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  2. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

    The House of Commons has sat continuously throughout the past 40 hours, the Irish members persisting in obstructing the progress of the first reading of the Coercion Bill introduced ...

    Article : 172 words
  3. KIAMA AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

    The second day of the Kiama show proved fine. The attendance was over 2000. The principal business of the day was the parading of the hackney claeses, and it was generally admitted by visitors that the display ...

    Article : 695 words
  4. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    The Great Southern Railway, so far as it is the grand trunk line between Sydney and Melbourne, is completed at last, for we may look upon the bridge and the short ...

    Article : 3,353 words
  5. WAGGA WAGGA.

    Weather fine and warm; only sufficient rain fell last evening to lay the dust, though hopes were entertained that a good fall would visit us. At a meeting of the Murrumbidgee Turf Olub last ...

    Article : 65 words
  6. QUEENSLAND.

    The new Grammar School at Rockhampton opened with 53 pupils. A new station is to be formed in the Northern Territory of South Austialia. Fifteen hundred cattle will ...

    Article : 194 words
  7. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) NEWCASTLE.

    A miner named Lewis, a resident of Minmi, has been missed from his home since Saturday last, and is supposed to have perished in the Hexham Swamps. The Newcastle Rowing Club's contest for the Mayor's ...

    Article : 57 words
  8. VICTORIA.

    The National Mutual Life Association ot Victoria has purchased the corner of Collins and Queen streets for the sum of £23.000, or £460 per foot. This is one of the finest blocks in the city, aud handsome premises ...

    Article : 250 words
  9. TAMWORTH.

    The annual meeting of subscribers to the hospital took place last evening, after four adjournments, and the officers were appointed. Mr. Thomas M. Newman being re-elected president. The affairs of the institution ...

    Article : 85 words
  10. WEST KEMPSEY.

    Six hundred and forty acres were selected at Co[?]'s Harbour to-day, and it is likely that all the land available in that locality may be purchased conditionally soon. Preliminary survey would prevent much ...

    Article : 48 words
  11. CENTRAL KEMPSEY.

    The antimony smelting works at Carangula are working night and day, with good results. Some rich lodes were struck recently. John Thomas, who owns twenty acres adjoining the smelting works, is lifting splendid ...

    Article : 69 words
  12. WALGETT.

    A man named Robert Jennings was found yesterday in an exhausted condition on Euroka station by constable Collier and a black trackor, he having been lost nearly three days, without food or water. Much praise ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Marine Board will hold an inquiry into the stranding of the Chimborazo to-morrow. The agents of the Orient Company have asked the Marine Board to hold the inquiry on board the Chimborazo; but they ...

    Article : 225 words
  14. AMUSEMENTS.

    At the Gaiety last night there was a fairly numerous audience, and the performance of the " Deal Boatman" and " The Old Story " was received with as much favour as ever. Mr. Marshall's impersonation of the homely old ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. THE QUEEN'S THEATRE.

    Although the Christmas festivities are almost forgotten. "Jack the Giant Killer" seems to be as fresh as ever at the Queen's, and last night there was another crowded house. The leading members of the company played with as much ...

    Article : 97 words
  16. BATHURST.

    An inquest was held this afternoon on the body of James Glynn, a publican, who had refused to go to bad when the house was shut up, saying "he would go to his long bed; "he then swallowed ...

    Article : 126 words
  17. THE OPERA HOUSE.

    The attendance at this place of amusement last evening was somewhat poor. The drama of "Fettered" was repeated, and was followed by the farce of "A Quiet Family," both being well played. To-night a benefit will ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. MUDGEE.

    We had a thunderstorm again and several hours' nice rain yesterday afternoon and last night. Over two inches in all have fallen here, and it looks like more. ...

    Article : 33 words
  19. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

    The Wellington Cup was won by Natator, with Libelles second, and Dan third. Time, 3 minutes 38 seconds. ...

    Article : 32 words
  20. THE AUSTRIAN BAND.

    The Austrian Band will give their third concert this evening in the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park, on which occasion they will play the following selections, which it will be seen are of first-class order:—"Turkish ...

    Article : 264 words
  21. LAYCOOK AND HANLAN.

    Sir,—Your correspondent " X." takes exception to Laycock's letters being published in the Herald, and questions the wisdom of their appearance before the race with Hanian on the 14th instant is determined. Were this all, the ...

    Article : 721 words
  22. CARCOAR.

    The body of a Chinaman, much decomposed, was discovered in a natural position, with an opium pipe alongside it, on Saturday last, at,the old junction. An inquest was held by the Coroner, Mr. J. C. Dodd, and a ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. GRAFTON REGATTA.

    At a large influential meeting last night, at which the Mayor was in the chair, it was decided to hold a regatta of Grafton on Queen's Birthday. Mr. R. Page, the convener, stated that he had received announcements from Mr. ...

    Article : 141 words
  24. TEMORA.

    The weather is sultry, and more rain is threatening. The Public school is sadly in want of assistant teachers. To-day the attendance was 160, and only the master was present to teach. It is quite time a new ...

    Article : 68 words
  25. BURWOOD SCHOOL OF ARTS.

    A concert was given in the above hall on Tuesday night last, in aid of the widow and children of the late William Potter, of Burwood, who died very suddenly, leaving his wife and family in almost destitute circumstances. Great ...

    Article : 369 words
  26. ROYAL SYDNEY YACHT CLUB.

    A general meeting of the Royal Sydney Yacht Club was held, at the clubrooms, last evening; Vice-Commodore Mackellar in the chair. Three new members were proposed for election at the next meeting. It was proposed ...

    Article : 264 words
  27. ADELONG.

    Twelve hours' steady rain has fallen, which was much needed. A new school will be formally opened at Green Hills, Sharp Creek, on Friday. Great preparations are ...

    Article : 35 words
  28. EUABALONG.

    Two men were arrested here yesterday, by constable Mortimer, on suspicion of being the murderers of James Omak, at Emu Flat, in 1876. ...

    Article : 27 words
  29. WILCANNIA.

    It is reported that, owing to the scarcity of water out in the back country, the blacks have mustered in strong numbers at Cobham Lake Station, where the manager is supplying them with rations. Between seventy and ...

    Article : 234 words
  30. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    IT is the intention of the Colonial Treasurer, we learn, to lay on the table of the Lezislative Assembly, on Tuesday next, the Estimates of Ways and Means and of Expenditure for the year 1881. In all ...

    Article : 2,779 words
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