It is now some time since I have had an opportunity of writing to your valuable paper. The last year has been one of the oddest that has been known since 1836. After the spring set in we have had some days and ...
Article : 433 wordsJanuary 5th —Yesterday evening a numerous and respectable audience listened with attention to an instructive and useful lecture on sugar-growing, by the Rev. W. Holland, in the Presbyterian school-room at West ...
Article : 348 wordsIn Flanagan's "History of New South Wales" we have the following:— "In the month of September, 1830, an outbreak of a threatening aspect occurred among the convict ...
Article : 1,067 wordsChristmas is over, and at Bourke it passed as quietly as a Q[?]kers' meeting; but I think the race week will make up for the then luck of hearty enjoyment, if I may judge from the number of horses and visitors at present ...
Article : 414 wordsSIR—Allow me to solicit a small space in your journal in order to call the attention of parties interested in the preservation of Louth Park and Dagworth from freshes to the fact that a bee meeting for a day may possibly save ...
Article : 104 wordsTHE WEATHER IN SYDNEY.—During yesterday forenoon the weather was particularly close and sultry, although a fresh breeze was blowing from the N E. About 6 p.m., dense masses of cumuli were seen ...
Article : 2,991 wordsThe beneficial results of the late rain are strikingly apparent in the marked improvement which has been effected in the aspect of the country. Since we were favours [?] by its occurrence, the half withered appearance ...
Article : 614 wordsThe election proceedings having interfered materially with the usual festivities at Christmas, many of the good people of Armidale seemed determined to make up for the loss on Monday last, being the 2nd day of the New ...
Article : 507 wordsSome time ago a royal commission was appointed by his Excellency the Governor of Victoria to inquire into "the origin and nature of the disease known as pleuropneumonia, affecting the cattle of that colony; how far ...
Article : 1,889 wordsEnglish news has been received to the 3rd November. Muller's execution was fixed for the 14th November. The inquest on the Erith explosion was unfinished. The capture of the Florida in a British port had caused ...
Article : 75 wordsBy the mail steamer Otago we (S. M. Herald) have papers to the 3rd instant from Nelson. AUCKLAND. We quote from the Nelson Examiner of the 3rd ...
Article : 1,765 wordsWe have to-day to perform the melancholy duty of recording the sacrifice of three more victims to auri sacra fames. Sergeant Gallagher brought information to town on Saturday evening of a man who reported the ...
Article : 565 wordsMaize, 4s 3d; flour, 24s. Dickson v. Gibb, dismissed. Parliament has been summoned to meet on the 24th. The past year's revenue shows £149,000 deficit. ...
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