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  2. OMISSIONS.

    In the lists of awards which we have published a number of omissions have necessarily occurred, in consequence of the hurried manner in which synopses of the judges' reports had to be prepared. As far as we have been able to ...

    Article : 3,025 words
  3. 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 : 1,009 words
  4. CIVIC AND SANITARY.

    At the last fortnightly meeting of the Sydney Municipal Council, Alderman Davies read a letter from Mr. A. H. M'Culloch, M.L.A., to the effect that he thought he could arrange for Pitt-street, near the Post-office to be widened ...

    Article : 1,416 words
  5. THE WEATHER, AGRICULTURAL, AND PASTORAL.

    May, which it may be said in this colony is the last month of autumn, was ushered in with fine cool weather, which proved most agreeable to those who required some change from the high temperatures of summer. In some ...

    Article : 449 words
  6. MELANESIA.

    Baron Miklouho-Maclay, after a cruise of over nine months among the islands of Melanesia (New Hebrides, Admiralty, Solomon, Louisiate Islands and others), arrived at Teste island towards the end of January last, where he ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. SAMOA.

    Intelligence from Samoa states that on the 13th of April Malietoa was proclaimed King of Samoa. On the follawing day Steinberger and party hoisted a bag and threatened to rebel, and unless the representatives of foreign Powers ...

    Article : 129 words
  8. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    Little of interest with regard to music has transpired since our last summary. Madama Carlotta Patti, Mr. DeMunck, and Signor C[?]i Cellaj are in Melbourne, delighting the Victorians and making money. Olga ...

    Article : 267 words
  9. THE LINE ISLANDS.

    We learn from the Fiji Argus of April 16 that the cutter Rose, which had been away cruising amongst the Line Islands for three months, has returned to Levuka. She reports that the copra trade at the islands is being greatly ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    When our last summary left, the great subject of interest in mining matters was the dispute between the Associated Colliery masters and the miners. On Monday, April 26, a large meeting of miners was held at Wallsend; ...

    Article : 592 words
  11. MONETARY REVIEW.

    Late cablegrams from Europe, stating that the London wool sales had assumed a different aspect to what they had when last mail left here, have tended to relieve the minds of bank authorities, who then saw in the future a difficulty in ...

    Article : 2,030 words
  12. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

    James Poulson was sentenced to death, at the Bathurst Circuit Court, on the 1st May, for the murder of his daughter Mary Poulson, at Wattle Flat, in March last. The facts showed that the prisoner was usually a sober ...

    Article : 613 words
  13. ALLEGED CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA.

    In a letter recently published in the Illawarra Mercury from Mr. George Osborne, that gentleman thus describes an alleged cure for diphtheria:—"Mr. John Newson, bricklayer, in my employ at the Public school buildings, ...

    Article : 433 words
  14. CITY IMPROVEMENTS AND PUBLIC WORKS.

    On 22nd April the second girder of the new bridge on the Parramatta River was hoisted into place by the new patent girder elevator. The weight of each girder is 64 tons, including all additional gear necessary for its transplacement. ...

    Article : 622 words
  15. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The Government have called for tenders for the construction of the seventh section of the Western railway, from Roma to near Mitchell, a distance, of fifty miles; also, third section of the Townsville to Charters Towers line, a ...

    Article : 2,375 words
  16. NEW CALEDONIA.

    His Excellency the Governor returned to Noumea on the 27th April, having visited various districts on the western coast of the island. An extraordinary decision affecting shipowners has been ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  17. TRADE AND LABOUR MOVEMENTS.

    An anti-Chinese agitation has been going on among the working classes in Sydney for some time past, and there appeals to be a determination to insist, at the next general election, that candidates shall pledge themselves to support ...

    Article : 313 words
  18. RELIGIOUS.

    A new Anglican church was opened at Tumut on the 19th April by Bishop Thomas. On the 27th April, Bishop Barker opened St. John's Church, at Colo. Two hundred persons were present, ...

    Article : 796 words
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