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  2. Property Sales.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 449 words
  3. Amusements.

    The third matinee musicale given by the pupils of that well-known and respected professor of the violin, Herr Wentzel, and at which their friends and the public had an opportunity of ...

    Article : 426 words
  4. "AFTER DARK."

    Among the many successful revivals of popular drama at Her Majesty's Theatre, that of Dion Boucicaults "After Dark" on Saturday night certainly takes a leading position. The ...

    Article : 492 words
  5. Scientific and Useful.

    Air sacks have recently been successfully used for raising wrecks on the Pacific coast. The method consists of placing canvas sacks 20ft by 4[?]f t in the hold. Each of these sacks is attached ...

    Article : 79 words
  6. Destructive Fire.

    At 4.10 a.m. yesterday a fire resulting in heavy damage occurred at the Albion Mill and Bakery, 49 Anne-street, Surry Hills, occupied by Mr. John Conlon. When the alarm was given the ...

    Article : 205 words
  7. Colliers on Strike.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—About 60 men employed at the Jumbunna Coal Mine struck work on Saturday, in consequence of their request for an increase from 3s 6d per ton to 4s in the hewing ...

    Article : 148 words
  8. ELECTRIC PROGRESS.

    The electrical transmission of power, how to carry it to great distances with little waste, is, Mr. Alex. Siemens says, a problem, which presses for solution, and will probably receive it ...

    Article : 72 words
  9. The Ocean-street Tramline.

    The Minister for Works contemplates that the Ocean-street tramway will be open for traffic towards the end of July, when the official opening will take place. The track has been ready for ...

    Article : 64 words
  10. NEW RESISTANCE METAL.

    A New England firm (U.S.) has introduced a new resistance metal in wire, sheet or castings, which is regarded as a very important contribution to this class of material in electrical ...

    Article : 101 words
  11. Fire at Kelso.

    KELSO, Monday.—Early this morning the Sportsman's Arms Hotel at Kelso was burnt to the ground. Although the fire was noticed at 11.30 p.m. Sunday, no notice to the fire brigades ...

    Article : 56 words
  12. Tine Diseases Board.

    A meeting of the Cumberland Vine Diseases Board was held in the Town Hall, Granville, on Saturday. The board had a list of 50 appeals to adjudicate on. By some misadventure the ...

    Article : 406 words
  13. THE DECIMAL POINT.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 141 words
  14. The Commercial Travellers.

    The city and suburban travellers and the members of the association held an agreeable outing on Saturday afternoon, followed by a smoke concert at their rooms in the evening. The fact of a ...

    Article : 345 words
  15. INTELLIGENCE IN BIRDS.

    Birds as readily and with as much wisdom as man adapt their house-building and famishing to circumstances and conditions of life. Nay, they sometimes take fancies apparently in the ...

    Article : 161 words
  16. "AS YOU LIKE IT."

    It was to a well-filled house that the curtain rose at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday evening, on Shakspere's fascinating comedy "As You Like It," in which Miss Hilda Spong is "starred" ...

    Article : 1,041 words
  17. The Weather.

    On Saturday afternoon there were only about three stations in the colony that had no rain, but yesterday a general clearing up took place. In tie extreme vest from 1½in has fallen, and in the ...

    Article : 200 words
  18. TIVOLI THEATRE.

    The general excellence of the Tivoli entertainments continues nightly to draw crowds to that popular place of amusement. There were very few changes in the programme on Saturday, and ...

    Article : 321 words
  19. THE MOON.

    Professor Ledger, in his recent Graham lectures, claimed for the moon that it was not merely a satellite of the earth, but a real planetary member of the solar system. It is ...

    Article : 65 words
  20. New Music.

    "The Quambi Waltz." by Miss Mollie Bruton, is a capital waltz, opening with a charming andante and developing into a good, bold, well-marked rhythm that is at once ...

    Article : 166 words
  21. Vice-Regal News.

    A party from Government House will attend the Tempe Ball at the Town Hall to-morrow, and on Wednesday the Governor and his son (Mr. R. Duff) leave by train on a trip to Brisbane. ...

    Article : 89 words
  22. AN ABSOLUTE ZERO.

    One of the interesting things connected with these recent experiments in the liquefaction of gases is the tact that it enables us to produce a lower temperature than ever before. We are ...

    Article : 121 words
  23. CANTERBURY MUNICIPALITY.

    Sir,—I must respectfully take exception to your report of the proceedings on the above matter. You credit me with, stating that it would be to the benefit of the ratepayers of that ...

    Article : 691 words
  24. Death of a Glebe Alderman.

    Alderman William George yeates, ex-Mayor of the Glebe, died on Sunday morning at his residence, No. 56, Westmoreland-street, Forest Lodge. The deceased gentleman had been ...

    Article : 117 words
  25. SCIENCE PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE.

    Lieutenant-Colonel Elsdale, in an article in the CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, singles out four scientific problems as calling most urgently for solution, and perhaps likely to be solved in ...

    Article : 133 words
  26. Industrial Blind Institution.

    The 13th annual meeting of tho Sydney Industrial Blind Institution, Boomerang-street, Woolloomooloo, was held in the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Pitt-street, on Friday, Sir George Dibbs, ...

    Article : 257 words
  27. THE ALHAMBRA.

    In spite of the threatening and unpleasant state of the weather on Saturday night there was a large audience present at the Alhambra Music Hall to welcome Mr. Greorge Gibbons and ...

    Article : 509 words
  28. The Railway Rates.

    MELBOURNE, Monday.—No change has occurred in the differential railway rates question since the commissioners received the New South Wales Commissioners' intimation of their ...

    Article : 97 words
  29. TEMPERATURE OF HIGHER ATMOSPHERE

    Mention has heretofore been made of recent thermometer soundings in the high atmosphere by releasing small balloons bearing registering apparatus. Records have been thus brought ...

    Article : 123 words
  30. An Ingenious Invention.

    Messrs. Hannam and Company have been experimenting with, a view of placing before the public a cheap and simple machine for producing large quantities of hot water at a minimum cost, ...

    Article : 89 words
  31. A "Vikings" Social.

    The Swedes and Norwegians resident in Sydney held a social at Needs' Rooms, on Friday night, there being a thoroughly representative gathering of Scandinavians. Mr. Consul Falstedt, who ...

    Article : 275 words
  32. WHAT THE DIAMOND IS.

    The hardness and impenetrability bo characteristic of the diamond, says Sir Robert Ball, would at first sight seem to refute the supposition that it is no more than a cluster of rapidly ...

    Article : 162 words
  33. The English Mail.

    The R.M.S. Ophir arrived at Albany at 2.30 a.m. on Saturday from London and sailed again for Adelaide at 6.45. She brings the following saloon passengers: For Adelaide—Dr Whyte, ...

    Article : 291 words
  34. FIGHT BETWEEN EAT AND SNAKE.

    One afternoon (says a correspondent if Nature Notes) in the summer, when I was staying with my sister at her country house in Somerset, I was strolling round by the pigstyes, and ...

    Article : 194 words
  35. Election Polling Places.

    The new polling places under the recently passed Electoral Act will number about 1300, and daring the week a gazette will be published giving the names and locations of each. By the ...

    Article : 63 words
  36. Advertising

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  37. Advertising

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