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  2. NEW GUINEA.

    AT the annual meeting of the Victorian Auxiliary of the London Missionary Society, held in the Congregational Church, Collins-street, on February 23, the Rev. W. G. Lawes, F.R.G.S., spoke of his work in New Guinea. He said that the mission cause in ...

    Article : 746 words
  3. THE COOKING OF RIVER AND POND FISH.

    ALL sportsman's fish would be far better for the table if killed directly they are taken out of the water. They would be finer in flavour, firmer in texture of flesh, more digestible, and whole—: somer. It is also more humane to knock them on the head at ...

    Article : 829 words
  4. GREAT CONFLACRATION IN THE CITY.

    ONE of the largest fires which have ever taken place in Melbourne occurred on Sunday night, March 4, by which Mr. James Moore's spacious timber mills and yard in the Sandridge-road, South Melbourne, were completely destroyed. The flames lit up ...

    Article : 1,160 words
  5. EVICTION OF CHINESE FROM A QUEENSLAND GOLD-FIELD.

    THE circumstances which led up to the recent eviction of Chinese from the Clermont gold-field may be briefly recapitulated, so that our readers at a distance may understand the why and the wherefore of it Nigh 20 years ago the Chinese were working on ...

    Article : 418 words
  6. Facts & Scraps

    A RELIC of a singular character—more representative of the commissariat department oE Captain Cook's expeditionary fleet than of the great navigator himself—has just turned up unexpectedly. The Rev. Edward Elmhirst, of Shawell Rectory. ...

    Article : 670 words
  7. NINE MONTHS ON A DESERT ISLAND.

    A ROMANTIC story of adventures upon a desert island is related by two survivors of the schooner General Siegel, who have arrived at Honolulu (says an English paper). The men state that the General Siegel left Honolulu on September 1, 1886, for French French ...

    Article : 321 words
  8. VISIT OF H.M.S. RATTLER TO THE COCOS ISLANDS.

    WE copy from a home paper the following interesting account of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattler to the Cocos Islands in September and October last:—We left Singapore on September 15 to take Mr. H. S. O'Connor, senior magistrate of Singapore, as ...

    Article : 812 words
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