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  2. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    A Government Gazette, issued yesterday, announces that Parliament has been further prorogued from the 31st December, 1873, to 31st January, 1874. ...

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  3. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

    To-day the following excursions will take place:-- The steamer Murray will leave the Sandridge Railway Pier at half-past 9 a.m., for Snapper Point. A band of music will ...

    Article : 476 words
  4. THE STEAM HAMMER.

    The steam hammer, which was imported by the Government of the colony in 1868 and which has since that time been lying idle at the railway depot at williamstown ...

    Article : 348 words
  5. SPORTING NOTES.

    The arrangements for the match on Boxing day between the All-England Eleven and eighteen of Victoria are very complete, provision being made for the accommodation and comfort of a ...

    Article : 919 words
  6. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Dr. Cooper, of Rokewood, was arrested during last week for wilful and corrupt perjury, and on Saturday was admitted to bail in his own personal surety of £200 and two ...

    Article : 1,487 words
  7. INQUESTS.

    An inquest was held yesterday at Emerald hill by Dr. Youl, on the body of Mary Ann Fisk, aged thirty-three years. Deceased was, living with George Durrant, a cab-driver, at ...

    Article : 347 words
  8. PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

    The pantomime at the Prince of Wales for Boxing night is entitled Australia Felix, or Harlequin Laughing Jackass and the Magic Bat, written expressly ...

    Article : 1,320 words
  9. INCENDIARISM.

    The Learmonth correspondent of the Ballarat Star writes:-- "A malicious attempt to set fire to a large stack of wood, on the premises of the Stag Hotel, Learmonth, was ...

    Article : 213 words
  10. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT BALLARAT.

    The Star states that a miner named Wm. French, aged forty years, living by himself in a house at the head of the Durham Lead, attempted to commit suicide on ...

    Article : 252 words
  11. FEMALE LABOR BILL.

    Some months age the Chief Secretary received a petition from a number of the female operatives employed at the Geelong woollen factories, objecting, on personal ...

    Article : 990 words
  12. FIJI.

    We have news from Fiji, by way of Auckland, to the 3rd December. From files of the Times and Gazette we take the following extracts:-- "It is rumored that Commodore ...

    Article : 556 words
  13. EUROPEAN TELEGRAMS.

    The latest advices from Cape Coast Castle state that the main body of the Ashantees had crossed the Prah River, and that the English troops were encamped at Mansu. ...

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  14. NOMINATION OF CARDINALS.

    At a Consistory held yesterday twelve foreign cardinals were nominated. ...

    Article : 16 words
  15. CHRISTMAS PANTOMIMES.

    The pantomime at the Royal, to be produced on Boxing night, is entitled Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; or Harlequin Jack Frost, Little Tom Tucker, and the ...

    Article : 1,083 words
  16. AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

    A Chinaman stabbed a countryman dead at Gulgong. The murderer was arrested, and to-day committed for trial. The Helena has arrived from New York. ...

    Article : 240 words
  17. FATAL CASE OF SHOOTING.

    The Inglewood Advertiser reports that an inquest was held at Wedderburn on Saturday, the 20th inst., on the body of William Winter, who was killed by a gunshot ...

    Article : 744 words
  18. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    WILFUL DAMAGE. -- A boy named Henry Raymond, aged thirteen or fourteen years, was charged with setting fire to a public reserve, viz., the Carlton Gardens. He was seen by a ...

    Article : 901 words
  19. NEW INSOLVENT.

    William Neilson, Melbourne, chemist. Cause of insolvency: Having voluntarily conveyed to his wife freehold property to the value of £900 in the month of November, 1873. ...

    Article : 78 words
  20. TASMANIA.

    Ministers have commenced the enforcement of the railway rate. Arrived: Tasman, s., from Melbourne; Nautilus, from London. ...

    Article : 26 words
  21. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Phcebe brings Auckland news to 18th December. The native tribes at Otaki are in open hostility against each other, owing to a land ...

    Article : 221 words
  22. MINING MEETING.

    Magnet Quartz Mining Company, Warrandyte. -- A general meeting of shareholders in the above company was held on Monday at Jamieson's Hotel, Bourke-street. The appointment o Mr. A. T. Porter as ...

    Article : 78 words
  23. MINING NOTES.

    Florence Tribute, 23rd December. -- Eastern crosscut at 53 feet level extended 14 feet -- total distance from shat [?]9 feet. Happy-go-Lucky, 23rd December. -- Have driven ...

    Article : 352 words
  24. SPRING HILL DIGGINGS.

    Since my last letter another claim has begun to add to the yields of gold, named the Lewer's Nor' West Freehold G. M. Company, who washed their first machine of 40 oz. on ...

    Article : 454 words
  25. FIJI.

    Fiji news has been received to 10th inst. Commodore Goodenough remains at Levuka, awaiting Consul Layard's arrival. The new constitution, as published in the ...

    Article : 68 words
  26. THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    The Gazette of last night contains the following announcements:-- A treaty for the surrender of British and Swedish criminals has been signed by the respective ...

    Article : 186 words
  27. MINING AT SANDHURST.

    SIR, -- Your leader in last Friday s issue is one which ought to be read and appreciated by every father of a family in the colony, and the praise you give to the hon. J.J. Casey is richly deserved; but ...

    Article : 247 words
  28. COCOONS AND MICE.

    SIR, -- On Thursday, 18th December, I exhibited, with the kind permission of Mr, Whitehead, Collins-street cast, natural specimens of the different varieties of mulberry leaves, besides ...

    Article : 156 words
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