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  2. STATISTICS OF CHRISTIANITY.

    A VALUABLE table of the statistics of Christianity is presented in Profossor A. J. Schem's Statistics of the World for 1873, just published in London. In North and South America, out of a population of ...

    Article : 179 words
  3. COUNTRY AND MINING NEWS.

    The present and almost the only topic causing sensation amongst us is the forthcoming races which commence on Tuesay next. Since last year every requisite improvement has been made on the course, including alterations on the ...

    Article : 1,985 words
  4. MURDER OF ROSS LEWIN AT TANNA.

    THE Maryborough Chronicle, of the 2nd May, says: "The Jason brings a tale of horror from the South Sea Islands. In Havannah harbour they learned from Mr. Hebblewhite that the notorious ...

    Article : 385 words
  5. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A BRITISH-NAVAL OFFICER.

    WE quote the subjoined extraordinary statement from the Aden correspondence of the Bombay Gazette:- Aden, 15th January. H.M.'s steam frigate Thetis, Commander Lee Hunt ...

    Article : 353 words
  6. DEATH OF A LADY FROM THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.

    ON Wednesday night, Mrs. Ada Agnes Noyes, known many years ago as the Ada Clare of Bohemia, died of hydrophobia, having been bitten by a pet dog on the 30th of January. At the ...

    Article : 1,318 words
  7. THE O'KEEFFE LIBEL CASE.

    AT Kildare assizes, on 17th March, an action was commenced before Mr. Justice O'Brien and a special jury, against the Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory. The plaintiff is the Rev. Robert ...

    Article : 312 words
  8. INSURANCES ON THE RECENT FIRES.

    IN respact to large fires which have recently occurred, the Melbourne Argus received, the following details, which are of some interest:- February 16, Jonathan Stott's cotton mill, ...

    Article : 304 words
  9. MANNING RIVER.

    In one of my letters to you, I promised, at some future period, to give your readers the benefit of my observations of a visit to the saw mills lately opened on the Lansdown. I now proceed to fulfill that promise. The mill has been named ...

    Article : 625 words
  10. THE DEAD ALIVE.

    A FRENCH correspondnet of the Times brings to light the following curious incidents:- A young married soldier was huried away with one of the contingents bastily got together at the outbreak ...

    Article : 1,216 words
  11. EXTRAORDINARY PRIZE FIGHT IN CALIFORNIA.

    WE learn from the California papers to hand by the mail, that a prize fight of a very remarkable character, betwaan James Trevillian an Englishman, and Patzy Hogan, an Irishman, came off near Virginia City, on ...

    Article : 1,383 words
  12. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT TOWNSVILLE.

    A GENTLEMAN lately from Townsville informs us (Mackay Mercury) that on Suynday, April 22, a shocking occurrence happened in that town, the particulars of which are as follows: A married ...

    Article : 317 words
  13. OBERON.

    The manager of the B.R.G.M. Co.'s machine assured me emplistically that the return from the crushing of Davis and Lambert's quartz was 31lb, avoirdupois of gold; but I learned since from Mr. Davis that the cake only welghed 24lb., which. ...

    Article : 356 words
  14. BREWARRINA, DARLING RIVER.

    Since last bringing under your personal observation, the little fishing village, nothing of any great importance has transpired, with the exception of our annual raced, which were on the whole, a great success. A friend has promised you full ...

    Article : 174 words
  15. THE RECENT MURDER AT ARMIDALE.

    ON Thrusday, 30th April, says the stanthorps Miner, an aboriginal was arrested in Warwick on suspicion of having murdered a Chinaman at Kangaroo Hill, near Armidale, in New South ...

    Article : 258 words
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  17. PARKES.

    Since my last there has been very little change except in the population, which is still on the increase, the great centre of attraction being M'Gulgan's Gully. On visiting the creek at the lower end of what is called the gully (which ...

    Article : 1,310 words
  18. THE COLONIAL WIFE MARKET.

    THE following story of a "dear bargain" is told by the Mery[?] Advertister: L20,000 is rather a stiff figure to pay for another man's wife in this country; but Sandhurst, it seems, can afford the ...

    Article : 392 words
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