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  2. COURT MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN SAUNDERS.

    A GENERAL Court Martial, for the trial of Captain Morley Caulfield Saunders, of H. M. 12th Regiment, upon charges preferred by Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Mead Hamilton, of the same Regiment, assembled on Thursday, the 2nd of ...

    Article : 4,127 words
  3. COUNTRY WORKS.

    DURING the past month the vorious works on the main roads have been progressing, there being now about fourteen hundred men at work for this department. On tho Southern Road all ...

    Article : 1,131 words
  4. THE INTERNATION AL EXHIBITION.

    THE distribution of medals awarded to exhibitors at the Intemational Exhibition of 1862, took placa on the 8th instant, in the hall of the Australian Library. The medals were presented by his Excellency the Governor, in the ...

    Article : 646 words
  5. RAILWAYS.

    Before we publish our next monthly Summary the extension from Menangle to Picton will be finished and opened for traffic, and with that the last of Sir M. Peto and Co.'s contracts in this colony will be terminated. The line ...

    Article : 1,450 words
  6. VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

    THE past month has been a somewhat busy one among the Volunteers, for, beside the usual number of drills, target practices, &c., there have been two full-dress pa[?]—one on the 26th ultimo, the day set apart in honour of the ...

    Article : 449 words
  7. OUR GOLD-FIELDS.

    THE Hon. Secretary for Lands appears at last to have come to the conc[?] that the administration of the goldfields is not quite so perfect as it might be; and, in order to take steps towerds doing what [?] be done by way of ...

    Article : 341 words
  8. THE LATE LIBEL ACTION—WEST V. HANSON AND BENNETT.

    THIS case was tried on the 29th May last, before Mr. Justice Wise and a jury of four, and resultad in a verdict for the plaintiff, with £100 damages. It excited a great deal of interest at the time, from the fact that the plaintiff—the ...

    Article : 4,023 words
  9. CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

    THE principal Government work in progress in the city is the new wing for the Australian Museum. The contract now in hand will complete the exterior of the building; the walls are at present up to the commencement of the cornice. ...

    Article : 1,138 words
  10. WESTERN GOLD-FIELDS.

    On the Lachlan, the old claims are now fast washing up, the results f[?] answering anticipations, averaging on the whole about 1 oz. to the load. Nothing new has been done, although prospects have been tried in several places. These ...

    Article : 347 words
  11. THE SOUTHERN GOLD-FIELDS.

    Burrangong is once more holding up its head, for though the Back Creek rush has not proved so favourable as had been anticipated, yet a large number of good payable holes have been bottomed, and have given employment to many ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. TELEGRAPHS.

    THE telegraphic extension from Orange to Wagga Wagga was finally completedon the 7th of this month, and brought into use on the following day, the intermediate stations at Forbes and at Young having been opened esveral months ...

    Article : 237 words
  13. THE NOHTHERN GOLD-FIELDS.

    Accounts from the Rocky River state that very severe frosty weather has set in there, the mornings and nights being excessively cold. Mining affairs continue very dull here. ...

    Article : 200 words
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