THE share market has been quiet during the week, attention having been absorbed by the numerous half-yearly meetings whose details will be found in another part of this paper. City Bank shares are in demand, and a rise in price may be ...
Article : 417 wordsSIR—The origin of "El Dorado," or the golden city of M[?]nce, supposed by Sir Walter Raleigh to be situated near the [?] of Parima, which is about 300 miles only [?]rom George Town, Demarra, turns out to be nearer ...
Article : 592 wordsSIR,—The bitterness shown by Mr. Forster, the Colonial Searetory, againet the newspaper present the colony is truly extraordinary, as although this gentlemen now occupies the chair of the Colonial Searetety, end in ...
Article : 177 wordsTUESDAY last was kept, as the anniversary of the colony always is, a fall holiday. The weather, however, was against the regatta, a severe gale from tte south setting in early in the afternoon, capsizing and disabling several ...
Article : 1,664 wordsJANUARY 27.—A young man, a digger, was drown[?]d in the Shoalhaven River, near Warri, yesterday evening. It appears that he was about procuring some turfs, in order to make a race from the opp[?]site side of the river ...
Article : 740 wordsSIR,—Mr. Robert Lowe, in the old nominee Council, in 1849, characterised the people who took part in sending missionaries to Tongatoboo, or L[?], as being actuated with the spirit of "humbug," while the neglected home. ...
Article : 1,559 wordsSTATIONS.—There is a little more inquiry for good properties. On Wednesday last I sold at auction, the Rockwood Station, in the Leichardt district, Queensland, together with 9000 sheep, at 17s 6d per head, stores, horses, outlooks, drays, tools, &[?]., &c., ...
Article : 462 wordsM. HENRI MARTIN, the distinguished historian of France, who recently visited Edinburgh along with a number o[?] his countrymen during the meetings of the Social Science Association, has published his impressions of the visit in an ...
Article : 1,276 wordsJANUARY 26th.—The weather has been excessively sultry dating the last two or three weeks. Without falling back upon the common superlative, "The hottest summer ever known, &c.," it certainly has been as hot ...
Article : 804 wordsWOOL.—We held our usual weekly sale yesterday, and catatogue 915 bales, but sold only 264. The prices obtained were most irregular, as for seven lots offered previously we obtained an advance, whilst for other lots we could not obtain previous rates. ...
Article : 2,711 wordsTHE arrivals continue to be greatly in excess of the demand, and moreover are almost totally restricted to light and medium stock, with which the market is most thoroughly glutted, but as yet without effecting any material reduction in prices. There ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 172 wordsSIR,—The following scrap, taken from the Dumbarton Herald of November last, seems to me very appropriate at the present time, [?] as we are with a greater set of politlaal fools ibm ever proitimed lo rale a country. ...
Article : 193 wordsSIR, —Will you kindly allow me to correct a mistake made by the Maitland mercury, as quo[?]ed in your issue of Monday la[?] Mercury state[?] that the N[?]ne, who had lately gone to reside in M[?]itand, ore Sisters ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Sat 30 Jan 1864, Page 2
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