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  2. Harbour and Rivers Improvements.

    REGARDING Brisbane River, port, and adjoining the p[?]ts Engineer for Harbours reports to Parliament as follows on October 31st:—DR[?]DCING. ...

    Article : 2,239 words
  3. STRAY NOTES

    THERE is a little man in, the House who always amuses me when he gets up to sneak— that is, I am amused when not made angry. He reminds me of a little dog at a fight ...

    Article : 356 words
  4. Concentrated News.

    Mr. G. E. Holmes has just shorn 18,000 sheep at Chinchilla, the fleeces averaging 6 1/2lbs, Mrs. Ball, of Toowoomba, who was sp seriously injured in a recent buggy accident, is ...

    Article : 925 words
  5. Late Mail News.

    FROM the S.M. Herald's summary of S[?] Francisco mail news we extract the following:—Eight Lives Lost in the English ...

    Article : 373 words
  6. G.A.S.

    Our old friend G.A.S. has been sending letters to the Daily Telegraph in London This is very natural, and may be quite proper also. But this in how George begins one of the ...

    Article : 291 words
  7. Victoria.

    The Daily News, a new evening paper, was published for the first time is Melbourne on October 30. A gymnastic display by 100 ladies was given ...

    Article : 514 words
  8. An Alleged Attempt to Blow up an English Man-of-War.

    Her British Majesty's ship Constance arrived at San Francisco under command of Captain Doughty, four days out from Esquimalt. It was rumoured that an infernal machine had ...

    Article : 255 words
  9. Heads I Win, &c.

    The sharpest plan I know of for playing at pitch and toss in hy the rule "heads I win and tales you lose." Macrossan frankly admitted that be bad adopted that principle in making ...

    Article : 305 words
  10. Rabbits.

    The rabbits are to have a chance. How they would have laughed if they had heard the debate in the Assembly one night this week. One wise man said, "Mr. Frazure, I have seen ...

    Article : 314 words
  11. Attempt to Poison with Pounded Glass.

    Montreal, September 18.—Charles Wilson is possessed of a young and beautiful wife and the couple move in the best society. Some time ago the husband became suddenly and ...

    Article : 845 words
  12. New Zealand.

    During a fourteen weeks' (tension no fewer than 145 public bills wore introduced in the Legislative Assembly. Of that number 76 were actually paired and the remainder thrown ...

    Article : 275 words
  13. Commercial.

    MR. T. F. GROOM hands the following original reports for publication:—Bonanza Tunnel Gold Mining Co. Limited, Crocodile, Rockhampton.—The manager (G. Gorrie) ...

    Article : 833 words
  14. Testing a Volunteer Corps.

    AN anecdote is current of an officer of some distinction whose regiment of Volunteers was an example of excellent discipline, while the precision with which they want through their ...

    Article : 762 words
  15. Members Must be Paid.

    I see by the papers that a good many gentlemen—and, of course, they are all gentlemen—returned to New South Wales Parliament Bay that they believe in the payment of members. ...

    Article : 502 words
  16. Miscellaneous.

    The population of the United States is divided into 25,518,820 males, and 24,636,963 females. The grape crop in Pennsylvania, New York ...

    Article : 472 words
  17. New South Wales.

    The Sydney Evening Newt describes the proposed Federal council as the "Federation Folly." A discovery of gold han been made at ...

    Article : 609 words
  18. Mr. George on Protection.

    An English paper says that Mr. Henry George is preparing a work to be addressed to the American working man, showing the folly of protective legislation. I am not in the least ...

    Article : 279 words
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