Whereas it is expedient to mise a portion of the public revenue of this colony by the imposition of duties on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the ...
Article : 28,893 wordsThe Speaker took the chair at 4 o'clock. PETITION. Mr. DOBSON presented a petition from the Board of Directors on behalf of the Tasmanian Steam Navigation ...
Article : 1,694 wordsBEFORE A. B. Jones, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate, and Major Wilkinson, J P. LARCENY.—Elizabeth Young and Susan Allen, charged by D.C. Vickers with stealing on 20th ...
Article : 554 wordsThe Attorney-General gave notice of motion yesterday for a committee of the whole house to consider the expedieucy of the appointment of a commission to enquire ...
Article : 286 wordsPerseverance, Ralphs' Bay, firewood; Ivanhoe, Peppermint Bay, firewood; Flying Cloud, Simpson's Bay, firewood; Sisters, Port Esperance, Timber; Annie, East Bay Neck, produce; Thistle, Huon, Timber. ...
Article : 1,233 wordsThe property and income tax, alteration of customs duties, and marine board bills were all laid on the table of the house yesterday, and the second reading of the ...
Article : 115 wordsSIR,—As a visitor to the gallery of the House of Assembly last evening, I could not help observing that the hon. member for Kingborough, Mr. Perkins, who speaks so much about ...
Article : 96 wordsTenders will be received at the Public Works Office till noon on Wednesday, the 22nd August next, for the contract for Police Office and buildings at Launceston, in accordance with plans and ...
Article : 74 wordsThe Board met at 2.30 p.m. PRESENT: Dr. Butler, in the chair, Messrs. Macdowell, and Tarleton. MINUTES. ...
Article : 700 wordsThe usual monthly evening meeting of the Fellows was held on Tuesday, the 14th August. The Ven, Archdeacon Davies in the chair. Mr. J. M. Claiks, who had been previously ...
Article : 1,016 wordsBusiness continues without improvement, and in the absence of advices from the neighbouring colonies, we have very little to report. Prices remain as reported in our yesterday's issue. ...
Article : 143 wordsMESSRS. BRUNT & WESTBROOK, at Blackwell's yards, Melton Mowbray, at 11 o'clock, stock and sheepwash tobacco. MESSRS. BURN & CO., on the promises, ...
Article : 64 wordsHERE'S the bill that is to "give a healthy stimul[?]s to national industry, and invite trade, commerce, and population to a country where they will meet with few restrictions to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 22 Aug 1866, Page 2
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