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  2. OYSTERS IN LONDON.

    Oysters are very dear, as everybody knows; the same kind that sold in London in the year 1862 for 6d. and 8d. a dozen are now realising 2s. 6d. The ...

    Article : 1,340 words
  3. THE OPEN COLUMN.

    [This portion of our paper is set apart for free interchange of opinion on topics of public interest, subject to the usual rules of newspaper correspondence. We are not, however, to be regarded as endorsing the views ...

    Article : 147 words
  4. PROPOSED FEW BRIDGE AT SNAKE GULLY.

    On Saturday a rural, social, festive, political, engineering, and sporting gathering of the mest improving and enjoyable character took place at a crossing of the Little Para. This meeting ...

    Article : 2,915 words
  5. THE MAY RACES V. TWO-YEAR-OLDS.

    Sir—In looking over the programme of the May Meeting I am struck with the absence of any special race for two-year-olds. I think this is an omission which might be easily rectified even ...

    Article : 452 words
  6. THE LATE MR. G. H. ROGERS.

    The death of the veteran comedian, Mr. G. H. Rogers, which took place at his residence in Fitzroy, on Monday night, will be widely regretted in the threa[?]rical profession, and by old ...

    Article : 330 words
  7. METHODISTS AND TEE PERMISSIVE BILL.

    Sir—My attention has been called to an en­quiry by your correspondent "J. B.," respecting a statement (attributed to me) that 22 mil­lions of Wesleyan total abstainers requested a ...

    Article : 106 words
  8. TOBACCO SMOKING.

    Sir—Some of your correspondents have again opened a crusade against smoking, though they will pot convert one single smoker oat of the 50,000,in this colony. As to the wholesomeness ...

    Article : 549 words
  9. WHAT RAILWAY DUST IS COMPOSED OF.

    Mr. Joseph Sidebotham has made a microscopical examination of dust blown into a railway carriage near Birmingham. He says—"I spread a paper on the seat of the carriage, near ...

    Article : 414 words
  10. GREAT FLOODS AT GREYMOUTH AND WESTPORT, IN NEW ZEALAND.

    Many in this colony will regret to hear that the disastrous floods which lately occurred in New Zealand have swept away the house, furniture, tools, &c., of Mr. and Mrs. Dale, formerly ...

    Article : 587 words
  11. IMPORTATION OF STOCK, &C.

    Sir—In your Parliamentary report of the 21st I observe a question was asked by the hon. member for Barossa, J. H. Angas, Esq., whether the Government were taking steps to prevent ...

    Article : 737 words
  12. SALE OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON'S WINE.

    The catalogue is out of 100,000 bottles, and 57 butts of the Emperor's wine, the sale of which by auction will commence, in the Louvre, on Thursday, and is expected to last a ...

    Article : 679 words
  13. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir—It seems impossible to convince tobacco-smokers that what is a luxury to them, is a nuisance to others, and that thera is no wish to deprive them of the blessed privilege of ...

    Article : 149 words
  14. BATHURST BURR.

    Sir—Would you be good enough to call the attention of Corporations, District Councils, and Crown Lands Rangers to the trouble likely to arise from the spread of Bathurst Burr, which ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    THE WALLAROO MINES.—There is no change to report here at present, but we understand from Various sources that the proprietors are very sore at the determination of the ...

    Article : 342 words
  16. COMPLIMENTARY FAREWELL LUNCHEON TO MR. D. BOWER.

    It having become hastily known that Mr. D. Bower intended to leave the colony on a visit to England, it was at once decided by many of his influential fellow-townsmen to assemble at ...

    Article : 1,817 words
  17. MINERS' WAGES.

    Sir—Much has been said about the rise of wages at the Moonta Mine, but I am sorry to say it has not rose with the miners. I was at the survey Saturday, February 3, when Captain ...

    Article : 466 words
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