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  2. DESTITUTION AMONGST SOLDIERS' WIVES.

    RUMOURS having been prevalent about the city for some days past to the effect that the wives and children of a considerable number of the soldiers who have been recently drafted off to New Zealand are in destitute ...

    Article : 789 words
  3. "LA SABAT[?]E" CONTRE "LA BOXE."

    IT was on a dreary afternoon, of a Melbourne winter's day, when the incessant rain had flooded the streets, and had changed them to miniature rivers and rapids that I was penning a paragraph for a weekly paper, ...

    Article : 2,058 words
  4. INSOLVENCY COURT.—Wednesday.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 150 words
  5. OUR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

    YOUR admirable articles on the public institutions cannot but be productive of great good. The state of the Benevolent Asylum has been for a long time a subject of dissatisfaction. The late Mr. Moutry, a most active ...

    Article : 1,241 words
  6. CENTRAL POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

    BEFORE Messrs. G. Hill, Oatley, Cohen, and Bachanan. Absent—Mr. Richardson. Seven men and nine women were fined 10s. each for drunkenness, in default, twenty-four hours in the ...

    Article : 341 words
  7. STEAM POSTAL SERVICE.

    SIR,—The public have now the satisfaction of knowing that they have been completely sold by the Peninsular and Oriental Company. First, all competitors driven [?]ut of the field; next, the contract thrown up without ...

    Article : 442 words
  8. WATER POLICE COURT.—Wednesday.

    BEFORE the Water Police Magistrate. James Grant, a deserter from the American ship Flying Dragon, was sent to gaol for six weeks. Charles Ganawindt was brought before the Bench on ...

    Article : 411 words
  9. RANDWICK VOLUNTEER RIFLE CORPS.

    THE residents of Randwick held a meeting yesterday evening, in the Council Chambers, to take the preliminary stops towards the formation of a Volunteer Rifle Corps. ...

    Article : 207 words
  10. PILOTS AT WATSON'S BAY.

    SIR,—Your remarks on the pilot service at South Head in yesterday's Empire are quite uncalled for, and it would have been better had your informant made himself acquainted with the facts of the case, before denouncing ...

    Article : 502 words
  11. THE POOR BOX AT THE CENTRAL POLICE OFFICE.

    THE following note, containing the amount specified therein, has been received by the City Police Magistrate:— "24th July, 1860. ...

    Article : 222 words
  12. FLOOD AT ST. MARY'S, SOUTH CREEK.

    I REGRET to have to inform you that we have been visited by a flood which is likely to prove mere disastrous than the last one, and that was accounted the highest we had previously experienced. The present ...

    Article : 371 words
  13. SPURIOUS GOLD.

    THE following memorandum, by Professor Smith, on a mode of detecting spusious gold was read, at a late meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales:— ...

    Article : 487 words
  14. CITY ASSESSMENT APPEALS.

    SIR,—Had Judge Holroyd thought fit to state, when asked by the City Solicitor, yesterday afternoon, as he did this morning in Court, the order in which the appeals would be taken, the appellants resident in Cook ...

    Article : 325 words
  15. CANDIDATES FOR EMPLOYMENT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

    SIR,—Many if not all of your readers, are aware that a "system of competitive tests to determine the appointments to civil and military offices in England and India" has been inaugurated in the mother-country some ...

    Article : 2,324 words
  16. TO PUBLICANS AND THE POLICE.

    SIR,—As one of the licensed victuallers of this city, a body who annually contribute many thousands of pounds to the colonal revenue, I shall feel obliged by your giving publicity to the following:— ...

    Article : 232 words
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