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  2. LAW.

    MOTIONS.—Macaush v. Bowman, motion for new trial; Therkell and wife v. Taylor, motion nisi for new trial; in re Moxely, gent., one & c.; ex parte Rigby, the set aside order insolvency; in re Summerbell, ...

    Article : 98 words
  3. GREAT EXPECTATIONS.—ADMIRAL DRAKE'S DESCENDANTS IN COURT.

    THE descendants of the "late Admiral Sir Francis Drake" were called upon to assemble yesterday morning at No. 361, Broome-street, to consider the best means of obtaining the property of their great ...

    Article : 319 words
  4. AN ACCOMPLISHED ROGUE

    THERE be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves; but what money-lender, pirate, or pieuvre ever got his slimy claws so thoroughly round his victim as did the se-called Comte de Natal in ...

    Article : 1,374 words
  5. INSOLVENCY COURT.—SATURDAY.

    William Woolls Rutledge, of West Kempsy, newspaper proprietor. The cause of insolvency was adverse circumstances. Liabilities, about L500. Assets, about filed on or before the 24th instant. Official assignee, ...

    Article : 222 words
  6. BUSH FIRES IN THE BRAIDWOOD DISTRICT.

    EXTENSIVE bush fires, says the Braidwood Monitor, have been raging for the past few days all around us, as might be plainly seen by the volumes of smoke rising in the day time and the tires themselves seen at night. ...

    Article : 269 words
  7. EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.

    THE community in the neighbourhood of Joseph Boor's, in Snake Spring Valley, Bedford County, Pa., was thrown into a fever of excitement on Friday, by a report that the earth had suddenly opened and swallowed two ...

    Article : 176 words
  8. CARELESS USE OF FIRE.

    AT the Wollongong Petty Sessions on Wednesday, James Rogers, an old "tramp," appeared charged with having, at Kembla Grange, on Tuesday, the 10th instant, set fire to an inflammable material, to wit, ...

    Article : 503 words
  9. THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS.

    THE teaching of girls requires a most thorough investigation. Such hooks have been until uow in use as prechude utterly any development of girls' minds. The method of short questions and sharp answers, to be ...

    Article : 778 words
  10. SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.

    IN March last, a well-known Detroit druggist, assisted by two seriously inclined and science-loving gentlemen, resolved to make a number of experiments to test the worth of the talk about spontaneous combustion, and ...

    Article : 490 words
  11. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.—SATURDAY.

    Alexander Thompson was brought up, charged with stealing a vest, a silver watch, and four or five shillings in silver, the property of Joseph Rondell. Accused was remanded until Tuesday. ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. MANNING RIVER.

    A fatal accident happened last night (Tuesday, the 9th) at Tinonee, by which a poor man named Reynolds lost his Iife. It appears from what I can learn that some persons resident Tinonce had Improvised a cannon to fire off when ...

    Article : 915 words
  13. WATER POLICE COURT.—SATURDAY.

    John Charles Brown, for furiously riding along South Head-road, to the endangering of the lives of passengers, was fined 10s, in default to be imprisoned till Sabodalah, a native of India, for having no lawful ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. NORTHERN TERRITORY GOLD-FIELD.

    THE following is an extract from a letter received from Mr. John Wescott, the leader of the Northern Territory Gold Prospecting Association:— Palmerston, May 31. ...

    Article : 495 words
  15. A FIJIAN PLANTER'S CONFESSION.

    THE Otago Daily Times, of February 23,1872. contains a letter from a cotton planter in Selia Levu, in the Fijian group, giving an account of the Islands, and of his proceedings in establishing himself on a plantation he ...

    Article : 1,688 words
  16. AN EASY CONVERT TO A MODERN RELIGION.

    THE following amusing extract is taken from a recent work entitled Lord Bantam. By the author of Giux's Baby:— The ardent hair and temperament of our hero ...

    Article : 1,116 words
  17. A PROMISE NOT TO MARRY.

    A CASE which seems to have caused great amusement to everybody concerned, came before the judges sitting in Banco in the Queen's Bench. The declaration set forth that in 1863 Miss Crowdy, aunt of the plaintiff, ...

    Article : 361 words
  18. SALE OF STATION PROPERTIES AND STOCK AT ADELAIDE.

    ON Friday, August 30, Mr. W. G. Luxmoore (with Mr. J.H. Parr) submitted for sale at the Exchange Auction Mart, by order of the execution of the late Hon. J. Baker, M.L.C., six station properties. There was a ...

    Article : 761 words
  19. SURVEY OF THE PACIFIC BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.

    THE Government in now planning one of the most important and comprehensive oceanio surveys over undertaken, Under authority of recent Congressional legislation; the Bureau or Navigation is arranging the ...

    Article : 598 words
  20. BITERS. BITTEN.

    IN Dublin the law seems to have proved rather awkward for the adulterators of milk. Not only do the police look sharply after the dealers, but the magistrates, on conviction, fine the adulterators in heavy ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. INFLUENCE OF MARRIAAGE ON HEALTH.

    AT a meeting of the French Academy of Medicinem M. Bertillon read an elaborate paper on the influence of marriage, the duration of life, and on intellectul and moral diseases. His statistics chiefly apply to France, ...

    Article : 374 words
  22. A STARTING CHANGE.

    THE story goos that in Long Valley, United States there lives an aged Indian, called Old Cap, or Clitey, the chief of that valley, who is turning white in spots This phenomenon began years ago, and has ...

    Article : 160 words
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