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  2. SUMMARY OF NEWS FOR TRANSMISSION TO EUROPE, VIA SAN FRANCISCO FROM JULY 7 TO JULY 17.

    Friday next was named by the Premier ns the day upon which the present session of Parliament was to be prorogued. The Loan Bill, however, has not passed so rapidly as was expected, and the prorogation cannot take place till ...

    Article : 2,514 words
  3. MINING.

    The gold yield from the Copeland diggings continues to be of a most encouraging character, the reported returns varying from 1 oz. to 3 'oz. per ton. No. 1 Star of the South Company have struck rich quartz one foot thick in ...

    Article : 377 words
  4. THE WEATHER, AGRICULTURAL, AND PASTORAL.

    In the Metropolitan and Coast Districts the weather of the past fortnight has been of the average wintry character; chill westerly winds were felt for a couple of days, and dust storms occasionally proved disagreeable to pedestrians. ...

    Article : 748 words
  5. LABOUR SUMMARY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 843 words
  6. CIVIC AND SANITARY.

    There is very little of any moment to record in connection with civic of sanitary affairs since our last summary There has been rey out about typhoid fever, and hence we may naturally inter that there is littte of it about. ...

    Article : 481 words
  7. AMUSEMENTS.

    Mr. Creswick was heartily welcomed on his return to Sydney, and his first appearance at the Theatre Royal. He selected King Lear as his opening play and since then has been playing "Ingomar," " Virginius," and "Richeliou." ...

    Article : 275 words
  8. SOCIAL.

    On the 13th instant the Loyal Orange Institution of New South Wales held a religious service in connection with their annual twelfth of July celebration. The Exhibitionbuilding in Prince Alfred Park had, as usual, been selected ...

    Article : 2,180 words
  9. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    The agricultural and pastoral hall is now being erected on a site approved of by the Premier and the Director of Public Parks and Gardens. The contractors entered into the required bond for the sum of one thousand pounds, and state ...

    Article : 1,774 words
  10. AQUATICS.

    Nothing excites more interest here than the approaching race, for the championship of the world, between Trickett and Laycock, on the 30th August. Trickett is now training under Tommy Kelly at Gladesville, It is to be regretted ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

    Since the return of the Mayor of Sydney, Mr. C. J. Roberts from Melbourne, a determined effort has been made to have the city kept in as cleanly a state as means will allow. Immediately on his return from his visit to the ...

    Article : 496 words
  12. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The Victorian Parliament was opened at Melbourne on Tuesday, July 8, with the usual ceremonies. The Governor's speech referred to the general depression of trade, all through the world, but hinted at the prospect of a ...

    Article : 1,487 words
  13. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

    Commodore Wilson, of H.M.S. Wolverene, appears to he a strict disciplinarian, judging from the sentence just passed upon one of the able seamen who took part in the attack made by the ship's cutter upon a body of natives that were ...

    Article : 385 words
  14. OBITUARY.

    SIR ROBERT OFFICER.—This distinguished colonist of Tasmania died on the 8th July, at his residence, Hall Green, New Norfolk, at an advanced age. It is stated by the Tasmanian journals that he arrived in the colony many ...

    Article : 402 words
  15. RELIGIOUS MEMORANDA.

    CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—July 1: A fancy bazaar was held in Christ Church schoolroom in aid of the church building fund, and in spite of unfavourable weather was well attended. At St. Mary's, South Creek. a public ...

    Article : 464 words
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