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  2. AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

    BANKING.—The banks now issue drafts on England at 60 days' sight at par. Drafts against gold, &c, purchased at 1 per cent, discount. Freight on gold, per sailing vessel, 2½d. per oz.; ...

    Article : 1,543 words
  3. CASE OF DISPUTED LIABILITY OF AN INSURANCE OFFICE.

    The following account of a disputed insurance case in the Supreme Court of the Cape of Good Hope is extracted from the South African Advertiser of 19th October:— ...

    Article : 1,068 words
  4. EXTRAORDINARY FRAUD BY A CHINAMAN.

    The case of Wee Qua, the chinamen, convicted at Ballaarat, on Tuesday last, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labor, for the sale of spurious gold manufactured by himself, demands ...

    Article : 495 words
  5. THE MURDER OF THE RUSSIANS IN JAPAN.

    The following, from the Argus of December 10, confirms our recent telegram:— The North China Herald, of the 24th of September, gives the following account of an outrage ...

    Article : 376 words
  6. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Advices from Sydney are to the 13th instant. The Umpire has the following remarks on the state of trade :— "Business during the past month has been quite ...

    Article : 384 words
  7. THE HALF-HOLIDAY QUESTION.

    Among the many movements for the benefit of the working classes, none has earned a stronger title to support than that which is directed to the attainment of a half-holiday for the working man on Saturday. ...

    Article : 3,104 words
  8. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

    By the Chili we have a copy of the Cape Town Mail of November 16, from which we take the following paragraphs:— RAILWAY NAVVIES.—The Chili, ship, arrived in ...

    Article : 928 words
  9. THE SNAKE-KILLER.

    On Thursday, the 1st of December, at 8 o'clock p.m., it is proposed that the ichneumon should be exhibited at the Mechanics' Institute, under the patronage of members of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, ...

    Article : 679 words
  10. TASMANIA.

    GENERAL TRADE.—During the past month, dating from our last Summary, business has continued very quiet, there being no movement either in the import markets or the markets for colonial produce, and no ...

    Article : 493 words
  11. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN VICTORIA.

    The following report of some disgraceful proceedings at the East Collingwood Council, on the 7th inst., is from the Collingwood Observer :— The Town Clerk read the minutes of the committee ...

    Article : 773 words
  12. THE EXTRA FOURPENCE INCOME-TAX.

    The tax-gatherer, like sorrow, " never comes too late." But the much-abused functionary—the innocent scapegoat for the sins of his superiors—is inexorable as fate. In a few weeks he will be at our doors ...

    Article : 1,295 words
  13. CALIFORNIA.

    We have San Francisco papers to the 7th of October, by way of Sydney. The San Francisco Herald, of that date, reports as follows:— Flour.—75 sacks Yeaman Mills extra sold at 6 ...

    Article : 103 words
  14. CAUSING FRUIT TREES TO BEAR.

    We were lately on a visit to a friend who has an excellent well stocked garden, and some of as fine fruit trees as could bs seen anywhere. We obtained the history of many of them as we walked round the ...

    Article : 418 words
  15. THE VICTORIAN CHAMBER OF CHAMBER AND THE POSTAL QUESTION.

    At a special meeting of the Committee of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce, held at the Exchange, 14th December, 1859; present—C. E. Bright, Esq. (in the chair), Messrs. F. B. Franklyn, T. H. ...

    Article : 1,268 words
  16. CHINA.

    We have dates of the Singapore Daily News to October 12, which contain the following intelligence from China:— PEKIN GAZETTES ON THE PEIHO MASSACRE.— ...

    Article : 625 words
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