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  2. The Colonies and the House of Commons.

    IT is refreshing to find a politician like Lord Rosebery, who, having clearly made up his mind that Liberalism means the maintenance of the empire, ...

    Article : 1,300 words
  3. One Thing and Another.

    Engineer Melville wants one hundred and fifty thousand dollars with which to pay his way to the North Pole. The King of Denmark has a wart on his ...

    Article : 1,421 words
  4. Intercolonial News.

    A small boy named Henry Eldridge, 6 years old, was admitted to the Adelaide Hospital last week (says the S. A. Observer with ono of Iris hands severely lacerated, the thumb being ...

    Article : 100 words
  5. MAIL NEWS.

    A startling scene was witnessed in the Croydon County Court on November 11, afternoon, in a builder's case—Bullock v. Jeffries. The judge (Mr. Vernon Lushington, Q.C.), in ...

    Article : 137 words
  6. BRISBANE TO SYDNEY OVERLAND.

    Mr. James Allison informs us (Sydney Telegraph) that during his recent visit to Brisbane he secured a site for a theatre at the corner of Adelaide and Albert streets, near the Australian ...

    Article : 178 words
  7. SIXPENNY TELEGRAMS.

    ALTHOUGH the Post Office authorities are unable at the present moment to furnish a tabulated statement showing in actual figures the working of the sixpenuy telegram system ...

    Article : 341 words
  8. A FINE CHANCE FOR OUR HEIRESSES IN SEARCH OF A TITLE.

    Roman society has been a good deal scandalised by some very ugly transactions which haw been brought to light in connection with the gambling affairs of the people in high life. ...

    Article : 187 words
  9. A CUTE BLACKFELLOW.

    A correspondent of the Wentworth Advocate, writing on the rabbit question, says: "The blackfellow is an adept with the gun; he takes to it almost instinctively, and rabbiting has ...

    Article : 395 words
  10. The Last Pipe.

    WHEN head is sink and brain doth swim, And heavy hangs each unstrung limb, 'Tis sweet, through smoke puffs, wreathing slow, ...

    Article : 287 words
  11. PROPOSED INCREASE OF THE ARMY.

    As a result of recent deliberations at the War Office, it has been decided at the decided opportunity to ask State sanction for the formation of at least 10 battalions to be added to the ...

    Article : 209 words
  12. BLACKSMITH'S HAMMER SIGNALS.

    There are few persons, either in the city or country, who have not at times watched a blacksmith at work in his shop, with his assistant, or striker. They have noticed that ...

    Article : 359 words
  13. FOOD FOR THE POOR.

    Mr. Henry Roberto, of the firm of Bertram and Roberta, has (Hays the European Mail) moved to carry out a most admirable design. It is, briefly put, to utilise for the poor the ...

    Article : 882 words
  14. THE POPS AS A SPORTSMAN.

    It will scarcely be credited that under the white robe of Loo XIII. throbs the heart and instincts of a true Nimrod, but not in the precise direction that popular opinion would ...

    Article : 215 words
  15. A MODERN DRACO.

    SOME six or seven hundred years before the Christian [?]ra, a person of the name of Draco, an Athenian, gained for himself an unenviable notoriety for the extreme cruelty of the penal ...

    Article : 266 words
  16. A Possible Alchemist.

    The Melbourne Age says:—"A new and important industry is shortly to be started in Victoria by an English firm, which at present is the largest manufacturer in the world of a ...

    Article : 808 words
  17. ELECTIONEERING STORIES.

    A good electioneering story, for whom it may concern, and a true one too: A young Radical speaker, with possibly more sympathy than science in his economics, had been ...

    Article : 283 words
  18. SIR C. STRIOKLAND'S WORK-PEOPLE LISTENING TO "STRANGERS."

    The York Herald saya :—A correspondent writes:—"The Queensland Government lecturer has dona a during thing. With the pluck of a true British colonist he has penetrated the ...

    Article : 333 words
  19. A RIOTOUS OUTBREAK IN ADELAIDE.

    The Adelaide Arcade was opened by the Governor on December 12 (wires the correspondent of the Age), in the presence of the members of the Ministry, representatives of ...

    Article : 549 words
  20. EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A CLERGYMAN.

    The Plymouth Guildhall was crowded on November 6 to hear a charge of stubbing preferred under most remarkable circumstances against the Rev. William Stewart Ross, until ...

    Article : 305 words
  21. DOG BITES AND SNAKE POISONS.

    M. Pasteur's recent discovery of a cure for hydrophobia has naturally attracted the attention of the world to he quiet laboratory in which the great scientist conducts his ...

    Article : 562 words
  22. MR. JUSTICE STEPHEN ON THE INCREASE OF IMMORALITY

    Mr. Justice Stepben, in charging the grand jury at the opening of the Norwich Assizes on November 10, said he was sorry that there was such a heavy calendar and one which contained ...

    Article : 595 words
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