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  2. HOBABT TOWN REGISTRATION DISTRICT.

    The difference between the weather of March last year and the present one was most remarkable, though in many respects in favour of the latter. While the deaths this year were 64, they were 72 in March 1878, ...

    Article : 1,246 words
  3. PUBLIC WORKS, AND WHO BENEFITS.

    Sir,—In your leader of to-day you argue that the class that has been most benefited by recent expenditure on Public Works (meaning no doubt the two railways, the Sorell causeway, and the Main Roads ...

    Article : 719 words
  4. Advertising

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    Advertising : 731 words
  5. TORRES STRAITS MAIL.

    The mail steamer, Bowen, arrived at Cooktown on Saturday night, from Chinese and intermediate ports. She brings a number of Chinese for Victoria and other colonies. The European passengers ...

    Article : 403 words
  6. INTERCOLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

    It is understood that the Cabinet telegraphed to Mr. Berry yesterday to obtain a definite offer from the Orient Steam Company for a mail service. It is stated that Weiberg, charged with complicity ...

    Article : 102 words
  7. DIRECT TELEGRAMS FROM EUROPE.

    The Government have recalled Mr. Rivers Wilson, Finance Minister in Egypt. ...

    Article : 34 words
  8. THE VICTORIAN DIFFICULTY.

    In the House of Commons Sir Michael Hicks-Beach promised further correspondence, with regard to the Victorian constitutional difficulty, at on early date. ...

    Article : 31 words
  9. [From the Examiner.] SYDNEY, April 25.

    Owing for the firm attitude of the Premier the strike among the workmen at the Sydney Exhibition building has been crushed. ...

    Article : 31 words
  10. THE SEAT FOR CLARE.

    The House of Commons agreed to a motion unseating Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, by 180 against 11, after a lengthy discussion on the constitutional technicalities involved. ...

    Article : 35 words
  11. [From the Argus] NEW SOUTH WALES.

    About 170 carpenters, employed at the Exhibition building, left work this morning, and subsequently waited upon Mr. Young, the contractor, and demanded 12s. per day, the sameas the bricklayers. Mr. ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  12. [From the Argus.] LONDON, April 2l.

    Consols have now advanced to 99?. The Bank rate is 2 per cent; market rate, 1¼ per cent. Colonial Government Securities.—Five per cent New South Wales loan, with two per cent, ...

    Article : 755 words
  13. SUEZ MAIL NEWS.

    There has been considerable excitement in Newport, Kentucky, caused by the arrest of Peter Klein, a tramp, who outraged a Mrs. Truesdell, A crowd had been in the neighbourhood of the gaol ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. THE DIRECT MAIL SERVICE.

    Th following communication on the subject of the direct mail service, addressed by the managers of the Orient Steam Navigation Company to the Agent-General of Victoria, and forwarded by him, ...

    Article : 825 words
  15. POSTAL IRREGULARITY.

    Sir,—On more than one occasion I have had to complain of the delay in the transmission of letters through the Post Office. A letter of some importance was posted in Melbourne on November 2nd, 1878, ...

    Article : 232 words
  16. THE POST OFFICE.

    Sir.—I am obliged for the information contained in your local columns to-day. In referring to the Saturday delivery I of course thought it would be clearly understood that I referred to the "one ...

    Article : 137 words
  17. MOUNT BISCHOFF COMPANY.

    I have just received a pamphlet published by the Directors of the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company containing the correspondence arising on a report of Mr. Reeve's, which was laid before a ...

    Article : 723 words
  18. THE GAME BILL.

    Sir,—The Attorney General stated in the House of Assembly an Thursday that he recognised the importance of proceeding with the defunct Game Bill as soon as possible, " but that if any member ...

    Article : 664 words
  19. TASMANIAN TELEGRAMS.

    At the sale of shares to-day, the bidding was doll, and only a few lots word sold. The following prices were obtained:—City of Launceston Co., [?] Olive Branch, 3s. 6d.; Providence, 12. 9d.; ...

    Article : 224 words
  20. MINING NOTES.

    Star of the South.—On Friday there arrived from this claim several pieces of stone showing gold freely obtained from the reef. The shaft is now down 100 feet. The stone may be seen at the office of the ...

    Article : 490 words
  21. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Commissioner of Crown Lands and SurveyorGeneral are visiting Yorke's Peninsula, principally with reference to the wator famine, which is very severe. The wator-engine has started to distil ...

    Article : 158 words
  22. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] MOUNT BISCHOFF, SATURDAY,

    The mailman from the Pieman, who arrived last night reports that the new diggings, eleven miles from the Pieman Heads, are a great success. There are forty-two men there, working payable grouud, ...

    Article : 305 words
  23. THE DISASTERS IN ZULU LAND.

    Another disaster has fallon upon the British arms in South Africa. This time it is not a battalion that is annihilated, but half a company has been destroyed, and, as at Isandula, so at Intombi, the ...

    Article : 1,613 words
  24. WEST AUSTRALIA.

    Great satisfaction is manifested at the acceptance of Robb and Co.'s tender for the Fremantle and Guildford Railway, the figure being within the Commissioner of Railway's estimate. ...

    Article : 71 words
  25. NEW ZEALAND.

    Arrived.—Tips afternoon, Tararua, from Melbourne via Hobart Town. WELLINGTON, April 24. The report of Sir Julius Vogel's resignation ...

    Article : 172 words
  26. TIN.

    Fly-by-Night.—An attempt is about to be made to develop the lode supposed to exist, and of which very encouraging indications have been found on the Fly-by-Night claim at Mount Cameron. ...

    Article : 119 words
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