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  2. A FEW HOURS AT NEWCASTLE.

    I KNOW of no place that lias a more depressing effect on a visitor than Newcastle on a wet day. There seems to be an immense quantity of coal-smoke issuing from the chimneys, which, not being able to rise in the moisture-laden air, hangs like a pall, or ...

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  3. CONSECRATION OF THE FIRST BISHOP OF SALE. AN IMPOSING CEREMONY.

    THE consecration of the Rev. Dr. J. F. Corbett as the first Bishop of Sale took place on the 25th August at St. Mary's Church, St. Kilda, in which district the reverend gentleman has laboured for about a quarter of a—century. Some 20 years have ...

    Article : 580 words
  4. THE COUNTRY PARSON IN AUSTRALIA.

    THE up-country parson in Australia and New Zealand is not very like his representative in England, the country vicar. He is cast in altogether a rougher mould. Not that his birth, education, and even his predilections, may not have been very ...

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  5. INCIDENTS IN THE RECENT FLOODS.

    ALL the country between Shepparton and Mooroopna, extending over five miles in width, was completely submerged, and traffic between the two towns temporarily suspended, the only means of transit being to walk along the railway line. ...

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  6. THE ASCENT OF MOUNT OWEN STANLEY, NEW GUINEA.

    THE president of the Geographical Society (Sir Edward Strickland) ho s received a letter from a New Guinea explorer named Carl H. Hartmann, stating that he and Mr. George Hunter (Government agent at Rigo) had made a successful expedition to ...

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  7. THE SIR REDMOND BARRY STATUE.

    THE large bronze statue of the late Sir Redmond Barry, which was subscribed for after his death by a large number of his friends, has been brought to the colony, and erected in front of the Melbourne Public Library. It was originally intended that ...

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  8. FANATICAL MAORIES IN NEW ZEALAND.

    A NUMBER of fanatical Maories were recently arrested in New Zealand. For some time past the vagaries of a band of natives in the Hokianga district, Auckland, have been a source of uneasiness to the settlers. They were followers of a prophetess ...

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