A determined burglary was committed in Hobart yesterday morning, when the premises occupied by Mr. Joseph Bidencope, tailor and hosier, Murray-street, were broken into and ...
Article : 791 wordsYesterday, Mr. Alex, Morton, Curator of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, received on loan seven very choice oil paintings from the brush of an English lady ...
Article : 676 wordsA large meeting to-day passed resolutions of sympathy with the persecuted Russian Jews, and appointed a committee to collect subscriptions towards the Mansion House ...
Article : 256 wordsThe Assembly last night decided to favour the northern route for the Yilgarn Railway What is believed to be true, though immature, coal has been discovered at ...
Article : 91 wordsThe barque Amorita, from Mauritius, has arrived ut Port Chalmers with small-pox aboard. One seaman died to-day. The vessel has been ordered into quarantine. ...
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Article : 724 wordsMr. Parry Oakden, the Under-Colonial Secretary, has been gazetted Acting Commissioner of Police during the absence on leave of Mr. Seymour. ...
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Article : 285 wordsSIR,—In yours of to-day there is a paragraph re depression of Renison Bells, but have not the shareholders reason to be dissatisfied? The property by all accounts is ...
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Article : 769 wordsAt the Police Court this morning Charles Burke was remanded for a week on a charge of having obtained stock valued at £57 5s. 6d. from Messrs Bell and Westbrook, in Oct. ...
Article : 704 wordsUnited States Consulate, Sydney, N. S. W. —I, Charles Kahlo, Consul of the United States of America at Sydney and its Dependencies, do hereby certify that C. C. Cohen ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Wed 20 Jan 1892, Page 3
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