A short time ago we received a further file of Loo Choo Papers, from which the following are extracts:- A game at battledore and shuttlecock has lately been played, or indeed is rather still playing, between His ...
Article : 799 wordsSince our article upon this subject, last week, occasioned by the arrival of the Calista, and several respectable persons from thence, who had expected to have settled there, and found a permanent abode, we have had still further ...
Article : 741 wordsThe following striking paragraph, copied from an English paper ought to serve as a salutary caution to those persons in this Island, who have made it a practice to drive many poor Honest settler's and even widow's stock to the pound, without ...
Article : 288 wordsWhen, a fortnight ago, we briefy expressed our congratulations to the Public, that the crowded state of the gaol had at length, although tardily, attracted the attention of those, in whose hands are the issues of life and death, we little ...
Article : 7,002 wordsIn the Spring of 1828, Governor Simpson, of the Hudsons' Bay Company, was told by Captain Ross, that he meant to attempt visiting the Pole in 1829, and, if possible to proceed through the North-West Passage to Nootka Sound, on the northern coast ...
Article : 258 wordsCOBBETT, in speaking of the advantages likely to be derived from his having succeeded in growing, in England, a field of Indian Corn, perfectly ripe, and of the great saving it would he in making rye and corn bread, instead of wheaten bread, ...
Article : 482 wordsOn Monday last, a tribe of these barbarous and uncivilized savages, consisting of no less than one hundred and fifty in number, made their appearance at Blink worth's Hunting Grounds, about three miles from the Cross Marsh. It appears, ...
Article : 733 wordsFar be it from us ever to rejoice at, another's woe; otherwise, the act of justice that has been rendered to the community—the signal example of promptness and decision shewn both by the English and Local Governments, and the warning ...
Article : 272 wordsLithography, if is stated in a note, from Paris, is greatly improving in that city, and the writer instances in proof, the plates of the Ancient Monuments of France and the Gallery of the Duchess of Berry. But this art, he adds, has just made a ...
Article : 268 wordsThe project to which we advert at length some time back, for opening a regular communication with India by steam, is going on with every prospect of success. The private merchants connected with that part of the globe have entered ...
Article : 766 wordsIn the House of Commons, on Friday night, M. Hume enquired from Mr. Peel why convicts were not, as the cheaper course, sent to Botany Bay at once, instead of being kept aboard the hulks. Mr. Peel replied, that there was limit to the numbers ...
Article : 762 wordsMr. HUME has brought under the notice of the House, the disgraceful punishment of flogging in the army and navy; and though his motion for its total abolition was, not successful, we have no doubt but it will have its due effect, upon every ...
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Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas. : 1828 - 1857), Fri 6 Nov 1829, Page 3
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