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A VISIT TO STEWART ISLANDS.
THESE islands, which are situate to the eastward of the Solomon Group, in latitude 8·24 S. and 163· E. longitude, are of coral formation, elevated only a few feet above the surrounding ocean. They are five in ...
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CRICKET.
THIS colony is not a white in the rear of the mothercountry as to its favourable appreciation of the "noble game of cricket." The beautiful and capacious waters which hound a large portion of the city have certainly ...
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MUSIC AND DRAMA.
THE month which has elapsed, since our last European Summan, has not passed by without leaving behind it the memory of some events in the Musical World of Sydney. On the 19th ultime, the Philharmonic Society ...
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To the Editor of the Herald.
Sir,—Seeing that the Acting Austrian Consul, Mr. Kirchner, appears to doubt the correctness of the account of a visit to Stewart's Island, which appeared in your paper of the 5th instant,—we, the ...
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TELEGRAPHS.
THE chief event in the progress of telegraphic extension during the past month, has been the opening of communication between bathurst and Maitland and the metropolis. The residents id these large depots for the trade of the ...
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COUNTRY WORKS.
THE main roads of the colony are constructed and repaired under the immediate superintendence of the Department of Internal Communication. The system of executing those works by day labour has recently been ...
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POLITICAL SUMMARY.
AFTER a sitting of four weeks, Parliament adjourned on the 23rd of December for the Christmas holidays. It was the intention of the Ministry to make the session a very short one, and, after disposing of the more pressing ...
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CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
THE process of street improvement is being steadily carried on in Sydney, and is chiefly manifested in the transformation of those portions of the most frequented thoroughfares where vacant sites or shabby tenements ...
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HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS.
SINCE our last Summary, the great holidays, Boxing and New Year's Day, have come and passed, and the people of the city having renovated their moral and physical nature by a cessation from labour, and by wooing the genial and ...
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THE ALPACAS.
THE flock of alpacas and liamas purchased by the Government of this colony in April last are proceeding towards their destination. The site selected by Mr. Ledger for their settlement is a reserve near Nimity Bell, in the ...
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RAILWAYS.
THE construction of railways in New South Wales is now almost entirely carried on by Messrs. Peto, Brassey, and Betts. Their contracts embrace altogether fifty-one miles, of which nineteen and a half are southward, from ...
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