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  2. SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR TRANSMISSION TO EUROPE, VIA SUEZ.

    Following closely upon the dissolution, at Bathurst, on the 9th November, of the ninth Parliament of New South Wales the general election has been proceeding rapidly, and already nearly half the required number of members for ...

    Article : 781 words
  3. THE FLOATING OF THE SORATA.

    The South Australian Register gives the following particulars of the floating of this vessel:—Arrangements had been made that if all things were favourable a trial should be made to release the Sorata from her position on Sunday, ...

    Article : 675 words
  4. FURTHER MASSACRES IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

    Captain Vrier, late of the schooner Vibilia, of Sydney, arrived at Cooktown on November 22, and reports the loss of his vessel on September 2, at the Louisiade Archipelago. All hands were saved. The vessel was beached at Kolumna ...

    Article : 237 words
  5. EXECUTION OF EDWARD KELLY.

    Kelly expiated his carear in crime on Thursday, November 11, on the gallows, in the Melbourne gaol. Up to a short period before his execution he entertained sanguine hopes of reprieve, and made frequent written appeals for ...

    Article : 502 words
  6. AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

    The weather lately has been sultry, with occasional showers, in a few localities. Despite this indication of scorching days to come, pastoralists and agriculturists have little cause for fear. Grass is plentiful, and water far from ...

    Article : 139 words
  7. AMUSEMENTS.

    The protracted and successful season of thirty-eight weeks of the London Comedy Company at the Sydney Theatre Royal is drawing to a close, and the Theatre Royal will be occupied for a month by an opera company. After ...

    Article : 180 words
  8. NEW CALEDONIA.

    Our correspondent writes from Noumea, on the 12th instant:—"Convicts and their doings supply the most fruitful, if not the most pleasing, source of news from this land of transportation. Each mail brings you new proofs ...

    Article : 301 words
  9. RELIGIOUS.

    The first session of the fourth Synod of the Diocese of Nowcastle commenced its sittings at the City Hall, Newcastle, on November 16. Bishop Pearson delivered the opening address, during which he entered into the question ...

    Article : 577 words
  10. AQUATICS.

    The most noteworthy event to record in aquatic sports during the month is the Balmain Regatta, which was celebrated as usual, upon the birthday of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. The programme for the racing comprised ...

    Article : 947 words
  11. LEGAL.

    On November 12, before his Honor Sir William Manning and a jury of four, the case of Lyons v. Hoffnung and others was concluded after a nine days' hearing. This was an action brought by Samuel Lyons, official assignee of the ...

    Article : 1,858 words
  12. OBITUARY.

    MR. HENRY BADGERY, J.P.—Mr. Henry Badgery, senior, J.P., of Vine Lodge, Sutton Forest, died at 4 p.m. on November 18, after an illness of several weeks' duration. Mr. Badgery was seventy-seven years of ago, and was a ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. SOCIAL.

    During the past two or three weeks, Colonel Richardson, Commandant of the New South Wales Forces, and Colonel Roberts, commanding the Permanant Artillery, have been busily engaged in Melbourne under instructions from the ...

    Article : 837 words
  14. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The Assembly was occupied the whole evening on the 11th November discussing the report of the Select Committee on the Hemmant petition, which was ultimately adopted.—It is understood that Mr. King, the Speaker, ...

    Article : 1,308 words
  15. TRADE AND LABOUR.

    On November 18 the miners belonging to the A. A. Company's colliery were locked out. The circumstance created great surprise in the district. It seems that these miners have a different agreement from any others in the ...

    Article : 157 words
  16. LABOUR SUMMARY.

    The following are the prices paid for labour in some of the principal trades of the colony. In compiling the list regard has been had, in setting down the minimum and maximum, to the circumstance that the earnings of some ...

    Article : 882 words
  17. TELEGRAPHY.

    The extraordnary feat of telegraphy performed in connection with the transmission of the result of the boat-race between Trickett and Hanlan has been the subject of general comment and admiration. The first message which reached ...

    Article : 565 words
  18. THE GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO BATHURST.

    On the 8th November, his Excellency Lord Augustus Lottus paid his first visit to the Bathurst district. He was accompanied b[?] Sir John and Lady Robertson, Lieutenant A. D. Loftus, A.D.C., and Mr. Reginald Bloxsome, ...

    Article : 1,173 words
  19. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

    A terrible crime was committed at Dubbo, on the evening of November 12. A woman, named Wilkie, deliberately shot at and wounded Mr. John Oxley Norton, Police Magistrate. It seems that, the woman, who resided at ...

    Article : 365 words
  20. ACADEMY OF ART.

    The ninth annual meeting of the New South Wales Academy of Art was held on the 11th November, at the Art Gal[?]ry, Inner Domain. There was a large attendance of ladies and gentlemen, and in the unavoidable absence of ...

    Article : 786 words
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