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  2. QUEENSLAND.

    GYMPIE.—This field is still wonderfully successful. The latest returns to hand of the crushings are:— Phœnix Prospectors' Company, 620 tons of stone for 623oz gold, and Nos. 2 and 3 Smithfield Company ...

    Article : 1,584 words
  3. The Naturalist.

    IN answer to a letter by Mr. H. J. M'Covey, I beg to state that I haye shot the common native cat with eight young ones on the tits, and known to my cost that they are very destructive in a fowl house. The ...

    Article : 1,506 words
  4. CAN KANGAROOS LIVE WITHOUT WATER?

    The above is a disputed question, and it would be interesting to have it disoussed through the T. AND O. JOURNAL, as it reaches'almost every person who has had a chance to study the habits of those animals. ...

    Article : 404 words
  5. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Telegrams from Perth state that a prospectan has been issued by several influential promoters to float a company to work a reputed gold-bearing roof at Bindoon, the capital to be £610,000. ...

    Article : 34 words
  6. TASMANIA.

    Telegrama from Hobart report that the commissioner at King River district states that he believes the place to be second to no other Australian goldfield. The miners, it appears, conceal their finds ...

    Article : 84 words
  7. Scientific and Useful.

    IN your issue of the 2nd you have a plate and a note relating to lightning marks, and the following extract re the same subject may be interesting to some. I copy it from WHITAKER'S JOURNAL of June 3,1876: ...

    Article : 315 words
  8. Vital Statistics.

    THE report of the Registrar-General, on the vital statistics of Sydney and suburbs for the month of February, is to hand. It shows that in the city the births numbored 330, being 57 above the ...

    Article : 157 words
  9. DEAFNESS CAUSED BY PRESSURE ON THE EARS.

    Narrowing of the external auditory canal from cracks in the cartilaginous portion is a recognised cause of deafness, says the LYONS MEDICAL, apart from the liability to which it gives rise of the ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. Lady Killed on a Steamer.

    A MELANCHOLY accident oocurred on the steamer Buninyong as she was leaving for Melbourne on Friday afternoon, by which a lady passenger, Miss E. Ward, met with her doath. It appears that ...

    Article : 207 words
  11. ON THE NATURE OF SNAKE POISON.

    I NOW briefly describe the measures to be adopted in the treatment of snake-poisoning, and especially refer to the permanganate of potash as a remedy. The first and most important indication is to ...

    Article : 512 words
  12. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    THE NEW ERA.—A correspondent of the OBSERVER says:—"In the neighbourhood of Woodside the result of the crushing of stuff from the New Era Claims is exciting the greatest interest. A day or two ago I ...

    Article : 662 words
  13. Goods Train on Fire.

    SOME excitement was caused last Monday at the Newtown railway station, owing to a quantity of hay having caught fire in a goods train. The train had passed under the Petersham bridge, when a ...

    Article : 309 words
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