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  2. FIRE AT COWPER'S WHARF.

    Last night a destructive fire occurred on board the ship W. H. Lincolu, lying at Cowper's Wharf, Woolloomooloo Bay. Great damage was done to every part of the ship, and that port of the carge then in the ...

    Article : 1,194 words
  3. THE INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MATCH.

    The prospects of Lord Sheffield's team were rosy enough when the international match was resumed to-day. They made 248 with three wickets to fall in the first innings. The weather was all that could be ...

    Article : 981 words
  4. TRADES MOVEMENTS.

    The half-yearly meeting of the Hotel and Caterers' Employees' Union was held in the rooms, George and Market streets, last evening. About 100 members were present, and the proceedings were of a very ...

    Article : 434 words
  5. THE PROGRESS OF MEDICINE.

    At the Adelaide University Commemoration on Wednesday, the 16th December, Dr. Verco, the orator of the year delivered an address on the progress of medicine. Dr. Verco said:— ...

    Article : 2,357 words
  6. DICKENS AS AN ART CRITIC

    It has been confidently asserted (writes Mr. F. G. Kitton) that when Charles Dickens adopted literature as a profession, the stage lost one whose dramatic instinct would have made him a brilliant luminary in ...

    Article : 5,333 words
  7. MEAT EXPORT SUBSIDY.

    Sir,—Week by week wo see telegrams and notices in your paper to the effect that the various stock boards are passing resolutions in favour of an Act to give power to levy a heavy rate on ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  8. CRICKET.

    The following matches were played on Saturday:— Leichhardt B played Drummoyne, and the match was won by the former by 45 runs. Scores: Leichhardt, 85 (Turner 26 and Parker 15); Drummoyne, ...

    Article : 610 words
  9. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    M. Parise, of Rue du Quatre-Septembre, Paris, has patented an apparatus for recording tunes while they are being improvised on the piano, and writes the music in the ordinary characters. The appliance is ...

    Article : 1,079 words
  10. THE MATHEMATICS OF CRICKET.

    The glorious uncertainty of cricket is probably over-estimated. It is an unglonous certainty that some men will never make 20 runs, and never hold one catch out of 10; while, taking the season ...

    Article : 977 words
  11. WHAT MAY HAPPEN TO A MAN IN SAMOA.

    A Sydney gentleman who has been visiting the South Sea Islands stayed for a few days in Samoa, and the account of his experience which he has sent to us may, by publication, act as a warning to those ...

    Article : 875 words
  12. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

    The Union Steamship Company of New Zealand has issued, in a handy form, a guide to New Zealand, under the name of the " Tourists' Vude Mecum." The little volume gives full information ...

    Article : 787 words
  13. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—A letter from Mr. M'Elhone appears in your paper of the 24th December attacking the proposal to give a bonus on meat Exported. What does the writer allude to when he talks of " a huge monopoly in ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. WOOL, &c.

    Sir,—Being here from the country, I saw Mr. Pottle's letters on wool. I want to say his information about American manufacture is correct. It is in Ohio where this is going on, and I think that ...

    Article : 594 words
  15. AGRICULTURE AND THE HAWKESBURY AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

    Sir,—At the recent distribution of prizes at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College the principal is reported to have said, "only eight out of 50 students were sons of farmers, or of men engaged in ...

    Article : 477 words
  16. RIFLE SHOOTING.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 142 words
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