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  2. SUPREME COURT.

    The important case of Manby v. Wilson ana MacKinnon, proprietors of the Argus newspaper, was tried in this court yesterday, before Mr Justice Williams and a special jury of twelve. It was an action for libel. The ...

    Article : 76 words
  3. THE ELECTIONS.

    A very curious combination of circumstances has taken place unexpectedly in reference to the personnel of the Assembly. Mr Stawell's resignation created a vacancy for the city; Mr ...

    Article : 265 words
  4. POPULATION AND LABOR.

    By the population returns which have now been made up for the month of January, we find that during this period there have arrived in tho colony of Victoria from foreign ports and the adjacent colonies ...

    Article : 970 words
  5. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

    The Banner of Belfast thus comments upon the downfall of the Haines Cabinet:— The doom of the Haines Ministry has at length been sealed, and few there ara outside the pale of ...

    Article : 1,612 words
  6. OUR SOCIAL DISEASE.

    Once again it becomes our unwelcome duty to record that the character of our Colony is still tarnished by a fearful amount of immorality. It is a curious fact, however, that here vice does not always flaunt ...

    Article : 710 words
  7. PROSPECTS OF THE MINISTRY.

    The baffled supporters of the defunct Cabinet are employing the usual artifices to raise popular prejudices against the new men ; but they are of too transparent a kind to have much influence in ...

    Article : 478 words
  8. GOLD.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 words
  9. AGRICULTURE.

    Although the weather for the past two or three months has, from its comparative variableness, not been of that nature to ensure the rapid close of harvest operations, it has unquestionably been productive ...

    Article : 1,356 words
  10. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    Since our last summary there is but little to report in the way of public amusements. At the Theatre Royal they have been playing a series of melodramas, spectacles, and the like, to houses which seem scarcely ...

    Article : 910 words
  11. TRADE AND SHIPPING.

    Since our last summary the markets have been glutted by excessive arrivals from England, and the prices have been inordinately depressed. Several failures have taken place, but they are mostly among ...

    Article : 1,208 words
  12. RAILWAYS.

    In our last summary we posted up this subject to the date of our article. Since then there has been very little, if any, progress made towards the absolute commencement of the works. The whole scheme is still ...

    Article : 205 words
  13. THE CITY.

    Most of our public buildings now in progress have the highest architectural merit, and are rapidly advancing to completion. There are no less than three banks in progress,—the Oriental, designed by Messrs Robertson ...

    Article : 862 words
  14. IMMIGRATION.

    We may state the main features of the Immigration Scheme, submitted by the Haines administration. It was proposed to expend upward of a quarter of a million of money, on tho introduction of suitable ...

    Article : 1,422 words
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