STEADY rain has again not in. The general opinion among leading hotelkeepers is that the present high duty on spirits has led to smuggling and illicit distillation on a large scale. ...
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Article : 150 wordsMELBOURNE, Sunday.—A heavy, though brief thunderstorm broke over Melbourne last evening, and the electric wire used to supply the Public Library was either out by lightning or broken in ...
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Article : 174 wordsIN the Bankruptcy Court on Friday, before Mr. Justice Manning, in the matter of Owen Malone, of Braidwood, coach proprietor, an application was named on behalf of the bankrupt that the ...
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Article : 798 wordsDURING last year there were three executions it New South Wales, the offence being murder in each case. In the ten yours from 1881 there have been 26 executions in the colony, one of the persons ...
Article : 127 wordsIN answer to his letter urging the advisableness of refusing the rebate on exported Tasmanian fruit, with u view of encouraging the export of the fruit of this colony, Mr. Rose, M.P., has been ...
Article : 86 wordsTHE following tenders in connection with Public Schools have been accepted:—Ceiling rooms in residence, Collector, Peter Poidevin, £10; improvements and repairs at Eastgrove, John Rose, £26 ...
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Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), Tue 31 May 1892, Page 4
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