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  2. SUMMARY FOR EUROPE, PER ORIENT STEAMER LUSITANIA. POLITICAL.

    Parliament is to meet for the despatch of business on the 20th January, and for some time past the Government have been preparing their programme for the session. Several members of the Ministry have ...

    Article : 351 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 2,148 words
  4. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

    The proposal to reduce the rates,of interest on deposits has not yet been finally adopted owing to the want of the concurronco of one of the principal banking institutions in an adjoining colony. Otherwise there is ...

    Article : 1,275 words
  5. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

    At the Protestant Hall on the 17th instant, Lady Carrington distributed the prizes won at the recent prize shooting of the Public Schools and Artillery Cadet Corps. ...

    Article : 79 words
  6. FATAL STEAMBOAT COLLISION.—GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.

    Yet another has been added to the sad list of appalling disasters in the shipping trade on the Australian coast. On the evening of the 8th December, a fine, clear night, when the lights of both veseels were, burning brightly, Messrs. ...

    Article : 2,462 words
  7. SYDNEY WATER SUPPLY.

    With regard to the work now being carried on for providing a permanent supply of water to Sydney and Buburba, we learn that the aqueduets at Simpson's Creek and Elladale Creek, half a mile fiom Cataract, ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. THE WEATHER, AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

    This week brought about a complete change in the weather, the sultry heat reported in our last summary giving place to a temperature that was decidedly coot. For some days the sky was overcast and threatening ...

    Article : 334 words
  9. AQUATICS.

    The principal event in aquatie circles during the past fortnight has been the publication of the terms upon which Hanlan and Beach are to have one more struggle for the sculling championship, Hanlan ...

    Article : 175 words
  10. OFFICIAL.

    Inquiries aro now being made in various departments of the Public Service with a view to ascertaining how far retrenchment can be carried out without impairing the efficiency of the Civil Service generally. A ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. CRICKET.

    During the past fortnight Shaw's Eleven played two matches in the colony. On the 8th and 9th of December they played 22 of the Hartley district at Lithgow, and won by 77 runs, the local team ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. SOCIAL.

    Professor Liversidge has received 12 months' leave of absence from the senate of the University, and intends visiting England. He has been requested by the Minister for Public Instruction to inquire into ...

    Article : 725 words
  13. MINING.

    Another period of activity on the various mining fields of the colony has to be recorded, digging having bean kept up very successfully in almost every direction. The Teetulpa gold rush in South Australia ...

    Article : 586 words
  14. LABOUR MARKET.

    Very little alteration has taken place in the labour market since the publication of our last summary. The Government has succeeded in finding employment for the majority of the unemployed labourers, most of them ...

    Article : 208 words
  15. THE MOUNT RENNIE OUTRAGE.

    The Executive Council has decided that six out of the nine men who were, on the 27th November last, sentenced to death for participation in the Mount Rennie outrage, shall suffer the extreme penalty of the ...

    Article : 327 words
  16. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The second instalment of the Victorian eight million loan will be placed on the London market at 4 per cent., the same rate as was offered for the first instalment of one million and a half. The amount to be ...

    Article : 552 words
  17. SHIPPING.

    Arrivals from Great Britain.—December 9, Stormy Petrel, barque. Captain John Read, from Bristol. December 10, R.M.S. Rome, Captain G. F. Cates, from London, via ports; Glencairn, four-masted ship, Captain D. Wilson, ...

    Article : 516 words
  18. LEGAL.

    The Nisi Prius sittings of the Supreme Court terminated on Saturday, December 18, when a most important action—unique in the history of the colony— was concluded. The plaintiff, Mr. David Proudfoot, ...

    Article : 311 words
  19. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    With the advent of Christmas the various theatres are presenting the customary bills of fare for the festive season. At the Theatre Royal the comic pantomime "The Sleeping Beauty," is announced, with a powerful ...

    Article : 176 words
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