A fatal fire occurred at Ashburton, Canterbury, yesterday, in premises occupied by Mr. Zouch, a dentist. Mr. Zouch and two assistants and the servant girl ...
Article : 90 wordsMr. Murphy, P.M., and Mr. M. Lazarus, a solicitor, were the principals in a scene at the Ballarat Police Court to-day. Mr. Lazarus appealed for the defendant in ...
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Advertising : 1,415 wordsThe Melbourne City Council has agreed to lease the cool storage chambers to the Government for another term of three years. The cold storage ...
Article : 259 wordsBullion silver is quoted at 23 13-16d. per oz. ...
Article : 20 wordsMessrs. Roberts and Co. Ltd. report as follows:—At our fruit sale on Friday we subm[?]ted a fair catalogue of 1,044 cases. Very few choice lines forward. We sold as ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 147 wordsThe report of the Pearl-shelling Commission was made available on Tuesday. The Commission found—(1) That the pearl-shell and beche-de-mer fisheries ...
Article : 122 wordsAnchor Tin.—Stone crushed for fortnight ending 26th inst., 5,658 tons. Yield of tin ore 7½ tons. Shipment of tin: 141 ingots per ss. Oruba, weighing 5 tons. ...
Article : 613 wordsThe Tasmanian Woolgrowers' Agency Co Ltd. report:—Sheepskins—Our oatalogue for to-day's sale was above the average. The usual buyers were present, and ...
Article : 246 wordsWilliam Mellor Schachtschnabel, H. Baker, August Peterson, and Wilmott left here about six weeks ago, in a small oil launch, for the purpose of ...
Article : 299 wordsThe new dramatic company which Messrs. Clyde Meynell and John Gunn have sent on tour is at present concluding a highly successful season in New ...
Article : 258 wordsProduce deliveries were fairly heavy today, comprising 3,645 bags potatoes, 120 bags chaff, 44 bags turnips, and two trucks straw. The potato market continued very sluggish, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 218 wordsWheat was steady, with a moderate demand at 4s 1d. About 1,200 bags sold at 4s 1d ex store, and a few hundred, under special circumstances, at 4s[?]1½d. Buyers ...
Article : 197 wordsBritish Zeehan.—The faces of the north drives at Nos. 4 and 5 levels at the Silver Spray mine have of late been in good ore, but to-day No. 4 is showing more galena. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 204 wordsHolders of wheat asked 4s 2½d, but there were no buyers. Flour was quoted at £9 to £9 5s. The customary end of the month stagnation prevailed in produce. Chaff had ...
Article : 171 wordsThe committee of the Consumptives' Sanatorium are initiating a grand skating carnival to help on their work. The carnival will be held on September 9. ...
Article : 53 wordsOki, the Japanese who murdered a man named Shaw at West Murray, was arrested about midnight on Wednesday, under peculiar circumstances, in ...
Article : 328 wordsThe half-yearly meeting of the Pioneer Extended Tin Sluicing Company was held to-day. Mr. W. J. Mountain presided. The reports and balance-sheet were ...
Article : 188 wordsSo much has been read by those interested in music about this celebrated pianist in books, newspapers, and magazines, that Mark Hambourg's visit to ...
Article : 68 wordsWheat nominally worth 4s for parcels. Flour steady at £9 5s. Bran and pollard unchanged at 1s 3½d. ...
Article : 28 wordsA better state of the market for silver-lead shares arose from an impetus imparted by London dealers. Under the same influences copper stocks also strengthened. ...
Article : 361 wordsSugar.—The market is dull, and German raw beet sugar, 8[?]deg. polarisation, is quoted at 9s 5d per cwt., and fine marks granulated refined white 11s 7d. ...
Article : 199 wordsThe usual after-church concert will be given in the Theatre Royal to-morrow night at 8.30. There will be an entire change of programme of animated ...
Article : 53 wordsTo-night at the Temperance-hall there will be a complete change of programme, and a new set of bioscope films will be shown. The usual matinee will ...
Article : 57 wordsTwo of the directors of the Mutual Hill tin mine have this week visited the property at Derby. The manager is still working on the overburden, on which ...
Article : 104 wordsThe Otago "Daily Times" of Saturday last reports as follows:—There is a good demand for fowl wheat, the value of which has firmed slightly, in sympathy with milling quality. ...
Article : 1,056 wordsAt the Masonic-hall on Tuesday evening next the recital which has been arranged by Misses Sylvia Mills and Eva Creese and Mr. James Scott-Power will ...
Article : 93 wordsBroken Hill b 41s 3d, s 42s 6d. Block 10 b [?]s, s 62s 6d. North Broken b 51s 10d, s 53s 1d. South Broken b 53s 9d, a 56s 3d. Boulder b 28s, s 28s 6d. Lake View b 15s, ...
Article : 271 wordsThe dividends paid by Tasmanian mining companies during August totalled £28,238. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe final deposit of £100 has been made by R. Arnst's backers for a match against C. Webb for the world's sculling championship next December. ...
Article : 177 wordsThe North Mount Farrell Company sampled for the past fortnight 137 tons. Forty-eighty tons of this was hand picked firsts, and the remainder were ...
Article : 152 wordsA fair in connection with the Collegiate School will take place on September 8. Part of the proceeds will be devoted to the home mission and ...
Article : 97 wordsThe usual Assembly at the Victoria-hall will take place to-night. Long's orchestra is specially engaged. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 29 Aug 1908, Page 3
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