THE finishing strokes are now being put upon the structure which is to bind us to the rest of the world—the " Big Bridge " as the dusky inhabitants of this locality call ...
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Article : 495 wordsSPECULATION has developed to an extraordinary extent in Victoria during the past 18 months. Even prior to this period the land fever commenced and proceeded at a merry ...
Article : 523 wordsTHERE is considerable danger connected with electric lighting: accidental contact with the wires results in instantaneous death. Within less than a month three persons were thus removed to ...
Article : 228 wordsWE feel bound to state that no action the supporters of the national scheme for connecting by railway the district of Inverell with Clarence could have taken, would have been so favorable to ...
Article : 300 wordsTHE Colonial Sugar Co. have promised to give the Rewa planters growing for the Nausori Mills an increase of 2s. per ton for all cane deliveries during coming season (writes a Levuka correspondent), ...
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Article : 252 wordsTHE Pall Mall Gazette says:—The invasion of England is unquestionably a matter for grave alarm. It has gone on until the enemy is already in possession of the capital. Professor Seeley has described ...
Article : 302 wordsTHE following resolutions, which have given great joy to the Irish Nationalist press, were unanimously adopted at a meeting of the Catholic Hierarchy at Holy Cross ...
Article : 307 wordsTHE most remarkable thing about Mr. Gladstone's speech, to the Nonconformists (says the Weekly Detpatch of May 13) was the ring of victory in it. It is no longer a ...
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Advertising : 3,624 wordsTHE DRINK CURSE IN DUBLIN.—The Recorder of Dublin, Mr. Falkiner, gave a sad account recently to the select committee of the House of Commons on the Sunday Closing (Ireland) Bill as to the ...
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