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  2. For week ending February 6.

    On Friday evening in last week the Assembly was engaged in committee on the Custom's Daties Bill. Every increase and every new daly was opposed, and divisions were taken—some of them very close indeed, the duty ...

    Article : 1,310 words
  3. MONTHLY SUMMARY OF NEWS PER R.M.S. MADRAS.

    OUR last political summary closed with a statement of the difficulties into which this colony was likely to be plunged by the adoption of an anti-free-trade tariff by the present Ministry. It is worth of remark that, ...

    Article : 1,862 words
  4. RELIGIOUS.

    CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—On the 15th February, the Right Beverend the B[?]hop of Sydney and Mrs. Barker arrived by the Northam from England. The Dean of Sydney and the Rev. G. H. Moreton, with other friends, ...

    Article : 899 words
  5. NEW XEALAND.

    In the progresa of military movements there has been nothing of a startling character during the months In a word, General Cameron has been steadily and successfully dealing with the chief difficulty of New Zealand ...

    Article : 305 words
  6. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    Of the former here has been nothing to call for particular mention during the past month, if we except the admirable performances of the Volunteer Band to the Boter[?] Gardens under the condutership of its talented ...

    Article : 671 words
  7. For week ending January 30.

    TUESDAY last was kept, as the anniversary of the colony always is, a fall holiday. The weather, however, was against the regatts, a severe gale from the south setting in early in the afternoon, capsizing and disabling several ...

    Article : 1,222 words
  8. MISCELLANEOUS.

    During the past month public attention has been so much occupied with the tariff question that everything else has been almost lost sight of. The great battle between the free traders and the protectionists ...

    Article : 1,606 words
  9. VOLUNTEERS.

    The doings of our Volanteers during the past month have been unattended by anything worthy of especial comment. The following incidents we record will show that the drills and rifle practices continue to be carried on in the ...

    Article : 559 words
  10. FLOODS IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS.

    We have this month to chronicle the occurence of very extensive and disastrous floods in the districts of the Hunter and its tribntaties. Heavy rain set in on Tuesday, the 9th instant, and continued for several days, ...

    Article : 549 words
  11. For week ending February 13.

    THE political history of the past week may be summed up in a few words. The Legislative Council has been engiged almost entirely in a debate on the Customs Duties Bill, the lead in opposition to the Ministerial ...

    Article : 1,029 words
  12. CRICKET.

    As the time draws near for the visit of the English Eleven to this co[?]ony, excitement increases, and by the votaries of the game little else is thought of. The first practic match, played with the View of selecting the ...

    Article : 478 words
  13. AGRIGULTURAL DISTRESS IN CUMBERLAND AND CAMDEN.

    The smaller calss of agriculturists in the counties of Cumberland and Camden have been reduced, by the loss of their wheat crop in consequences of drought and rust to a condition of comparative destitution. Three years ...

    Article : 313 words
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