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  2. AUSTRALIAN JOURNEYS.

    A Budburst correspondent, under date November 20. writes :—Some wonderful journeys are accomplished by Australians, whose adventurous spirit often leads them into positions of difficulty ...

    Article : 382 words
  3. A £500 AMERICAN TROTTER.

    On Saturday evening last, about six o’clock, a serious buggy accident occurred in Park-street, South Yarra, Melbourne. It was caused by want of thought, or want of knowledge of the way to ...

    Article : 454 words
  4. A MAN ATTACKED BY ANTS.

    It is not often that ants attack a human being, any rate until after he has “sh[?]lled off this mortal coil.” An instance, however, in which a number of bulldog nuts attacked an unfortunate ...

    Article : 180 words
  5. IMPORTATION OF GRAPE VINES PROHIBITED.

    The following is the text of the Act absented to 15th November to prohibit the importation of grape-vines, vine cuttings, and grapes:—“Whereas it is desirable to prevent the introduction of the ...

    Article : 315 words
  6. STRANGE CASE OF “ HOCUSING.”

    A strange occurrence is related from Clarence, Tasmania. On Saturday (says the Hobart Mercury) P. C. Osborne discovered on the Cambridge road, about a mile and a half from Bellerive. a ...

    Article : 113 words
  7. [?] THE PRINTER FAIR PLAY.

    Au American piper says:—“Do not forget that it costs [?] to puff as well as to advertise ; never sponge upon a printer. It is the printer’s ink that makes nine-tenths or our ...

    Article : 134 words
  8. DISASTROUS FIRE AT COBAR.

    A telegram from Cobar, dated Tuesday last, states that a lire, which has destined a considerable portion of the town of Cobar, broke out about a quarter to 9 o’clock that night in the Metropolitan ...

    Article : 275 words
  9. A NEW VIEW OF THE PHYLLONERA.

    A practical authority, General Showers, who has had long experience in the Indian agricultural department, in which he conducted many experiments for the improvement of indigenous products ...

    Article : 272 words
  10. ABORIGINAL DIGGERS.

    A party out mustering on the confines of Broadmeadows run (says the Clarence Kotminer) recently came on a rather strange party of diggers in a very out-of-the-way corner. It was composed ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. INDIAN IMMIGRATION TO FIJI.

    The following is the minute of his Excellency the Governor of Fiji respecting the terms on which the importation of coolie labor will be permitted in that colony :—“ The Governor takes the ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. A MISSING MUNICIPAL OFFICER.

    An Argus telegram, dated Sandhurst, Monday evening, states :—“There is now no occasion for any further reticence in the case of the shire secretary whose accounts are believed to be ...

    Article : 152 words
  13. PORT ALBERT FISH.

    Mr. F. C. Mason, M.L.A., received in Melbourne a few days since a line simple of Gippsland fish, chiefly flounders, as large in size, and as delicate in quality, as soles. The parcel was ...

    Article : 160 words
  14. EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

    The following extraordinary incident is related the Bathurst Star :—“On Friday, November 18, a well-known resident of Ballarat received no less than three urgent telegrams, requesting him ...

    Article : 369 words
  15. THE STEAMER FERRET.

    A motion was made on behalf of the Comitedes Assurers Martimes on October, against the Standard Bank of British South Africa, restrain the defendant from the accepting ...

    Article : 331 words
  16. THE MONEY-LENDING VULTURES.

    The manner in which certain money-lenders “skin” their clients is further illustrated by the following in reference to the absconder, Mr. Blarney, by the Ballarat Star:—A respectable Corner ...

    Article : 211 words
  17. STRANGE FREAKS OF A LUNATIC.

    A man named George Henry Vickery was brought up last week at Sale. Gippsland. charged with being a lunatic. lie was remanded to .Sale from Walhalla, and on the[?] thence to Sloe he ...

    Article : 193 words
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