The Hon, the Treasurer, accompanied by Messrs. N. E. Lewis, and J. Hamilton, Ms.H.A., paid Richmond a visit to-day, for the purpose of electing a site for the ...
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Article : 357 wordsHer Majesty the Queen sends to the Tasmanian Exhibition the portrait of herself which was shown at the Jamaica Exhinition. ...
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Article : 135 wordsThe Queensland Government has warmly thanked Sir Saul Samuel for representing that colony at the Postal Congress. ...
Article : 19 wordsIt is imported that Mr. H. M. Stanley has visited, King Leopold of Bolgium and resigned his appointment as Governor of Congo. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe sixth half-yearly meeting of shareholders was hold at Mr. W. J. Westcott's office, 95. Collins-street, at 4 p.m. yesterday. Mr. Henley presided, and a large number of ...
Article : 264 wordsNew South Wales loan is now quoted at £95. The market is timid, and in view of fresh appeals lower rates are anticipated. ...
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Article : 34 wordsIt is reported that another revolutionary rising has occurred in Mexico, resulting in a battle between the Insurgents and the Republican forces, ...
Article : 94 wordsA meeting has been called to take place at Huxtable's Hotel, Oatlands, on Monday next, to make arrangements for holding a day's racing in the district There is no reason ...
Article : 99 wordsThe arrangements for the Russian loan of 500,000,000 francs have been completed, the minimum fixed being 79 ¼ per cent. ...
Article : 26 wordsAn important civil action was commenced at the Supreme Court sittings, Bundaberg, to-day. Lewis O'Mara sued the National Mutual Life Association of Australia for ...
Article : 290 wordsIt is now officially Announced that Sir James Fergusson, Political Secretary to the Foreign Office, has been uppointed Postmaster-General in ...
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Article : 25 wordsA meeting of the chief council of the Amalgamated Miners' Assocution was held to-day to consider the difficulty in connection with the Moonta copper mines. The ...
Article : 199 wordsRobinson, of Nottingham, will accompany Lord ' Sheffield's cricketing team on the Australian, tour as reserve man. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe New York Central Railway Co. have dismissed all aliens employed on their line; chiefly Canadians. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt' the Dockers' Congress held in Hull, Mr. Tillett, secretary to the Union, said that at the present rate of progress the organisation would soon ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Paris branch of the Rothschild family have donated 20,000 pesetas to the relief of the people of Consuegra who are suffering from the recent ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Rev. W. H. Fitchett, B.A., of Melbourne, in a letter to the Pall Mall Gazette, refutes the recent charges made in English reviews against Australian ...
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Article : 380 wordsThe committee of the T.T.C met to-day, and decided to hold their spring meeting on December 9, the programme for which will shortly be issued. It was also decided to ...
Article : 106 wordsChief Justice Way, of South Australia, attends the Economical Science Council'Conference in America on the 2nd proximo, and thence he travels to ...
Article : 52 wordsAbout a dozen members of Parliament held a meeting at Parlament House to day to consider the propriety of moving for the imposition of a progressive wealth tax. Mr. ...
Article : 157 wordsMiners employed in the collieries in Durham demand adoption of the eight hours system, and better tennis in connection with pit tributes. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore yesterday was l6s. per unit. Meetings to-day:—Grubb's S.M. Co., at Masonic Hall, Murray-street, at S; Koonya ...
Article : 207 wordsA railway collision has occurred near Gleiwitz in Prussia (Silesia), in the valley of the, Klodnitz. Ten persons were killed, and many others injured. ...
Article : 38 wordsHis Excellency the GOvernor, Mr. Frank Robinson, Sir Henry Wrenfordsley, and Miss Wrenfordsley have left Perth for Albany, en route for England. ...
Article : 72 wordsMr. Waterhouse has bean returned unopposed for the Carmarthen seat in the House of Commons, rendered vacant by the retirement of Sir Arthur ...
Article : 31 wordsMessrs. Paterson and Co. have taken over the Auckland tramways. James,Davis, ironmonger, of New Plymouth, was found drowned to-day in one of ...
Article : 324 wordsIn view of a decided demonstration against, the Chinese nation on the part of the allied Powers, Prince Tommaso, vice-admiral of the ...
Article : 57 wordsCinderella, September 19.— Have sunk prospecting shaft on No. 2 reef a further 8ft.; total, 22ft Stone still carrying fair gold. Have also found what I consider to be ...
Article : 702 wordsMr. Lovett, of Australia, who recently gallantly saved a person from drowning, has been recommended for the Royal Humane Society's medal. ...
Article : 37 wordsThe educational force of the Watetbury Watch has been felt all over the world. America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Austral[?], have shared In its oivilsing and ...
Article : 201 wordsSeveral banking institutions in Adelaide are showing a disimclination to take large deposits at the current rate of 5 per cent. owing to offers being so plentiful. It is ...
Article : 155 wordsThe carpenters' strike in Great Britain has already cost the unions £50,000,and the employers show no disposition to give in. ...
Article : 27 wordsIf you keep your eyes open, that SCOTT'S EMULSION is more largely sold than almost auy proprietary article in the world. ...
Article : 147 wordsMoet and Chandon, champagne growers, are proprietors of the best growths around Epernay, many of which have been in the possessiou of their house since, the year ...
Article : 163 wordsGerman military critics highly praise the behaviouir telj the French forces I during the recent manceuvres. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe French Press regards the abolition of passports in Alsace-Lorraine a an important paci[?] sign. It is reported that the Czar and ...
Article : 43 wordsThe Legislative Council laid aside the Payment of Members Bill as a protest against the proposed increase in the payment of members of the Upper House. But ...
Article : 52 wordsTwo French spies have been arrested near,the walls of the fortress at Strasburg. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 24 Sep 1891, Page 3
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