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  2. Celebrities at Botany Bay.

    TAKE this opportunity of replying to a letter from a correspondent of this ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 284 words
  3. BENSON'S BRIDE.

    ENSON was the undisputed magnate of Berringawatta. He had risen to that dignity by ...

    Article : 2,074 words
  4. THE IRISH SCARE.

    After this interview the two men saw nothing more of each other. Mealmaker's skill as a weaver was turned to the account by Governor Hunter, who sent him up to Parramatta to teach the art of ...

    Article : 212 words
  5. CONVICTS IN FIJI.

    At this time the Fiiians had not been accus-tomed to European visitors, no trade having yet sprung up in cocoanuts and tortoiseshell, sandal-wood or beche-de-mer. Nor had any runaway ...

    Article : 248 words
  6. A LOYAL SUBJECT.

    "Though sent to this country as convicted of se-dition, he ever would have spurned with indigna-tion the man who would have mentioned a plot or libellous movement to him; he hath never been ...

    Article : 288 words
  7. AN AUSTRALIAN ACTOR.

    HOUGH the duties of a prompter in a theatre, dealt with in a former paper, require special ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,790 words
  8. NAPPER TANDY.

    It is equally difficult to believe that Muir, who had only been a few months in Paris, and who had been cut off from all communication with his friends for five years. could have worked himself up ...

    Article : 201 words
  9. BAD ENDS.

    But with all these advantages, they did not flourish. Some fell under the clubs and spears of the enemy in time of war, some were stabbed or shot in drunken quarrels, and some were killed ...

    Article : 306 words
  10. A LOST HERO.

    Napper Tandy, by the way, had a narrow escape from, the fats which so many of his fellow-rebels met with. After his arrest, trial, and sentence to death, in 1801, he was saved from execution by ...

    Article : 246 words
  11. A VOYAGE HOME.

    For many months before his sentence expired in September, 1800, Palmer was actively engaged, with his friend Ellis, in making arrangements for his return home. Having been successful in ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. PRISONERS OF WAR.

    When the Swallow was refitted the friendly savages were rewarded for their kindness, and the ship sailed for Macao, in South China, one of the few ports in that country open to European ...

    Article : 265 words
  13. TAKING LEAVE.

    A farewell visit was paid by Palmer to Governor Hunter, who was also going home, to get a certificate that he had served his term—a very necessary document to an expiree leaving the country. ...

    Article : 320 words
  14. GERRALD'S TOMB.

    'Since writing on this topic, I have received a letter from one of the best-informed of old Sydney residents as to the locality of Gerrald's burial place; and, as the information it contains may be of ...

    Article : 156 words
  15. HIS LAST HOME.

    Two years afterwards an American ship touched at this island, and the captain, in an interview with the Governor, informed him that he had done go for the purpose of obtaining permission ...

    Article : 138 words
  16. THE THREE TOMS.

    Of course Muir was always represented as a republican by Tory writers, but their opinion can hardly be taken as unprejudiced. What they are worth may be seen from the caricatures of ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. The New Russian Powder.

    A correspondent of the London "Times" says that an experiment with armor plating has been recently carried out in Russia which presents certain features of rattier more than usual ...

    Article : 323 words
  18. OLD FRIENDS.

    Towards the end of '99, Palmer had an unexpected meeting with the Dundee weaver who induced him to attend the meeting of the Friends of Liberty in that city, at which the fatal handbill was adopted. ...

    Article : 247 words
  19. A STRONG SIMILE.

    They were quite of one mind on that point. Hunter could not restrain hie indignation when speaking of the military traders. "They have been doing their beet all along to ruin the colony ...

    Article : 197 words
  20. A.Second Dreyfus.

    Considerable interest is displayed in Parts, says the "Telegraph," in the case of the retired artillery captain who was arrested at Amiens and Drought on to Paris, where he is awaiting his trial by ...

    Article : 383 words
  21. NEW ZEALAND TO TONGA.

    Setting sail in the early days of October, 1800, the Swallow reached the south-west coast of the Middle Island, and entered Dusky Scand, where they went ashore, pitched their bents, and set the ...

    Article : 282 words
  22. UNITED SCOTSMEN.

    Then he went on to say that, in '97, he had become a member of a Society of United Scotsmen, formed in that year, for the purpose of carrying on the agitation for annual parliaments and universal ...

    Article : 289 words
  23. A Radical's income.

    Litigation between M. Rochefort, editor, and M. Vaughan, manager of "The Intransigeant," and decided in favor of the latter, has revealed the fact that in the last seven years M. Rochefort has ...

    Article : 205 words
  24. A L0ST SHEPHERD.

    Nevertheless, hoping that the war had died out by that time, and that the natives would be glad to trade with an English ship again, a course was steered for Tonga. On reaching it, they had ...

    Article : 297 words
  25. A WEAVER'S SPEECH.

    "I think my sentence hard, considering it has only been proved against me that I published the 'Catechism,' which I solemnly declare was merely intended as simple or abstract political propositions ...

    Article : 197 words
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