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  2. HORTICULTURAL SHOW.

    The establshment of the Gardeners' and Amateurs' Horticultural Society has been productive of a large amount of benefit, not only to cultivators, but to the public generally. The ...

    Article : 1,064 words
  3. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    THE preliminary steps have been taken for the appointment of a Commission to make the necessary arrangements for the representation of Tasmanian products in the Exhibition of 1862. ...

    Article : 112 words
  4. THE FINANCES OF THE COLONY.

    WE have said that the declining state of the Revenue will force on Parliament the necessity of revising the whole of our financial system, and as far as practicable, introducing a larger measure of ...

    Article : 1,279 words
  5. OFFICIAL CHANGES.

    IN our Summary for January we stated that the offices of Commissioner of the Court of Requests and of Commissioner of Insolvencies for Hobart Town, which the Government had contemplated ...

    Article : 625 words
  6. THE SUBMARINE CABLE.

    FOR the present the cable across Bass's Straits has been abandoned. The forty thousands it cost has been lost to the Colony. We have to attribute this result to mismanagement from beginning to end. ...

    Article : 331 words
  7. IMMIGRATION AND COLONISATION.

    WITH a view to the enlargement of our population, and to the spread of settlement over the unoccupied districts of the Colony, it has been suggested that some modifications should be made in our land ...

    Article : 1,365 words
  8. REFORM OF THE LAW OF REAL PROPERTY.

    Mr. Torrens, the Registrar-General of South Australia, whose system for the substitution of a Register and Certificate of Title and Transfer of Land for the present system of Conveyancing, is ...

    Article : 206 words
  9. TREATMENT OF COLONIAL REMONSTRANCES.

    THE Colony is justly entitled to complain in the strongest terms of the contemptuous indifference to its remonstrances displayed by the Home Government. We have now waited the arrival of ...

    Article : 345 words
  10. OUR TIMBER.

    EVERY homeward bound vessel now leaving the Colony is partly freighted with railway sleepers and other forms of sawn timber of the blue gum, &c. This branch of our export trade is likely to ...

    Article : 53 words
  11. TASMANIAN GUANO.

    WE have noticed the extensive deposits of Guano on the innumerable islands and dislets belonging to Tasmania, particularly in Bass's Straits. This manure is found to be exceedingly rich in the ...

    Article : 133 words
  12. THE BARONESS DEROTHSCHILD'S PRESENT TO JEWISH CHILDREN.

    WE have been requested to acknowledge the receipt of 500 copies of a volume entitled "Addresses to Young Children," originally delivered in the Girls' Free School, Bell Lane. These ...

    Article : 81 words
  13. THE COMING SESSION.

    ALREADY the notes of preparation are sounding. Circulars, we are informed, have been addressed to the various heads of departments, and other officers usually charged with the task, requesting the ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. THE MONTH.

    AN adjourned meeting of the Launceston Public Library was held on the 23rd ultimo, Dr. Casey, President, in the chair, when the annual Report was read and adopted. It set forth that the Library ...

    Article : 5,687 words
  15. GREEN PONDS EACES.

    The following are the entries, in addition to the All Age Stakes and St. Leger, already advertissed:- FIRST DAY. ...

    Article : 312 words
  16. IRRIGATION.

    SIGNOR MARTELLI, whose services were engaged by the Royal Commission of Enquiry into the subject of Artificial Irrigation, has completed his survey of the districts of the Colony most suited for the ...

    Article : 296 words
  17. THE VOLUNTEERS.

    THE force is most satisfactorily and rapidly progressing in military proficiency, and has been exercised of late in what is called position drill. The butts for rifle practice have been completed, and on ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH.

    Concert last night of Amateur Minstrels for the benefit of the Rifle Band was well attended The Coach arrived in Launceston [?]t 11 last night, having broken the polo at Antill Ponds. ...

    Article : 74 words
  19. COAL AND SHALE.

    THE Report of Mr. Gould the Government Geologist on the Coal and Shale deposits of the Colony is waiting the preparation of some lithegraphed sections to illustrate it. It is otherwise ...

    Article : 61 words
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