City of Hobart municipal 5 per cent. debentures have risen 1 per cent. The London closing prices on 20th November last were £109—£114. ...
Article : 43 wordsWe have to inform our Subscribers that, in accordance with our usage at Christmas time, THE MERCURY will be PUBLISHED on FRIDAY MORNING, and not on Saturday ...
Article : 61 wordsWaihora, s.s., 2.003 tons, John Anderson, for Melbourne, Passengers—Saloon: Mrs. Scholz and child: Misses Hammond, Nicholls, McGough, Willis, Kenny; Master Lyons; and 5 ...
Article : 36 wordsThe funeral of the late Duke of Devonshire will take place at Edensor on Saturday next. ...
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Advertising : 1,723 words(A special charge is made to consignees wishing to particularise their imports or exports.) Ex s.s. Kaiser Wilhelm H. and Taluno via Melbourne—37 [?]ss boots and shoes, leather, and ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Hon. Cecil J. Rhodes, Premier of Cape Town, has been thrown from his horse in one of the steets of the city, and his collar bone broken. ...
Article : 39 wordsThe PRIZE LISTS in connection with School Reports, if inserted in our News Columns, will be charged at usual Advertising Rates. ...
Article : 31 wordsEight soldiers of the Imperial Guard of St. Petersburg have been condemned to death for decoying and murdering citizens in the military barracks. ...
Article : 26 wordsWaihora s. s., for Melbourne—382 bgs bark, 100 bis skins, 2 [?]ss flowers, 32 bgs bonos, 21 bgs horns 5 [?]ss wine, 107 bishops 50 [?]ss [?]am, 50 css fruitin syrup, 2[?] hams, 366 bis wool. ...
Article : 348 wordsThe Right Rev. Dr. Austin, Bishop of Guiana, has been appointed Prolate of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in succession to the late Bishop ...
Article : 68 wordsNew Pinafore Co. pay a 3d. dividend. Final rehearsal for Messiah to-night at Town Hall. Tea meeting and sale of work at Sorell on ...
Article : 4,825 wordsThirty-five labourers have been found dead, having succumbed to a terrible snowstorm in Abruzzi Province, South Italy. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe Chinese Government states that the influence of the Hurran and Anhui secret societies is extending to military forces in other provinces, and that a ...
Article : 53 wordsAn American fleet has appeared slowly passing Valparaiso. ...
Article : 13 wordsThe journal which has recently been established in Dublin in the interests of the Parnoilito party issues a declaration of the programme which has been ...
Article : 297 wordsSir E. N. C. Braddon, Agent-General for Tasmania, intends reading a paper before the Society of Arts in March next on. " The Resources of the ...
Article : 36 wordsRecent advices received by Messrs. G. Piesse and Co. give particulars of the building of two of the steamers intended for Huddart, Parker and Co.'s now line to New Zealand, the first of ...
Article : 169 wordsA large quantity of contraband munitions of war and some Krupp guns have been seized by the Government authorities at La Plata, in Buenos ...
Article : 42 wordsA Mrs. Osborne has sued Major and Mrs. Hargreaves, of Torquay, for damages for slander, in alleging that she stole and sold to Messrs. Spinks ...
Article : 100 wordsLieutenant and Commander Pirie, H. M.S. Paluma, reports that a reef which dries 3ft. in places at low water spring tides extends about three-quarters of a mile N.E. by N. from Torn ...
Article : 106 wordsA Massachusotts inventor has devised a double bull ship, with compartments so arranged and constructed that it supplies, he asserts, a mathematical certainty against ...
Article : 213 wordsThe Rev. Father Mind and a thousand converts to Christianity were massacred during the recent outrages at Ichang and other places in China. ...
Article : 29 wordsAt the inquiry to-day into circumstances surrounding the imprisonment of Edward Bell, wrongly convicted of burglary through the conspiracy of a couple of ...
Article : 284 wordsLady Blyth, relict of the late deceased Agent-Geueral for South Australia, is now residing at Eastbourne, Sussex. ...
Article : 20 wordsCoogee, s.s., 1,000 tons, F. Carrington, from Melbourne. Passengers — Saloon: Mesdames Hurst, Bennett, E. Hannan, M. A. Barrett, J. W. Smith, Wilson, Fliat, McCullagh, Roberts, ...
Article : 228 wordsCinderella will be produced at the Gaiety Theatre on Thursday next, but Miss Nellie Farren, who is suffering from rheumatic fever and ague, will be ...
Article : 51 wordsThe long-continuing friction between Mr. Egan, United States representative in Chili, and the Government is increas ing. An attempt to arrest Egan's son ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Abyssinia, steamer of the Guion line, trading between Liverpool and New York, has been burnt in the Atlantic. All the passengers and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 303 wordsMr. M[?]sergh, C.E., states that in his proposed drainage scheme the use of either bricks or cement is immaterial, and that one sewage farm will be ...
Article : 38 wordsGreat preparations are now being made at the Theatre Royal by the members of Mr. Bland Holt's working and managerial staffs for the opening of the season, which takes ...
Article : 252 wordsMr. Hawker's report on the proposal to quarry at Broken Hill down to the two hundred feet level has been criticised most adversely. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe death is announced of Monseigneur Charles Emile Freppel, Bishop of Angers, aged 64. He was born at Abernai (Bas Rhin), and was appointed ...
Article : 78 wordsThe match between Lord Sheffield's team of 12 and 16 of the Melbourne Cricket Club was resumed to-day. When the stumps were drawn yesterday Grace and ...
Article : 303 wordsTorres S[?]raits, 26th inst.; Orient, 6th prox. OUTWARDS. Orient and Messageries, 28th inst. THIS DAY. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Salvation Army Annual Review just published refers to the wonderful outburst of enthusiasm and romance attending General Booth's recent ...
Article : 34 wordsMELBOURNE (by cable), December 23.—At auction to-day 8,000 bags of wheat were disposed of; new to 4s., and 4s. [?]d.; old inferior to 4s. 5d. Seed grains continue dull. Privately ...
Article : 70 wordsThe goose has, from the days of E[?]op, been noted for its foolishness, and it is refreshing to be able to point to one which forms an exception to the general rule. ...
Article : 269 wordsMessrs. Roberts and Co. report:—We held our second wool sale to-day, 23rd. There was a full attendance of buyers, local, Northern, and Melbourne, resulting in almost entire ...
Article : 412 wordsKing George of Greece continues to slowly recover from his recent severe illness. ...
Article : 21 wordsAn epidemic of malignant diphtheria has broken out in South Hungary, and all the children have died in several of the villages. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe Brazilian navy favours it monarchy and betrays a mutinous spirit. The army, on the other hand, adheres to the present Republican Government. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe two Dukes of Villarosa, in Sicily, charged with the treacherous murder of a young officer, who was a suitor of their sister, have been tried at Naples. ...
Article : 44 wordsResiguation of District Court Judge McFarland has been received and accepted by the Minister of Justice. The cause of his retirement from the Beuch is monetary ...
Article : 144 wordsMr. William Von der Heyde has been gazetted Spanish Consul at Sydney He had previously hold the position of Vice-consul. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 24 Dec 1891, Page 2
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