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  2. NOTES OF THE WEEK.

    FROM THE 12TH OCTOBER TO THE 19TH OCTOBER. THE General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales has continued to sit and transact business. It has sat on the 12th, 13th, [?] 16th, ...

    Article : 2,569 words
  3. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—The bird referred by your correspondent " Sportsman," is the [?] leipoa, or lowan, also known as Mallco hen (Leipon ocellata), and belongs to the family [?] distinguished from all other birds in not ...

    Article : 402 words
  4. HORSE MARKET.

    Messrs. MARTIN and Co. report—Very little business has been done this week. At each sale nothing but town horses were offered, and the prices generally asked are considerably in excess of recent quotations, A few draughts of upstanding horses in ...

    Article : 459 words
  5. MAITLAND MARKETS.

    FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19.—Business: The wholesale trace has been dull this week, but the retail business shews a slight improvement on last week. The markets are quiet, and without any alterations worthy of note. Oilmen's stores are easier, owing to ...

    Article : 843 words
  6. MERCANTILE AND MONEY ARTICLE.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,724 words
  7. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS BILL.

    SIR,—I beg to hand you the following document as having soem interest at the present time. I think there is an argument in every line in favour of altering the present extravgant and westeful mode of distributing the votes for ...

    Article : 365 words
  8. ADELAIDE STOCK REPORT.

    FAT CATTLE.—The market has been fairly supplied and mostly with cattle of good and useful qualities, and sales have been readily made at satisfied prices. Prime beef realised up to 40s per 100 lbs. With moderate supplies good prices will continue to ...

    Article : 387 words
  9. VICTORIA.

    BY the Rangatira steamer we have two days' later news from Melbourne—her dates being to the 16th instant. OCEAN MAIL ROUTES.—Tuesday's Argus remarks that the present postal arrangements of the Australian colonies ...

    Article : 1,656 words
  10. BONDED STOCKS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 291 words
  11. AN EMBRYO INDUSTRY.

    SIR,—By invitation I visited Kiama, practically to test the sugar cane grown there. The result certainly exceeded, in point of the yield per acre, all I had ever known in various parts of the globe, as also in this colony. It was ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. THE SPOTTED GUM.

    SIR,—I see every week in your paper an advertisement for ironbark. It would thus almost seem as if there was no other timber as good as the ironbark. Allow me to say and maintain that spotted gum is as good as ironbark for any ...

    Article : 251 words
  13. THE AMERICAN PRESS AND THE ATLANTIC CABLE.

    THE Philadelphia correspondent of the Times, writing to that journal, says:—"If the cable continues in sucessful working order, a contract will speedily be made between the American ' Associated Press'—a great combination of ...

    Article : 285 words
  14. SYDNEY MARKETS.

    [Unless otherwise expressed, the prices quoted in this article are those transactions between the producer and the first purchaser.] Flour.—Fine (silk-dressed), £15; seconds,£13 oer ton of 2000 ...

    Article : 317 words
  15. CLIANTHUS DAMPIERII.

    SIR,—Can you, or any of your correspondents, inform me in what soil the plant Clianthus Dampierii, or Sturt's desert pea, can best be cultivated; also what is the proper time to sow the seed, whether it requires ...

    Article : 114 words
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