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  2. THE STORIE PENSION BILL.

    SIR,—Having read in your leading article of this morning the following passage, and believing the bill there referred to is the Rev. John Storie's Pom sion Bill, we cannot, as members of a deputation ...

    Article : 474 words
  3. CITY CLUB V, HIGH SCHOOL.

    Saturday was anything but a pleasant day for football, but nevertheless the first match of the season between the above clubs was played on the Battery Ground. A cold wind and frcquont showers ...

    Article : 690 words
  4. CALIFORNIAN MAIL NEWS.

    The Pacific Mail Company's steamship Australia reached Sydney on Monday, bringing the April mails from Europe. Her American dates are— New York, May 3; San Francisco, May 12; and ...

    Article : 1,088 words
  5. A CALAMITY TO THE BRITISH.

    An extract from a private letter placed at the disposal of the Englishman gives a few particulars of the circumstances of the late sad accident to the 10th Hussars, roported at the beginning of April by ...

    Article : 619 words
  6. BELLERIVE STREET OBSTRUCTION.

    SIR,—In your issue of Tuesday last there appeared a letter signed a "Lover of Justice," wherein the writer charged all who in any way endeavoured to have the small wooden erection (about 20 feet by 10 or 12 feet— ...

    Article : 297 words
  7. JUNIORS V. SCHOLARS.

    On Saturday eleven of The Mercury Juniors played thirteen of the Battery Point Public School in the Domain. The Juniors kicked two goals to their opponents' nil, but one of the goals was disputed, as ...

    Article : 62 words
  8. FRANKLIN.

    The usual monthly sitting of the Court of Requests was held at the Police Court, Franklin, on Thursday, the 12th instant, before the Commissioner, Mr. Walpole. A large number of cases were disposed of, ...

    Article : 339 words
  9. AMATEUR OPERA.

    SIR,—Mr. Peterson complains of the failure of his letter upon Amateur Opera to draw forth any serious roply. This may be attributed to the absence, as our spiritualistic friends would say, "of the ...

    Article : 379 words
  10. ITALY.

    Garibaldi has addressed a letter to an Italian paper upon the state of Italy. Garibaldi says that the dynasty, under cover of its irresponsibility, is the cause of the evils that beset the country, and ...

    Article : 342 words
  11. WHICH IS THE BETTER BIRD OF THE TWO?

    Sir—I noticed an article in the local of Thursday's Mercury which has been under a disoussiou in the House of Assembly, and upon which that body reports progress under the head of "The Codlin Moth." ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. BEACONSFIELD.

    Golden Gate.—The reef was struck on the claim on Friday last, at a distance of 33 feet from the shaft. The stone is 15 inches wide, and of good quality, with gold showing plainly in it. This reef is a ...

    Article : 972 words
  13. THE KELLYS IN THE CITY.

    Before the Police Magistrate and Major Firebrace. At the opening of this court, a respectable old lady said she appeared, on the part of her husband (who was laid up with the lumbago, caught ...

    Article : 783 words
  14. CETYWAYO'S FIRST SIGHT OF A BREECHLOADER.

    In the course of a volume published some years ago by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, entitled "After Ophir; or, a Search for the South African Goldfields," the author, Captain Augustus Lindley, ...

    Article : 1,155 words
  15. VICTORIA.

    The London correspondent of the Argus mentions that Mr. Berry might, had he so pleased, left England with a knighthood. It is stated that when the Kelly sympathisers ...

    Article : 972 words
  16. THE BANK FAILURES IN MELBOURNE.

    A meeting of the directors and shareholders of the Australian and European Bank was held on Friday afternoon, at the Athenæum-hall, Collins-street, to consider the prosent position of the bank. There ...

    Article : 1,174 words
  17. TASMANIA AT THE SYDNEY EXHIBITION.

    SIR,—I have noticed several meetings of the Commissioners of late, but have not seen any mention of the appointment of a local representative. Now, it appears to me that, having a good ...

    Article : 178 words
  18. COLONIAL NAVAL RESERVE.

    SIR,—It is a surprising fact that in all the plans suggested for defending our colonies against an enemy, a naval reserve, to be mutually supported by proportionate contributions from the different ...

    Article : 986 words
  19. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO ITALY.

    On Easter Monday, her Majesty and suite paid a 5 visit to Milan. Preserving a strict incognito, the Quean first drove to the Hotel de Ville, and afterwards to the Cathedral and the principal objects of ...

    Article : 516 words
  20. GOVERNOR ARTHUR.

    SIR,—For a week I have thought over an expression of Mr. Calder's, in his letter to you of June 6, that "however offensive anything he has already written or may hereafter write, in illustration of Tasmania's ...

    Article : 239 words
  21. MINING NOTES

    The ketch St. Helen's, which arrived on Friday night last from George's Bay, brought 555 bags of tin ore, as follows:—Waverley, 140 bags; Marie Louise, 100 bags; H.H.D., 60 bags; Rising Sun, 18 ...

    Article : 62 words
  22. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE CZAR.

    On Easter Monday, about 9 a.m. when the Czar was taking his usual morning walk, just as he was passing the building occupied by the military staff, a man of about 30 years of ago, tall in stature, and ...

    Article : 817 words
  23. THE PIEMAN DIGGINGS.

    An occasional correspondent of the Chronicle writes:—There have been so many reports of a conflicting nature going the rounds of the newspapers anent the succe[?] or non-success of the Pieman ...

    Article : 979 words
  24. CHEAP POULTRY AND A "MARKET DAY" FOR HOBART TOWN.

    SIR,—Under the above heading, in your issue of Saturday, 14th inst., a letter appears signed "Progress." The writer of that article has fallen into error, so far as his quotation of prices is concerned. ...

    Article : 188 words
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