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Lord Kelvin inclines to make the earth twenty millions of years old, computing pariods from the age of the strata on the earth's surface. But there is no certain ...
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Near Tilley's Swamp when all is still, And the mist slumbers on the hill, And fog banks rest upon the lake, And bitterns sigh within the brake, ...
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MARKETS.
ADELAIDE DAIRY PRODUCE MARKET. MESSRS. A. W. SANDFORD AND Co. repoit:—August 3.
Continued increase in supply of butter from local sources was evident to-day at our mart, although requirements have still to be largely met by importations, but as Melbourne prices ...
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Messrs. S. Miller, Croker, MacCracken, Leonard, R. Power, and F. Madden have been chosen as members of the V.R.C. Committee. ...
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MELBOURNE GUP.
The following are the frist acceptances:—
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The Westminster Budget wonders how many of the thousands of Her Majesty's subjects who lined the royal route considered that they had had a special how from the Queen. Apropos ...
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The great display of jewels by women of fashion on both sides of the ocean has been severely criticised, even by those who could well afford to wear them if ...
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In a beautiful village in the state of New Jersey, about 50 miles from New York, a party of workmen were engaged two weeks ago in pulling down and ...
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The death is announced, by the Times, of Captain Boycott. Ha had been in failing health for some time, and a few weeks ago started on a sea voyage, but ...
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ARE WOMEN DEGENERATING?
(To the Editor of the Border Watch) Mount Gambler, August 5, 1897.
SIR,—In these days of ever-increasing competition, when the struggle for existence has become more intense and earnest than it has ever been before in ...
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I SINCERELY hope that Mrs. Filmer has abandoned the custom of keeping an oil lamp burning in her room of nights. She does not say what the necessity was, but I trust it no ...
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