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  2. OLD ENGLISH GAMES.

    "There's plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards, too !" Such was the exclamation of Sir Francis Drake on being interrupted in a game of ...

    Article : 950 words
  3. INTERVIEWING A BURGLAR.

    Never was monarch more unwilling to be interviewed, or bankrupt more reluctant to be inveigled into a confession, than my friend the burglar. He is old an ...

    Article : 1,312 words
  4. MINING.

    A surveyor has been sent to Corinna to complete certain works on the Hydraulic Company's property in connection with the Hunter's Creek race. It is anticipated ...

    Article : 39 words
  5. BACK CREEK.

    Our own correspondent writes under date 20th inst.:— BACK CREEK P.A. has struck a reef in the crosscut in which they can get gold ...

    Article : 146 words
  6. THE KAROO BOKADAMS.

    A bronzed young missionary, lately returned from Siam, told me the following story :— I was a member of the boat crow while ...

    Article : 1,649 words
  7. TIN.

    The steamer Cambria, from Emu Bay yesterday, brought 989 bags of tin ore for the Mount Bischoff T.M. Company. ...

    Article : 20 words
  8. MANAGERS' REPORTS.

    MOUNT LYELL MINING AND RAILWAY COMPANY, West Coast, March 14—Engine shaft, 100ft level—The western crosscut has been advanced 3ft, total 49ft. The ...

    Article : 248 words
  9. LEFROY.

    Our own correspondent writes under date the 20th inst.:— There is nothing fresh to report on the Chump. They have in view a large body ...

    Article : 187 words
  10. CORNWALL COAL MINE.

    As Mr C. H. Smith is about to leave for London shortly it was recently arranged that a visit should be made by the directors of the Cornwall Coal Mining Company ...

    Article : 802 words
  11. STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.

    The stock exchanges will not re-open until Wednesday next. ...

    Article : 13 words
  12. MELBOURNE.

    The following were the closing quotations of Tasmanian stocks to-day :— SILVER.—Mount Lyell, b 24s. Mount Lyell Extended, b £14 10s, s £16 10s. ...

    Article : 62 words
  13. SCRAPS

    A Hindustani work on music says that "music is the painfully-acquired art of speaking very loudly in a shrill voice." In the Middle Ages a considerable part ...

    Article : 512 words
  14. A STOCKMAN'S DUTIES IN THE OLDEN TIME.

    A stockman must be a good rider, and was provided with two horses —hardy animals which rarely saw a stable, but found their own living in the bush; were ...

    Article : 565 words
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    The biggest of fresh-water fish, the arapaima of the Amazon, in South America, grows to 6ft in length. The street money-changer is an ...

    Article : 231 words
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    Advertising : 96 words
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    Two families in the United States are in certain respects unrivalled, The Rev. Asa Routh, of Sullivan County, Tennessee, is 70 years old, and the father of 33 living ...

    Article : 65 words
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