Whether or not the assumption that maternal or pre-parturitive impressions descend to progeny be true, we can at least affirm that diseases are hereditary, and often ...
Article : 486 wordsAlexander and Company, corn merchants, have failed, their gross liabilities timing one million and three quarters sterling, and deficiency £44,000. ...
Article : 55 wordsMuch interest is folt by the public in the state of the arrangements for the starting of the amalgamated National Bank at Hobart. Many inquiries are made of us ...
Article : 3,090 wordsThe two companies to which reference was made by Mr. Crick in the Assembly last evening are doubtless the Imperial Land and Building Co. and the City and ...
Article : 409 wordsCo-operation is suggested as a remedy for the foolish way of meeting labour difficulties with strikes, and although there are many opponents to the working of the ...
Article : 807 wordsSome serious disturbances have occurred in the usually peaceful island of Heligoland. A fight among German soldiers and natives, commencing in a ...
Article : 41 wordsThe somewhat Budden death is announced of M. Fruncios J. P. Grevy, ex-Preaident of the French Republic, in his 85th yea[?] The immediate cause ...
Article : 101 wordsBank of South Australia shares have receded to £17. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe Queen has conferred the Albert medal of the second class on Mr. Cooper, fourth officer of R.M.S. Massilia, for saving a Lascar from ...
Article : 35 wordsThe report that the Mahdi, at the head of ten thousand armed dervishes, is marching northward in Egypt, is now denied. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Bank of Australasia pays a dividend and bonus oqual to fourteen per cent., and carries forward £14,000 to the reserve fund. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe hot weather now prevailing is greatly improving the hops and wheat, and there are some hopes of a fair harvest, notwithstanding the damage done ...
Article : 34 wordsAveling and Gillies, leaders of the British factories' delegates at the Brussels Labour Congress, have quarrelled, and Aveling has been summoned ...
Article : 33 wordsA terrible explosion has occurred at Hoffman Co.'s No. 2 brick yard, Brunswick, to-day, whereby a, workman named Charles Andrews was blown to atoms. He was ...
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Article : 54 wordsCaptain Barlow, of the Orlando, is considerably improved in health, and was able to be up for a few hours. A telegram from Rockhampton states that ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Ballowich express has killed five navvies who were on the line near Corkshill. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Trades' Union Congress at Newcastle insists on having healthy workshops, and desires to raise the age of half-timers to 13 years. ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Servian Government is promoting the proposal to adopt the Salonica route for the conveyance of Anglo-Australian mails. ...
Article : 25 wordsIt is intended to bauish to Siberia any person proselytising orthodox-Russians. This decree is specially directed against the Sundist and Moslem ...
Article : 26 wordsThe West Australian this morning referring to the discussion in the South Australian Assembly, and also in the Adelaide Press, regarding the merits of karri und jarrah ...
Article : 187 wordsThe famine at RombofT, in Southern Russia, is so terrible that peasant women bring their children into contact with sufferers from diphtheria, ...
Article : 56 wordsThe Siecle, Paris daily paper, plainly declares that France will not assist Russia either to secure Stamboul, or to invade the rights of England in the ...
Article : 30 wordsA commission has been appointed by the Sultan of Turkey to try the exGrand Vizier Kismil Pasha, for plotting against the throne. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe steamer Rotokino sailed from Wellington with horses for Calcutta, but had to return to the wharf, as a heavy gale was blowing. ...
Article : 601 wordsA vast proportion of the delegates to the New York Republican Convention promise to support Mr. Blaine in the coming Presidential election. ...
Article : 27 wordsSIR,—Iam sure that overyone who has read your accounts of the deputations re Sunday concerts, which were published in yesterday's Mercury, will agree with me in ...
Article : 442 wordsThe Government of Hungary has decided on spending sixteen million florins in the fortifying of Transylvania. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe wool market lemains firm, and prices are unchanged. There is no change in ftozen meat quotations. ...
Article : 70 wordsEngland and Portugal have completed the delimitation of Manicaland boundaries. ...
Article : 19 wordsThe Chilian cruiser Presidente, Pinto has left Copenhagen after secretly shipping several Armstrong guns. ...
Article : 25 wordsA motion was carried yesterday in the Assembly that the Government take steps to suppress racing sweeps and consultations, A case of importance to subscribers to the ...
Article : 190 wordsThe rails on the Strahan and Zeehan Railway line are now laid to the Little Henty, or 24 mile 40 chain peg. The contractors will henec[?]orth run their train to ...
Article : 196 wordsMr. B. Maple has given six thousand guineas for a yearling colt. by St. Simon. This is the highest price ever given for a yearling racer. ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Hon. J J C. Abbott, the Canadian Premier, promises to make oriminal any attempt to influence the Government to grant contracts or ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Fitzgerald, President of the Irish League in America is dying. ...
Article : 19 wordsKing Leopold of Belgium is offering strong opposition to the acquisition by England of the Katongo district to the north of the Makololo country in South ...
Article : 89 wordsThe Canadian Commissioner reports that the Chinese in the colony are so anxious to eradicate leprosy that they have killed several lepers at Columbia. ...
Article : 31 wordsEleven shipments of warlike stores for Vladivostok have passed through the Dardanelles during the present year. A strong Russian fleet is collecting in ...
Article : 42 wordsAt the Adelaide Bille Association competition yesterday the Parliamentary match resulted in a win for the Legislative Council team by 258 against the Assembly's 240. ...
Article : 173 wordsIt is reported that Bismarck and the Emperor William are again reconciled, the condition being that the Emperor's Ministers shall consult Bismarck on ...
Article : 70 wordsIt is now reported that M. Crampel, leader of the French expedition to Lake Tchad, in Cential Africa, which met with a disastrous fate, was murdered ...
Article : 72 wordsAt the Court of Mines to-day objection to mineral leases heard before Commissioner Fowell were disposed of as follows:- J. Eden Horan v. Nicholson and Godkin, ...
Article : 223 wordsWhy so many deviate from a graceful carriage may be accounted for in as many ways as there are misshapen beings. The spinal column i[?] the mainstay of the body, ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Now South Wales March and September loan of £2,000,000 at 3½ per cent., minimum £95, has been issued, pari passu with the existing loans, the ...
Article : 279 wordsThe Czar returns from Copenhagen to witness the Warsaw military man[?]uvres. ...
Article : 14 wordsMusbate, one of the Philippine Islands, S.E. of Luzon, has been ruined, three great volcanoes having suddenly become active. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe following are the acceptances for the A.J.C. Derby this afternoon:—Stromboli, Bengal, Oxido, Sulpaide, A[?]ter, Brazendel, Sunshine, Lebel. ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Governor leaves for England on the 19th inst, for a three months' holiday. ...
Article : 19 wordsBroken Hill Consols are to-day quoted to 18s. 6d. ...
Article : 12 wordsThe Supreme Court of the United States lins decided that all pauper Jewish refugees from Russia landing in the States shall be sent back to the ...
Article : 426 wordsAt the half-yearly meeting of the Ballarat Mining Exchange Co., held to-day, a very satisfactory report was submitted by the directors, and on their recommendation a ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 12 Sep 1891, Page 3
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