The Legislative Council sat for half an hour only during the present week; the smell of the new paint having proved too much for the noses of several honourable members. ...
Article : 1,339 wordsAntipodean.—The match was not attempted for the first time in the history of man by Mr. Mooney. In 1837, Trotting Burke made a match to run n thoroughbred mare called Creeping Polly, and a cob called ...
Article : 1,108 wordsTo dilate upon turf matters, we are literally reduced to Gossip, racing affairs being for the time positively at low-water mark. The unfortunate result of the steamship Governor-General's last attempted trip to Melbourne has ...
Article : 207 words"Whose turn with the wood-cart?" "Whose turn with the hounds? you mean." "It's my shy hunting to-morrow!" The above convocation occurred between two brothers ...
Article : 1,055 wordsA succession of novelties has been produced here during the week, including the "wife," with Brooke as Julian St. Pierre; "Romeo and Juliet," with Mr. and Mrs. Heir as the two lovers, and Brooke as the sprightly ...
Article : 652 wordsThe following is a brief account of Veno's various performances, from the date of his first coming out in February, 1855, to the present time. A list which would probably have been even more flattering to him ...
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Advertising : 185 wordsAbout an hour after I had posted my last letter, I heard the unfortunate intelligence of the Governor-General steamer being obliged to return to port, in consequence of the severity of the gale, to which she was ...
Article : 1,062 wordsThe ninth annual meeting of this body was held yesterday, at the Mechanics' Institution, but owing to the inconvenient hour of eleven a.m. appointed for the commencement of business, and the unfavorable state of ...
Article : 1,504 wordsIF we had believed in the sincerity of the political writer who, months since, speciously propounded to the liberal electors and representatives of Victoria, his shallow fears ...
Article : 1,431 wordsSATURDAY.—That urbane and penny-a-lined individual the "clerk of the weather," kindly stayed the favours he had been showering during the week, and a bright sky made the Friday afternoon ride down to ...
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