The departure of His Excellency Sir Henry Edward Fox Young on abdicating the office of Governor of Tasmania, has furnished us with an opportunity of reviewing alike the acts of his administration and ...
Article : 1,987 wordsOn the 12th March, 1861, a notice in the Hobart Town Gazette announced that His Excellency the Governor had appointed eleven gentlemen for the purpose of taking the necessary steps for the ...
Article : 2,247 wordsThe adjonrument of parliament to January has had the effect of deferring any action on the part of the government to test the commercial value of the Mount Nicholas coal—as recommended by the ...
Article : 299 wordsThe subject of sericulture is again attracting attention, and promises from present appearances to be taken up by practical men, who have awakened to a sense of the facilities offered by the luxuriance ...
Article : 412 wordsThe past month has been marked by several incidents of more than usual interest which have given a degree of life and animation quite new to our small community. The festivities of the ...
Article : 5,080 wordsThe arrival of the All England Eleven, who are passengers by the "Great Britain" to Melbourne, is eagerly looked forward to by all the lovers of cricket throughout the colonies. Preparations ...
Article : 103 wordsWe have the following telegram from Sydney via Melbourno:- SYDNEY, DEC. l8. We have news from Taranaki to the 29th ult. ...
Article : 220 wordsThe erection of public buildings in Macquarie Street is rapidly progressing. The new Post office is nearly completed and the Royal Society's Museum is sufficiently advanced to exhibit a very ...
Article : 88 wordsThe collection of a large population at the new gold-field at Otago, has had the effect of giving a fresh impetus to the export trade of the colony, and the wharves of Hobart Town have ...
Article : 639 wordsA PUBLIC meeting has been hold in Launceston and a subscription has been guaranteed in Hobart Town which is to be supplemented by a government grant—for the purpose of further testing the ...
Article : 623 wordsHis Excellency Colonel Gore Bowne will hold his first inspection of the Southern Tasmanian Volunteers in the Domain, this evening. His Excellency will be on the ground at seven o'clock ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 23 Dec 1861, Page 3
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