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  2. CHRONOLOGY OF THE MOST REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES OF THE COLONY.

    1798.—A town clock introduced into the church steeple, January 31.—Dr. Bass, who discovered the Strait in a whale boat, now called Bass' Strait, a gentleman that has been so essentially a friend to navigation, returned from that useful discovery in ...

    Article : 627 words
  3. MARK TWAIN'S WATCH.

    MY beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery, or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its ...

    Article : 1,440 words
  4. EIGHT HOURS' DEMONSTRATION.

    THE annual picnic of the Eight Hours' League was held at Ivanhoe Park, Manly Beach, on Monday, February 27. The day's j proceedings commenced with a procession, which was formed at an, early hour, in the vicinity of the site of Captain Cook's Statue, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. BOTANY BAY IN 1788.

    OUR illustration is of Botany Bay in the olden time, and shows the fleet under the command of Governor Phillip, and Captain Hunter, lying at anchor a day or two previous to the foundation of the colony. This bay was first discovered by Captain Cook, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. THE ORATORIO OF "ELIJAH."

    THE Sydney Choral Society gave their fourth concert at the Masonic Hall, on the evening of Tuesday, 7th instant. The hall was crowded throughout, and the audience seemed well pleased with the manner in which Mendelssohn's exquisite ...

    Article : 109 words
  7. SCENES IN MANY LANDS.

    THESE are essentially the days of fast progression, when steam propels the voyager by water over more space in a few weeks than he formerly accomplished in as many months, and whirls the traveller by land as great a number of miles in an hour as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. RENNO AND CLINT'S PANORAMA AND DIORAMA,

    THIS entertainment is essentially Australian, being (as the lecturer informs us) "the production of Mr. Clint's brush and of Mr. Renno's tool-box." One of the most necessary adjuncts to theatrical representations in the present day is good and ...

    Article : 567 words
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