We find in an American periodical a discription of the system adopted on the Missisippi in building flood embankments, called there "levees." As our Hunter floods bring ...
Article : 838 wordsTHE WEATHER IN VICTORIA.—During the greater part of last week it was cloudy and dull, with moderate west and South-westerly winds, and light rainshowers, but towards the ...
Article : 1,170 wordsMonday, October 17: Very cold all day, [?]ull, threatening; about half-past four Monday afternoon commenced to rain very heavy, and continued until about four a.m. on ...
Article : 1,150 wordsSIR,—Seeing in your paper dated June 28th a paragraph in reference to a lamp being put in Northumberland-street. On the motion of Alderman Wilkinson, he states ...
Article : 92 wordsIn the Assembly to-day the Chief Secretary stated that an amount had been placed on the Estimates for additions to the Port Augusta Hospital, and the work would be ...
Article : 312 wordsSIR,—Would you kindly correct the error which I saw in your paper concerning the fire at my place, on the 12th instant. I never said that any person set it on fire, as I do ...
Article : 70 wordsSIR,—It is an axiom of political economy that a country is prosperous in proportion to the extent of its productions. Acting upon this theory, our Legislature has hitherto ...
Article : 335 wordsThe Acting-Governor has issued a proclamation containing an ultimatum to Te Whiti. It recites the various efforts made to effect an amicable settlement, and says ...
Article : 914 wordsThe effects of last night's gale were severely felt at Sandridge. The wind had a most disastrous effect on the shipping. Numbers of yachts were torn from their moorings, ...
Article : 269 wordsSIR,—In writing my letter of the 15th instant, I inadvertently wrote "is" instead of "are" in the sentence, "Any legitimate efforts" &c., &c., thereby making the sentence ...
Article : 58 wordsSIR,—In your issue of Thursday last, your Murrurundi correspondent, complaining about the high price charged for meat in that town, says: "In Scone the price of meat is ...
Article : 152 wordsThe Tamworth papers contain notices of the new gaol at that place. Our readers will remember that Mr. D. McLean, for many years head warder at the Maitland Gaol, was ...
Article : 428 wordsHIGGINBOTTOM V. NORRIS AND CO.—The plaintiff in this case, a cotton-waste dealer, carrying on business in Manchester, sued the defendant for breach of contract for the ...
Article : 338 wordsSIR,—We read in a London newspaper of repute that "a 'shoe black plant,' a species of hibiscus, grows in New South Wales and is frequently cultivated for the sake of its ...
Article : 126 wordsFollowing out the excellent plan initiated by Mr. John Mitchell, J.P., for extending the objects of the Hunter River Farmers' Association, that gentleman arranged for a ...
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