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  2. BREVITIES.

    Suez mail expected on Tuesday. R.M.S. Orient left for London this morning. Mercantile Rowing Club regatta this afternoon. German man-of-war Stosch, expected here to-day. ...

    Article : 1,605 words
  3. Family Notices

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    Family Notices : 527 words
  4. "King" Dynamite.

    "I was banished for 20 years. 14 years of that sentence have expired. In six years I shall be free to return. I shall return, you bet. I will go straight to London. My first duty will be to call at ...

    Article : 894 words
  5. Colonial Defences.

    A New Zealand correspondent wrote on April 3.—The alarm as to the Anglo-Russian difficulty has caused the Government to show great activity in carrying out the scheme of Sir W. F. Jervois for the ...

    Article : 414 words
  6. SPORTING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 112 words
  7. Suburban Wants.

    In answer to a deputation from Canterbury and Petersham, which was accompanied by Messrs. Hammond and Moses. M.L.A., as to the desirableness of a abolishing the tollbar on the Canterbury-road, ...

    Article : 531 words
  8. UNDERTAKERS.

    Sir,—Would you kindly give vent to the following remarks. Our Sydney undertakers are a respectable body of men, but for years past their conduct in theory and practice is censurable. First, a ...

    Article : 204 words
  9. THE ENGLISH JOCKEY CLUB STARTER

    The SPORTING LIFE, writing on the death of Mr. T. M'George, says:—"As a starter, it is not too much to say he never had a superior, and probably never an equal, enjoying to the full the confidence of the supreme body for ...

    Article : 163 words
  10. RALLARAT GUN CLUB

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 415 words
  11. FERRY-STREET WATER RESERVE, BALMAIN.

    Sir,—The application or Messrs. Ethott, at Tuesday night's council meeting, asking for permission to fence off the reserve, and one of their men to be appointed special constable, almost staggers one. ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  12. SOME NOVEL SUGGESTIONS.

    An old and much-travelled explorer writes:—The night attack on the batteries on Tuesday caused a considerable scare among the residents in some of the suburbs. Many believed that the veritable Russians ...

    Article : 455 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 755 words
  14. An Amusing Scene.

    An amusing scene was enacted in the Parramatta Police Court on Thursday during the hearing of a case in which a gentleman of color named Joseph Lomez, charged a rather handsome young Creole ...

    Article : 512 words
  15. JOHN TEEMER

    The latest news about John Teemer, the American sculler, which is that, a sporting man told a correspondent of the NEW YORK HERALD that Teemer injured his back in his final race with Jake Gaudaur at St. Louis in the latter ...

    Article : 166 words
  16. FEMALE FENCERS.

    Thus a London correspondent:—The fashion of fencing is spreading to ladies in the old country. Their costume is a cross between a Turkish woman's attire and the dress of Claude Melnotte in the first act of " The Lady of Lyons." ...

    Article : 94 words
  17. STAG HUNT IN A CIRCUS.

    The latest novelty at Heugler's circus, London, has been a representation of a stag hunt. In the first place there was the usual meet, attended by about 50 or 60 ladies and gentlemen—the former as well as the latter attired in the ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. PATRIOTISM IN BOTANY.

    A largely attended and enthusiastic public meeting was held on Friday night in the Botany School of Arts, for the purpose of forming a local battery of volunteer artillery under the Volunteer Force Regulations ...

    Article : 765 words
  19. Amusements.

    THEATRE ROYAL.—The final performance of "Friends" took place last night. Taking a hint from the success which has attended the revival of that piece, the management has—wisely, perhaps.— ...

    Article : 731 words
  20. THE BRITISH CHAMPION LIGHT-WEIGHT.

    James Carney, of Birmingham, champion light-weight pugilist of Britain, is twenty-six years old, stands 5ft 5[?]in high, and in condition weighs 9st 21b. He first took to sparring some eight years ago, and from the experience he ...

    Article : 296 words
  21. Harbor Collisions.

    The recent collisions between the Buninyong steamer and the schooners Evangeline and Vision, is another warning as to the urgent necessity which exists for the regulation of our harbor traffic. As a ...

    Article : 312 words
  22. TWO YOUTHS DISDAIN GLOVES.

    Two youths, with the ambition of their elders for pummelling each other, had a very savage fight near Railway, N.J., on the morning of March 3. Their names are Casey and Williams. Unlike their elders, they disdained ...

    Article : 86 words
  23. A LONG WALK.

    Noremac finished his long walk in Midlothian Hall, New York, on Thursday night, March 5. His undertaking was to cover 5100 miles in 100 days, his walking to be done between 9 o'clock a.m. and midnight. Unfortunately for ...

    Article : 65 words
  24. Advertising

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    Advertising : 298 words
  25. AN IMPROVISED FIGHT.

    Thus the New York HERALD:—Jack Hopper and Harry Streets fought an improvised battle on Wednesday morning, March 4, in an uptown sporting resort, for a purse of £20. Streets, who had all the best of the fight, tried to ...

    Article : 81 words
  26. MEMS.

    A roller-skating six days go as you please match was held in New York last month. In New Orleans last month, the dogs Tiger, of Cincinnati, and Napoleon. Jack, of Pittsburg, fought to the death. ...

    Article : 325 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 141 words
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