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SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR TRANSMISSION TO EUROPE, VIA SUEZ. FROM AUGUST 17 TO AUGULST 31. POLITICAL.
Political matters have been uncommonly dull daring the last week or two. There is now very little probability, if any, that the present Parliament will be called together again for a short session, as was hinted before the ...
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TRADE AND LABOUR.
The colony has hardly recovered from the effects of the prolonged strike of the coal miners at Newcastle, before another check to the coal trade, although on a smaller scale, is threatened by the strike of the miners at Bulli. The ...
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THE MARQUIS DE RAY'S COLONIZING EXPEDITION.
The failure of the Chandernagore Expedition to found a colony on the island of New Ireland c[?] not appear to hav[?] shaken the resolution of the Marquis De Ray and his part[?] in their wild project. The second batch of colonists, i[?] ...
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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, m setting down the minimum and maximum, te the circumstance that the earnings of some ...
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AGRICULTURAL, PASTORAL, &c.
The want of rain still continues to be felt throughout the colony, and the general condition of the country districts is indicated m the following recent telegram which appeared in our columns:—There is no sign of rain, and the ...
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LEGAL.
On the 18th August, in the Supreme Court, an action was brought by John Campbell to recover damages (£10,000) form the Commercial Banking Company for the sale by the bank, as mortgagees, without legal notice to the plaintiff, of ...
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SOCIAL.
Sir Hercules Robinson, the present Governor of New Zealand, having been appointed to a similar capacity at the Cape of Good Hope, will proceed to his new sphere of labours early in September. The people of this colony are ...
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CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Dining the past mouth great progress his been made with the construction of the tramway to Randwick, and the line is now fast approaching completion,The contractors are rapidly pushing, on with the second line of rails in ...
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MUSIC AND DRAMA.
In music, since the departure of the last mail the eminent pianist and musican, Henry Ketten, has given a third series of six recitals in the Masonic Hall, which were received with unbounded enthusham; the programmes ...
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INTERCOLONIAL.
Mr. W. Lamber[?] Fowles, rigistrar of the Supreme Court, died on August 18, after prolonged illness.—At a meeting held on August 17 it was rasolved to place the local Tattersall's Club in a more satisfactory position and a committee ...
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AQUATICS.
The yachting feet, many of which have been up drying during the winter, are making preparations for the opening of the season. Some good racing is in prospect, notably the Intercolonial Yachting Regatta, which takes place, at ...
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THE MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The Sydney Commission appointed to secure the fitting representation of New South Wales at the Melbourne International Exhibition have be far satisfactorily performed the task imposed upon them that the 20,000 feet of space ...
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COURSING.
The New South Wales Coursing Club held their last meeting this season at Woodstock, on the 7th and 9th August. The principal event, the Metropolitan Plate, was divided between Mr Lamb's Bracelet (Royal Water— ...
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RAILWAYS.
The Great Southern Line will be opened as far as Gerogery on the 1st September, so that the distance to be travelled by coach on the overland trip to Melbourne will be reduced to a four hours' journey. At present the passenger ...
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FOOTBALL.
A meeting of the New South Wales Football Association was held in Sydney ou the 18th August, when the rules as existing in Victoria were, ra the main, adopted These rules are an improvement upon those of the English ...
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LITERARY" AND SCIENTIFIC.
Mr. R. A. Proctor, the emnient astronome, who has just completed a successful lecturing tom through America, Victoria, and South Australia, has been lecturing to crowded audiences at the School of Arts, Sydney. He ...
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MINING.
The great centre of mining activity in this colony at present is Temora. A report has been sent in to the Minister of Mines, by Mr. E. A. Sharpe, warden of Temora Goldfields, which gives some interesting particulars in reference ...
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RELIGIOUS.
The puncipal event in religious circles during the past month has been the arrival and welcome of the new Bilshop of Newcastle (Dr. Pearson.) On the 19th August, the Rev. prelate was entertained at a complimentary banquet at St. ...
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ATROCITIES IN THE SOUTH SEAS.
Another barbarous outrage by Solomon Island natives on a peaceable trading schooner has to be recorded. It was supposed that after the castigation given to the natives near Marau, and other places, by H. M. S. Danae, that for ...
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