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  2. Temora.

    Once more the hopes of the miners have been disappointed. Comparatively heavy rain has fallen, almost without intermission, for four days; rain that in any other part of the colony would have flooded the country, and yet here ...

    Article : 2,649 words
  3. Science Notes.

    Everybody is now interested in the progress of science and wishes to know something about it; but only those who have little else to do can follow it in the voluminous records where scientific discoveries are originally announced. Even ...

    Article : 529 words
  4. Victoria.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 462 words
  5. Ernest Giles, the Explorer.

    We have been favoured by Mr. Robert Giles, J.P., of Hamilton, Victoria, with the following extracts from the last report of the Royal Geographical Society of England, having reference to the presentation of the society's medal ...

    Article : 1,141 words
  6. Mining Items.

    LITTLE RIVER.—On Wednesday (says the Braidwood Dispatch of Oct. 23) a piece of stone, from Messrs. Smith and Martin's Albion Reef at Little River, was brought to town, and when broken yielded two dwts. of gold, which is a ...

    Article : 373 words
  7. A NEW DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY.

    M. Janssen has announced a very curious, and at present a mysterious, discovery in photography. He has lately produced some magnificent photographs of the face of the sun, displaying the spots, the faculae, the "mottling" or ...

    Article : 369 words
  8. Scientific, &c.

    The first of two popular science lectures was delivered in the Masonic Hall on 22nd instant, by Mr. William Lant Carpenter, B.A., B.Sc., F.C.S. (London), who has just arrived from England—the subject being "Temperature ...

    Article : 1,098 words
  9. Queensland.

    THE PALMER.—The Chronicle considers the prospects of this field better than ever they have been since its opening. The Queen p.c. claim has struck the reef at 280 feet, and in driving from the crosscut to the south, with the reef ...

    Article : 788 words
  10. BALLOON PHOTOGRAPHS.

    Another application of photography and a new use for balloons has been opened by M. Paul Desmarets. He makes a hole in the bottom of the car and there places a camera; and thus, by instantaneous process, obtains a ...

    Article : 202 words
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