 2s. New Pinafore, b. ...
Article : 606 wordsCaptain Arthur. Fitzpatrick, of New South Wales, who with Captain Schofield, aide-de-camp to Sir Redvers Buller, distinguished himself at Tugela, ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 28 Mar 1900, Page 3
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