TRIAL OF THE "WILD SCOTCHMAN."— At the Maryborough assizes, held before his Honor Chief Justice Cookle, on the 13th September, James Macpherson, alias the "Wild Scntchman," alias Kerr, alias Alpin Macpherson, ...
Article : 1,046 wordsTHE WEATHER AND CROPS.—Considerable fears have been entertained during the past week for the safety of the oat crops. The severa frosts and the warm days have so shrivelled a great deal of it up, that it became a ...
Article : 435 wordsThis was an investigation, under a writ of de lunatico inquirendo, as to whether or not Mr. Thomas Brown, of Macquarie-street South (or Sheriff's Gardens), who, for about twenty-six years, had been Sheriff's bailiff in ...
Article : 683 wordsLast Fridays Government Gazette contains a statement of the revenue of and expenditure on the Victorian Railways for the half-year ended 30th June last, and separate statements of the same kind in regard to each ...
Article : 1,374 wordsSIR—As the report of the meeting of members of the Singleton Mechanics' Institute contains the full particulars of the attack against me, both before and subsequent to my avowal of the authorship of a certain ...
Article : 1,350 wordsWe have Tasmanian papers to the 18th September. ARRIVAL OF THE TROUT OVA AT LAUNCESTON—Mr. Ramsbottom arrived in town by Page's coach, yesterday morning, bringing with him the long expected batch of ...
Article : 384 wordsThe Brisbane Courier of 2 st September gives the following copy of a bill just introduced into the Queens-land Legislative Assembly:— The following is a copy of a bill to authorise the leasing ...
Article : 1,179 wordsWe have received Brisbane papers to the 22nd September. The general reports of pastoral and agricultural prospects are encouriging. The spring has thus far been ...
Article : 1,542 wordsOn the 11th January last, a middle-aged widow lady in Paris, Madame Midy, by profession a painter, narrowly escaped being murdered. A man who had lately been in her house as a ...
Article : 1,664 wordsThe Court of Quarter Sessions was formally opened on the 25th instant, by Judge Meymott. The following gentlemen of the legal profession were present:—Mr. John O'Neill Brenan, Crown Prosecutor; Mr. Ellis, ...
Article : 398 wordsOn Tuesday evening, the house No.51 Regent-street, Lambeth, fell with a loud noise. It appears that the wall of the adjoining house ran up five feet higher than that which has ...
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