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  2. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

    The Chimborazo, which left Plymouth last Sunday, encountered a terrific gale 60 miles south-west of Ushant yesterday. The sea swept the decks, and carried away the rails, ...

    Article : 119 words
  3. The Sydney Morning Herald.

    In the Legislative Council, yesterday. The PRESIDENT reported the receipt of messages from the Governor, conveying assent to the Acts to increase the duties on imported wines and spirits, and ...

    Article : 4,098 words
  4. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    A public meeting was held yesternight, at Houghton, when the Government were blamed for allowing building stone from Sydney to be used for the new Government offices, as it was said that this is detrimental to ...

    Article : 302 words
  5. MR. BERRY AT STAWELL.

    Mr. Berry held a meeting at Stawell to-night. He said the Ministry had been accused of altering their Reform Bill as previously submitted, but all that was done was to change the machinery and to perfect what ...

    Article : 144 words
  6. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE AMENDMENT ON THE ADDRESS.

    In the House of Commons, the debate on the amendment moved by Irish members on the Address in reply to the Queen's Speech has been proceeding, but was to-day again ...

    Article : 94 words
  7. THE URSO CONCERTS.

    Sydney has certainly striven to show that if in musical matters generally there has been retrogression within the last few years, the love of the divine art is by no means dead—that it has been latent is not the fault of the public ...

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  8. THE CHIMBORAZO IN A GALE.

    The Chimborazo (s.), shortly after her departure from Plymouth on Sunday, the 8th instant, encountered severe weather, and was compelled to return to port, after losing four ...

    Article : 161 words
  9. TASMANIA.

    The Legislative Council, yesternight, agreed to the second reading of the Real and Personal Estate Duties Bill, and in committee the tax on dividends was passed by a majority of one. ...

    Article : 57 words
  10. THE WORKING OF THE COAL VEND SCHEME.

    Two of the Melbourne Steamship Company's steamers, the Barrabool and Macedon, have been laid up here, and their officers and crews paid off, and a third, the Cheviot, will be also laid up on her ...

    Article : 150 words
  11. PERSIA AND HERAT.

    Diplomatic correspondence has recently been exchanged between the Courts of London and Teheran, with the result that the English Government has released Persia from the ...

    Article : 96 words
  12. TUCKER'S CREEK AND BARRINGTON GOLD-FIELDS.

    About seventy men are now on the rush at Tucker's Creek, and are almost all from Copeland, and many more intend going from here. All like the look of the country, but no work has been done yet by ...

    Article : 218 words
  13. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    THE accident to the steamship Hankow, reported in our cable messages of yesterday, has been closely followed by the disaster which has befallen the Orient Company's steamship Chimborazo, when off the ...

    Article : 4,192 words
  14. ACCIDENT AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

    During the progress of a jête held in the soldiers' barracks here, the building collapsed, in which 200 were killed, and a great number injured. ...

    Article : 32 words
  15. DESTRUCTION OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.

    The Theatre Royal, Dublin, was, last night, destroyed by fire. Six persons lost their lives, and several others sustained injuries. ...

    Article : 29 words
  16. ARRIVAL OF THE SIAM AT GALLE.

    The P. and O. Company's R. M. S. Siam, which left Melbourne on the 23rd January, arrived to-day with the homeward Australian mails. ...

    Article : 32 words
  17. PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.

    Sir,—In justice to the Board of Examiners, and to the gentlemen charged with preparing the official lists, I hasten to inform you that I alone am responsible for the unfortunate mistake on which you have thought proper to ...

    Article : 254 words
  18. THE ACONCAGUA.

    The Aconcagua, from Australia, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. ...

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  19. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) LISMORE.

    It has been raining for the last three weeks, and the roads are in a shocking state. The river is rising, but little timber is coming out. Sugar-making, with the exception of clearing up, is ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. COOKERY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

    Sir,—The arguments used by you in behalf of "Cookery' classes have struck me so forcibly that I cannot resist giving vent to a hope that the suggestion may be adopted. How the mass of women manage in homes of their own I ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. BOMBALA.

    A meeting of wheat growers was held this afternoon to discuss the question of the surplus quantity of wheat grown in the district. It was resolved to form a wheat growers association. The farmers are much ...

    Article : 54 words
  22. WASHING MACHINES.

    Sir,—I desire to bring under the notice of the public, through your columns, one of the grandest revolutions of the present age in the above subject. It is little known to everybody that each household almost possesses a ...

    Article : 402 words
  23. WAGGA WAGGA.

    The Rev. Ralph Brown, of Victoria, delivered a lecture on "Heads and Faces" last evening. There was a large and attentive audience, and the lecturer was warmly applauded. The lecture was full of ...

    Article : 58 words
  24. THE DOG NUISANCE.

    Sir,—Allow me to bring under the notice of the "powers that be" the alarming increase in the city and suburbs of the dog nuisance. A remedy, I humbly suggest, would be the quadrupling of the present absurdly low tax. ...

    Article : 295 words
  25. QUEENSLAND.

    The annual meeting of the Queensland Turf Club was held yesterday. The report was adopted, and the Hon. J. P. Bell was unanimously elected President. A telegram from Cape Moreton reports a ...

    Article : 45 words
  26. VICTORIA.

    The Committee of the V. R. C. have decided to postpone the first day of the Autumn Meeting from Saturday, the 28th instant, to Tuesday, 2nd March. All the Ministers, except the Attorney-General, are ...

    Article : 189 words
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