The Bank of Australasia some time ago presented to Mr. Hector Munro a valuable watch, &c., in recognition of his courageous conduct in repelling the attack of two armed men on the Moe (Victoria) branch of the bank in November last. It is now stated ...
Article : 211 wordsAnother seam of coal has been found near Coleraine. Riok has been grown successfully at Caamera, Queensland. Among the wills proved in the Supreme Court on May 6 was that of the late Mr. A. Menziea. The property was sworn at £39,600. ...
Article : 4,221 wordsA meeting of the committee appointed to carry out the sbipment of frozen meat to London' was held on May 13 at Sydney. Messrs. M'llwraith and M'Eacharn's letter of March 24, from London, was read, giving a full report of the sale ...
Article : 433 wordsThe Brisbane correspondent of The Argus, referring to the favour shown to the tender of the British India Steam Navigation Company to run steamers between London and Moreton Bay, via Torres Straits, says :—However, the real aim of those favourable ...
Article : 961 wordsTHE Hobart Town Mercurf of April 22, reports:—Yesterday morning we received the following telegram from our Swansea correspondent:—"The ketch Rocket lost, with all hands, off Bicheno. Two bodies have been washed ashore. The vessel is ...
Article : 531 wordsTHE strike among the colliers at Newcastle haH proved a more serious matter to the people of Melbourne than was at Orst anticipated. At the beginning of the week ending May 17, so short was the supply of coal, that but for the timely arrival of ...
Article : 291 wordsTHE tree vehicle, barque of 332 tons, captain broom, from Java, with a cargo of sugar for the Victoria Sugar Company, arrived at Port Phillip Heads on May 8, and was placed in quarantine, three deaths having occurred on board during the ...
Article : 221 wordsTHE world has hoard a great deal of the discovery made by Mr. Bell, of Boston, in 1870, by which people separated by considerable distances are enabled to talk to one another along a wire. The telephone is coining largely into one in the United ...
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