SIR.—I hasten to inform you that at 14 minutes to 7 o'clock this evening I delected a comet in the west through a break in the clouds. It appeared as a faint bizy object; but I have no doubt it would have been ...
Article : 138 wordsThe water is receding. The rain has cased, It has been very fine to-day. ...
Article : 22 wordsAUGUST 11.—NATI[?]NAL SCHOOL MAEETING.—The inbabitents of this locality are going to work in earueat, to get a National School in the place. The system is much in favour with Many, as was evineed by a meeting holden ...
Article : 869 wordsTHE committee appointed at the public meeting on Wednesday last, at the Exchange Rooms, to draw up an address to his Excellency the Governor-General, to re-establish the outside Pilot Service recently ...
Article : 1,839 wordsThe river rose two feet last night. It is now about eleven feet above the usual height. The P[?]ix Park and Narrowgut are nearly covered—the rivers rising about three inches an hour. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe river has risen in all about twenty-four feet, and is still rising slowly. The embankments keep the flood out of the town. At Singleton it was raining all night and the river was up forty feet. At 11.30 a.m., the ...
Article : 78 wordsSIR.—I have just obtained a view of a comet which was distinctly visible to the uaked eye at 6.30 p.m., at an sltitude of about 45 dirgrees, in a direction about west by north, in the immediate neighbourhood of the planet ...
Article : 155 wordsTwo men, Peter Druitt and Joh Dunley, have been arrested at Little Plains by sub-inspector Brennan, for the Pudman's and Colong Creeks robberies[?] ...
Article : 27 wordsAUGUST 10.—I regret to say we are in danger of another flood. Our rivers are all up several feet above the ordinary level, end Louch Park it again one theet of water, occasioned by the want of flood gate at Wallis's ...
Article : 757 wordsMarkets quiet. Shipments of breadstuffs from England and America amount to 1566 tons of wheat and 450 tons of flour, besides which the Caroline Coventry brings from ...
Article : 141 wordsSIR.—Perceiving "Investigatir's" letter in your issue of to-day, I beg to be permitted again to refer him to "H.H.'s" letter, which appeared in your paper of 8th June last, under the heading of "S[?]entific Farming," as ...
Article : 116 wordsSIR,—Will you allow me to explain that portion of my evidenos reierring to the above cose, as published in your paper of this morning, respecting my preparation for the ministry in the Church, under the tutorship of ...
Article : 159 wordsBreadstuffs nominal. 500 bushels of wheat have been sold at 7s. 3d. The increased valuation of runs has coursed great excitement. In the fiest eighteen runs laid before ...
Article : 1,050 wordsSIR,—The charge of the Chief Justice to the jury in the He ald libel case, reported in your Firday's issue, demands notice, as being pethaps as cerimonions and [?]illiberal a charge as perhape ever emanated from the Judicial ...
Article : 317 wordsAUGUST 10.—Goulburn news is very meagre, and has been so for some weeks; we have nothing, therefore, of much importance to communicate. The weather has again set in very wet. On Saturday ...
Article : 1,206 wordsSIR.—As an old subscriber, and a colonist of many ye[?]ra' atanding, I beg the unsertion of the following observations on a [?]ter that appeared in your journal of yesterday. Passing over your remerks on the forty thousand ...
Article : 2,367 wordsAFTER a good deal of ploughing and wading, the Darling again being up, I got to Bourke—a little township on the left bank of the river Darling, and subject to inundation by the overflow of this magnificent steam. Bourke, ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Sat 13 Aug 1864, Page 5
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