The annual Austrian wheat statistics have been published, and show that there is a shortage in the wheat harvest of the world of 140,000,000 bushels, and ...
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Article : 51 wordsNew Zealand hemp declining. Fair medium selling at £21 10s. The prices for frozen meat are unchanged. ...
Article : 25 wordsA fearful railway disaster has occurred in France. A train conveying French troops to the military manœuvres ran off the ...
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Article : 527 wordsThe Standard has published a telegram to the effect that endeavours have been made to induce the King of Roumania to apply for a divorce from the ...
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Article : 169 wordsIt is reported that the Bank de Paris has offered to raise a Russian loan of twelve million pounds at four per cent. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe French Republic attains its majority to-day, the Government of the Third Republic having been organised in September, 1870, with M. Thiers as ...
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Article : 48 wordsLARCENY OF AN OVERCOAT.—A young man named Herbert Bailhasche pleaded guilty to the larce[?]y of a waterproof evercoat, belonging to Mr. J. G. Cook, from the Sydney ...
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Article : 36 wordsThe Bishop and party are going to Sydney to attend the Triennial General Synod of the Dioceses of Australia. Mr. Glover, a sharebroker of Perth, has ...
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Article : 30 wordsCaptain O'Shea, recently divorced, denies the report of his intended marriage with an English lady. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 5 Sep 1891, Page 3
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