By the arrival of the Wonga Wonga we are inpossession of Melbourne papers to the 10th instant. A statement of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Corporation of the City of Melbourne for the half-year ...
Article : 361 wordsTHE following table exhibits the duties paid at the Custom House under their respective headings. The total amount is in excess of the previous week's revenue by £1594 1s. 11d., ...
Article : 1,467 wordsThe following is a less sensuous picture of feminine beauty than that which is given in the preceding section. It is more raised and tempered by sentiment;and while it has less passion, the want of it is well compensated by the purer breathings of a ...
Article : 257 wordsCOOK'S RIVER.—A meeting of about a score electors took place at Mr. Henry's, the Cook's River Inn, on Friday evening, and, after an address from Mr. Redman, a resolution, pronouncing him a fit and proper person ...
Article : 652 wordsYe gods! They 're so highly respectable— Mr. THOMSON can vouch for that same— 'I' was a day of all days most delectable When back to these benches they came. ...
Article : 692 wordsI question whether the hero of the following draft would not have been more agreeable to a sound and mature taste.—or rather to the natural preference, apart from the artistic appreciation, of such a taste,—if so much of the lion-like appendage ...
Article : 281 wordsBY the J. B. Mora, we (Melbourne Herald) have intelligence from San Francisco to the 8th of August. The Vigilance Committee was not disbanded. Judge Torry had been released but was about to quit ...
Article : 1,262 wordsSIR—Though I am very unwilling, just BOW, to appear in print, I feel imperatively called upon to notice, and to contradict, Mr. Parker's version of what passed between us when he called to ask me to take office in ...
Article : 399 wordsThe little Poem which follows in this section is hardly moral in the vulgar acceptation of the term:—that is, supposing some of the allusions to be exclusively credited with a Sexual significance. Hence I have been more than once about to sacrifice it ...
Article : 557 wordsExcursionists will be aware that there is a line of beautiful small steamers running between Sydney and Parramatta, and it is necessary that we should tell them that these boats ...
Article : 825 wordsJohn Rogers, Ellen Hunt, and William Cook were severally convicted of drunkenness, and fined 20s. each, or in default twenty-four hours' imprisonment. John Drew, a seaman of the Prince Alfred, was ...
Article : 114 wordsCOMMERCIAL.—Two loads of sugar have arrived at Armidale, at last, and we have received advices of others on the road that are only a short distance from Armidale. Goods generally are very scarce; and tobacco ...
Article : 541 wordsIn the year 1854, on the occasion of Mr. Smith O'Brien's visit to Melbourne, a number of his friends and admirers in the colony presented him with a magnificent cup of nntive gold, manufactured by a ...
Article : 598 wordsBetween one and two o'clock on Saturday last, the office of Mr. Cohen, at the Australasian Steam Navigation Company's Wharf was entered during the temporary absence of that gentleman, and ...
Article : 235 wordsIn the days of our youth there used to be story-books —where are they all gone?—of the golden ago of English enterprise. There was Whittington, whose master sent an " assorted cargo" to Morocco, and brought back ...
Article : 1,952 wordsWe under-stand that it is the intention of the Colonial Architect, Alex. Dawson, Esq., who visited this district a few days ago, to begin several works in the locality immediately, ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Courier of the Mines, adverting to the fact of Mr. Grant having issued addresses to the electors of Sandhurst in French and Italian as well as English, goes on to observe:—" We ...
Article : 99 wordsWalter Chase was placed in the dock to answer a charge of having, at the Rocky River, on the 27th ultimo, wilfully and maliciously stabbed one Daniel Tynan with a knife, with intent to do some ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Mon 13 Oct 1856, Page 5
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