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  2. OBITUARY.

    DEATH OF MR. G. F. ANGAS.—This colonist, one of the founders of South Australia, died at his residence Angaston, on May 15, in his 90th year. In our ordinary news columns a full ...

    Article : 863 words
  3. INDUSTRIAL.

    At a recent meeting of the Committee of the Chamber of Manufactures the Secretary reported that by the last mail the President wrote to Messrs. Piesse & Lubin, of London, the ...

    Article : 2,115 words
  4. QUEENSLAND.

    Parliament was opened on May 13. The speech stated that no attempt would be made to increase the Customs duties, and indicated the probability of the floating of a new loan to ...

    Article : 87 words
  5. WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

    Messrs. Robb & Co.'s tender of £74,000 for the construction of the Fremantle and Guildford Railway, a length of twenty miles, has been accepted. ...

    Article : 60 words
  6. TASMANIA.

    Parliament reassembled on April 21. The Treasurer (Hon. D. Lewis) made the financial statement. He said the estimated revenue for the current year showed a probable deficiency ...

    Article : 192 words
  7. NEW ZEALAND

    The Government have received a telegram from Sir Julius Vogel, announcing his resiguation as Agent-General for the colony, and stating that he is about to join a mercantile firm ...

    Article : 300 words
  8. MINING.

    HAMLEY— Captain Cowling, under date May 5, reports as follows respecting this mine:—In handing you my report of the mine to date, I beg to inform von that Saturday last was our ...

    Article : 510 words
  9. INTERCOLONIAL.

    The Exhibition Building is making great progress. The sum required for it new it £l30,000. The space covered will be equal to that of the first Exhibition in Hyde Park. The ...

    Article : 587 words
  10. THE SOUTH SEAS.

    The commanding officer in the Bourail, Peza, and Kone districts of New Caledonia reports that there row remains but few rebels, and they are trying to hide themselves. ...

    Article : 397 words
  11. DIFFICULTY IN THE BOOT TRADE.

    A strike of bootmakers is imminent. February last Messrs. G.& R. Wills & Co. male some slight reductions in the rate of wages paid to the men employed in their Loot factory, ...

    Article : 521 words
  12. LEGAL.

    At the Civil Sittings of the Supreme Court, on April 22, over which His Honor Chief Justice Way presided an action for libel, in which the damages were laid at £1,000 was brought against ...

    Article : 4,777 words
  13. COMPLIMENTARY.

    The friends of Captain Warren in this colony will be glad to know that before his departure from the Balade Mines, in New Caledonia, the English employee there joined to a man in ...

    Article : 500 words
  14. MISCELLANEOUS.

    ADELAIDE AND LONDON TELEGRAPH.—Mr. S.Knevett, the agent for the Eastern Telegraph Company at Adelaide, has received a message from Sir James Anderson, the Managing Director ...

    Article : 1,783 words
  15. NEW SOUTH "WALES.

    The cost of the Exhibition Building will be far in excess of what was anticipated. It is expected to be about £150,000. A strike by the carpenters engaged on the work was at once ...

    Article : 429 words
  16. SIR JULIUS VOGEL ON SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    We have received a copy of the March number of the Princeton Eerie— a periodical published in New York, which ia stated to be in its fifty-fifth year. The number to hand ...

    Article : 1,190 words
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