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  2. VICTORIA.

    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 words
  3. COMMERCIAL RECORD

    THE 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 words
  4. THE BEAUTIFUL.

    The 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 words
  5. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH CUMBERLAND.

    COOK'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 words
  6. GRANDMAMMA'S MUSICAL PARTIES, No. 2.

    Ye 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 words
  7. IV.

    I 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 words
  8. CALIFORNIA.

    BY 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 words
  9. MR. PARKER AND MR. COWPER.

    SIR—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 words
  10. V.

    The 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 words
  11. HOW THEY ELECTED THE PREMIER.

    Excursionists 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 words
  12. WATER POLICE COURT.—SATURDAY.

    John 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 words
  13. NEW ENGLAND.

    COMMERCIAL.—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 words
  14. THE SMITH O'BRIEN TESTIMONIAL CUP.

    In 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 words
  15. DARING ROBBERY.

    Between 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 words
  16. THE LAND OF GOLD.

    In 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 words
  17. LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS IN NEWCASTLE.

    We 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 words
  18. POLYGLOT ADDRESSES.

    The 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 words
  19. STABBING.

    Walter 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 ...

    Article : 87 words
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