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  2. NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    A White Book has been presented to the British Parliament upon the relations between English colonists and the native populations in the Western Pacific, and, according to the ...

    Article : 678 words
  3. COUNTRY NEWS.

    Rain set in here last evening, and appeared to promise a welcome downpour after the long drought, but unfortunately, after a few intermittent showers of no use to the district ...

    Article : 499 words
  4. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    About eight o'clock last night, while the gangway leading from the punt to the jetty, at Middle Head was crowded with visitors, it gave way, and a number of persons ...

    Article : 458 words
  5. SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SUMMARY.

    The following items of news are extracted from the San Francisco papers to the 17 the March:-- GREAT BRITAIN. ...

    Article : 281 words
  6. INTERCOLONIAL BOWLING MATCH.

    The seventh intercolonial bowling match between representatives of Now South Wales and Victoria commenced to-day on the Balmain Bowling Club's grounds. The contest was ...

    Article : 189 words
  7. FIRES AT PORT MELBOURNE.

    A rather alarming fire occurred at Fort Melbourne, between two and three o'clock yesterday morning, on the promises of the Scotch Distillery Company, of which Messrs. G. ...

    Article : 379 words
  8. TEXAS DESPERADOES.

    A tragedy occurred at the Vaudeville Theatre on the night of the 12th March, involving the death of Ben Thompson and King Fisher, tho two most noted and desperate characters in ...

    Article : 263 words
  9. CRICKET.

    Messrs. Boyle and Scott have, by the s. Rome, received from their London agents a communication wherein they state that the visit of the Australian team to England ts causing no end of excitement in ...

    Article : 402 words
  10. FRANCE.

    An advanced Irish Nationalist in Paris has declared that the Nationalists are annoyed but in no wise discouraged at the failure of the dynamite attempts. A mechanism has been invented ...

    Article : 407 words
  11. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION IN THE UNITED STATES.

    The news of the frightful explosion at the Pocahontas coal mine on the 14th March spread rapidly throughout the surrounding section, and crowds flocked to the scene of the disaster, the ...

    Article : 397 words
  12. SPORTING NOTES.

    In consequence of the easy defeat of Martini Henry by Le Grand in the A.J.C. Leger, Mr. Wallace's colt has since been strongly supported for the Sydney Cup, which will be decided ...

    Article : 286 words
  13. QUEENSLAND.

    Rain has fallen pretty generally along the coast, bat still keeps off in the interior. The sea along the coast is subsiding. A grocer's assistant named F. G. Headley ...

    Article : 87 words
  14. THE OPERATIVE BAKERS' UNION.

    SIR,--I wish to bring under your notice, and through your columns lay before the public, the injustice and tyranny of the Operative Bakers' Union. My shop is what is called a union shop, ...

    Article : 335 words
  15. BICYCLE RACE.

    The third event of 3 miles, for the Gland Handicap Bicycle Race, postponed from yesterday, came off this morning a little after seven o'clock, on the Camp reserve. There were six bicyclists started. W. While ...

    Article : 73 words
  16. MEMORIAL TO LIEUTENANT WAGHORN.

    The Lord Mayor of London presided over a meeting held at the Mansion House on 3rd March, to further the movement for the erection of a national monument to Lieutenant ...

    Article : 667 words
  17. CHESS.

    The return chess match between the Victorian Chess and Draughts Club and the Turn Verein Chess Class win take place to-night, at the club's rooms. Cathedral Hotel, Swanston-street. Mr. G. H. D. ...

    Article : 55 words
  18. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Commissioner of Patents, Mr. C. E. Demole, gave judgment to-day on the application of Mr. John Dixon, of Adelaide, for a patent for an improved seed sower and ...

    Article : 187 words
  19. GERMANY.

    The North German Gazette. considers it noteworthy that an article should have appeared in the Journal des Debate at Paris which expressed approval of Bismarck's action in regard to the ...

    Article : 161 words
  20. YACHTING.

    A general meeting and social evening in connection with the Albert Park club will be held this evening at the pavilion, at eight o'clock, when all members are requested to attend. The business is to elect a new ...

    Article : 58 words
  21. THE CABLE TRAMWAY SYSTEM.

    President Widener, of the Market-street and Chestnut and Walnut streets railway lines, who, in conjunction with William L. Elkins, has made an exhaustive study of ...

    Article : 501 words
  22. MINING AT CASTLEMAINE.

    This being the off week, and the Easter holidays upon us, there is nothing special to report in connection with the mines during the past week. The Town Reef Company have ...

    Article : 885 words
  23. LATEST BETTING IN SYDNEY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 288 words
  24. EGYPT.

    Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary of State, has written to Sir Evelyn Baring, first, that the Egyptian frontier, as maintained by the English forces, shall not extend beyond the first cataract; ...

    Article : 246 words
  25. Advertising

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    Advertising : 875 words
  26. YEARLING SALES IN SYDNEY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 319 words
  27. THE SOUDAN.

    General Gordon advises the appointment of Zobehr Pasha to succeed himself as Governor of Soudan. He thinks Zobehr, if adequately supported, would dispose of the Mahdi within a year. ...

    Article : 226 words
  28. CLARENDON TURF CLUB RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 words
  29. SERIOUS EXPLOSION ON BOARD AN AUSTRALIAN STEAMER.

    A terrible explosion occurred off Gravesend on 1st March, on board the passenger steamship Aberdeen, outward bound for Sydney and Melbourne. The vessel had taken on board her ...

    Article : 389 words
  30. UNIVERSITY NOTICES.

    The following notices were posted at the University on Thursday:-- February terra.--Second year medicine: First class, none : second class, Geo. Cempbell Kennie ; third ...

    Article : 275 words
  31. RUSSIA.

    A paper called [?] Slown, or Free Speech, appeared at St. Petersburg on the 16th March, calling on the youth of Russia to oppose a despotic form of government. It avers that ...

    Article : 96 words
  32. Advertising

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    Advertising : 361 words
  33. BOWNA RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 186 words
  34. CANADA.

    A rumor was current on the 16th March that the Government has received intimation to use every precaution, as dynamiters were supposed to be meditating an attack upon the ...

    Article : 150 words
  35. MURCHISON RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 181 words
  36. INQUEST.

    An inquest was held at the Melbourne Gaol yesterday by Dr. Youl, the city coroner, on the body of Henry Frederick Davis, aged 52 years. The evidence showed that deceased had recently ...

    Article : 72 words
  37. Advertising

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  38. FATAL SNOW SLIDE IN THE UNITED STATES.

    At six o'clock on the night of the 10th March a snow slide descended on the little snowbound statics of Woodstock, on a branch of the South Park railroad, 75 miles southwest of Leadville, ...

    Article : 290 words
  39. REVOLT IN THE CAIRO GAOLS.

    A serious revolt occurred in the Zaptieh prison at Cairo on 3rd March. It was headed by several. convicts who were released by the mob from gaol at the time of the bombardment of Alexandria, ...

    Article : 185 words
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