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  2. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

    The present month being the last during which the International Exhibition will remain open and the Easter holidays being over, the attendance is gradually getting less, and some of the courts are being dismantled. On the 5th ...

    Article : 16,631 words
  3. MILITARY MATTERS.

    The continuous training or encampment of the Volunteer Infantry and Engineer portions of the defence forces of this colony, held at the Victoria Barracks, Paddington, and at the Middle Held, concluded on Wednesday, the 31st of last ...

    Article : 212 words
  4. SPORTING.

    The Autumn Meeting of the Australian Jockey Club took place at Randwick on March the 29th and 31st, and April the 3rd and 5th, the last two days having been postponed on account of wet weather. The attendance was ...

    Article : 1,532 words
  5. THE FINE ARTS.

    The Government has commissioned Signor Fontana to execute three life=size marble statues for the new Government offices in Bridge-street, one to be placed at the Macquarie-street entrance, another at the Bridge-street entrance, ...

    Article : 191 words
  6. THE PARIS EXHIBITION—ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE OF WALES.

    The most beautiful address that we have seen for a long time is that which the New South Wales Commissioners to the Paris Exhibition intend soon to forward to H. R. H. the Prince of Wales. It occupies three pages, and will be ...

    Article : 597 words
  7. MUSIC AND THE DRAMA.

    Madame Camilla Urso has just brought another brilliant and profitable series of concerts to a close; and, after a tour through New Zealand, is to leave us for America. Night after night of late, in the worst possible weather, the ...

    Article : 424 words
  8. RELIGIOUS.

    On the 31st March, the Bishop of Sydney formally consecrated a piece of ground as a site for a church and cemetery, at Faulconbridge, near the country residence of Sir Henry Parkes, who gave the land. ...

    Article : 494 words
  9. CIVIC AND SANITARY.

    The Sydney Municipal Council have not engaged in any extensive work recently, but have shown some activity in erecting new lamps, and extending water mains where they were required, and in some instances have engaged in ...

    Article : 344 words
  10. PUBLIC WORKS AND CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

    Excavations are being proceeded with on a large scale, for the purpose of extending the General Post Office from George-street to Pitt-street. At present a portion of the building only is finished, and this presents a complete ...

    Article : 348 words
  11. LABOUR.

    A largely-attended open-air anti-Chinese meeting was held by the Political Reform Union, on April 3, at the Haymarket-square. The following resolution was carried: "That, in the opinion of this meeting, no future Chinese ...

    Article : 160 words
  12. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

    The adjourned cases against John M'Nulty, the keeper of a common gaming house in King-street; and against Philip Henry Solomon and Isaac Grounds respectively, for assisting in the conduct of such house, were proceeded with ...

    Article : 337 words
  13. THE WEATHER, AGRICULTURAL AND PASTORAL.

    The closing week of March and first week of April brought about a change which was most acceptable to the agriculturists of the colony, who now enter into autumn work with spirit, the soil having for the greater part ...

    Article : 491 words
  14. MINING.

    There is notting to report in reference to the colliery disputes at Newcastle. One or two meetings of the miners have been held, but no decision has been arrived at. It has been arramged that the Associated Colliery masters should ...

    Article : 410 words
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