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 wordsOn 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 wordsIt 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsAu 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 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsAn 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 wordsMr. 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 ...
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