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COUNTRY NEWS.
NARROW ESCAPE AT JERRAWA.—On last Friday evening, during the prevalence of a severe storm of thunder and lightning, a child of Mr. Stephen Brown's, about two years old, was amusing himself in ...
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To the Editor of the Herald.
SIR,—As the bill for the amendment of the District Court Act is almost immediately to occupy the attention of the Legislature, I trust that two points of the greatest importance to the public will'be secured. ...
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ILLICIT DISTILLATION OF RUM.
SIR,—In the course of Mr. E. Beat Thomson's able speech in the Legislative Council on Wednesday last, when moving that the new Tariff Bill be read a second time that day six months, he particularly referred to the doubt expressed by the ...
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LAMBING FLAT AND CHINESE.
SIR,—Having just arrived from Melbourne for the purpose of going to Lambing Flat, perhaps you will grant me the favour of a few lines in your journal on the above important question. ...
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JAVA.
BY the mail steamer we (Singapore Free Press, December 22) have Java papers to the 14th. The news by this opportunity is unusually scanty. The Governor-General left Batavia on the 6th, on a ...
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NEWCASTLE.
February 22.—MINERS' MEETING.—Yesterday morning, the miners belonging to the A. A. Company, the Coal and Copper Company, the Wallsend Company, the Minmi and Tomago collieries held a meeting in tne ...
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THE MUNICIPALITY OF SHOALHAVEN. To the Editor of the Herald.
Sir,—In your issue of tha 16th instant appeared the following, announcement:—Alderman Moss was elected Mayor of Shoalhaven it the meeting of Aldermen held on Wednesday, and immediately took the ...
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JAPAN.
The V. S. steam frigate Niagara had arrived at Singapore, having on board Mr. Ward, the American Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary. The Niagara is the largest man-of-war in the world, ...
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EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS. To the Editor of the Herald.
SIR,—As several letters have appeared, purporting to be answers to my former letter, I think it is perhaps as well to ventilate the subject a little more. One writer. signing himself "A. B.," admits that ...
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To the Editor, of the Herald.
SIR,—I have seen in the Herald of this morning's issue an account of "the practice of juggling with the Royal Seals in the reign of Charles II." It so happens that I have read the life of William Lord ...
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PORPOISE-SKIN LEATHER.
SIR,—whilst fully admitting, as all must do, the justice of your remarks in this day's paper, in tne inventive and adapting faculties of the Americans, I must claim for the Canaditan the merit of one case cited by you (on the authority of Mr. Hamilton and ...
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To the Editor fo the Herald.
SIR,—The present most unsatisfactory state of things in the Redfern Municipality demands the introduction and passing of a Bill for the "Amendment of the Municipalities Act" before the present session of Parliament terminates. The ...
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SINGAPORE.
THE PIRACY IN THE STRAITS.—The war with China being over for the present, we trust the attention of the naval commander-in-chief will be called to the necessity for placing some steam despatch or gun ...
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TO the Editor of the Herald.
SIR,—Allow me to correct an error that appears in your issue of to-day, respecting the presentation to sergeant Edmonds. The meeting alluded to was of the Testmonial Committee of the "Central Companies," not ofthe "fifth" company of ...
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