SIR,—Although a good deal of money has been expended at both those places by private individuals and public companies, started in Hobart Town during the past two years, still there is no ...
Article : 655 wordsThe proprietors of the Town and Country Journal have been tried for libel, and fined £150 for defaming Madame Lottie Wilmot. This paper accused the lady of being in collusion with Pastor Chiniquy and ...
Article : 827 wordsAt the meeting on Wednesday, August 11th, there were present: The Warden (Mr. S. Salmon) and all the Councillors. The minutes of the previous meeting were road and confirmed. The ...
Article : 1,391 wordsSince my last, this township has been the scene of a mild exoitement. Our lay preacher and minister's warden having embraced spiritualism resigned his offices, which led to an announcement ...
Article : 401 wordsAt the Police Office, on Wednesday last, the 18th inst., before Messrs. John King, Warden, and George C. Nicholas, J.P., Edward Charles, a boy about 14 years of age, was charged, by information ...
Article : 259 wordsKnowing that The Mercury has an extensive circulation in this district, and that your readers will feel interested in the news of this locality, I venture to take up my pen with a view of bringing ...
Article : 519 wordsThere was an inquest held here, at Mr.G. White's lodging-house, on Monday, the 16th, before Mr. Dawson, P.M., the Coroner for George's Bay district, touching the death of Henry Mergerson, who ...
Article : 495 wordsSIR,—A writer in a recent issue of The Tasmanian Mail has thought fit to speak in very disparaging terms of musicians, stigmatising them as being peculiarly ill-natured and quarrelsome amongst ...
Article : 286 wordsSIR,—I had occasion to ride across to Ross a few weeks ago, via of Bogs, which is our nearest track; I say track, for to call it a road would be likely to delude tho public, for practically speaking there is ...
Article : 758 wordsThe Ballarat Star thinks if Mr. Berry is moderate and can keep his followers so, his Ministry may get through the session, but if he attempts any more "liberal" coups his end will be short and sharp. ...
Article : 623 wordsIn the present flooded condition of the Jordan, at Brighton, the only way of passing from one side to the other is by the railway bridge, which, unfortunately for those using it, has only two narrow ...
Article : 271 wordsSIR,—Without abandoning my first proposition as to the thorough eff[?] of torpedo defonce, I must crave your permission to deal in this letter with another phase of the above-named subject. We ...
Article : 338 wordsSIR,—Now that our Parliament is assembled it is to be hoped there will be something done for those people who are entirely depending on the success of their fruit garden or orchard for their living. In ...
Article : 711 wordsSome time since a petition was signed by most of the inhabitants of our little township, praying the Municipal Council to do away with slaughtering in the township. A by-law was passed to that ...
Article : 403 wordsThe inhabitants of Sorell are extremely thankful to the honourable the Minister of Lands for the promptitude with which he despatched the Foreman of Works (Mr. Holmer) immediately after receiving ...
Article : 1,843 wordsFrom the Examiner we larn that on Friday Miss Kate Harvey received a letter from Mr. Lyster, of the Opera House, Melbourne, offering her an engagement to play Josephine in Pinafore, ...
Article : 388 wordsSIR,—A Mr. Watson lately addressed you on the subject of the prospcotus issued by the promoters of the Mount Bisohoff Silver Lead-Company, and although he may have spoken rather too strongly ...
Article : 255 wordsThere is no improvement to report in the weather. It does not rain now, but pour when the heavens open. Not only does this cause us all much physical discomfort, but it seems to generate ...
Article : 567 wordsThe Road Trust, met on Monday evening, 16th inst. All the members were present. An account from Charles Morrell, for £11 5s., work on Crowther's Bay road, was passed for payment. A ...
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Advertising : 261 wordsSIR,—As a tin miner and resident of Thomas' Plain, it seems but natural that I should feel interested in all that transpires in the district of a moral or industrial tendency; and must therefore ...
Article : 913 wordsSIR,—During the recent debate upon the Treasurer's financial statement, the question of the purchase of the Main Line Railway was raised. Why should we force the Company to sell? Why ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 23 Aug 1880, Page 3
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