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  2. SUMMARY OF MONTHLY NEWS.

    THE long talked of "demonstration" of the Electoral Reform League came off in Hyde Park on Monday, and was, upon the whoe, about as decided a failure as we ever remember to have witnessed. The chair was ...

    Article : 8,849 words
  3. POLITICAL.

    THE past month, ushering in as it did the second session of Parliament, has been fraught with unusual interest. Although it was well known from the first that a strong opposition to the Parker Ministry ...

    Article : 1,244 words
  4. PARLIAMENTARY POSTSCRIPT.

    IN the Legislative Council on Tuesday (8th), leave was given to bring in a bill to enable the officers of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts to dispose of their present premises, with the view to erecting more ...

    Article : 350 words
  5. AGRICULTURE.

    Although the long-continued and heavy rains, with the consequent inundations, have, as might be expected, seriously interfered with the operations of the farmer, still does agriculture prosper; and thus it is ...

    Article : 559 words
  6. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    Under this head, the chief feature of interest since our last summary has been the performance of a grand oratorio, at St. Mary's, in aid of the Catholic Cathedral Fund, Rossini's magnificent "Stabat Mater," ...

    Article : 360 words
  7. MR. PARKER'S GOVERNMENT.

    THERE are some circumstances in human life, some few conjectures of human affairs, in which those who lose and those who win are equally entitled to felicitation. Though both are not triumphant, both are ...

    Article : 816 words
  8. GOVERNMENT DOMAIN.

    THE committee managing the affairs of the Government Domain (about 300 acres), and the Hyde-park, (56 acres), have been actively engaged for some time past in works of improvement, which must tend, upon ...

    Article : 1,402 words
  9. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

    THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM:—This institution is now open to the public three times a week; and large additions are making to its collections. The Museum is becoming, as it was no doubt intended to be, a ...

    Article : 982 words
  10. STATISTICS.

    IN our last summary we gave various interesting details as to the population of New South Wales, according to the last census. We now resume the subject, confining our facts and figures to the City of ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  11. PUBLIC WORKS AND CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

    THE floods which have inundated the greater portion of the country since the commencement of the present year, will be long remembered as the most, destructive that ever occurred in New South Wales, regarding ...

    Article : 2,858 words
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