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  2. QUERIES WITH ANSWERS.

    "JOHNNIE DOWIE'S ALE.—Can any of the readers inform me who was the author of the following jeu d'esprit, which has been attributed to Burns?- "Mr. John Dowie, Libbertous Wynd, Edinburgh. ...

    Article : 1,564 words
  3. NEW ZEALAND.

    OUR files from Auckland are to the 3rd June, and from Otago to the 24th May. THE MURDER AT MONGONUI.—By the arrival of the cutter Rob Roy, from Mongonui, we (Southern Cross) learn ...

    Article : 1,669 words
  4. MR. PICK, THE GOLD-MINER.

    I'VE had a rare lot of mates in my time. Almost every new place I've been to I've had a different lot of mates. It's all nonsense about mates sticking to one another for years. They don't do it. Sometimes ...

    Article : 2,673 words
  5. TWO MEN CARRIED AWAY BY THE HAUHAUS AT OPOTIKI.

    INTELLIGENCE came to hand, yesterday, that a body of Hauhaus, known to have been hiding in tho recesses of a fearfull steep and dangerous mountain pass, called the Gorge, emerged thence and surrounded a whare situated at ...

    Article : 887 words
  6. NOTES AND QUERIES.

    ROUGET DE L'ISLE: MUSIC OF "MARSEILLAIS HYMN."—This is attributed to Francois Joseph Gossee, who employed it with superb effect in his opera, "The Camp of Grandpre." It is really by ...

    Article : 75 words
  7. REPLY.

    Your correspondent rightly disposes of Gossee's claim (misprinted Gossee) to any authorship in La Marseillaise, but I should have preferred that he had written it "has been," instead of "it is" attributed ...

    Article : 969 words
  8. MR. CYRUS FIELD AND THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

    A BAKQUET was given in Liverpool, on the 14th March, to the layers of the Atlantic cable, on which occasion Mr. Field spoke as follows:- Mr. Chairman,—I thank you for the kind manner ...

    Article : 1,612 words
  9. HURRICANE AT THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

    BY the arrival of the schooner Neva, from the South Sea Islands, on Saturday last, we have received intelligence of several terrific hurricanes passing over the islands of the South Pacific in March last, doing tremendous damage to ...

    Article : 677 words
  10. MILITARY FRACES AT WANGANUI.

    SHORTLY after six o'clock on the evening of Friday last, a large body of men of the 18th Royal Irish marched down to the office of this paper and immediately commenced to demolish the doors, windows, and interior of the premises. ...

    Article : 1,874 words
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