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  2. MINING INTELLIGENCE.

    The following quotations were received in the Mining Market on Saturday:—Burwood Coal, 23s.; Vale of Clwydd Coal, 21s. 6d.; Waratah Coal, 13[?], 14; West Wallsend Coal (paid up), 13s.; ditto (contributing), 5s. 3d. ...

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  3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

    We have received a copy of the "Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1886." This is a bulky volume of 656 pages, edited and published under the authority of the Board of Governors of the institute, ...

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  4. LECTURES.

    On Saturday night Mr. David Ritchie delivered a lecture in the School of Arts, upon" What the Pyramids Reveal of Ancient Egypt." The lecture, which is the second of a series, was very largely attended. The lecturer said: As ...

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  5. AMUSEMENTS.

    A season of Shakespearian drama, under the direction of Mr. W. J. Holloway, was initiated at the Criterion Theatre on Saturday evening. The play chosen for the occasion was the familiar love tragedy " Romeo and Juliet," and, ...

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  6. THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AT BATHURST.

    Mr. Clarke, the Minister for Justice, visited the new gaol works to-day, with Mr. M'Loan, Comptroller of Prisons, and Mr. Cole, of the Colonial Architect's Department. With him were the Hon. Mr. Webb, M.L.C., and ...

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  7. GAS FOR HEATING PURPOSES.

    On Thursday evening a lecture on the subject of " Gas for Heating Purposes; its Use, Abuse, and Cost, compared to Coal; and how it is made to Work Engines," was delivered in the School of Arts Hall, Pitt-street, by Mr. J. L. ...

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  8. THE ROYAL STANDARD THEATRE.—" THE WRECK OF THE DUNBAR."

    At the Royal Standard Theatre on Saturday night, Mr. Dampier's company produced for the first time a four-act drama culled " The Wreck of the Dunbar." The incidents of the drama depend upon the issue of a set of ...

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  9. INVITATION TO THE PREMIER TO VISIT COROWA.

    In laying the claims of this part of the colony to railway communication with Sydney before Sir Henry Parkes recently, Mr. James Hayes, M.L.A., elicited from the Premier a desire on his part to visit Corowa and the ...

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  10. THE LATE W. E. SHERIDAN.

    About 400 persons met in the Waverley Cemetery yesterday afternoon to witness the unveiling of a handsome marble tombstone, which has been erected over the grave of the late Mr. William E. Sheridan, the tragedian and ...

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  11. MANAGER'S REPORTS.

    Big Hill Silver-mining Company, Limited, August 29.— Tunnel now in 307ft., ground still very hard, and much the same in its nature as at last report, viz., small bands of pyrites and quartzite, intersected with small veins of ...

    Article : 342 words
  12. MAITLAND BRANCH OF THE FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION.

    On Friday evening a meeting for the purpose of starting a branch of the Free Trade Association of New South Wales was held in Prentice's Hall, Bourke-street. Between 30 and 40 gentlemen were present. Mr. R. W. Thompson ...

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  13. MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.

    This council met on Thursday evening Present: The Mayor (Mr. W. G Judd), Aldermen Smyth, Godfrey, Jeeves, Green, Archbold Huntley, Cooke, and Price. Alderman Price handed to the Mayor his declaration of ...

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  14. [BY TELEGRAPH.]

    Some trial crushings by the Union Gold-mining Company, Dalmorton, of stone from reefs in the neighbourhood, averaged half-an-ounce to 15dwt. The claim known as Taylor's Prospectors, Mann River, it is reported, is to be ...

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  15. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

    The following have passed through:— For Melbourne (by express on Saturday): Jas. Steele, Stewart, G. Watson, Commissioner Howard, Colonel Barker, J. M'Culloch, David Jones. F. Battley, N. ...

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  16. PASTORAL INTELLIGENCE.

    The following stock have been trucked:—340 fat cattle from Thargomindah, Armytage and Powell; 200 ditto, and 2000 fat ewes trucked at Byrock, G. and H. Suttor. WILCANNIA, SATURDAY. ...

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  17. THE AMY SHERWIN CONCERTS.

    The Opera House was well attended on Saturday evening, when Miss Amy Sherwin gave the first of her new series of concerts. The stage was fitted up as a drawing-room scene, and the concert was commenced at nearly a ...

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  18. BLUE METAL FOR THE CENTENNIAL PARK.

    Sir,—In the "tender" column I notice an advertisement for Melbourne blue metal, by the director of the Botanical Gardens. I am informed that this materialis to be used on the roads at the Centennial Park. May I ask some of your ...

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  19. THE OYSTER TRADE.

    Sir,—In your paper of Saturday's date, under the heading "As you like it," your correspondent relates the experience of a new chum in not being able to procure an eatable oyster in Sydney. I quite agree with him at the present time. The ...

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  20. PETERSHAM PARK.

    Sir,—Be good enough to allow me in reply to the Mayor of Petersham's letter, published to-day, to say that the Wentworth Paddock site for a park was not advocated strongly until it seemed clear that Annandale land could ...

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  21. RAILWAY STATION INDICATORS.

    Sir,—Cases constantly occurring on our suburban lines of people being over-carried past their proper stations, through the present imperfect means of notifying passengers, it occurs to me to suggest to the autherities that a very ...

    Article : 161 words
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