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  2. A LADY'S LETTER FROM LONDON.

    The Queen's first Drawing-room this season is said to have been the biggest ever held—there were 600 ladies—at any rate it was a rush to get in, the more so as her dear Majesty ...

    Article : 3,438 words
  3. EASTER ENCAMPMENT.

    Anyone who wanted to judge of the popularity of the military had only to attend yesterday the camp which has been pitched within and without the Victoria Barracks, and he would have been afforded ...

    Article : 2,212 words
  4. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHIPPING.

    Arrived: Harbinger, ship, from Melbourne, sailed 20th January; Loch Ness, ship, from Melbourne, sailed 3rd January (for Hull); Loch Katrine, ship, from Geelong, sailed 1st January; Helena Mena, barque, from ...

    Article : 591 words
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    Advertising : 423 words
  6. SOME AMERICANISMS.

    It is curious that the inventive genius of the American people has not yet been devoted to the production of a new language. When the world is well stocked with wooden nutmegs, and no ...

    Article : 2,188 words
  7. ASHFIELD WESLEYAN CHURCH.

    The anniversary of the Sunday school in connection with the above was celebrated during the week. On Sunday special services were held, the Rev. Rainsford Bavin (pastor) preaching in the morning, ...

    Article : 147 words
  8. THE A.U.S.N. COMPANY'S LINE.

    The Fitzroy sails to-day at 5 p.m. for Brisbane and ports to Rockhampton. The Bulimba leaves Sydney Wednesday next for Melbourne, Adelaide, Albany, Fremantle, and Geraldton. The Wodonga is due to-day from Melbourne, ...

    Article : 126 words
  9. THE TRIAL OF THE AORANGI.

    The trial [?] of the Aorangi, mentioned the other day, is further described in advices by yesterday's mail. The report says:—"This steamer, fitted out to the order of Messrs. James Huddart and Co., London, by Messrs. C. ...

    Article : 304 words
  10. PRESENTS TO CLEVELAND.

    President and Mrs. Cleveland (says an American paper; are now engaged in a unique task preparatory to their departure from the White House. It is a task that all Presidents have had to perform ...

    Article : 674 words
  11. EARTHQUAKES ON THE MEXICAN COAST.

    A telegram from Colima (Mexico) on 18th February to the San Francisco Chronicle says:—The people of this vicinity were treated to a shaking up last Saturday which for a time set almost the entire ...

    Article : 341 words
  12. TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYERS.

    H.M.S. Whiting, torpedo boat destroyer, built at Jarrow by Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Limited, has been taken out to [?]for trial previously to being despatched to the dockyard. She was run a number of times ...

    Article : 237 words
  13. NEW STEAMERS FOR THE JAPAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

    By yesterday's English mail the following particulars of new steamers for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, represented here by Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Co., were received. The Hakata Marua, a twin-screw steamer, 5911 tons gross, went ...

    Article : 127 words
  14. FIRE AT A FAMOUS SHIPYARD.

    A disastrous fire broke out in the works of the Fairfield Engineering and Shipbuilding Company, Govan (formerly known as Messrs. John Elder and Co.), on the morning of 4th February. The ...

    Article : 355 words
  15. THE COSTA RICA PACKET.

    The English mail per Orizaba has the following from the Parliamentary reports:—In reply to Mr. Hogan, Mr. Curzon said the award of the arbitrator in the Costa Rica Packet case has been received, and is to the following ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. BRITISH WRECKS REPORTED IN FEBRUARY.

    The number and tonnage of British vessels respecting whose loss reports were received at the Board of Trade during the month of February last, and the number of lives lost, were as follows:—Sailing: Number, 36; ...

    Article : 129 words
  17. TRIAL TRIPS OF A FIRST-CLASS BATTLESHIP.

    On the 6th ultimo the first-class battleship Jupiter, having completed her trials, returned to Chathan. The eight hours full-power natural draught trial was run in a perfect gale, but the engines developed 10.48-h.p., and the ...

    Article : 150 words
  18. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR SOCIETY.

    The Christian Endeavour Society in connection with St. Peters Primitive Methodist Church celebrated their fourth anniversary on Sunday and Tuesday last. The Sunday services were conducted ...

    Article : 176 words
  19. THE TOKIO MARU.

    This steamer has completed another successful trip from Japanese and Chinese ports, arriving yesterday with a full complement of cargo, and several passengers. She berthed at the Company's wharf, Circular Quay, on arrival, and ...

    Article : 114 words
  20. MR. HUGH PRICE HUGHES AND ANSWERS TO PRAYER.

    Mr. Hugh Price Hughes, in the March Sunday Magazine, gives some of the results of his experience of answers to prayer. One of the examples he cites may be mentioned. Not long ago the West ...

    Article : 505 words
  21. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.

    The committee of management of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have pressed the Government to agree to the early appointment of a select committee of the House of Commons to inquire fully into the administration ...

    Article : 421 words
  22. CITY MISSION.

    Special services have been held at the Paddington Mission Hall this week. The annual meetiug in connection with the Mission will be held at the Y.M.C.A. Hall on ...

    Article : 81 words
  23. MEETING OF THE ASTROLOGICAL SOCIETY.

    The first annual meeting of the Astrological Society was held in London on the 5th February at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street. The report congratulated the members on the fact that "at ...

    Article : 476 words
  24. TIMBERS FOR WOOD-BLOCK STREET-PAVING.

    Sir,—In the Herald, of the 6th April appeared a letter from Mr. J. Young, who says he is surprised at Mr. Richards not recommending a wood that grows plentifully in New South Wales, and equally ...

    Article : 269 words
  25. THE PROPOSED INVERELL-MOREE RAILWAY.

    Sir,—The action of the Public Works Committee in recommending the connection of Inverell with Moree by rail has caused considerable surprise throughout this district, as the evidence produced ...

    Article : 190 words
  26. NESTLE'S FOOD.

    for Infants, Children, and Invalids.—[ADVT.] ...

    Article : 9 words
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