In the Logislative Council yesterday, The Premier (Mr. Douglas) took his seat as member for South Esk. Petitions were received in favour of giving ...
Article : 8,178 wordsThe PRESIDENT took the chair at 4 o'clock. Members present—Messrs. Agnew, McGregor, Crowther, Dodery, Lord, Fysh, and Smart. ...
Article : 2,683 wordsThe Australian cricketers commenced their 30th match in England to-day at Nottingham, against an [?]leven of the North of England. The weather generally was ...
Article : 363 wordsMr. Smart to-day moved the House should go into committee to consider the expedien[?]y of repealing standing order, No. 92, which gives power to one member to exclude. ...
Article : 291 wordsLatest accounts respecting cholera in Italy state that it is increasing in Naples. ...
Article : 17 wordsMessrs. Duryea, of the United States, have offered a prize of 6,000dols., to be rowed for next year by six leading scullers, including Beach. ...
Article : 27 wordsMessrs. Wigram and Sons (Limited), shipowners, in order to reduce the amount of their capital have returned £140,000 to the shareholders. ...
Article : 25 wordsThe usual weekly meeting of the above board took place at the offices, Franklin Wharf, yesterday afternoon. Present: The full board. ...
Article : 893 wordsThe Government of the Argentine Republic are in favour of offering premiums to encourage the export of frozen meat from that country. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe European wheat harvest will be an average one In England, United States, and India the yield will be bountiful. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is reported that a NEw South Wales loan of about five millions will be placed on the London market in about a month. [From the Melbourne papers.] ...
Article : 291 wordsThe Treasurer to-day moved the taxation resolutions, viz., a half-penny in the pound on actual value of all land, without exemption; threepence in the pound on incomes from ...
Article : 208 wordsMessrs. Hartnoll and Ferguson were charged at the police court to-day on the information of Mr. M. Fletcher, Inspector of Sheep, with having caused to be driven ...
Article : 621 wordsThe following extra matches have been arranged with the Australian Eleven in addition to the fixtures in official programme: —September 11, Kennington Oval, ...
Article : 61 wordsIn the Assembly in committee on the Immigration Act Amendment Bill, Mr. McIlwraith intimated his intention of taking a firm stand against the bill. A ...
Article : 91 wordsGovernment Securities.—Five per cent. New Zealand 10-40 loan, ex div., £103 5s.; five per cent. New Zealand 1880, £105 10s.; four and a half per cent. New Zealand ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. Gladstone made a second speech to his constituents at Edinburgh last night, in the course of which he entered into an exhaustive defence of the foreign policy of the ...
Article : 116 wordsMr. Anthony Horden's scheme for constructing a railway from Beverley to Albany has been finally adopted. ...
Article : 21 wordsSome Chinese residents here have combined, and offered a roward of £200 for discovery of the murderer of Ah Goon. A deputation representing the iron trades ...
Article : 777 wordsSix members of the Stout Ministry have been appointed, viz., Mr. R. Stout, Premier and Attorney-General; Sir Julius Vogel, Treasurer; Mr. Richardson, Minister of ...
Article : 83 wordsLatest news regarding the cholera reports an outbreak of the dis[?]ase at Alicante, in Spain. It is also committing great ravages in Italy, and at Naples the daily mortality ...
Article : 38 wordsOur postal arrangements are decidedly faulty, and want immediate readjustment to stille local complaints. Although the mail arrives daily, there is practically but a ...
Article : 167 wordsA deputation, consisting of Messrs. C. G. Lloyd, F. L. Wilson, A. Wilson, Thomas Nicholson, H. Nicholson, Cant. Underwood, J. A. Moore, R. Jeffrey, E. Jeffrey, and ...
Article : 944 wordsThe Czar left this city at midnight yesterday for Warsaw, where preparations have been made for some time past for his reception. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe SPEAKER took the shair at 10 minutes past 4 o'clock. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. DOOLEY to move.—That the reports ...
Article : 4,250 wordsAt the wool sales to-day 8,200 bales were sold. Prices continued firm. The stock of tin in London at present is 7,000 tons. ...
Article : 32 wordsThis was an application by James Davison, Thomas W. Fishe, William Anderson, and Edward C. Morgan, for a lease under the Mineral Lands Act of 1877 of 320 acres of ...
Article : 1,197 wordsA rumour is current to-day that Lord Carlingford is about to resign the office of Lord Privy Seal, owing to ill-health. It is believed that the Earl of Rosebery will replace ...
Article : 41 wordsTo conserve, to foster, to oncourage, and to extend an industry in a colony is synonymous with the best interests and prosperity of that community. It is an old and well-known ...
Article : 1,595 wordsThere is no medicine prescribed by physicians or sold by Druggists that carries such evidence of its success and superior virtue as Boschee's German Syrup for severe Coughs, Colds settled ...
Article : 672 wordsAn attempt, it is believed, was made to-day to kill King Milan (Obrenovitch I.) of Servia, while en route to the city. A train by which His Majesty was supposed to ...
Article : 68 wordsLetters have been received from General Gordon at Khartoum, where he is holding out against the rebel forces, and in which he states that he can defend the place until ...
Article : 50 wordsThe death is announced of Sir Robert Richard Torrens, on Sunday, at Devonshire, from inflammation of lungs. Age, 70. The funeral will take place next Thursday. ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Murray Smith has intimated that he is willing to accept a renewal of his term of office as Agent-General for Victoria, which expires in February next. ...
Article : 30 wordsIt has been definitely announced that the International Postal Conference, at Lisbon, will be postponed until Fobruary, in consequence of the cholera epidemic. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe French fleet, under Admiral Courbet, which left Foochow on Friday last, is now proceeding to the Island of Hainan in the Gulf of Tonquin. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 6 Sep 1884, Page 3
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