THE long-deferred meeting of Parliament now approaches. The Session, which is to be opened on the 23rd inst., promises to be one of the most important that has yet sat in Tasmania. ...
Article : 5,426 wordsOn the retirement of Dr. Bromby, Bishop of Tasmania, from the Presidency of the Council of Education, the Hon. F. M. Innes, M.L.C., was elected to the office. The Bishop's letter on retiring conveyed ...
Article : 610 wordsBeyond the usual regular weekly and fortnightly entertainments, the month has passed without anything worthy of remark taking place in Hobart Town. On the evening of the 14th instant, an ...
Article : 496 wordsWilliam Cuffey, one of the London Chartists of 1848, died last month at the Brickfields Invalid Depot, at the advanced age of 82. Deceased was a tailor by trade, and had been employed during ...
Article : 456 wordsThe past month has not been notable for any particular progress on our gold-fields, either as regards prospecting or mining. From Waterhouse, visitors to the United Company's claim continue to report ...
Article : 1,560 wordsThe Parliament of Tasmania stands prorogued till next Tuesday week, 23rd August, then to meet for the dispatch of business. Last year the session commenced a day later, but there is, and long has been, ...
Article : 480 wordsThe Chief Justice, Sir F. Smith, has, since our last summary, held two sittings in the Insolvency Jurisdiction, and one sitting in the £50 Jurisdiction, besides attending, in turn with Mr. Justice Dobson, ...
Article : 454 wordsAt the last meeting of the Royal Society of Tasmania, a letter from John Walker, Esq., of London, induced a discussion among the Fellows, as to whether the beet could compete in those colonies ...
Article : 1,021 wordsThe cricketing season opens in Hobart Town the first week in October. At the commencement of the present cricketing recess, attention was given to certain improvements upon the Association ground in ...
Article : 222 wordsAs education is at all times a subject of interest to colonists, as well as friends at home, we give a resume of the educational facilities of Tasmania. In the list are Christ's College, Horton College, Ross, ...
Article : 291 wordsThe following comparative statement of the Customs Returns and General Revenue of Tasmania for the quarter ending 30th June,[?]1870, contrasted with the revenue for the corresponding quarter of last ...
Article : 378 wordsThe Valuation Act, which is somewhat ambiguous with reference to the form prescribed for shaping the assessments, causing, as will be remembered, much heartburning and dissension among the citizens a ...
Article : 562 wordsTWELVE seamen belonging to the whaling barque Chance, charged with insubordination in having refused to work whilst upon the high seas, were brought before the Hobart Town Bench of ...
Article : 2,613 wordsThe Rev. J. W. Simmons has continued his series of Sunday afternoon lectures at the Town Hall, Which have been numerously[?] attended on each occasion. The subject of lecture on the 17th July was " The ...
Article : 398 wordsThe Intercolonial Exhibition at Sydney has been postponed for a fortnight, in consequence of the unfavorable state of the weather. As very little interest is taken in the affair by this colony, the delay was ...
Article : 172 wordsThe arrangements for opening this institution to the public are nearly completed, and the gentlemen under whose instructions they have been made have shown themselves qualified for the undertaking. ...
Article : 556 wordsThe works particularized in our last summary are advancing, except the two sections of road Preservation Bay, and Blyth Road, under James Fenton's contract, which have been completed. Stone ...
Article : 706 wordsThe Secretary of the Benevolent Society has acknowledged the receipt of a donation of £5 from a person whose name is not given. It is hoped there will be many[?]more such proofs of sympathy with the ...
Article : 551 wordsHis Excellency the Governor, Charles DuCane, Esq., on the 9th instant, inspected the 2-18th Regiment of the Royal Irish, now in garrison, but who leave Hobart Town for Melbourne on the 17th inst., ...
Article : 624 wordsMr. George Clifford, the curator of the Acclimatisation Society at Otago, arrived in Hobart Town by the last trip of the Southern Cross, for the purpose of taking with him to New Zealand another supply of ...
Article : 372 wordsCaptain A[?]dley Coote, as representative of the Tasmanian Railway Company formed in London, to construct a Main Line Railway in Tasmania, has since our last summary made renewed proposals to ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 11 Aug 1870, Page 3
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