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  2. Jewish Synagogue.

    The annual Jewish festival of the Feast of Tabernacles terminated at the Synagogue last evening with a very beautiful service. The feast, which begins on the 15th day of the 7th month, ...

    Article : 885 words
  3. Brevities.

    The visual Governor, on Monday, gave the Royal assent to the Consolidating Laws Revision Bill and the Presbyterian Church Lands Bill. The Cabinet meeting did not take place ...

    Article : 59 words
  4. How Gold is Shipped.

    The Bank of America is the largest single shipper of gold from New York, and indeed, from the United States. Shipments are made in stout kegs, very much like the ...

    Article : 273 words
  5. The Strike.

    LONDON, October 6.-A meeting of the Docklaborers' Union of the United Kingdom was held at Clerkenwell yesterday in support of the Australian strike. ...

    Article : 61 words
  6. Useful Science.

    Mr. Adametz has just made some microscopic researches upon the micrpscopic organisms that inhabit cheese. From an examination of Emmenthal, a soft variety of Gruyeres cheese, he has ...

    Article : 171 words
  7. AFFAIRS AT ADELAIDE.

    ADELAIDE, Tuesday.-A large and important meeting of local employers was held at Port Adelaide on Monday night, at which a resolution was passed in favor of a conference between the ...

    Article : 142 words
  8. SHIPPING AND AQUATICS.

    The handicap boat race, held at Rockhampton (Q.), Was won by Peter Kemp, with Neilson second, and Stansbury third. The steamers Rodondo and Waroonga arrived ...

    Article : 122 words
  9. COAL FOR THE RAILWAYS.

    The report in a morning contemporary that the Railway Commissioners were preparing to buy or lease a coalmine in the Newcastle district and work it with non-union labor is entirely without ...

    Article : 657 words
  10. TIN.

    Tin, which every one knows, but which few except men of science and metallurgists are acquainted with, is one of the most precious and interesting of metals. After gold and silver, it is ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. STRIKE AT THE RAILWAY STONE QUARRIES.

    KIAMA, Monday.-A strike took place at the railway stone quarries at Bombo on Saturday, offing to the refusal on the part of some of the employes to load the steamer ...

    Article : 350 words
  12. TRADES AND LABOR.

    It is hoped by the strike committee in Melbourne that the result of the proposed conference will render a recurrence of the present labor difficulty impossible. ...

    Article : 116 words
  13. Testing Salt.

    The following method of testing salt used for dairy purposes is laid down by salt manufacturers. It is a simple test and can be tried by any one. The most practical method of testing salt in the absence of a ...

    Article : 274 words
  14. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

    Mrs. James Chappie, of Bowral, was terribly burnt on Monday. She was sleeping a floor, when her dress caught fire behind. She doubled her clothes around her and sat on them. ...

    Article : 168 words
  15. RAW HIDE AS GEARING.

    In America the use of raw hide for gearing has come largely into use. It is often necessary to employ gear-wheels running at a high rate of speed, and the wear which takes place, together ...

    Article : 206 words
  16. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Messrs. Fitzhardinge, Son, and Houston, solicitors, who were burnt out at their offices, over Messrs. Richardson and Wrench's establishment, have removed to 77, Pitt-street. ...

    Article : 843 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 504 words
  18. THE SAGO PALM.

    The sago palm bears fruit but once. Its load of nuts is its final effort; it has fulfilled its allotted task in the great round of nature, and there remains nothing for it but to die. The nuts ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. SCANDINAVIANS.

    Sir.-AS I observe with regret that several of my countrymen have thought it necessary to reply to the absurd and untruthful statements of one of your correspondents, styling himself a ...

    Article : 622 words
  20. A NEW EXPEDITION TO THE NORTH POLE.

    The Norwegian Storthing (Leg. Ass.) have voted the sum of 200,000 kroner for a fresh expedition the North Pole, which will be under the direction of Dr. P. Nansen, and will proceed on ...

    Article : 167 words
  21. Castle Hill-Dural Railway.

    A public meeting was held in the Parramatta Town Hall on Monday evening, in connection with the question as to the route the proposed railway to Castle Hill and Dural should take. ...

    Article : 354 words
  22. THE GROWTH AND SIZE OF CHILDREN.

    Some curious results have appeared in an examination of school-children in the (Saxon) Freidberg district, with reference to growth. Twenty-one thousand children of both sexes were ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. THE SPECIAL CONSTABLES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 words
  24. A NEW MANNA.

    M. Rene de Champagne, directeur de I'Ecole Francaise at Diarbekir, in Asiatic Turkey, reports the fall of a curious farinaceous substance during a hailstorm. He describes it as a "new manna," ...

    Article : 74 words
  25. MATTERS IN MELBOURNE.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-The secretary of the strike committee of the Trades Hall Council has sent the following reply to the secretary of the Employers' Union: "Yours of the 3rd instant ...

    Article : 286 words
  26. Rust in Plants.

    A large number of specimens of wheat plants, different grasses, oats, and barley affected with rust have been sent to the Department of Agriculture for examination. Spores from these have ...

    Article : 361 words
  27. SIR HENRY PARKES NEVER A CHARTIST.

    Sir,-I beg to confirm Sir Henry Parkes's statement that he was never a Chartist. Both he and I were Birmingham Political Unionists, and conformed to the rules of that ...

    Article : 255 words
  28. Marrickville Flower Show.

    The show and industrial exhibition, which was opened on Thursday last, was closed on Monday evening, having proved a great success, for which much credit is due to Messrs. Cambridge and ...

    Article : 230 words
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