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  2. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

    THE Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been postponed till August. Russia restores the city of Bayazid and the Valley of Alaschgerd to Turkey. ...

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  3. THE ENGLISH VERSUS THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

    SIR,—I have very little hesitation in asserting that your old English cricketer, "R.D.D." whose confident [?]ffusion appears in yesterday's issue, has very little knowledge about present English cricket. He does not, forsooth, desire ...

    Article : 383 words
  4. OUR BRISBANE LETTER.

    WITHIN a fortnight we have had two of those awfully sudden deaths which come home to the hearts of men to whom spoken admonition and warning are addressed in vain. Both were gentlemen so prominent as ...

    Article : 1,994 words
  5. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    THE following notifications appear in the Government Gazette published yesterday morning:- SHEEP.—His Excellency the Governor has suspended, for a further period of six months, so much of the provisions of ...

    Article : 583 words
  6. OPENING OF THE VICTORIAN PARLIAMENT.

    PARLIAMENT was opened this afternoon, with the usual p[?]mony. His Excellency the Governor was attended by Colonel Anderson, Colonel Hutton, Major Pitt, [?] suite. Lady Bowen and family were present and ...

    Article : 103 words
  7. TRAGEDY AT WEST MAITLAND.

    LATE yesterday afternoon (Monday) a shocking tragedy occurred at Farley, about two miles from here. It appears that two well-to-do farmers, Messrs. Percy Hungerford and Michael M'Grath, residing ...

    Article : 268 words
  8. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] NEWCASTLE.

    Mr. F. J. Fuller was last night appointed engineer to the Newcastle Borough Council at a salary of £300 per annum. ...

    Article : 31 words
  9. Advertising

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  10. GULGONG.

    John Randall, the driver of the Gulgong mail at the time of the recent fatal accident, will appear at the police court to-morrow, charged with the manslaughter of Emily Jane M'Guire. ...

    Article : 35 words
  11. GUNDAGAI.

    Dissatisfaction is felt here respecting the site for the new telegraph and post office. A public meeting is convened, and the Government will be requested t[?] further consider the matter. ...

    Article : 33 words
  12. THE SUPERANNUATION QUESTION.

    SIR,—There has been much writing lately in reference to the proposed compulsory portion of the above, some writers contending, that to make it compulsory on any to contribute towards the fund, will destroy that love of liberty inherent ...

    Article : 1,119 words
  13. QUEENSLAND.

    The Courier urges the Government to telegraph t[?] the Secretary of State for permission to establish settlement at New Guinea at the expense of Queensland. ...

    Article : 60 words
  14. AMENDED MUNICIPALITIES ACT.

    YESTERDAY morning a deputation consisting of Mr. W. A. Brodribb, Mayor of Wolla[?]ra; Mr. P. Stanley, Mayor of Redfern; and Mr. Pidcock, secretary to the Municipal Conference, waited upon the Colonial Secretary to inform ...

    Article : 1,313 words
  15. NORTH SHORE: A BUILDING ACT, AND MR. CLARK'S WATER SCHEME.

    SIR,—Permit me to direct attention to the manner in which some blocks of land on the North Shore—one in particular, lying between main lines of road—are being cut up into miserable strips, and "shanties," of a corresponding ...

    Article : 1,460 words
  16. VICTORIA.

    The body of Adolphus Cohen, who was recently charged with forgery, was found in the Yarra thi[?] morning. The Pilot Board, having heard the evidence, has ...

    Article : 141 words
  17. THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    SIR,—Several letters having appeared in your columns on this subject, I should be obliged by your granting me space to view the matter in another light than that in which it has been looked at by those writers. ...

    Article : 365 words
  18. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] VICTORIA.

    Mr. Berry, in the Assembly, gave notice of a Constitutional Reform Bill; and Mr. Lalor, notice of a bill for abolishing the duty on red-gum timber. At the inquest to-day on the body of Charles ...

    Article : 126 words
  19. PRISON DISCIPLINE.

    SIR,—What a fearful thing it is to be afflicted with a plethora of words. I have read Mr. Thomas Guthrie Carr's long letter, and with great trouble have detected exactly what it means, and will reply to it fairly and honestly, ...

    Article : 941 words
  20. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Chief Secretary has given notice of motion that, in the opinion of the Council, steps should be taken to erect Parliament Houses. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against ...

    Article : 54 words
  21. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Maori chief Rewi, it is understood, will not accept a seat in the Council at present. He wishes that all matters between the King, himself, and the Government, should be first settled. ...

    Article : 60 words
  22. BAROMETRIC WAVES.

    SIR,—Mr. Russell, in his remarks on Captain Smith's paper, read before the Royal Society on the 3rd instant, [?] reported to have said as follows:—The weather telegrams taught him this,—that the barometric waves ...

    Article : 601 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Frank B. Tr[?]att, must have been strangely misinformed. I cannot suppose that he is acquainted with Colonel (now General) Ward, when he could write:—"Colonel Ward, I learn, was in Paris ...

    Article : 134 words
  24. COCOA V. BEER.

    SIR,—As a small set-off to the testimony of the English farmer, who found that his men could not work in the hay fields without daily draughts of beer, let me ask you to publish the appended clipping from the Christian. ...

    Article : 404 words
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