Our correspondent writing on the our inst. says—"There is just now a deal of smelting of yellow metal (pronounced by many as not gold ) on is quiet. I saw a nugge t of a good size yesterday ...
Article : 641 wordsTHE MARKETS—The price of flour is £13 per ton; wheat, 5s. 6d. per bushel; 2lb. loaf, 4d. The sheep belonging to Mr. Merchant, offered for sale by Mr. L. Samson on the 21st instant, were ...
Article : 133 wordsTHE NORTHERN SETTLEMENTS.—From our shipping report it will be seen that the Mystery is now at Fremantle, and the vessel, we hope, will be immediately despatched to the Northern Settlements. ...
Article : 205 wordsThe manufacture of sugar in New South Wales from canes grown in that colony may now be accepted as an accomplished fact. We are in a position to state that the crushing season has ...
Article : 318 wordsThere has been a good deal of discussion in England lately on the subject of the employment, out of India, of native Indian troops, and now we see that the matter has been fairly thrown before ...
Article : 960 wordsUnredeemed Pledges—At Fremantle, on the 4th June by Messrs. J. J. Harwood & Co. Miscellaneous Articles—At York, on the 8th June, by Mr. Thomas Bailey. ...
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Advertising : 13 wordsCROWN LANDS SOLD.—The total number of acres of Country Crown Land sold last month was 666, realizing £335 15s. CROWN LANDS LEASED.—The number of acres ...
Article : 304 wordsTHE SCHOLAR AS ACUTE AS HIS MASTER.—"Now, then, fast boy in 'rithmetic, how many white beans air there in ten black ones?" "Ten, sir, of you skin [?]em, was the reply. ...
Article : 1,552 wordsMr. James Manning, the Clerk of the Works, has been paying us a visit, and I have no doubt that the quantity and quality of work inspected by bun at the different convict out-stations will bear favourable ...
Article : 192 wordsA lay declaration from 200 male communicants of Reading, expressing want of confidence in the administration of the Bishop of Oxford, has just been presented to the Lordship. Those who sign ...
Article : 187 wordsThe farmers were much pleased with the fine fall of rain that commenced early on the morning of the Queen's Birth-day; but the general cry is "not enough." However, we thankfully receive that which ...
Article : 72 wordsThe following Report from the Fortune Mine, forwarded to on by Mr. Samson, is the only mining news we have received :— Fortune Copper Mining Co. (Limited) ...
Article : 367 wordsCaptain Semmes, commander of the Alabama, in a lecture at Galveston (Texas), on the subject of the career of that vessel, whose "depredations" on American shipping during the late war is now a ...
Article : 625 wordsThe ceremony of dedicating the Masonic Hall took place on the 1st instant. A large procession of brethren of the craft marched to the new Hall, and assisted the worship ful Master, Br. Barice in solemnly dedicating the building ...
Article : 668 wordsThe necessity for discovering some theory upon which small talk must be conducted at once appears from the consideration that small talk will always exist as an instigation of the country. There must ...
Article : 723 wordsMay 13.—Kestrel, 170 tons, Captain Davis, from Sydney. Passengers—Messrs. G. Stratem and J. Mack. May 18.—Norman, 254 tons, F. Orfeur, master, from Melbourne in ballast. Passengers—Messrs. W. Hardwich ...
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Advertising : 1,114 wordsNo new public works of importance have been undertaken since our last Summary. The Helena and Perth Causeway Bridges are in a forward state. The Military Hospital is nearly completed, and the ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Friend of India thus notices the new Metropolitan:— "The new Bishop of Calcutta is the Rev. Robert Milman, a Vicar in Buckinghamshire. As the ...
Article : 162 wordsMay 9.—John Brennan, t.l., absconding from Mount Eliza Depot. 6 months' hard labour in irons May 11.—A. Kershaw, probation prisoner, absconding from claisebrook, 2 years hard labour, the first ...
Article : 200 wordsTHE Ararat Advertiser famishes the following:—One day last week the victim of a novel description of "lambing down " made his way from civilization to the less settled districts, and to his ...
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Family Notices : 278 wordsAs the total length of the tunnel is a little over even and a half miles, the greatest care has to be taken to preserve the true direction, so that as the excavation is carried on from independent starting ...
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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth, WA : 1855 - 1901), Wed 29 May 1867, Page 3
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