Saturday was a very busy day amongst members of the Association, the official journal announcing some thirty papers to be read At 10 a.m. the Sect o[?]al Committees ...
Article : 10,403 wordsAt the Police Court this morning Mary Ann Hibbs was charged with stealing a lady's gold watch, gold ring, milk dress, and £2 4s. 6d. cush from her employer, E. T. ...
Article : 213 wordsItaly is mediating betweeu Bulgaria and France on the basis of the withdrawal of M. Chadourne's expulsion, he agreeing not to return to Bulgaria. ...
Article : 31 wordsMiss Nellie Stewart, the Australian prima donna, will appear in the title role in Sunsl and Pettit's burlesque Black Eyed Susan at the Prince of ...
Article : 34 wordsThe shipping ring is loading the steamer Ruahine for New Zealand ports at 22s. 6d. per ton. ...
Article : 26 wordsThis match took place on Saturday at Kingston, and resulted in a win for Fitzroy by 22 u[?]s on the first innings. For Fitzroy W. Hayton, 9 wickets; E. R. Fisher, 5; ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Mashona, four-masted barque, bound to Port Pirie from Cardiff, has been badly damaged in collision with the Chatsworth, and will have to be ...
Article : 40 wordsThe steps which have been taken to supply Broken Hill with water by train from South Australia are proving sucessful, and no doubt the back of the difficulty is now ...
Article : 58 wordsSIR,—Would you allow me to suggest that the present t[?]me would be a good opportunity for the full discussion of two questions of vital importance to Australia:— ...
Article : 55 wordsPriests in Russia are endeavouring to coerce the Government to abolish commercial concessions to all Europeans not of the Greek Church, on condition ...
Article : 40 wordsProfessor Hale opened a very interesting show in the Exhibition-grounds on Saturday in the shape of an orrery and tellurian mechanical cont[?]ivance showing the ...
Article : 425 wordsA petition has been received by the Minister of Agriculture and Education (Mr. W. Copley) praying that no more gold licenses or mineral lea[?]es be granted to the ...
Article : 96 wordsNominations in connection with the Tasmanian Turf Club summer meeting are due to-day, when entries close at 8 p.m. for the Launceston Cup, 400sovs., 1½ miles. ...
Article : 162 wordsSIR,—When the brave explorer, Sir John Franklin, issued his [?]st programme of the Hobart Regatta, His Excellency announced that in the first place that national holiday ...
Article : 370 wordsAt Ottawa the Grand Jury is dealing with charges of defrauding the Government brought against various officials and legislators. ...
Article : 23 wordsIt is reported that the Chilian Government will borrow five millions sterling from the banks. ...
Article : 19 wordsA plot has been discovered in America for the equipment and manning of a war vessel as a means for the overthrow of General Hyppolite, President of the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe s.s. Austral arrived at Albany at 2 p.m. on Saturday. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe New Zealand Insurance Co. has de clared a dividend of 12½ per cent. for th year ended November 30. ...
Article : 30 wordsAustria concurs with Italy in supporting the British proposal to be submitted at the forthcoming Sanitary Conference relating to the free passage ...
Article : 59 wordsThe Launceston quotation for tin ore on Saturday was 15s. 6d. per unit. Scrip in the New Comet Silver-Mining Co. is now ready for issue. ...
Article : 156 wordsA team of twelve from Lord Sheffield's cricketers commenced a two days' match yesterday against a South Melbourne sixteen. The Englishmen batting first scored ...
Article : 86 wordsIt is reported that the immediate cause of the late Khedive's death was an overdose of morphine from the effects of which he never rallied. ...
Article : 32 wordsThe secretary of the Portsea Island Building Society has defaulted to the extent of £66,000. ...
Article : 17 wordsA gang of anarchists, armed with [?]owling pieces, has attacked the town of Xeres, in Spain, and pillaged the residents. ...
Article : 60 wordsThe intercolonial cricket match South Austrulia v. New South Wales was continued yesterday under very inauspicious circumstance. A drizzling rain fell nearly ...
Article : 279 wordsSurely Melbourne never appeared to forlorn as it did on Saturday morning with its closed shops and open hotels surrounded by muddled-lo[?]king men. Similar groups ...
Article : 1,150 wordsAlameda, January 2.—All hands engaged for week at open faco. We are now stripping the lode, which shows about 7ft. above level of cutting. ...
Article : 170 wordsSIR,—I have watched with considerable interest the erection of the post offices at Glenorchy and New Town, and the alterations to the house now occupied by the ...
Article : 388 wordsOn the last homeward voyage of the P. and O. Co.'s R.M.S. Valetta, which left Melbourne on November 21. a passenger named W. J. O'Donnell, head of ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 234 wordsThere was an excellent attendance at the upper cricket ground on Saturday afternoon to witness the match between these clubs, and those present were treated to an ...
Article : 428 wordsThe.Premier has received from the Queensland Government a copy of Sir W. MacGregor's last annual report on New Guinea. Sir Samuel Griffith enclosed a ...
Article : 176 wordsSIR,—"South Hobart" is about as wide in his facts as to Quayle-street us he is in his attempt to identify myself. It is quite true St. George's-hill was crossed in many ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 219 wordsSIR.—Some few years since vigorous repressive measures abated this nuisance, but it is again becoming rife. I was violently struck by a leaden pellet from one on the ...
Article : 107 wordsA the Stock Exchange this morning the following sales were effected:—Balstrup's, 5s. 11d. Maestri (paid-up), 24s. Comet, 8s 6d. Bell's Reward (paid-up), 2s 4d. ...
Article : 253 wordsThe Schooner Templar, found wrecked at Cape Patterson, was a 30-ton vessel. She left Inverloch for Melbourne on the morning of the 2nd in charge of David Ushanovitch, ...
Article : 366 wordsMr. Thomas Wroe, postmaster, Buckley's Crossing, N.S.W. writes:—"As a timekeeper your Waterbury cannot be beaten; and I find it much better to work the mails ...
Article : 177 wordsThe first mutch of the season between these clubs took place on Saturday on the Lower Cricket Ground, and resulted in a victory for the former by 43 on the first ...
Article : 128 wordsThis match was played on the ground of the latter at Bellerive on Saturday, 9th inst., and resulted in a win for the Clarence by 50 runs on the first innings. For New Town ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 11 Jan 1892, Page 3
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