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  2. NEW ZEALAND.

    BY the steamship Hero, Captain Logan, we have Auckland papers, to the 17th February. Sir George Grey, K.C.B., was to lecture on "The Australian Colonies and New Zealand," in the Choral Hall, ...

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  3. PRIMITIVE METHODIST DISTRICT MEETING OF 1876.

    ON FRIDAY, February 18th, the Church Building Committee met in the church at St. Peters, at 10 a.m., to examine the Church Schedules, and report on any cases which required the attention of the district meeting. The committee ...

    Article : 1,171 words
  4. SOCIAL AFFAIRS IN ENGLAND.

    AFTER all, the commencement of the New Year finds us enjoying singularly mild, albeit somewhat damp, weather, a circumstance which is beginning to awaken the fear that we shall have a cold and backward spring, ...

    Article : 1,690 words
  5. THE INFIRMARY.

    SIR,—"Salus populi suprema lex" must be my apology for walking so far out of my ordinary course of life as to ask space in your columns for what I proceed thus to bring under the notice of the public. ...

    Article : 561 words
  6. STONE-THROWING ON THE RAILWAY.

    SIR,—While the 5.30 p.m. train from Sydney, by which I was a passenger was stopping at the Newtown station, an excursion train bound for Sydney, loaded with children, passed us. The boys in one or two of the carriages assailed ...

    Article : 324 words
  7. TERRIFIC HURRICANE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    INTELLIGENCE of a terribly disastrous and fatal nature has just been received from our North-West Settlements. The Annalolic, an American schooner, which arrived at Fremantle from Port Wolcott on Monday last, brought the news that a ...

    Article : 412 words
  8. DISASTROUS TORNADO AT BOWEN.

    WE have been favoured by a gentleman with the following communication, which was, written to him from Bowen by his son, under date the 18th February:- "We arrived here during a heavy north-west squall, ...

    Article : 456 words
  9. THE VOLUNTEER QUESTION.

    SIR,—I am glad to see that Parliament is at last beginning to shake off its lethargy regarding the Volunteer question; but let hon members of the Assembly recollect, when dealing with the matter, to be careful and not attack members ...

    Article : 541 words
  10. THE SYDNEY WOOL SALES.

    SIR,—Having, during a recent visit to your colony heard much talk about the rapid extension of your railway lines towards the Victorian border, and the expectation of attracting to Sydney, as a centre, all the trade of Riverina ...

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  11. THE PERAK WAR.

    PENANS, December 18.—According to the latest advices the Chinese authorities show some inclmation to prevent foreigners proceeding on shooting excursions. Consul Medharst was interfered with whilst proceeding up country on ...

    Article : 392 words
  12. (Abridged from the Port Denison Times.)

    The night of February 16, 1876, will be long remembered by those resident in Bowen at the time. Little did they think, on rising on that morning to begin their daily labour, that ere midnight ruin and [?]mtion would be in ...

    Article : 985 words
  13. MINING ON RESERVES.

    SIR,—Will you kindly give me space to point out what I consider on injustice to us drovers. We have, goodness knows, difficulty enough to get grass and eligible camping places. Now, at our camping place last night, which was ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. MR. LEARY AT WAGGA.

    MR. Leary, who has been elected unopposed for the Murrumbidgee district, addressed the electors at Wagtra Wagga as follows:—When I last had the honour to address you, about thirteen months ago, upon the occasion of the last ...

    Article : 1,520 words
  15. AUSTRALIA, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

    "ROUND the world in seventy days." This was the burden of the speeches delivered yesterday afternoon on board the steamship Australia, a spick and span new vessel, recently added to the Australian and New Zealand fleet of ...

    Article : 784 words
  16. COUNTRY TEACHERS AND THE EDUCATION BILL.

    SIR,—Now, when a new Education Bill has been brought before the Legislative Assembly, I trust that you will give your influence, through your columns, to urge upon our legislators the desirability and necessity of seeing that the ...

    Article : 254 words
  17. ALCOHOL.

    SIR,—Speaking of the sale of alcohol, an eminent French writer says: Instead of the usual gaudy attractions to ensnare customers displayed in shops where spirits are sold, what would be the effect if the following truthful ...

    Article : 699 words
  18. BOROUGH COUNCIL.

    PETERSHAM.—A meeting of the Council of this borough was held on Monday, the 21st instant. Present—The Mayor (Mr. W. H. Pigott), and Aldermen Kirkpatrick, Hughes, M'Mahon, and Pratt. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. A ...

    Article : 269 words
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