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  2. ITEMS OF INTELLIGENCE

    ADMIRAL PIERRE has been superseded in his command of the French naval forces, on the Madagascar coast, by Admiral Galiber. The retirement of the former was believed to be compulsory, in order to satisfy the complaints of the English ...

    Article : 1,752 words
  3. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS

    A run to the ports on the north-west coast of Tasmania is one of the pleasantest, breeziest, and most invigorating of excursions. A few months hence we South Australians will be limp and weary, choked with dust, dessicated by hot winds, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 192 words
  4. THE WIRE TRAM ACROSS THE TEREMAKAU, N.Z.

    The Teremakau River is situated in the Middle Island of New Zealand, in the district of Hokitika. The stream has no great pretensions to size during the summer months, but in winter it rises to a considerable height, and not unfrequently ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 141 words
  5. THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.

    As the Brooklyn Bridge finally approached completion, public interest in the progress of the work became livelier, and the finishing touches absorbed the attention of all who had occasion to cross the East ...

    Article : 384 words
  6. AUSTRALIAN GUM TREES.

    It is in the mountain ranges and their mysterious valleys that the traveller must seek for that which, under the above title, we give a representation. Some of these much slandered gum-trees, viewed when detached by mist or fog from the confusion ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 193 words
  7. In Memoriam.

    It pains us much to have to record the death of this deservedly valued colonist, which took place on the night of Thursday, August 2. Mr. Hamilton, who has for some time back given evidence of feebleness, was ...

    Article : 623 words
  8. BEATING THE BOUNDARIES.

    AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CUSTOM REVIVED IN AUSTRALIA. A novel ceremony in the adjoining colony of Victoria was performed on the 20th July, viz., the beating of the bounds of the city of Fitzroy, in honor of the annexation of a portion of ...

    Article : 241 words
  9. EXTENT OF WHEAT CULTIVATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    We present the subscribers for the News this month with a plan of South Australia, in which is shown the extent of cultivation within the several districts of the province ; also the total and average yield of wheat, for a period of 11 years. ...

    Article : 490 words
  10. SKETCHES IN NEW GUINEA.

    There can be no doubt that the missionaries have done an incalculable amount of good in New Guinea, and their settlement at Port Moresby will undoubtedly be the centre from which civilising influence will spread over what is now a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 370 words
  11. THE RIMUTAKA RAILWAY, NEW ZEALAND.

    Amongst the most interesting of the railway lines in New Zealand, both to the tourist and the engineer, is that from Wellington to Masterton, the latter place being the present terminus of the line that is eventually to be connected with ...

    Article : 306 words
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