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  2. PARLIAMENT.

    Chairman of Committees.—Mr. ALLEN announced his resignation of the Chairmanship of Committees, to which office he had been elected twenty-two times. His chief reasons were failing eyesight and a ...

    Article : 317 words
  3. INTERCOLONIAL SUMMARY.

    IN Melbourne two or three meetings have been held in favour of the scheme for a transcontinental railway. Mr. Stephen, the Attorney-General, has accepted the position of Minister for Education. ...

    Article : 1,067 words
  4. NEW ZEALAND.

    From Melbourne journals we extract the following news to the 2nd instant "—The Chili, 107 days out from London, and arrived at Napier with Government immigrants, and a number of navvies for Mr. Brogden's railways. All the ...

    Article : 621 words
  5. RELIGIOUS MEMORANDA,

    DECEMBER 21.—Mr John Done, of Moore College, was ordained deneon in St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. 22.—Mr. E. Dunstan, M.A., of Sydney University and Moore College, was admitted to the doaconate of ...

    Article : 1,733 words
  6. THE METROPOLITAN INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION OF 1873.

    THERE are so many paragraphs headed "Exhibition of 1873" that one's eye needs to dwell on the subject in order to ascertain whether it be "London," "Vienna," or "Sydney." Preparations for the former are now nearly, ...

    Article : 785 words
  7. THE ASSEMBLY.

    Custody of Infants.—Mr. STEWART obtained leave to introduce a bill to provide for the better custody of infants. The bill was subsequently brought up and read a first time. ...

    Article : 1,545 words
  8. TASMANIA.

    A company is being formed to work Piper's River slate quarries. Hellyer tin ore has been assayed, and the samples yielded 62 per cent. of metal. ...

    Article : 159 words
  9. MONETARY AND MERCANTILE REVIEW,

    THE year has opened with indications of a cheaper money market, resulting in part from the accumulation of capital and partly from the termination of an agreement entered into between the principal banks ...

    Article : 2,300 words
  10. THE CENSUS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 577 words
  11. QUEENSLAND.

    William Miller, a young man twenty-one years of age, who has for four months been officiating as a minister of religion at Rockhampton, has confessed to a charge of obtaining money under false pretences. He was arrested ...

    Article : 691 words
  12. THE TURF.

    THE Turf has sustained considerable loss by the deaths of the stud-horse Archer and a fine two-year-old colt by The Barb from Ida. Archer, who was the property of Messrs. Hassall and Roberts, and had the honour of winning the ...

    Article : 94 words
  13. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Damp weather has interfered with the wheat harvest, but so far the damage caused by it has not been very great. It is anticipated that the yield will be unusually large, and that the exportable surplus will be betweeen 150,000 and ...

    Article : 299 words
  14. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

    AN unusual amount of rain has fallen all over the colony throughout the past summer, and it is a long time since there has been so moist a season. The past month has been marked by the frequency of heavy thunderstorms in ...

    Article : 490 words
  15. THE REVENUE.

    THE Government Gazette of 14th instant contained comparative statements of the revenue receipts and expenditure for the quarter and year ending the 31st ultimo. Both are highly satisfactory and indicate an ...

    Article : 664 words
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