AMIDST the discussions which take place with regard to education, its extent, its cost, whether it should be compulsory or not, whether it should be denominational or secular, we seem ...
Article : 1,529 wordsWednesday, 5th January.—9 a.m.—Wind, light; fine, cloudy. Bar., 29-95; ther., 66. 1 p.m.—Wind, S., moderate; very fine. Bar., 29-97; ther., 70. 4 p.m. —Wind, S, moderate; cloudy, fine. Bar., 29-99; ...
Article : 132 wordsThe market was pretty well supplied to-day. Prices generally remain una[?]tered. Hay is a little easier, owing to an increased supply, and potatoes have fallen about 5s per ton from the same cause. ...
Article : 43 wordsBusiness was dull at the Corner on Wednesday. Prince of Wales continued in good demand, and were very scarce. Prince Imperial had ready buyers in the afternoon. Newington and Pleasant Creek were in favor. ...
Article : 1,250 wordsMr JAMES SMITH, Broker, reports:—It is in contemplation by one or two of our large companies to meet the present de[?]rth of dividends by a reduction of expenditure. The liberal returns from ...
Article : 838 wordsA young man named Henry White, twenty years of age, was drowned in the Ovens River on New Year'sday. An inquest was held on the body at Tarrawingee, on Monday, when a verdict of accidental ...
Article : 53 wordsA trial of a reaping and binding machine known as the Marsh Harvester, imported by Messrs. T. Robinson and Co., of Melbourne, was held under the auspices of the Ballarat Agricultural and Pastoral ...
Article : 778 wordsOn Tuesday afternoon an occurrence of a very melancholy kind happened at Blanche's hotel, near the Prince of Wales mine, Sebastopol. A miner, named Patrick Donohue, and Mary, his wife, a sickly, delicate ...
Article : 3,063 wordsThere was a very large meeting of the sporting community attended at Tattersall's rooms last evening on the occasion of the settling for the Tattersall Club Races. On the whole, matters went off ...
Article : 62 wordsMr William Bakcwell, Crown-Solicitor and Public Prosecutor, is dangerously ill. The Hon. Henry Ayers and a portion of his family will be passengers by the s.s. Rangatira, which sails ...
Article : 120 wordsThere can be no mistaking the change which has come over the aspect of affairs at the Land Office through the passing of the new Land Act. The wellknown brick building in Latrobe street, so long ...
Article : 1,267 wordsWARRNAMBOOL. —Monday—Messrs Aitkin and Paterson arE offering for:—Wheat, 5s to 5s 3d per bushel; oats, 4s 6d to 4s 9d; Cape barley, 4s to 4s 3d; peas, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel. We are selling flour at £13; bran, ...
Article : 247 wordsBulwver's play "Richclicu" was performed last night before a very thin house, Herr Bandmann, of course, being the Cardinal. In this character the actor, we need hardly remark, looked a very "King ...
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Advertising : 289 wordsThe temporary excitement from the so-called holidays having passed by, matters are once more assuming their former dull monotony. Very little worthy of record has occurred, most of the better class with ...
Article : 651 wordsSIR,—Admitting the efficiency of the Victorian police force as a body, I have long been of opinion that many of its members, stationed in the country districts, are over officious in some and lax in many respects. For ...
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Family Notices : 72 wordsSIR,—In your issue of Monday last a report of a trial crushing of quartz from Greed's Reef appeared, which, if allowed to pass unchallenged, might seriously injure my reputation as a mining manager. ...
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The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924), Thu 6 Jan 1870, Page 2
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