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  2. POLITICAL SUMMARY.

    PARLIAMENT has been summoned to meet on the 21th of next month for the dispatch of business. The recess will have extended ever more than a hundred days, and he a little boyend the average of interregnums and prorogations ...

    Article : 1,728 words
  3. COUNTRY WORKS.

    THE number of men employed on the roads during last month comprised 1788 and 21 officers of all grades. On the main Northern Road the works in hand are, the completion of metalling from Merpeth to Maitland; the entire length ...

    Article : 2,588 words
  4. GOLD MINING.

    OUR gold-fields continue in a most depressed and languishing condition, and [?]s a general rule, it may be and that they are so far worked out that the day of the individual miner has gone by. The digger, with his pick, shovel, ...

    Article : 967 words
  5. STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

    PHYSICALLY, nothing can well be more miserable than the appearance of the interier. Our special reporter, who has recently visited the northern districts of the colony, gives a most melancholy account of the general aspect of the ...

    Article : 965 words
  6. TELEGRAPHS.

    IN our last summary we stated that tenders, had been received for the construction of a branch line of telegraph from Yass to Burrowa, being a distance of thirty-six miles and we are now enabled to state that the tender of Mr. ...

    Article : 438 words
  7. CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

    THE recent wet weather has considerably retarded the progress in the erection of many of the large buildings now going on in the different streets of the city. This applies to the building for the London Chartered Bank, the large ...

    Article : 2,034 words
  8. RAILWAYS.

    IN our last summary we stated that tenders hal been received by the Government for laying and ballasting the permanent way on that portion of the Great Southern line of railway lying between the Fitzroy Iron Mines and the ...

    Article : 3,291 words
  9. THE PASTORAL INTEREST.

    THE following announcement male on official authority, appeared in our issue of the 26th ultimo:—We understand that the process of appraisement of runs, the leases of which expire on the 31st December next, is to be entered upon ...

    Article : 1,043 words
  10. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

    SINCE the publication of our last summary we have been favoured with a complete change from the drought that has so long pervaded the whole length of the colony. Towards the latter end of last month heavy showers fell ...

    Article : 888 words
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