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  2. OUR DEFENCES.

    THE recent intelligence from Europe has caused usrto remember that close connection with greatness is not without its. inconvenience, arid that the lightning, which is attracted hy the vast and towering trunk of the oak, may ...

    Article : 1,159 words
  3. THE ORNITHORHYNCHUS PARADOXUS, OR WATER MOLE.

    Ihis animal, so remarkable in its form and general, appearance, is about 20 inches in length. The body tapers at both extremities, and is moreover of a somewhat depressed form—the head is small, but the facial portion is greatly developed, and from its peculiar ...

    Article : 454 words
  4. VEGETABLE CURIOSITIES: LORD HOWE'S ISLAND.

    We this week present our readers with illustrations of the Pandanus and the Banyan Trees of Loid Howe's Island, from original sketches kindly placed at our disposal by Lieutenant J. Glen Wilson, H. M. S. Herald. We append the following accurate ...

    Article : 383 words
  5. NEWS OF THE WEEK.

    HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A man, named Robert Kidd, while proceeding homewards between the hours of twelve and one o'clock on the Sunday morning, was stopped by three men, who knocked him down, and cut out his trowsers pocket, with the contents of ...

    Article : 1,907 words
  6. THE ST. PATRICK'S DINNER.

    We present our readers with an illustration of the festivity by which, on the 16th ultimo, the anniversary of St. Patrick's Day Was commemorated in Sydney. The dinner took place at the Exchange Hotel under the presidency of the Attorney ...

    Article : 120 words
  7. WINDHU-GOO; OR. "ALIKI JAMIE," KING OF THE ISLE OF PINES.

    "The natives of this island," according to our correspondent's account, "are a hold and warlike tribe, whose manners, and customs are (or rather were, for they have slightly changed within the last few years) as barbarous as any to be met with in all ...

    Article : 434 words
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