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  2. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

    DURING the past few days, says the NEWCASTLE PILOT, rumours have been current respecting the death of Mrs. Gisson—wife bf Captain Gisson, of the barque Banda, now in ...

    Article : 695 words
  3. PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

    A FEW days ago, a coasting vessel arrived here, and anchored in the Fitzroy river, about a mile below Blind Creek. Shortly afterwards, a human figure, clad in the ...

    Article : 310 words
  4. A MAN SUPPOSED TO BE LOST IN THE BUSH.

    THERE is "very little room to doubt the fact, says the Macleay Herald, that an old man, named James Burns, has been lost in the bush. He resided with Mr. Chapman at ...

    Article : 342 words
  5. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT SINGLETON.

    ON Tuesday, the 20th May, [says the correspondent of the MERCURY], an inquest was held before the Coroner, Dr. Glennie, at the Australian Hotel, Broke, on the body, of ...

    Article : 300 words
  6. SILK CULTURE.

    Poor Mr. Brady, of silkworm fame, experienced on Monday the full force of the old saying, "It's hard to make a silk purse out of"—well, not to be too personal— ...

    Article : 416 words
  7. A STRANGE CEREMONY.

    THE TIMES gives an account of the strange practice of "flogging Judas Iscarito" which the Portugese sailors went through yesterday, evening in the London Docks. This consists ...

    Article : 133 words
  8. COLONIAL EXTRACTS.

    About two years ago (says the WELLINGTON GAZETTE) a little boy was playing with some other children, when they tried to cover his head with dirt, and in doing so a large piece ...

    Article : 935 words
  9. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDES.

    IN the latter days of last month an unusually high tide has been experienced in the English Channel, and along the east coast of England, and from the mouth of the Thames ...

    Article : 298 words
  10. GARROTING.

    IT is to say the least of it, a curious coincidence that simultaneously with the reported arrival hereof the distinguished exile from New Zealand, Mr. ex-cut-throat Sullivan, should ...

    Article : 310 words
  11. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT ON THE MURRAY— THE RESULT OF LARKING.

    ON Tuesday, May 12th (says the South Australian Register), an inquiry was held before Mr. H. Jackson, of Callington, relative to the circumstances attending the ...

    Article : 285 words
  12. THE TICHBORNE CASE—ANOTHER CLAIMANT.

    THE result of the verdict in this case has not altogether closed discussion on the subject, Mr. Arthur Cubitt, Missing Friend's Office, Sydney, has received a communication from ...

    Article : 233 words
  13. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.

    A CORRESPONDENT of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, writing from Elko, Nevada, describes the following curious circumstance: "About eighty miles north of this place, on ...

    Article : 577 words
  14. TWO MEN KILLED IN A GRAVEL PIT.

    THE Auckland SOUTHERN CROSS reports that a melancholy accident occurred at Mount Albert on May 7th, which resulted in the death of Mr. George Bray and his ...

    Article : 450 words
  15. DEATH OF A CHARTIST LEADER.

    A LAUNCESTON journal states that Mr. Zephaniah Williams died at eleven a.m., on Friday, 8th May. Mr. Williams had come into town from his usual place of residence, ...

    Article : 229 words
  16. THE RED GUM TREE.

    THE red gum, for building purposes, says the ALBURY BANNER, is a very useful tree. At some late sittings of the local land board at Wodonga, applications for land have been ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. MYSTERIES.

    A CORRESPONDENT writes to inform us of the discovery of a human body very much mangled by wild dogs at the found Creek, seven miles from Tarwin, South Gipps Land. ...

    Article : 256 words
  18. SHOUTING.

    THE FORBES TIMES has a passing "rub" at the common practice in this country of "wotting" ordinary business transactions with a shout for liquors:—Whethor it is attributable ...

    Article : 283 words
  19. THE DEAN OF CANTERBURY ON CHRISTIAN UNITY,

    THE Dean of Canterbury has had to defend himself because of his having partaken of the Communion with his Dissenting brethren at the Conference in New York, and right nobly ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. THE LATE REV. T. DINNEY AND BISHOP PERRY.

    A writer in the AUSTRALASIAN says—"The principal organ of the Nonconformist in the soculur Press, in noticing the career of the late Rev. Thomas Binney, recounts an ...

    Article : 133 words
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