It is said the first sighs of a civilized settlement are—a blacksmith's shop, a lock-up, and an inn. With the exception of the latter, which is not quite finished ...
Article : 404 wordsA stormy debate took place in the Assembly to-day on the petitions presented in favor of a dissolution. M. Gambetta declared that it was the desire of the ...
Article : 229 wordsSIR,—Will you, through the medium of your valuable columns, insert my report of the Hellyer diggings. I started on the 10th December with Mrs S. B. Emmett ...
Article : 446 wordsMR EDITOR,—Caged as I am in the neighborhood of the premises sanctified by the presence and illuminated by the genius of the aggregated intellect and wisdom of the ...
Article : 2,521 wordsThe Torquay General Sessions were held on Wednesday, the 11th inst., before H. T. A. Murray, Esq., Chairman, and H. J. Wilson and E. B. E. Walker, Esqrs., ...
Article : 136 wordsPrince Bismark only resigns the Premiership, but the Berlin papers are not satisfied; and insist upon his retaining it. ...
Article : 30 wordsSenator Colfax has resigned the Speakership to assume the editorship of the New York Tribune in succession to the late Horace Greeley. ...
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Article : 164 wordsThe Left Centre of the Versailles Assembly has become virtually disorganised, in consequence of the vote arrived at last Saturday against a dissolution. ...
Article : 78 wordsThe mixed commission, sitting at Washington, has adjudicated upon 130 claims for compensation put forward by the British Government as counter claims ...
Article : 58 wordsThe concert in aid of the public school fund for repairs &c., took place on Monday night at Cox's assembly room. There was a very fair audience, but not so many ...
Article : 179 wordsSIR,—As I perceive by the issue of the 24th in the Launceston Examiner that it has been stated that the late Thomas Lindsay Field and myself went down to ...
Article : 196 wordsA commission of enquiry has reported in favor of a gold currency for Holland. ...
Article : 20 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 6th instant, I observed a letter headed "Retrenchment," which mooted a matter evidently lost sight of by Tasmanian politicians ...
Article : 337 wordsA Ministerial crisis in Madrid is imminent. ...
Article : 29 wordsWe have been favored by H. M. Hull, Esq., with the following letter from a gentleman—son of an old member of the Tasmanian Legislature—who has become ...
Article : 376 wordsThe Christmas examination of the day school was held on Wednesday, the 18th December. The weather being rather unfavorable prevented the attendance of ...
Article : 142 wordsSIR,—When will the people, or a sufficient majority, put an end to the extravagant and mischievous farce of our (so called) local Parliamentary Government, ...
Article : 307 wordsOn the morning of Friday the 20th inst., the pupils of the Stanley School were publicly examined. The interest taken by the juveniles attending the ...
Article : 279 wordsSIR,—I wish through the medium of your important paper you would impress upon the jam manufacturers of Tasmania the great harm they are doing to ...
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The Tasmanian (Launceston, Tas. : 1871 - 1879), Sat 28 Dec 1872, Page 11
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