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  2. Scientific and Useful.

    Green Tree Snake, read "It" instead of "If he." Brown Tree Shake, read "oblique cross black bands, and belly unifortoly salmon colored. The Posion of a snake, I am informed by a ...

    Article : 2,050 words
  3. Postal Weights in your Packets.

    THE London Iron Trade Exchange says:— Those who are in the habit of writing letters to any extent, either in respect of home or foreign correspondence, must sometimes feel at a loss as ...

    Article : 346 words
  4. Millchester.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 87 words
  5. Stanthorpe.

    OUR Stanthorpe correspondent writes, under date March 3:— "I am happy to be able to say that the cry for water has at last ceased in our neighborhood and district generally, and I think ...

    Article : 201 words
  6. Cooktown.

    CONTRARY to previous experiences the weather, after giving us just an inkling of how it could behave in the way of rain, has taken up for the last week with, at present, every prospect of ...

    Article : 748 words
  7. The History of the Peak Downs Copper Mine.

    THE history of the mine presents some of the worst phases of blundering and plundering that have been shown in connection with mining in Australia, or that could be conceived. There ...

    Article : 1,294 words
  8. Sir John Lubbock on "Modern Savages."

    ON Wednesday, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., delivered the weekly lecture of the series of Science Lectures for the People at the Hulme Town Hall. Professor Roscoe presided, and ...

    Article : 1,926 words
  9. Concrete for Building.

    THE best materials for making concrete are Portland cement and broken brick; the bricks must, however, be well burnt. Clean gravel or sand come next, and no particular attention ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  10. The Miner.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,601 words
  11. Rockhampton District.-Gold from Mullecky Leaders.

    I MENTIONED in my last letter that it was likely I would have something to report good from the gold-fields. Messrs. Crawford, Cook, and Choppin have had another ...

    Article : 709 words
  12. Georgetown.

    UNPRECEDENTED floods have taken place throughout the Etheridge district. The Etheridge River has overflowed its banks for three nights in succession, and the township ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. The Gold Found in Australia.

    THE amount of gold that we have raised (says the Melbourne herald) since that day twenty years ago, when Hargreaves first saw the beautiful "color," is almost incredible. A few statistics ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. Tin.

    SOME idea of the amount and value of tin, which is one of the staple exports from the Straits settlement, may be gathered (says the Singapore Times) from the following figures ...

    Article : 109 words
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