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Advertising : 1,737 wordsShortly after 4 o'clock this morning the Theatre Royal was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Bernard Beere and her company's expensive costumes were saved. An effort ...
Article : 63 wordsTwelve thousand delegates attend the Convention of Men of Ulster at Belfast. A Guarantee Fund of £17,000 has been subscribed for election campaign ...
Article : 72 wordsShearers' meeting at Bailey's Hotel, Oatlands, to-night. Hobart Club special meeting at 9 o'clock to-night. ...
Article : 6,992 wordsThe railway revenue for the week ended June 11 was £23,852, while that for the corresponding week last year was £22,511, an increase of £1,341. ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons recommend that the Government should purchase the trunk lines of the telephone ...
Article : 31 wordsAt the Police Court to-day George Klee Carter was fined £15 and costs for breach of the Elections Act in getting his name on the electoral roll under a false qualification. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire as to the employment of women in shops have reported adversely to any ...
Article : 37 wordsSIR,—In your issue of the 13th inst. appears an article on gold mining in South Africa. It is there stated that "knowledge is being substituted for guesswork." ...
Article : 439 wordsEarl Spencer (John Poyntz Spencer) has decided to sell the famous Althorp Library, an accumulation of valuable works extending over very many years, ...
Article : 66 wordsMr. William Redmond is collecting money in New York in aid of the Irish National cause, and donations flow in freely. ...
Article : 26 wordsSome members of the Melbourne football team, who have arrived here to play a series of matches, have been guilty of riot us and disorderly conduct at the Crown ...
Article : 625 wordsAt a meeting of the now Oriental Bank creditors and depositors, it was resolved to voluntarily liquidate the affairs, and Mr. Welton was appointed ...
Article : 75 wordsThe anti-Parnellite section of the Home Rule Party has decided to invite Mr. Edward Blake, a Canadian, to stand for an Irish constituency at the ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Henry Hucks Gibbs, one of the Conservative members for London (City) declines to stand for re-election. ...
Article : 21 wordsLater information from Blaye states that the petroleum steamer blown up yesterday was the Petrolea. The explosion was not, as at first stated, ...
Article : 53 wordsMr. Gladstone to day received a deputation on the eight hours' labour question. He was unsympathetic with the views propounded, and expressed ...
Article : 166 wordsFurther information with respect to the collapse of President Palacio's party in Venezuela has been received from South America. ...
Article : 116 wordsSIR,—I am glad to see that the Domain Committee, a body of gentlemen, who, as Mr. Walch pertinently said at the meeting yesterday, are appointed to beautify and ...
Article : 360 wordsThe R.M.S. India, of the Queensland Royal Mail Line, which departed from London on the 25th ult., arrived at Aden on Monday, the 13th inst., en ...
Article : 66 wordsAt the Quarter Sessions to-day the jurors, who had been locked up all night in the case of Sydney Jones, one of the gang of youths on trial for rioting, failed to ...
Article : 331 wordsFrance has notified to the Powers the intention to blockade the Dahomey Coast in reprisal for incursions made by King Behanzin upon territory under ...
Article : 42 wordsWhen the Government Labour Bureau closed this afternoon 743 names had been added, bringing the total of unemployed registered to date to 3,225. ...
Article : 302 wordsReplying to a question asked in the House of Commons, Mr. Balfour has stated that the withdrawal of the British Imperial East Africa Co. from Uganda, ...
Article : 58 wordsThe report that His Holiness the Pope had strictly enjoined Archbishop Vaughan (successor to the late Cardinal Manning) to abstain from taking any ...
Article : 40 wordsSIR,—I notice the Tasmanian Racing Club decline to alter the date of their winter meet as suggested by the Football Association. As a subscriber to both ...
Article : 194 wordsBrisk sales of all sorts of wool continue and prices are very firm, Americans operating freely. The Multham clip realised 1s. per 1b. ...
Article : 43 wordsCARTER AND WERNER, Oculists, Opticians, care of Hinsby and Clewer, Chemists, Eliza beth-street. Mr. WERNER will leave Hobart on the 24th ...
Article : 43 wordsThe seventh Provincial Synod of the province of New South Wales commenced its 1892 session to-day in the chapter-house attached to St. Andrew's Cathedral. The ...
Article : 271 wordsThe cargo of Australian wheat, ex barque Magnat, from Geelong, has been sold at 34s. 3d. per quarter. The market for Australian wheat in ...
Article : 69 wordsThe Oceana arrived at Albany at 4 5 this afternoon. FRIDAY. Further particulars of the recently ...
Article : 115 wordsProfessional etiquette almost always prevents one doctor finding fault with another's treatment, no matter how erroneous he may consider it, but a case where they quite ...
Article : 517 wordsAntimony is to-day quoted at £46 10s. per ton. [The foregoing cable messages have been delayed by interruption to line.] ...
Article : 23 wordsA telegram has been received from Broken Hill, which states that another movement, evidently of some extent, has occurred suddenly on the boundary between ...
Article : 251 wordsWhy so many deviate from a graceful carriage may be accounted for in as many ways as there are misshapen beings. The spinal column is the mainstay of the body, ...
Article : 181 wordsThe Spanish Ministry are irritated on account of supposed further concessions to England by Morocco. The whole of the members of the ...
Article : 40 wordsThe barometer is extraordinarily high all over the colony, the reading at sea level at the Bluff to-day being 37.4, the highest point recorded for many years. Heavy gales are ...
Article : 44 wordsMr. R. Sleath, district secretary of the A.M.A., has written to Mr. Knox, acknowledging the receipt of the Associated Mines' intimation in respect to the cont[?] ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Irish Education Bill has passed its third reading in the House of Commons. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe ceremony of christening the new winding machinery recently erected at the Black Horse United mine, Egerton, was performed yesterday in the preseuce of about ...
Article : 963 wordsTin, Australian and Straits, is to-day quoted at £104 cash. ...
Article : 15 wordsMdme. Adelina Patti writes:—"I have found Pears' Soap matchless for the hands and complexion." (Signed) ADELINA PATTI, PEARS' SOAP—Pure! Fragrant! ...
Article : 168 wordsA terrible tornado in South Minnesota has destroyed houses, schools, and farms. Forty people have been killed, and a ...
Article : 49 wordsIn connection with the threatened influx of Chinese from the Northern Territory there is reason to fear that the Government will be put to considerable inconvenience. ...
Article : 81 wordsAt the inquest on the body of Lord Ancrum held to-day a verdict was retuned that he was accidentally shot while duck shooting. ...
Article : 28 wordsIt is probable that the Raub Mines at the Straits Settlement will be closed unless order is restored among the hostile natives who have of late ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 18 Jun 1892, Page 3
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