Referring to the prospect for the new year in Tonga, a correspondent writing to the Auckland Star says :—“This will be a very good year for Tonga, as owing to the absence of hurricanes the ...
Article : 232 wordsThe Sandhurst correspondent of The Argus states that a prisoner named Caleb Lewis, a notorious thief, who was sentenced by the Elmore Bench to three months’ imprisonment, escaped ...
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Article : 201 wordsA few weeks ago a statement was reprinted from a New York paper to the effect that a South Australian journalist had fallen into the hands of a gang of confidence and lottery swindlers in that ...
Article : 437 wordsThe approved certificate of award for the Bathurst Juvenile Industrial Exhibition, chosen from amongst 22 competitors, from the design of Messrs. Gibbs, Shallard, and Co., is now ready for ...
Article : 124 wordsIt is evident (says the Australasian) that Sir Henry Parkes’s semi-political tour is attracting a good deal of notice. The New South Wales Premier met with a good reception in the United ...
Article : 332 wordsThe Fiji Tuna of February 4 says:—“Apropos of the late rise in the rate of wages demanded by the Immigration Agent on the re-engagement of Polynesians, a correspondent supplies the ...
Article : 240 wordsThe Melbourne Telegraph Rays :—“A young lad between 17 and 18 years of age was sent from the Melbourne gaol to Pentridge last Friday. When the clerk was taking his description, the lad ...
Article : 136 wordsA writer in the Bourke Watchman directs attention to the peculiar virtue of a plant known as the needle-bush, which often affords natives of the western plains and others in the secret with ...
Article : 429 wordsIt will be remembered (says the Age) that about two months ago a quantity of nitro-glycerine, which was stored in the dynamite bulk Empire, was found to be in such a dangerous ...
Article : 248 wordsWhen the legislator moves in advance of public opinion (observes the Pall Mall Gazette) Lis laws are apt to become a dead letter. This truism has received a recent illustration in the State of ...
Article : 257 wordsThe mystery of the apparent supernatural visitation which has been exercising the minds of residents of the Creswick road of late has been unrivalled (savs the Ballarat Star). Two young ...
Article : 255 wordsIt may not be generally known that the Commissioner for Railways has the power, under the 132nd section of the Railway Act, to bring up before the magistrates any person employed on ...
Article : 254 wordsThe N. Z. Times says:—About 12 months ago Hone Werahiko, the prospector of the Te Arohn goldfield, and one of the pioneers of the Thames, opened correspondence with Tawhiao concerning ...
Article : 170 wordsThe Horowhenua natives (says the N. Z. Times) have recently been in luck’s way. Some time ago they sent presents of stock, &c., to the Parewanui natives. Whether this was “a sprat to ...
Article : 154 wordsApropos of the evidence given before the New South Wales Marine Board, Mr. J. Gibson (says the Brisbane Courier) makes what seems to be a very sound and valuable suggestion, and one ...
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