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  2. NEW IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS.

    A SUPPLEMENT to the Government Gazette published yesterday contains the following regulations for the promotion of immigration:— " Colonial Secretary's Office. ...

    Article : 928 words
  3. ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.

    THE P. and O. Company's steamship China arrived yesterday, bringing our London dates to August 4. From various papers received we compile the following intelligence:— ...

    Article : 216 words
  4. THE BUCHANAN LIBEL CASE.

    Bards are becoming a more irritable race than ever. The poet Swinburne and the poet Buchanan have hated each other with a poetic hatred for several years. In 1856 Mr. Buchanan caricatured Mr. ...

    Article : 342 words
  5. THE COMMUNISTS OF NEW CALEDONIA

    SIR,—The loose and unsatisfactory epistle of your correspondent, "Un Tem[?]in," requires a word or two from me, which I trust your liberality will allow me to offer. Communism is a political creed, upheld by a large party ...

    Article : 1,633 words
  6. THE INDIA AND COLONIAL MUSEUMS.

    A question was asked the other day in the House of Commons of Mr. Disraeli as to whether it was proposed that a part of the expenses of the India Museum should be defrayed at the cost of the Indian ...

    Article : 315 words
  7. TERRIBLE DEFEAT OF THE EGYPTIANS.

    Cairo, July 7.—Most of the Egyptian general staff have returned here from Northern [?]bys-inia. The staff consists principally of Americans, and they abuse the Egyptians and their conduct of the war greatly; ...

    Article : 685 words
  8. THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.

    SIR,—The meteorological conditions were all that could be desired for the observation of the eclipse this morning. The atmosphere was calm and clear, and the only cloud to be seen were on the western horizon. Owing to the ...

    Article : 333 words
  9. THE BISHOP DESIGNATE OF MELBOURNE.

    A very handsome testimonial has been given to the Rev. James Moorhouse, D.D., vicar of Paddington and Bishop Designate of Melbourne. Much sympathy had been excited for him on account of the ...

    Article : 268 words
  10. FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN SPAIN.

    The Standard correspondent at Madrid writes as follows:— " On June 26 the news began to spread in Madrid of a fearful railway accident in Catalonia. As usual, the company on whose line this accident had ...

    Article : 1,110 words
  11. THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

    The largest Volunteer Review that has yet been held in this country took place on July 1, in Hyde Park, before the Prince of Wales. A body of 30,000 men were assembled, the main body of whom were ...

    Article : 748 words
  12. THE TURF.

    AN ethical question of considerable public interest, and not without some degree of public importance, has been brought under discussion in New South Wales by the publication of a correspondence which has taken place between S r ...

    Article : 1,345 words
  13. PHILADELPHIA EXHIBITION.

    SIR,—I beg to call your attention to a paragraph in this day's Herald, headed "Philadelphia and MELBOURNE Exhibitions Commission;" in which, among other suggestions, it is recommonded that the Executive Commissioner ...

    Article : 205 words
  14. CONVEYANCE OF PRISONERS AND LUNATICS.

    SIR,—In your issue of the 8th instant appears a correspondence, signed "Anti-Convict," in which are a number of misstatements I feel it my bounden duty to contradict. The objections of the writer to the system ...

    Article : 839 words
  15. THE BLACKBURN MURDER.

    On July 28 William Fish, barber, of Blackburn, was placed upon his trial at the Liverpool Assizes for the murder of Emily Holland in March last. His counsel, in addressing the jury, contended that the ...

    Article : 121 words
  16. THE WAR IN THE EAST.

    The war in the East has proved a horrible business. On the 30th June 40 Servians were killed; on the 3rd of July 500 in one engagement, 2000 in another, and 300 in a third. On the 4th 200 more were killed. ...

    Article : 230 words
  17. THE LICENSING ACT.

    SIR,—Another public-house has been recently added to the already large number that exist in this neighbourhood; and, under ordinary circumstances, the bare fact above stated could scarcely be thought worthy of the notice now ...

    Article : 986 words
  18. WAR ON THE CHINESE FRONTIER.

    The Russian papers publish some further particulars of the late events on the western frontier of China. The ravages of the Kara-Kirghiz, in the new Russian province of Ferghana (Kokhand), have proved ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. THE WIMBLEDON RIFLE MEETING.

    The Victorian match was concluded on 22nd July, and the proceedings of the meeting were brought to a close with the distribution of prizes and a series of athletic sports. The shooting was watched with ...

    Article : 810 words
  20. THE BRAVO MYSTERY.

    The new inquiry, before Mr. Carter, the coroner, into the death of Mr. Bravo is now in progress, and it is extremely doubtful when it will be terminated. Much additional evidence of a very important and even ...

    Article : 221 words
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