A complimentary tea meeting was given on Easter Monday, at Forcett, in the Sorell district, to Chas. Hazell, Esq., J.P., the chair being taken by the Warden, F. Allison, Esq., J.P., when an address, ...
Article : 250 wordsALTHOUGH the subject of the acclimatisation of the Salmon in Tasmania has now become one to which we have referred so often that it may be thought by some a worn-out tale, there are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsThe usual "Shows," periodically illustrating the progress of our industrial life in the direction of agricultural and horticultural industry and enterprise, have been held during the month, and have ...
Article : 281 wordsThis regatta which was commenced on Monday, the 18th ult., by a skiff race, but which had to be postponed in consequence of inclement weather, was resumed on the 22nd ult. In order to compensate ...
Article : 558 wordsThe members of the Loyal United Brothers' Lodge, A.I.O.O.F., on the 6th inst., made a presentation of an address and complete tea service to Mr. Wm. Mason, who had faithfully performed the duties of ...
Article : 400 wordsMr. Justice Dobson who had been on a visit to the adjacent colony of Victoria, returned from Melbourne via Launceston by the T. S. N. Co's. steamer Derwent on the 22nd April. On the 4th and 18th inst,, His ...
Article : 271 wordsThis product is beginning to be regarded in its proper light by Tasmanian capitalists, and certain signs indicate that its cultivation will very shortly be entered into with increased activity. At the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 992 wordsA meeting of about fifty persons interested in public-house reform took place at the Exchange Rooms, Macquarie-street, on the evening of the 22nd ult., Mr. R. A. Mather in the chair. The meeting ...
Article : 326 wordsThe two Presbyteries, the Church of Scotland, and the Free Church, met in Hobart Town last weak, the letter in Chalmor's Church, Rev. L. Campbell, Moderator. Among the business brought forward ...
Article : 798 wordsHis Excellency Right Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Governor of South Australia, terminated his short [?]t to Tasmania on the 26th April, when he em[?]ked in the T.S.N. Co's s.s. Derwent, at Launceston ...
Article : 215 wordsThe Committee of the Tasmanian Woollen Mill Company met in Mr. Cowbnrn's Hotel, Melville-street, on the evening of the 3rd instant, for the purpose of hearing some practical information from ...
Article : 267 wordsThat Tasmania possesses many and varied stores of mineral wealth has long been acknowledged, but hitherto only a faint conception of their nature and extent has been entertained. A large area of the western ...
Article : 3,204 wordsWhen His Excellency the Right Hon. Sir James Fergusson, Governor of South Australia, was visiting Hobart Town, he was prevented by illness from fulfilling an intention to visit the Hutchins School. The ...
Article : 555 wordsThe question of Parliamentary reform has formed the subject of discussion during the month. One reason for taking the Census this year instead of next [?] that the Government and the Parliament might ...
Article : 466 wordsOn the 10th inst.; upwards of eighty men, in detachments of ten, competed for the annual garrison gun prizes, amounting in the aggregate to £30. The awards included 1st and 2nd prizes for shell ...
Article : 368 wordsA grand operatic concert was given in the Town Hall, on the evening of the 22nd inst. The large room was by no means crowded, but the company was numerous and appreciative. His Excellency the ...
Article : 256 wordsThe bridge over the Mersey, in connection with the Deloraine and Mersey Tramway is all but finished, which completes the line from Kimberley's ford to the station at Latrobe. Everything, at ...
Article : 552 wordsOne of our fellow colonists, best known and most respected, has died and been carried to his resting place with bef[?]tting marks of respect and regret, [?]nce the publication of our last Summary. Mr. ...
Article : 516 wordsOf the elk which recently arrived from Coylon, the present of a native Tasmanian now in Her Majesty's servies in that island[?] we had occasion somw days ago to mention that those animals had wandered away ...
Article : 542 wordsThe usual issues for the month have come to hand of the Church News, Tasmanian Catholic Standard, W[?]'s Literary Intelligence, The Independent, The E[?]angelist, The People's Friend. A small collection of ...
Article : 626 wordsThe cricketing season is now over, and the knights of the willow have gone into wiater qui[?]tude. During the past month, there have not been many matches of importance, the most interesting having ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 19 May 1870, Page 3
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