GENEVA, partly by its position, partly by the character of its inhabitants, has for centuries been a theatre for the display of a remarkable contrast. Situated ont he banks of the Rhine, ...
Article : 2,359 wordsDEAR DENTS,—Your letter arrived all right, and right glad I was to[?]ceire it. So you say you had a hot dry summer. and that the potstoes never were as good, nor herrings so plenty since the year 1843, as they were this year. ...
Article : 1,237 wordsLAST Saturday morning, about tne o'clock, as two of Mr. Frederick Taylor's sons (George and James) were riding from the Fourteen to the Sixteen. Mile Rush, a horse man rode down the side of asteep range and told them to ...
Article : 2,071 wordsDECEMBER 16.—The elections for East and West Mailland, Morpeth,a nd the Paterson are all over, and quietness ones more reigns amongst us. For East Mailland Mr. A. Dodds has been returned without opposition. ...
Article : 454 wordsTHE LACHLAN ELECTION.—The district has been long enough [?]nubbed, and left at the mercy of political mountebanks, and it is really a satisfaction to know that at last a clever man may be hoped for. The ...
Article : 1,596 wordsDECEMBER 14TH.—News of local interest always having its weight with your valuable paper, has induced me to give you a ourtailed account of the proceedings on the advertised nomination day for the Gwydir electorate. ...
Article : 307 wordsSIR,—The earlier orbits ocmputed for this comet were very unsatisfactory, time of the perihellon passage and plaes of the mode being in some determinations as much as five days ans seven degrees respectively in ...
Article : 325 wordsSIR.—In offering the following remarks for insertion in your valuable paper I would entreat a favourable consideration, founded on the fact of its being a matter involving a question of plitical interest. The halloting ...
Article : 454 wordsSIR,—Your correspondent, "Lex C[?]vis" has my cordial thanks for bringing my last "crude and ill[?]digested" note so prominently before the public I am pleased to learn that it did produce some impression in the ...
Article : 180 wordsCOR NER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held at the Miners' Arms, Lake Macquaric Road, on Thursday last, on the body of Richard Hinks, who committed siocode the same morning by cutting his throat with a razor. ...
Article : 312 wordsHANDSOME BEQUR[?]TS.—We understend that Mr. Dun. can Thomson, to whose death we referved In our last, has left a large sum of money for the benefit of the town. Of his whole fortune, amounting to about £[?]0,000, he ...
Article : 112 wordsThe question between the Bishop of Natol and the Bishop of Capetown will come before the Privy Council immediately after the forthcoming Michaelmas term; and the point first to be sottled is whether the Judicial ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Tue 20 Dec 1864, Page 3
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