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  2. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPHIC EXPEDITION.

    If any illustration were ever needed to show the unflinching determination of English enterprise, no more signal example could be pointed out than in the repeated costly and almost yearly efforts made to ...

    Article : 2,429 words
  3. PARLIAMENT OF TASMANIA.

    The House met at 4 o'clock. Members present: Tho hons. the President, Colonial Secretary, Mr. Wilson, Sir R. Dry, Mr. Lowes, Mr. Innes, Mr. Kermode, Mr. Wedge. ...

    Article : 834 words
  4. FEMALE EMIGRATION.

    Last night a private meeting of ladies and gentlemen interested in the subject of female emigration was held at the office of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, for the purpose of ...

    Article : 1,668 words
  5. MR. GALE'S NON-EXPLOSIVE GUNPOWDER.

    The final government trials to test to the utmost the value of Mr. Gale's discovery were made on the largest scale on Wednesday afternoon and evening in one of the Marte[?]o towers on the beach half way ...

    Article : 2,180 words
  6. SODIUM AMALGAMATION.

    Some time since, and before I had heard of the use of sodium as an assistant in amalgamating metals, I prepared the result of the following experiment for publication. Circumstances delayed it, but ...

    Article : 996 words
  7. THE BANK AND THE STOCK EXCHANGE.

    These are exceptional times in tho City, and the act that they are so will probably be urged as an excuse for the policy which the Directors of the Bank have pursued. For many years nothing could have ...

    Article : 1,927 words
  8. ON THE EXTIRPATION OF THISTLES.

    The present season is becoming remarkable for the abundance of thistles: they are everywhere to be seen. Our pasture lands, which are usually pronounced clean, cannot fail to exhibit here and there ...

    Article : 1,698 words
  9. QUEENSLAND.

    THE WILD SCOTCHMAN.—James M'Pherson, Alias the Wild Scotchman, was brought up at the Criminal Court yesterday to answer a charge of having, on the 4th of March, 18[?], robbed and wounded Richard ...

    Article : 379 words
  10. THE LAW OF LIBEL—ITS HARDSHIPS AND INCONVENIENCES.

    Proud as Englishmen are of the Press as an institution, prompt as they are to pl[?] themselves upon its freedom as their own propor and peculiar possession, patriotically [?]loquent as they are apt to wax ...

    Article : 668 words
  11. COAL OILS AND PETROLEUM.

    Coal oil is produced by the distillation of bituminous coal or shale at a low heat, has of late years been largely employed under the name of kerosene for illuminating purposos, but a similar article ...

    Article : 684 words
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