The following prologue was delivered by Mr. C. F. Chubb at the above "bee," held in aid of the funds for providing a peal of bells for St. John's church:— The session o'er, our members need "a spell," ...
Article : 696 wordsTHE RENTON ROMANCE.—We take following from the Argus:—John Renton, who was recently rescued by a trading schooner from a savage island of the Soloman Group, where he had been a captive for ...
Article : 3,310 wordsDEAR SIR,—To some of your readers the following extracts from Carlyle may prove son alleviation, if not an antidote, to the "heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to:"— ...
Article : 470 wordsThrough the courtesy of the Colonial Treasurer we are enabled to furnish our readers with the official report of the Star Queen inquiry. The evidence adduced on board the ship on the 16th instant has ...
Article : 818 wordsSir,—The Chinese question here has assumed another form from hitherto—not how to deal with the living, but how to dispose of the dead. Thirty-five miles from Cooktown, on the road to the Palmer, the dead ...
Article : 640 wordsWe extract the following from the Courier's London letter. Our readers cannot have forgotten the first chapter of the discreditable narrative:— An appeal from a son to a father, on an ecclesiastical ...
Article : 680 wordsA mob of 300 cattle have left Congoolo (the Messrs. Williams' station) for, I believe, Adelaide. A considerable mob has also left Cleveland Downs (Cobb and Co.'s) for the same place. Mr. Powell has also ...
Article : 389 wordsThe following is an extract from a home letter written by a gentleman to a friend in Sydney:— "This morning I paid a visit I have long promised myself—viz., to full-blown ritualistic church, and as ...
Article : 1,512 wordsOne fine morning during last week (says the Border Post) three strapping young Australians, who reside in the Albury district, sallied forth mounted on well-appointed ...
Article : 471 wordsSteeplechasing (says the Echo) is but a brutal sport at best, and rather worthy the tastes of a nation that take delight in such spectacles as bull-fights than our English notions of manly sport. ...
Article : 366 wordsSome days ago (says the Maitland Mercury), while engaged in removing the machinery and effecting repairs to the old mill in East Maitland, Mr. William Cottrill ...
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