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  2. SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR TRANSMISSION TO EUROPE, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

    With the exception that the principal measures before Parliament have been advanced a stage or two, there has not been much done in rega[?] to political matters since our last Summary' In the Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday, ...

    Article : 1,800 words
  3. MUNICIPAL.

    Since our last summary was published the City Municipal Council have agreed to a resolution adopting a report of a sub-committee recommending the purchase from Messrs. Richardson and Wrench of 28 acres 3 roods of land at ...

    Article : 89 words
  4. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    The mining news since our last summary was dispatched is of comparatively unimportant character. The accounts from the new rush at Copeland are very conflicting in their nature, although it is believed that the discovery is much ...

    Article : 567 words
  5. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    Tho Urso concerts are over, and musical amateurs, after having for weeks enjoyed the performances of the most talented violinist who has ever visited the colony, are now having their ears tickled by the flood of rippling melody the ...

    Article : 505 words
  6. SOCIAL.

    The mail via San Francisco of January 1, and that via Suoz of January 2, were both delivered in Sydney on the 16th February The latter, however, would have reached Sydney on the 14th, had the steamer arrived in Hobson's ...

    Article : 1,285 words
  7. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

    On the 16th instant, a woman, named Ann Webb, wife of James Webb, a carrier, was found hanging in an outhouse at Braidwood. At the iuquest a verdict of suicide through insanity was returned. She had attempted to take ...

    Article : 385 words
  8. INTERCOLONIAL.

    Thirty-four tons of stone from No. 2 North Lady Mary, Gympie, gave 700 oz. of gold, or over. 20 oz. per ton.— Joseph Wells was found guilty at Toowoomba of shooting William Murphy with intent to murder, in connection with ...

    Article : 535 words
  9. TRADE AND LABOUR MOVEMENTS.

    At a meeting of the Sydney Trades and Labour Council, on the 19th instant, one of the members of the Council drew attention to a statement he had read in one of the papers to the effect that the Government had invited ...

    Article : 233 words
  10. 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 : 920 words
  11. NEW GUINEA.

    The schooner Annie Books has arrived at Cooktown from Teste Island, New Guinea, and reports that the Ellangowan was at Teste Island when the schooner left. The Rev. Mr. Chalmers intends visiting the stations on the ...

    Article : 79 words
  12. THE PACIFIC ISLANDS.

    His Excellency the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Arthur Gordon, has issued a series of regulations under the provisions of the Western Pacific Order in Council of 1879, prohibiting the supply of intoxicating ...

    Article : 363 words
  13. THE WEATHER—AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

    During the past fortnight the weather along the coast has been much more like that which usually falls to the lot of April than February. Light drizzling rains of the Scotch mist order have fallen, and the atmosphere has been most ...

    Article : 386 words
  14. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    According to the date originally fixed for bringing the International Exhibition to an end, the Garden Palace should be closed within less than a month, but it has been decided to extend the period during which the Exhibition ...

    Article : 463 words
  15. MONETARY REVIEW.

    Since writing by the Californian mail there has nothing transpired which would alter the remarks made regarding the tone of the local money market. It may, however, be stated that everything betokens that rates will be lower ...

    Article : 1,880 words
  16. THE COMET.

    Our Queensland correspondent says:—The comet was seen from the steamship Menmuir from the 6th to the 8th instant, while steaming along the Eastern Archipelago. The nucleus was of a fiery red colour, about seven degrees above ...

    Article : 223 words
  17. COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

    THE EXPORT MARKETS.—The receipts of wool are daily becoming more limited, and the quantities catalogued for public sales smaller in proportion. It need hardly be said that late news regarding the February sales has had a ...

    Article : 2,451 words
  18. RELIGIOUS.

    The agitation by Roman Catholic and Church of England authorities against the Public Instruction Bill continues. Mr. Alexander Gordon and the Rev. Mr. Barnier, among other members of the Church of England, ...

    Article : 1,610 words
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