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  2. POLITICAL SUMMARY.

    PARLIAMENT was opened by Sir John Young thre days after we published our last monthly Summery. We had then to report the retirement of Mr. Robertson from the Ministry on account of his private affairs requiring his ...

    Article : 1,507 words
  3. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

    DURING the latter part of last month the weather continued to be hot and dry, with strong parching winds that burnt up everything before them, destroying, gradually but surely vegetation of every dese[?]iption. Bush fires also ...

    Article : 3,620 words
  4. THE PASTORAL INTEREST.

    THE great bulk of the shearing is non over, and it may be some satisfaction to learn that the crop of wool is, above the average. The greatest part, however, has been shorn in the grease, in some places because of the absolute want of ...

    Article : 742 words
  5. COUNTRY WORKS.

    THE works on the main roads for this year are being rapidly drawn to a close. Between Marulan and Goulburn a large contract for metalling is in progress. South of Goulburn, the Run of Water contract is suspended, owing to a dispute ...

    Article : 1,302 words
  6. TELEGRAPHS.

    THE only telegraphic extension now in progress in this colony is the line from Deniliquin to the boundary of South Australia, where it will join a line from Adelaide. A length of fifty miles from Deniliquin towards Moulmein ...

    Article : 251 words
  7. THE FITZROY IRON WORKS.

    THE works at the Fitzroy Iron Mines continue in active operation; their principal employment during the ast few weeks having been the production of pig iron. This is now being run out at the rate of eighty tons per weel and a ...

    Article : 204 words
  8. PUBLIC COMPANIES' REPORTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 791 words
  9. ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE FOR 1866.

    THE Treasurer laid upon the table of the Lgislative Assembly, on the 15th instant, the Estimates of the probable expenditure of the Government of New Souh Wales for the year 1866, and the Supplementary Estimaes of the ...

    Article : 860 words
  10. STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

    FEW who have not actually witnessed the effects of a long continued drought upon a country like Australia will be able to picture them to their minds. The accounts that reach us from all quarters of the far Western and ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  11. RAILWAYS.

    WE stated in our last report that Messrs. Larkin and Wakeford had obtained the contract for laying the permanent way on the Western extension from the Nepean to Blackheath, at the end of Contract No. 3. Some delay ...

    Article : 1,055 words
  12. CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

    THE removal of the old Post Office in George-street has been in hand for the last four months, but a considerable portion of the walls is still standing. The remainder of the material will have to be cleared away more ...

    Article : 909 words
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