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  2. Internationial Exhibition.

    The regulations for the exhibition of wines, spirituous, fermented, and other drinks, exhibit a completeness of arrangement which is highly creditable to the committee which has issued them: and the care which has been taken ...

    Article : 2,841 words
  3. The Hon. P. Lalor's Mission.

    Referring to the recently published correspondence that took place between Sir Henry Parkes on behalf of New South Wales, and the Hon. Peter Lalor on behalf of Victoria, concerning border duties, the Argus of ...

    Article : 329 words
  4. ASYLUM FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN.

    A deputation from the Directory of the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children waited upon the Colonial Secretary for the purpose of requesting that a sum of £2000 should be placed on the Supplementary Estimates to enable ...

    Article : 104 words
  5. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AT NEWCASTLE.

    A deputation waited upon Mr. Hoskins, to ask for a vole for the purpose of getting rid of the sand-drifts, and another for places of public recreation at Newcastle. They also requested that the ground granted for a ...

    Article : 115 words
  6. The Eskbank Ironworks.

    The latest born of Australian ironworks are the Eskbank, at Lithgow, the foundation stone of which was laid on the 1st of January, 1875, by the Hon. John Sutherland. The Mercury reports that the first pig iron was produced on ...

    Article : 767 words
  7. Accident through Quarry Blasting.

    A terrible quarry accident, the result of overeagerness in returning to a blast in which the fuse was thought to have missed fire, occurred on 3rd instant at Five Dock. The quarry in which the accident ...

    Article : 517 words
  8. Deputations.

    A large deputation waited on the Minister for Works for the purpose of asking whether it was not more desirable to extend a railway through St. Peters and Marrickville, through Arncliffe, between Kogarah and Gannon's Forest ...

    Article : 398 words
  9. Poisonous Tree of New Guinea.

    The murder of several teachers in connection with the London Missionary Society, by the natives of Now Guinea placing a poisonous tree in the water from which they drank, was brought under the notice of ...

    Article : 398 words
  10. RAILWAY STATION AT ESK BANK.

    Mr. Lackey, in reply to a deputation respecting the railway station at Esk Bank, said 60 many conflicting opinions had been given that he had gone up himselt to inspect the place and he quite agreed that the test that had ...

    Article : 200 words
  11. Amended Railway Time-table.

    The amended time-table for the running of trains on Hie Southern and Western Railways, ?which is to come into force on the 21st instant, provides for the abolition of the through day train on the Southern line beyond Goulburn ...

    Article : 568 words
  12. FREE SELECTION IN BEGA.

    A large deputation waited upon the Hon. the Minister for Works, to present a memorial or petition from the free selectors in the district of Bega. The following is a copy of the memorial:— ...

    Article : 655 words
  13. The Vernon.

    The anomaly of making the Vernon an institution for teaching the inmates trades which, as a rule, could only be useful to the boys as a means of livelihood ashore, and at the same time giving them something ...

    Article : 448 words
  14. The Exhibition Building.

    Since our hist notice of the Exhibition-building another considerable stride of progress has been made. The frame work of the nave, including the galleries, one on each side, has been erected from the southern towers nearly half-way ...

    Article : 935 words
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