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  2. SOUTH AFRICA.

    HE principal event here since my last letter has been the arrival of English visitors for the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,686 words
  3. AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

    Governors were a little inquisitive, as a matter of course, when applications were made to them for land or anything else; and the widow had a good many questions to answer before he wrote ...

    Article : 383 words
  4. THE FRONTIER.

    HE following letter has just been, received in Sydney from, an ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,196 words
  5. Celebrities at Botany Bay.

    HE profits of Sydney ship-owners at these times had need to be large, for their losses were frequently great. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 252 words
  6. TRICKS OF TRADE.

    The trace in which the Sydney vessels were engaged was such a remarkably good one for their owners that the Van Demonians were greatly aggrieved by it. They said that the Sydney men ...

    Article : 304 words
  7. PAUL PRY IN SYDNEY.

    Planche's description of the original of that character, by the way, enables us to see what a field there was for the display of similar genius in old Sydney. He made it his daily business ...

    Article : 202 words
  8. FATE OF THE JOHN PALMER.

    Mrs. Reibey had met with a fair share of good fortune up to this time, but her experience in the shipping line was very much like that of her neighbors. The John Palmer had not been ...

    Article : 290 words
  9. INDIAN TROOPS.

    O class of men better understand, and, understanding, carry out the letter and spirit of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,021 words
  10. SYDNEY PIRATES.

    While Reibey was in Sydney in 1818 a scare took place in the Cove of a kind very common at the time. It was caused by the sudden disappearance of a number of convicts, coupled with a report that ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. CAUGHT NAPPING.

    General Holt tells an amusing story of his experience in this matter, which serves to shew how universal the practice was. While on a visit to one of his neighbors, ex-Lieutenant Cummings, the ...

    Article : 160 words
  12. A KELLY GANG.

    At this particular time "the public mind was deeply stirred on this subject, owing to a piratical attack that had been made on a brig lying in the Cove a few weeks before. In the dead hour ...

    Article : 206 words
  13. IN A LAGOON.

    At the end of that time they found out what had become of her. When the Government brig Lady Nelson returned from an expedition along our north coast in search of a party of pirates ...

    Article : 276 words
  14. RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

    HE Growth of the Empire, a Handbook of the History of Greater Britain," by Arthur W. Jose, formerly Scholar of Balliot ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 526 words
  15. WILD GEESE.

    So when it became known one fine morning in 1818 that a large number of prisoners had got away in boats, the cry of Pirates! Pirates! was raised, and everyone in the shipping line went hither ...

    Article : 210 words
  16. A DOUBTFUL POINT.

    No one was in a better position to explain the matter than the captain of the Lady Nelson, and yet his explanation leaves some room for doubt— not as to the identity, of the hull, but as to the ...

    Article : 186 words
  17. A GRANT OF LAND.

    This sketch of the shipping and commercial ventures in which Mrs. Reibey was concerned has necessarily lost sight of some facts "in her personal history, which deserve a passing mention. In ...

    Article : 285 words
  18. A NEW VENTURE.

    Mrs. Reibey went into the shipping business again in 1817, when another Sydney-built vessel, the brig Governor Macquarie, was sold by auction, and bought by her "at the very low figure," as ...

    Article : 221 words
  19. SUBURBAN VILLAS.

    No one dreamed of getting up a land boom in Sydney and subdividing his magnificent estate of heavily-timbered back country in lots to suit purchasers. The best suburban sites were hardly ...

    Article : 297 words
  20. REIBEY IN HOBART.

    "Here is a curious advertisement," he wrote: 'Mr. Reibey has the pleasure of informing the public that he has received by the last arrivals the following choice articles, which will be sold at ...

    Article : 140 words
  21. CUNNING KAFFIRS.

    Amongst the numerous attempts that have been discovered to get the "stones" off the South African mines may be mentioned the giving of them to a dog, embedded in a piece of ...

    Article : 369 words
  22. ADMIRAL WORDEN.

    A Reuter's telegram from New York announces the death of Admiral John Warden. Admiral Worden was born in 1818, and entered the U.S. Navy at an early age. He is famous for having ...

    Article : 240 words
  23. JEALOUS NEIGHBORS.

    At this time Van Diemen's Land was going ahead at a pace that actually made the Sydney traders jealous of it. The Van Demonians, whose ports had recently been thrown open, were ...

    Article : 408 words
  24. RABY.

    Talking of grants reminds me that Alexander Riley, one of the merchants of that day, had an "estate," as they called it, of 2000 acres near Camden, to which he gave the name "Raby"— ...

    Article : 153 words
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