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  2. EXPENDITURE ON THE COLONIES.

    A comparative return has lately been issued of the sums paid out of the British Exchequer towards the maintenance and government of the various colonies. Until very recently it shows ...

    Article : 211 words
  3. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

    At last the spell is broken,and fertile first time since that gallant oarsman, John Hall, of Magdalene, led his crew to victory in 1860, Cambridge has won the University Boat Rice. Ten years ...

    Article : 1,824 words
  4. NEWS BY THE MAIL.

    By the R.M.S. Geelong we have received European papers, from which we extract the following budget of news:- Her Majesty is in the lsle of Wight, en joying the ...

    Article : 2,893 words
  5. THE NEW COLONIAL POLICY.

    The news which arrived from New Zealand just before the departure of the March mail startled the British public not a little. The peaceful aspect of affairs in that colony for many ...

    Article : 1,143 words
  6. SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.

    Mr Cameron, M.P., presided at a meeting of the natives of Lochaber resident in Glasgow, on 25th March, and spoke on the present condition of the Highlands. The fire of patriotism and ...

    Article : 865 words
  7. THE MEAT QUESTION.

    The experiment tried last month of selling by auction, in oulk, some of the large importations of Australian preserved meat was so encouraging, that it was repeated early in April, with ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. OUR IRONCLAD MONITOR.

    The Cerberus, 4, 2107 tons, 250 horse power (nominal), double screw iron armoured turret-ship, fitting at Chatham for the Colonial Government of Australia, is completed aloft, while there is ...

    Article : 300 words
  9. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Mr Gladstone the other day received a deputation which banded to him a protest against the religions clauses of the Education Bill, from 5000 Nonconformist ministers of all denominations, ...

    Article : 955 words
  10. AMERICA.

    Major-General George H. Thomas, United States' army, died at San Francisco from apoplexy on 28th March. The President on 30th March issued his ...

    Article : 1,018 words
  11. EUROPEAN.

    It is now stated that the definite form of the Plebiscitium was agreed upon on 11th April, at the Council of Ministers held at the Tuiteries. It proposes to submit two points to the vote--1, the ...

    Article : 1,668 words
  12. SUBMARINE COMMUNICATION WITH FRANCE

    At the Institution of the Society of Arts a paper on "Sub-marine Channel Communication" has been read by Mr. Thomas Page, C.E.; Captain Tyler occupied the chair. Mr Page said he ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. LOSS OF THE GOLDEN CITY STEAMER.

    Accounts have been received at Loyd's of the total loss of the steamship Golden City, while on her passage from San Francisco for Panama, on the 22nd [?]lt, at Cape Lozaro, on the coast of ...

    Article : 628 words
  14. TERRIBLE COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

    A terrible colliery accident happened on 8th April, near Bathgate, the centre of a district where collieries and mineral oil distilleries are numerous. It was discovered about half-past ...

    Article : 453 words
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