The last monthly evening meeting of the session of the Royal Society of Tasmania was held last evening, when Mr. James Barnard presided, and there was a large ...
Article : 880 wordsThe portfolio of Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, which was held by Prince Lobanow, who recently died suddenly, is, according to reports ...
Article : 51 wordsThe weather this morning was oppressively hot, but towards evening rain steadily fell, and has continued gently up to a late hour. At wool sales to-day large catalogues were ...
Article : 86 wordsMr. Fred Johnston, who recently applied for a license of the Argenton Hotel, died suddenly on Sunday at his residence. He was out on Friday last, but is said to ...
Article : 94 wordsThirty motor cars of all types started on Saturday from London to Brighton along the high road, a distance of 51 miles. ...
Article : 212 wordsThe basis of agreement between Great Britain and Venezuela, drawn up by American jurists and submitted to the Governments of the United States ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Debats, Paris paper, says the real object of the Niger expedition, in which British officers led native troops against rebels harassing the Emperor of Sokoto, ...
Article : 51 wordsA public meeting was held last evening in Chalmers schoolroom, Bathurst-street, to take steps to establish in Hobart a rescue home in connection with the Salvation Army. ...
Article : 1,440 wordsThe Navigation Act Amendment Bill, which was among the last pieces of legislation carried by Parliament prior to prorogation, will practically reduce the pilotage ...
Article : 241 wordsFor the purpose of bringing to a close the long-continuing bickerings and contentions over the rate of wages paid to dock hands, the employers have ...
Article : 47 wordsPresident Kruger, interviewed concerning the statement made by the Johannesburg Standard and Diggers' News that the Government of the South ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Spanish home loan, in aid of funds for vigorously prosecuting the Cuban war, has given rise to a patriotic outburst throughout the ...
Article : 58 wordsSIR,—Coming in out of the bush after a mouth's prospecting, I was looking over the files of daily, papers and noticed a good deal of controversy over the unemployed and ...
Article : 1,040 wordsA military expedition will leave Akassa about the middle of December next to subjugate the Horans, a powerful tribe, for some time past troubling ...
Article : 35 wordsThe report and balance-sheet of the Australian Agency, Land, and Finance Company have been issued, and show a net profit of £1,316. Three thousand ...
Article : 40 wordsPeace was concluded between Abyssinia and Italy on the 26th October last, and the ceremony was observed with much solemnity. ...
Article : 132 wordsThe National Zeitung, published at Berlin, in commenting on Lord Lonsdale's statement at Whitehaven that he had been authorised by the Emperor ...
Article : 114 wordsAt the Criminal Court to-day Mary Christensen pleaded guilty to a charge of having killed a girl named Casey at Nyora Mission Station, and was remanded for ...
Article : 32 wordsAt the Antwerp wool sales to-day biddings were less brisk, but the opening rise for River Plate wools was maintained. There were 11,720 bales ...
Article : 35 wordsNo further communication has been received about the missing members of the Exploring Expedition, but the President of the Geographical Society here entertains ...
Article : 33 wordsMr. Smalley, The Times correspondent at New York, says bank deposits in the United States have increased to the extent of fifteen million dollars ...
Article : 69 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 51 wordsIt is stated that one of the Commanders engaged among the Outlanders in enforcing measures for suppression of rinderpest, has permitted cattle ...
Article : 49 wordsThe cashier of the Credit Lyonnais Bank at Brussels has absconded, taking with him 36,000 francs. ...
Article : 20 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 130 wordsMr. Barney Barnato,the famed Johannesburg mine owner and speculator, has secured the Control mines, Ontario, for 250,000dol ...
Article : 24 wordsPrince Bismarck, in the course of an interview, has vouchsafed some explanations as to the motives impelling his recent revealing of State secrets. ...
Article : 68 wordsThe Dominion Government at Ottawa has abolished all duties previously imposed for protection purposes. ...
Article : 21 wordsHartnam, the Khalifa's spy recently captured in Suakim, is making some strange revelations. He says that the Austrian instructor ...
Article : 61 wordsThe Marquess of Huntly has been re elected to the Rectorship of the University of Aberdeen, to which he was first appointed in 1890. ...
Article : 28 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 132 wordsThe number of famine-striken natives employed on relief works in India has increased to 120,000. ...
Article : 18 wordsWe have had quite a gala week—what with a ball, burlesque, excursion trains to and from Zeehan, and far these who require a more stirring excitement, very nearly two ...
Article : 495 wordsThe disabled steamer Yarrawonga, from Australian ports, has been towed to Malta. ...
Article : 17 wordsEntries close to-night at 8 o'clook for the Galloway and Trotting meeting to be held on Saturday next. The programme will be found in our advertising columns. As the ...
Article : 53 wordsAn enjoyable cricket match was played on the 8th inst., on the Queenstown cricket ground, between teams representative of the office staff and railway departments of the ...
Article : 562 wordsTo-day's Gazette contains, among other items, the following:— Notice of intention of the Minister of Mines to apply to the Governor for forfeiture ...
Article : 510 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 120 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsThe steeplechase run at Caulfield on Saturday was won by the Tasmanian-bred mare White Wings. O.K. was her only antagonist. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Victorian Club made a profit of £100 over Saturday's meeting at Caulfield. The horse Paul Pry is to be shortly shipped to West Australia. Straightfire ...
Article : 62 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 255 wordsThe rarehorse Lieutenant will not again carry the colours of Mr. Peter Moore, he having disposed of him in Melbourne for 400gns. The deal was effected privately. ...
Article : 168 words{No abstract available}
Advertising : 1,984 wordsThe opening of the premier emporium, the new premises of Craw Bros. & Creed, speaks well for the enterprise and go of our West Coast tradespeople. This firm, after ...
Article : 502 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Tue 17 Nov 1896, Page 3
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: