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  2. The Colliers' Strike in New South Wales.

    The dispute which has existed since August between the miners and colliery owners at Newcastle, New South Wales, was referred to to-day at the annual ...

    Article : 289 words
  3. London Cablegra[?]s.

    Terrible atrocities are reported as having recently occurred in Calabar, West Coast of Africa. It is mentioned, amongst other things, that on Okrika island, in the ...

    Article : 1,754 words
  4. Broken Hill Township almost Entirely Destroyed.

    A terrible calamity has befallen Broken hill, says the "Argus. " A few minutes before six o'clock to-night a fire broke out. Immediately the smoke was seen, an alarm ...

    Article : 631 words
  5. Miscellaneous.

    Women are contradictory creatures. When they say they will give you a piece of their mind, they give you no peace. An expert informs us that a bona-fide ...

    Article : 1,246 words
  6. Longevity.

    Dr. Yen's article in the Nineteenth Century on longevity is a very interesting one. Apart from the remarkable series of centenarians whose history is briefly given, ...

    Article : 255 words
  7. SELECT POETRY.

    There's something wrong with this machine. What its I cannot tell; When it was new, but very low Could do the work to well. ...

    Article : 257 words
  8. A Novel Cure for Drunkenness.

    Cabbage is said to be cure for intoxication. It is on record that the Egyptians ate boiled cabbage before their other food if they intended to drink wine after dinner. ...

    Article : 153 words
  9. The Coal Strike.

    The miners' delegates met to-day to discuss the agreement arrived at, and resolved to send the same to the district for ballott. Special meetings, of the various lodges will ...

    Article : 131 words
  10. SPRING STIRRING.

    Lo some where swung in ether free. The spider sights a nook where he May dine and sup; And like wise build a winding stair, ...

    Article : 158 words
  11. Cruise of H.M.S. Calliope.

    H.M.S. Calliope, which returned on Saturday from a lengthened cruise among the South Sea Islands, reports having found the residents of Norfolk Island in ...

    Article : 122 words
  12. Laanecoorie and District.

    GENERAL PROSTECTS. — Dulness and grumbling are characteristic of the state of affairs here just now, and really the people have cause to complain of the unpropitions ...

    Article : 750 words
  13. Commercial Intelligence.

    Messrs L Macpherson, Sternberg and Co report :—Cattle—265 yarded. We quote—Best bulioeks L8 to L10; cows L5 10s to and outside 4l at store rates, Calves—14 ...

    Article : 101 words
  14. The Drought in New South Wales.

    A few slight falls of rain are reported on some of the stations in the central district, [?] set in the southern port of the colony on Friday evening ...

    Article : 91 words
  15. The Loddon Storage Basin,

    The tender of Mr A. O'Keefe, amounting to £57,321 15s 6d, for the construction of the Laanecoorie weir has been provisionally accepted by the Minister of Water Supply. ...

    Article : 236 words
  16. The Weather and the Crops.

    The Age correspondents wired on Monday stating that the dry weather bas at last broken at Natimuk and splendid steady rain has fallen all day, and farmers ...

    Article : 229 words
  17. SANDHURST HORSE MARKET.

    Messrs. L. Macherson, Sternberg and Co. report:—Unbroken stock— None. On the 10th we sell 80 bead for Messrs A. D. Bell, Dee Watson MacGillivray; and others. ...

    Article : 65 words
  18. Peculiar Manner of Reading Journals.

    The Governor of the Danish colony of Greenland is a wise man, as the following story, told of him in a Norwegian paper shows —He receives by the ship which ...

    Article : 163 words
  19. PIG, MILCH CATTLE, CALF AND LAMB MARKET.

    Messrs. L. Macpherson, Sternberg and Co. report :— We penned 400 pigs. There was a good attendance and brisk market, prices ruling higher than last week for all descrip ...

    Article : 55 words
  20. A New Signal.

    We have had—writes the Paris correspondent of Land and Water—(1st September), the language of flowers, fans, and even parasals, We have now the language ...

    Article : 384 words
  21. Stanley in Africa.

    A letter has been received from Zanzibar. conveying positive news that Mr H. M. Stanley, leader of the Emin Bey relief expedition, was alive and well in November ...

    Article : 393 words
  22. Transplanted Weeds.

    Many farmers made themselves much needless trouble with weeds. The difficulty originates in not killing them promptly as soon as they appear above the surface, or, ...

    Article : 389 words
  23. The Lilydale Murderer.

    A petition praying for the commutation of the sentence of death passed upon George Syme for the murder of his mother in law, Mrs Elizabeth Clifford, at Lilydale, on ...

    Article : 380 words
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