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  2. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—As the attention of the public in this colony, as well as of that in Queensland, is now being drawn to the proposed developement of new line of stam communication via "Terres Straits" to Coepang in Timor and Java, a ...

    Article : 1,858 words
  3. TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. [FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.] BATHURST.

    AT the Circuit Court to-day, the following sentences were passed upon the convicted prisoners. Two Chinamen, Ah Lim, for the murder of Nee Jack, and Sampoo, for the murder of constable Ward, ...

    Article : 115 words
  4. THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    THE following notifications appear in yesterday's Government Gazette:— APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. R. T. Harnett to be a draftsman [?]n the Railway Department; Mr. A. B. Portus, to be ...

    Article : 2,012 words
  5. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—I saw this morning in your issue of the Herald an expression of sympathy, by advertisement, on behalf of Mr. Puckeridge—one of the sufferes by the late fire—I myself am not wholly indifferent to the circumstance, and amongst ...

    Article : 141 words
  6. QUEANBEYAN.

    The Sessions closed at 11.45 a.m., to-day. Masen and Kennedy's cases were postponed till next sessions. Michael and Richard Flynn, for horse-steal ing, at Bungendore, were sentenced to twelve ...

    Article : 63 words
  7. THE DUTIES OF AN UMPIRE.

    SIR,—In reply to "Inquirer's" query as to the etymology of the word Umpire, I beg to inform him that the derivation of the word is rather uncertain, but is supposed to be either from the French "un pere," a father; or from the Latin ...

    Article : 130 words
  8. BRISBANE.

    Typhus fever has broken out amongst the navvies on the railway works at Toowoomba; eleven cases are in the hospital. A fatal affray between the blacks has occurred at ...

    Article : 43 words
  9. MELBOURNE.

    Both the Chief Commissioner and the acting Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates appeared in the Insolvent Court this morning; the former transacted business. It appears that, although Sir George ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: FIRE, AND FIERY HASTE.

    SIR,—The cause of humanity must be my apology for this trespass on your space, to bring under notice the unmereifal treatment of horses at alarms of fire. It will be known to you that 'bus horses are mostly taken on those occasions, ...

    Article : 173 words
  11. SOCIAL SCIENCE IN THE KITCHEN.

    THERE is something indescribably soothing in the process of "ventilating" a social evil—we do not use this last term in its recognised technical sense—by the easy process of reading a paper. The satisfaction ...

    Article : 2,898 words
  12. QUEENSCLIFF.

    ARRIVED.—True Briton, from London. SAILED.—Frankby, Vistula, Traveller, for Newcastle. ...

    Article : 15 words
  13. ADELAIDE.

    The long promised revision of salaries of the Civil Service appears in the new Estimates, and creates general dissatisfaction. Teas ex Lydia Hilton all sold, and portion of cargo ...

    Article : 134 words
  14. NOTES ON THE TREATMENT OF THE INSANE POOR

    DR.C. L. ROBERTSON, on the several Means of Providing for the Yearly Increase of Pauper Lunatics.—"The number of lunatics under care and treatment in the public asylums of England and Wales continue yearly to increase. On 1st ...

    Article : 2,299 words
  15. PUBLIC AMUSMENTS.

    PRINE OF WALES THEATRE.—On Monday last, a dramatised version of Wilkie Collins' Novel, "The Woman in White," was produced at the above theatre, and was placed on the stage in a very creditable manner. The Mysterious White Ladies, were ...

    Article : 287 words
  16. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SRI,—Some time ago you were kind enough to notice in your paper the fact that a seam of kerosene shale had been found on land held by Messro. Stanford, Mortimer, and myself, at Hartley. Although the seam is, and was at the ...

    Article : 494 words
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