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  2. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

    SHEEP.—The Creswick Advertigersays:—"A curiosity is to be seen in Mr. Bateman's flock, Smeaton, in the shape of a Iamb, whose natural covering is replaced by long wiry hair. A rather unusual occurrence took ...

    Article : 608 words
  3. TRIFLES OF WIT AND HUMOR.

    It is an old proverb "that boys will be boys." What a pity 'tisn't equally true that men will be men. AN AFFECTIONATE BUTLDINO.—In the advertisement of a new hotel, it is said, "It embraces about sixty ...

    Article : 948 words
  4. A COLUMN FOR THE lADIES.

    FASHIONS FOR JANUABY.—Although the winter season has advanced, the fashion of wearing an entire toilet of the same material is still adopted. Of coarse there are only certain materials in which this is ...

    Article : 2,212 words
  5. LNTERCOLONIAL JOTTINGS.

    The Melbourne Age, of March 13, had a very strong leader anticipatory of the rejection of the Tariff Bill by the Legislative Council that . night. The Age maintained that the Assembly ...

    Article : 2,228 words
  6. THE LAST NEW DISEASE.

    We have lately had to refer more than once to the prevalence of parasitic disease in Germany, arising from eating pork infested with the newly observed trichina spiralis. Dr. Tkudichum ...

    Article : 1,011 words
  7. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    PUBLIC REVENUE.—The Sydney Morning Herald says "The estimates laid upon the table resemble very much the estimates of the previous Government. The sum appropriated for 1865 was £1,432,786, of which ...

    Article : 438 words
  8. CLIPPINGS FROM "MELBOURNE PUNCH."

    THE LAST UKASE.—Attorney General- "We are met, not to discuss the Tariff, but to pass it, and the gentlemen behind me were sent here for that purpose." [A lot of barbers' blocks, stuck on poles, are the ...

    Article : 295 words
  9. QUEENSLAND.

    MURDER OF A BOTANIST.—A brutal murder has been committed by the blacks in the neighborhood of Mooloolah, a small timber port to the northward of Bribie Island. The victim is Mr. William Stephens, ...

    Article : 326 words
  10. 0EXECUTION OF DUNN, THE BUSH RANGER.

    A sadder scene was never enacted in that arena of sorrow, suffering, and sin comprised within the walls of Darlinghurst Gaol, than when John Dunn—the last of the notorious trio who, setting religion and law at defiiance, ...

    Article : 777 words
  11. LOSS OF THE ARGONAUT.—DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW.

    The Argonaut was a full-rigged ship, of 1,078 tons. She was built at Quebec in 1858, and was commanded by Captain McKenzie. She sailed from St. John's, New Brunswick, for Greenock, on the 1st of December, ...

    Article : 786 words
  12. TASMANIA.

    The Hobart Town Mercury says that—"On Monday, the 5th instant, a party of gentlemen who were fishing at Brown's River, having provided themselves with some mussels for bait, found in some of the shells a ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. NEW ZEALAND.

    LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND PRISONS.—The following is an extract from a long letter in the New Zealand Herald:—"Talk of penal discipline? why there is no such thing in existence. What penal discipline is ...

    Article : 599 words
  14. THE LOSS OF THE LONDON.

    It is reported that some of the relatives and friends of those lost in the auxiliary screw ship London are dissatisfied with the efforts of the master and crew to save the lives of those who ...

    Article : 2,177 words
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