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

    After a week's adjournment to enable hon. members to attend the railway openings at Dubbo and Albury, the Legislative Assembly met on Tuesday last. Mr. Thomas Rutledge, the newly-elected member for Queanbeyan, took ...

    Article : 1,006 words
  3. CRUISE OF H. M. S. ALERT.

    The Alert, whose character has become historical from the vicissitudes she has passed through, now rides ut anchor in the calm waters of Farm Cove, near the sea-wall of the Botanic Gardens. Compared with the Emerald, the ...

    Article : 2,996 words
  4. MUSIC AND DRAMA.

    The Austrian Band, a company of fifty performers, organised and imported by a few Australian speculators, is at present giving a series of concerts at the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park; and next week these evening ...

    Article : 282 words
  5. AQUATICS.

    The briskness that was anticipated at the outset of the yachting season is being fully realized and the races that have taken place are marked by particularly good sport The national, regatta held on the anniversary of the ...

    Article : 246 words
  6. LEGAL.

    On the 11th February an injunction case (Roederer v. Hill) was heard before the Primary Judge in Equity. Dr. Donovan, instructed by Mr. De Lissa, appeared for the plaintiff. The defendant did not appear. This ...

    Article : 206 words
  7. MUNICIPAL AND SANITARY.

    On the 31st January, the Mayor of Sydney inspected a number of tenements which the City Architect had reported unfit for habitation. The first building visited was the Central Police Court, the ruinons condition of which has ...

    Article : 540 words
  8. SYDNEY WATER SUPPLY.

    The following information has been supplied by the Minister for Works, in reference to tenders for the Nepean and Cataract Tunnels, and also for section 6, Sydney Water Works. The particulars are as follows:—Nepean Tunnel: ...

    Article : 368 words
  9. ACCIDENTS, FIRES, &c.

    A terrible boiler explosion occurred at Hungerford's flour mill, Baerami, near Denman, in the Hunter district. A fresh hand was engaged to drive the engine, and he lot nearly all the water out of the boiler, which exploded. The ...

    Article : 475 words
  10. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The Johnsonian Club gave a farewell supper to Mr Senior, late chief of the Hansard staff, who is about [?] leave for England. The Hon. J. Douglas was in the chain —At the annual meeting of the Queensland National Bank, ...

    Article : 2,027 words
  11. RELIGIOUS.

    The annual meeting of the Wesleyan Church Sustentation Society, held on January 31, in the Bourke-street school, was fairly attended, and was presided over by the Rev. George Woolnough, M.A., President of the ...

    Article : 601 words
  12. PUBLIC WORKS.

    The delay in the construction of the suburban tramways is leading to a couple of new experiments. First a new kind of rail is being tried, in which the groove is obtained by bolting a thin subsidiary rail to the principal one. Then the ...

    Article : 359 words
  13. SOCIAL.

    We have lately had an opportunity of examining a beautifully finished address, about to be sent to Englaud by the committee of the Goodenough Royal Naval House, for presentation to Mrs. Hoskine, wife of Admiral A. H. ...

    Article : 1,453 words
  14. THE MASSACRES IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

    The war-steamer Emerald returned from the South Sea Islands on January 31, and gives the following particulars of her cruise:—She arrived at Save on December l8, where information of the murder of the crew of the Sydney ...

    Article : 751 words
  15. OUR RAILWAYS.

    On the 1st February the extension of the Great Western Railway to Dubbo was formally opened, which brings up the total length of this line to 278 miles; the ceremonies connected with the important event were very successful. ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  16. THE WEATHER, AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

    Since the 5th instant a very satisfactory change has taken place in the aspect of pastoral and agricultural affairs. There has been a rainfall which has been almost general throughout the colony and which has lasted for three or ...

    Article : 287 words
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