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  2. SIR CHARLES HOTHAM'S MONUMENT.

    Happy to escape from the eternal wrangles of factious politicians,' and for a while to leave behind the "smoke and stir" of Melbourne streets, we paid a visit the other afternoon to ...

    Article : 550 words
  3. THE NORTHERN EXPLORATION.

    Sir—The fact that I have been recalled and superseded by the Government in the command of the Northern Exploring Expedition cannot but be fresh in the memory of your readers. I stand, therefore, publicly before my ...

    Article : 640 words
  4. MINERAL WEALTH OF THE MURRAY.

    Every day strengthens the conviction that the valley of the Upper Murray is nothing more nor less than one vast gold-field. During the week the men employed by Mr. Surveyor Haege ...

    Article : 904 words
  5. AN AMERICAN POLITICAL DUEL.

    The San Francisco correspondent of the New York Herald, writing on the 6th September, describes a duel which took place on the 21st of August, on Angel Island, in the Bay of San Francisco, between George Penn ...

    Article : 1,080 words
  6. THE SO-CALLED GAWLER RACES.

    Sir—Conceiving that the maxim "whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," is as applicable to the arrangement of public races for promoting improvement in horses as to ploughing matches, I beg to suggest to the ...

    Article : 330 words
  7. LEASING SYSTEM ON THE GOLDFIELDS OF VICTORIA.

    At length steps have been taken for the actual introduction of the leasing system on the gold-fields. A set of regulations has received the sanction of the Governor in Council, and has ...

    Article : 1,260 words
  8. THE PROTESTANT BISHOP AND HIS CLERGY.

    Sir—It is "a recorded fact" that in a recent case of charges made against a clergyman, the Bishop promised unconditionally "to meet both parties face to face," and that he afterwards demurred on account of "the present ...

    Article : 125 words
  9. MAGISTERIAL DESPOTISM.

    Lieutenant Francis Higginson, of the Royal Navy, applied for a summons, under the Joint Stock Companies Act, against the Atlantic Telegraph Company, of 23, Old Broad-street, for not having made a return to the Registrar of ...

    Article : 579 words
  10. THE PRESS OF ENGLAND.

    As we have taken upon ourselves to disregard the recommendation addressed to us on the propriety of abstaining from comment pending the progress of a public enquiry, we owe it to the ...

    Article : 1,854 words
  11. INDIA.

    If any evidence were needed to prove the correctness of the opinion we have all along maintained respecting British affairs in India at the present time, namely, that one grand evil which ...

    Article : 1,391 words
  12. WHAT'S A COMET?

    Astronomy in these days has become to most people a very cut and dried science. Sir Isaac Newton has told us all about it. There is the sun in the centre, and the planets revolve round ...

    Article : 1,866 words
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    SINGULAR SPONGE.—There is now exhibiting in Gawler a very curious sponge, having to the imaginative much the appearance of the human figure, from being biforcated about the middle, and having a little ...

    Article : 632 words
  14. THE GLACIERS OF SWITZERLAND.

    The following most interesting letter from an earnest and philosophical investigator of the glaciers appears in the Times, with a note signed "W. Faraday," who communicated it:— ...

    Article : 1,242 words
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    HINDMARSH SCHOOL, PORT-ROAD.—The public examination of the above school washeld on Wednesday, the 22nd inst. The Rev. Wm. Wilson occupied the chair. The examination was conducted by the ...

    Article : 333 words
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