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  2. HOW WORLDS ARE FORMED.

    Miss Agnes M. Clerke writes as follows in "Knowlodge": "Nebulous stars probably represent the earliest phase of stellar evolution. They irresistibly suggest incipience, they have seemingly not yet ...

    Article : 300 words
  3. LOW-LEVEL SEWERAGE SYSTEM.

    The comprehensive sewerage scheme in connection with the western suburbs, and more particularly as it affects the populous distant of Balmain, is now being watched with considerable interest, as the ...

    Article : 813 words
  4. IS FOX HUNTING DOOMED?

    Has the sport of fox-hunting passed its meridian? (writes "St. James' Gazette"). Such a question will probably he answered with a most emphatic denial. We shall be told that never was the winter ...

    Article : 1,363 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 452 words
  6. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    The Sydney Stock Exchange adjourned after the noon "call" on Wednesday, and will remain closed until the morning of January 5. The Pheonix Gold-mining Company, No Liability, ...

    Article : 501 words
  7. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

    To-day being Christmaa day was, as usual, observed as a holiday. The developmuut of life assurance among the population of the United Kingdom is forcibly ...

    Article : 1,656 words
  8. DAY LABOUR v. CONTRACT WORK.

    Sir,—The Operative Stonemasons' Society of Sydney recently at the Trades Hall passed the follow ing motion:— That the Operative Stonemasons Society is of ...

    Article : 1,987 words
  9. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL.

    Gosehen's Consuls are quoted at 93—a rise of [?] since Friday. MONEY MARKET. The Bank of England rate of discount is quoted ...

    Article : 440 words
  10. THE FARM SERVANT'S SATURDAY NIGHT.

    At times there is a temptation to believe not only that idyllic things are passing away, but even that they never existed, that they were invented by men and women in despair when they looked around and ...

    Article : 1,721 words
  11. MODERN TAPESTRY MAKING.

    That the art of tapestry is by no means lost is shown in an article in the November number of "The Lady's Magazine." It is very interesting to find there is still some work which cannot be copied ...

    Article : 635 words
  12. CHARTERS TOWERS EXCHANGE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 367 words
  13. A FLAMENCO DANCE.

    In one of the many narrow sheets of Seville is the dancing hall. It is an institution of the gay town, and a cosmopolitan place of entertainment, for though olive and awarthy Andulasians preponderate ...

    Article : 543 words
  14. GOLD-DREDGING IN AMERICA.

    Speaking of dredging for gold on the west coast of America, the "Scientific and Mining Press" (San Francisco) says:—"About six years ago golddredging on the coast was made a prominent ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. LONDON MINING MARKET.

    On the Stock Exchange yesterday quotations of Mount Lyell were £2 7s. 6d. ...

    Article : 20 words
  16. GOLD YIELDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 86 words
  17. DICKENS'S LACK OF LEARNING.

    An essay written by Mr. Frederick Whiddel, of the City of London College Centre, as one of a series of weekly papers on Mr. W. H. Hudson's course, "The English Novel," is piinted in the ...

    Article : 451 words
  18. EXPORTS.

    The Broad Arrow Consols G. M. Company reports to December 16:—Pump in main shaft now in working order, and water pumped from shaft to feeding tank, saving labour of baking with kibbles and waste of water. ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. MELBOURNE LIVE STOCK MARKET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 214 words
  20. MUNICIPAL COUNCILS.

    This council met on Tuesday evening last. The Mayor (Alderman T. Larkin) occupied the chair. There were also present Aldermen Murphy, Mailett, Larkin, Muir, Probert, and Anderson. Upon several letters being read ...

    Article : 250 words
  21. HUNTING WITH PEARY.

    Hunting with Peary means the pursuit of the mighty wairus, "the elephant of the sea" and the ferocius Polar bear," the tiger of the North." It means the stealthy attack through the icy waters, ...

    Article : 811 words
  22. WHERE THINGS HUM.

    Mr. J. Foster Fraser, writing in the "Yorkshire Post" on Chicago, says:—Chicago, to the people who live in Chicago, is "the Queen City by the Lake," the hub of hustling, the place where in the ...

    Article : 729 words
  23. DRESS AND THE LADY.

    Extravagance of dress is said to be the fault of the twentieth-century men and women. On first thought one is inclined to say that it is the fault of women alone, but this is not so (writes a correspondent of ...

    Article : 759 words
  24. MARRICKVILLE.

    This council met on December 22. The Mayor (Alderman W. T. Henson) occupied the chair. There were also present: Aldermen England, Thornley, Josephson, Holmes, Ellis, Gould, Moyes, Ferguson, Hardy, and ...

    Article : 659 words
  25. THE ORIGIN OF THE JINRIKISHA.

    A letter has been written to a Honolulu paper by a correspondent explaining the origin of the jinrikisha. The writer says that in the latter part of 1869 he was in business in Yokohama, where he was ...

    Article : 298 words
  26. IMPORT MARKET.

    Business houses were of course all closed to-day, it being Christmas Day. Efforts have been made for some time to acclimatise the tea plant in the United States. A recent report ...

    Article : 929 words
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