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  2. BRUSHING OFF THE BLOOM.

    The uninterested or careless observer may regard this ethereal down—bloom—which at the present moment pleases the eye in the fruits of our gardens and orchards as ...

    Article : 800 words
  3. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    From a reliable informant we learn that Messrs. M'Donough Bros., who have been prospecting for some time in the vicinity of the Rocky river, West Coast, have ...

    Article : 325 words
  4. HORTICULTURAL AND GENERAL PRODUCE SHOW, WESTBURY.

    On Thursday last a horticultural and general produce show was held in the Library Hall, Westbury, in aid of a fund for re-building the chancel of St. Andrew's ...

    Article : 534 words
  5. GRAMMAR SCHOOL SPORTS.

    The sports meeting of the Launceston Church Grammar School is, with the boys, the chief event of the year, and for months previous is anticipated with ...

    Article : 1,429 words
  6. END OF THE WORLD.

    Sir W. Thomson, recently lecturing at the Royal Institute, London, before a brilliant, fashionable, and scientific audience, set forth the latest scientific theories ...

    Article : 389 words
  7. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

    SIR,—It is necessary that I should write again to point out some errors in "B.'s" last letter. I think Dell's memory must have been failing him when he made the ...

    Article : 357 words
  8. THE WEAKNESS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

    SIR,—I have a great respect for the Presbyterian Church. Its ecclesiastical polity is admirable, and, being in harmony with democratic ideas, a source of strength. ...

    Article : 918 words
  9. THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE.

    SIR,—The letter from "One of Jub Committee" in your issue of to-day is one of the most sensible contributions concerning the celebration of her Majesty's ...

    Article : 304 words
  10. Mining managers report as under:—

    Florence Nightingale.—April 16—Crushed this week 70 tons quartz, and obtained from the plates and ripples 302oz. amalgam. ...

    Article : 25 words
  11. TIN.

    The s.s. Dorset, which arrived on Saturday afternoon from Bridport, brought 222 bags tin ore, consigned as follows:—AM, 14; AMCK, 26; KBH, 56; Nugget, 20; ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

    The Secretary of the Launceston Stock Exchange reports the following quotations for Saturday:—Florence Nightingale, s £4 4s; Mount Victoria, s 2s 6d; ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. TASMANIA AS A FIELD FOR EMIGRATION.

    Dear Sir,—I ship by the mail steamer Ballarat several cases of apples and potatoes. If they arrive safely you will find the apples equal, if not superior, to any ...

    Article : 941 words
  14. INCONSISTENCY.

    SIR,—The following is an extract from the parliamentary report in the Mercury of October 13, 1886, relating to the erection of post and telegraph offices in the country: ...

    Article : 378 words
  15. ELECTRIC EXECUTIONS.

    The New York correspondent of the Age writes:—Speaking of the gallows, there is a movement for its abolition, and the adoption of some more humane or less ...

    Article : 301 words
  16. LONGEST TUNNEL IN THE WORLD.

    An engineering work that has taken over a century to construct, can hardly fail to offer some points of interest in its history, and illustrate the march of events during ...

    Article : 354 words
  17. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

    The following quotations were made on the Hobart Stock, Exchange to-day:—West Chum, s 5s; Unity, b 1s 6d, s 2s 3d; Mount Victoria, b 1s 6d, s 2s 6d; Argus ...

    Article : 51 words
  18. TOWN IMPROVEMENTS.

    Messrs. J. Boag and Son, of the Esk Brewery, William-street and Wharf, have just completed an important addition to their business promises and plan. A new ...

    Article : 773 words
  19. COUNTRY INTELLIGENCE.

    The annual session of the Baptist Union of Tasmania, which opened at the Longford Tabernacle on Tuesday morning, was brought, to a close on Thursday evening ...

    Article : 323 words
  20. POPULATION OF FRANCE.

    The London correspondent of the Age writes on February 4:—France has had a discouraging experience in the result of the quinquennial census, which has, just been ...

    Article : 271 words
  21. MIDLAND RIFLE CLUB.

    SIR,—We regret that the secretary of the M.R. Club should have called upon us to publicly contradict what he styles a slander upon our club in his letter of the ...

    Article : 133 words
  22. FIFTY YEARS OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS.

    Not the least interesting or important among the characteristics of the half-century of Queen Victoria's reign is the advance that has been made in the ...

    Article : 609 words
  23. SANITARY.

    SIR,—Knowing you are always willing to expose in your widely circulated paper any public grievance, I would respectfully draw the attention of the Health Officer ...

    Article : 80 words
  24. HOME RULE.

    SIR,—Your leader in Saturday's Tasmanian on the above subject in a clear and concise manner shows that by the granting of autonomy to Ireland it is not necessary, ...

    Article : 280 words
  25. THE LOYALTY OF INDIA

    The loyalty of India appears to rest upon a very insecure foundation. A distinguished officer in India, writing to a relative in the colony, well acquainted ...

    Article : 335 words
  26. OLD TIMES.

    SIR,—I must apologise to your George Town correspondent in not answering his letter earlier. The lighthouse was completed at George Town on the 10th ...

    Article : 532 words
  27. WINKLEIGH.

    On Sunday I attended the opening of the new Wesleyan Chapel at Cotton's Hill. Hitherto the people of Cotton's Hill have been totally excluded from all religious ...

    Article : 435 words
  28. EARL OE ABERDEEN'S VISIT.

    SIR,—As a Tasmanian Irishman I desire to thank you for the very able and impartial manner in which you have vindicated our right to publicly honour an ...

    Article : 372 words
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