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  2. VICTORIA.

    MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Business in shares quiet, but what was done showed a firm market. Long Tunnel Extended, Lone Hand, Sadowa, Madame Berry, Spring Hill Central, and Tarrengower, all felt ...

    Article : 561 words
  3. ELECTRIC NOTES.

    We understand that the Brazilian Government have just passed a contract for lighting the town of Campos by electricity. This will be the first town in Brazil that has been lighted by electricity, but it is to be ...

    Article : 684 words
  4. A WEDDING RING SUPERSTITION

    A Yorkshire lady told me that, having lost her wedding ring from her finger, she had been told by the wise people of the place that she must on no account permit her husband to buy her a new one, ...

    Article : 75 words
  5. ENGLISH NAVIGATORS IN JAPAN, A.D. 1613.

    On the fragment of the title-page of the rare work, London, folio, 1594, "Generall Calendars or most easie Astronomicall Tables," by "George Hartgyll, Minister of the word of God," occur the following ...

    Article : 143 words
  6. Scientific and Useful.

    Professor Bickerton, of the University of Christchurch, New Zealand, has been awarded a gold medal for an excellent exhibit of cheap scientific apparatus at the New Zealand International Exhibition. The ...

    Article : 267 words
  7. Deputations.

    MESSRS. Rutledge and Tooee, M.sP., introduced a deputation to the Secretary for Works on Friday, to lay before him certain requirements of the residents at Bungendore, including a site for a post and ...

    Article : 139 words
  8. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    NEW LODE IN HAMLET MINE.—The directors of the Hamley Mine received a letter from their manager stating that he had struck the lode at the 45-fathom level on the cross-course which has been ...

    Article : 45 words
  9. COMPLAINTS FROM COONAMBLE.

    Alderman Jones, of Coonamble, introduced by Mr. Cass, M.P., waited on the Minister for Mines on Friday to draw attention to anomalies in the boundaries of the stock districts through ...

    Article : 714 words
  10. TASMANIA.

    The "Hobart Mercury" reports:—"On the West Coast mining managers are busy at work developing the various claims on that mineral field, and on many of these claims preparations are being made for the ...

    Article : 317 words
  11. PHOSPHORESCENCE.

    The evaporation of phosphorus, acoording to Mr. Come, is the principal cause of phosphorescence, and not oxygen. Phosphorus is not attacked directly by common oxygen, and its oxidation is consecutive on ...

    Article : 51 words
  12. TEST FOR GOLD LEAF.

    A new test for gold leaf was accidentally discovered lately, at the Farrell Venetian Art Glass Manufacturing Co.'s works in Brooklyn. By the Farrell process the loaf is placad on the incandescent glass, which is ...

    Article : 111 words
  13. Notes and Queries.

    UNDER the heading of the "The Old World in 1882," you have favourod us with some of "W's" experience in Ireland, and judging his narrative by one or two statements, I fear that he either ...

    Article : 391 words
  14. TECHNICAL EDUCATION AT NOTTINGHAM.

    An important movement is taking place among the manufacturers and machine makers of Nottingham to promote the establishment of a first-class technical school in connection with the University College in ...

    Article : 235 words
  15. NEW ZEALAND.

    Our mail advices are to October 21:— GOLD EXPORT.—The following is a return of the quantity and value of gold entered for exportation during the quarter ended September 30:—Auckland, ...

    Article : 679 words
  16. ELASTICITY OF VERY RARIFIED GASES.

    According to a note communicated by M. Amagat to the Academie des Sciences, it seems from some recent and more precise experiments which he has made that, in very rarified gases, not having more than a ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF METALLIC CABLES.

    Hitherto most of the metallic cables of suspension bridges have been composed of parallel motallic rods or bars, joined and fastonod at certain distances by pins of iron, and to which it was endeavoured to give ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. "NIGGER."

    Is it a mere corruption of the Spanish form negro, or can it be traced direct to the Latin niger? It is singular to find Vicars writing, in his Johovah Jireh (1644), "As the Turks put the Nigers or refuse of ...

    Article : 55 words
  19. THE CORONETS OF DUKES OF THE BLOOD ROYAL.

    I should be glad to know since what date the coronets of dukes of the blood royal, which are described in all works on horaldry as being composed of crosses pate[?]s and fleur-de-lis, have been assimilated to those ...

    Article : 115 words
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