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PRESENTATION OF THE VICTORIA CROSS, AND DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES OF THE N. S. W. RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
ON the 24th September, between nine and ten thousand perSons assembled in the Outer Domain, to assist at the public presentation of the Victoria Cross to Samuel Mitchell, an able seaman of H.M.S. Harrier (a ...
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NEW IRONWORKS AT PYRMONT.
AN extensive establishment for working iron is in course of formation at the west side of Pyrmont, fronting Johnstone's Bay, and close to the Globe Island Bridge. The apparatus already erected consists of a patent steam ...
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OUR GOLD FIELDS.
THE news of the past month in so far as our gold-fields are concerned is unimportant. There are no changes, no rushes to report, no new diggings opened—at the same time there is this encouragement that the line weather of the past ...
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RELIGIOUS MEMORANDA.
THE Bishop of Sydney has been making a tour through the Western portions of his diocese, and administered the rite of confirmation to a large number of young persons at the various churches he waited. The Bishop also presided over a public ...
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COUNTRY WORKS.
THE number of men employed on the main roads this month has been 1800, and thirty-four officers of all grades. The recent fine weather has enabled considerable progress to be mode, and a large proportion of the works on the ...
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CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
SINCE tbo approval by the Government last month of the design for the new General Post Office, progress has been made with the preparation of the working plans, but tenders are not yet invited for the work. The delay is ...
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WEATHER SIGNALS.
SIR,—The subject of weather signals to which you have drawn attention in yesterday's paper, has been for some time under my most careful consideration; but whilst fully admitting its importance I cannot ...
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MUSIC AND DRAMA.
ON the 7th instant a musical entertainment was given by the Trinity Musical Union, at the sohoolroom adjoining the church; and on the same evening a concert took place at St. John's Schoolroom—both were wall attended. On the ...
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RAILWAYS.
TENDERS were three weeks since called for contract No. 7 on the Great Southern extension, which will carry the railway into the town of Goulburn. The length of the line will be twenty-six miles twenty-seven chains, and it is ...
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