During the past week the town has been unusually lively; over 10,000 persons visited the grand show that was held during the week, and which resulted in success in the highest degree. When ...
Article : 642 wordsA correspondent (Mr. Eliot Mullens), writing from Wilcannia, sends the following curious instance of the possession of the above-named power in a cat:—“The following fact has just occurred ...
Article : 241 wordsFrom an approximate return showing the proposed distribution of endowment to municipalities to 30th June, 1881, calculated on 1s. rate as collected in 1879, submitted to the Assembly last ...
Article : 246 wordsIt is not often remarked (observes a New York paper) that the most atrocious and revolting murders are committed, not in great cities, but in country towns. If this be the fact, it may possibly ...
Article : 202 wordsThe sale of yearlings at Randwick on Tuesday realised a total of 7721 guineas. The average was 160 guineas. A bay colt by Yattendon from Lady Chester was knocked down to Mr. A. A. ...
Article : 285 wordsThe detailed accounts received from New York of the experiments on a large scale with the Brush and Edison electric light confirm the impression produced by the telegrams that the ...
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Article : 232 wordsThe friends of Mr. A. Wilson entertained him at a banquet on Tuesday evening, the 5th inst,. in Kelly’s Commercial Hotel, Jerilderie. There were about 50 gentlemen seated. Mr. J. D, ...
Article : 1,307 wordsApropos of the census in India, the D[?]jeling News of February 21 says :—“There was a regular stampede amongst the Nepaulese coolies in this district on the night of the 17th February. ...
Article : 236 words“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good” is well-known axiom, which was verified lately in a somewhat peculiar manner in the Philippine Islands. In a recent number of the Straits Times ...
Article : 188 wordsA man named Michael Henry Snowdon was found dead on Sunday last on the road to Arcadia. His skull is fractured from ear to ear. The weapon presumably used was a piece of stick ...
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