As the Mail for transmission to Europe by the City of Sydney closes on Monday, we subjoin our usual narrative of Political and Local Progress in Victoria:— ...
Article : 1,180 wordsVictoria has been for the first time visited with small-pox; and it is to be feared that this terrible scourge has taken up a permanent residence amongst us. It was introduced by some of the crew and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 97 wordsThe stranger who lands on the wharves of Melbourne, is struck by the air of comfort which shows itself in the appearance of the working classes as compared with those in England. The drees is seldom ...
Article : 774 wordsIn our last we reported the holding of an exhibition at which were displayed a number of models of machines for the purpose of elevating hay to the top of stacks. To two of these prizes were awarded, and ...
Article : 565 wordsThe yield of Gold as ascertained by the Escorts from the several gold-fields is well maintained, though from the large accessions of population, the average per head is below that of last year. This, however, ...
Article : 828 wordsUpon consulting the records of the Supreme Court, we find that the statistics of crime within the colony during the past six months exhibit, notwithstanding the vast increase to our population, a pleasing ...
Article : 949 wordsAt the Census taken in the beginning of this year, our population amounted to four hundred and twenty-five thousand. Since then there has been a steady influx of immigration, averaging nearly a thousand a ...
Article : 714 wordsThe interesting ceremony of admitting a novice among the Sisters of Mercy has lately been performed at the Roman Catholic cathedral of St. Francis. The Anglican Bishop of Sydney has been paying a ...
Article : 100 wordsThe intelligence brought by the European produced no immediate effect upon our markets, as the purport of her advices had for the most part been anticipated. The tendency since the last mail has been downwards ...
Article : 837 wordsFortunately we have to report no further serious disaster to Victorian shipping—which is all the more wounderful, as the parties concerned in the fatal collision off Cape Otway, escaped the ordeal of the ...
Article : 106 wordsAlthough no serious collision has recently taken place between the Chinese and the Europeans, the antipathy between the two races continues to be as violent as ever; and such is certain to be always the case, for ...
Article : 467 wordsMessrs. William Clarke and Sons report the arrival in town of one of the finest nuggets that have been discovered among the auriferous fields of Victoria—a mass of nearly solid gold, of 1743 oz., from the ...
Article : 159 wordsSince our last, the Horticultural Society have held a show of flowers, fruits, and vegetables in the Botanic Gardens, and another society a similar display of flowers in the suburbs of St. Kilda. In both cases the ...
Article : 727 wordsSince our last summary there has not been much in the agricultural prospects and resources of the colony. At that time, it will be remembered, we noticed a much larger breadth of cultivation than ...
Article : 236 wordsThe world at the Government Printing Office have been resumed upon a second Government grant of £22,000. The interesting ceremony of admitting a novice ...
Article : 1,638 wordsAt the date of our last summary, the 15th ultimo, the three Railway Bills, which had passed the Legislative Assembly, were under consideration by a Select Committee of the Legislative Council, or Upper House. ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 14 Nov 1857, Page 5
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