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  2. A SINGULAR VERDICT.

    THE Bruce Herald (N.Z.) has the following from its Dunedin correspondent: The long and interesting case—to business men at least—of Flexham v. Standard insurance Company has at last terminated. The ...

    Article : 398 words
  3. EUROPEAN NEWS.

    ENCOURAGED by the friendly attitude of the Colonial Office, on the llth September a conference was held at the Charing Cross Hotel to consider the best means of colonsinf New Guinea, with a view to its ultimate ...

    Article : 1,466 words
  4. BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLITICS.

    LONDON, November 9.—At a banquet given by the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli made a speech, in which he said that war with China, which some time ago seemed to be immi ...

    Article : 192 words
  5. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

    THE second session of the eighth Parliament of New South Wales was opened on Tuesday last, at noon, with the usual formalities. There was a good attendance of members and their friends, and the brilliant ...

    Article : 1,105 words
  6. COLONIAL NEWS.

    Nicholas Garrick was drowned in the Yarra on Sunday. He was out with another young man fishing, for cels. They were seen by the sons of Mr. Edwards, the boatbuilder, larking together early in ...

    Article : 1,706 words
  7. THE VICTORIA N'YANZA REACHED.

    I AM happy to inform you that intelligence has been received at the office of the Daily Telegraph from the famous African explorer, Henry M. Stanley, which will relieve the minds of many anxious friends who ...

    Article : 250 words
  8. THE LATE CAPTAIN HOVELL.

    THE decease of Captain William Hilton Hovell, which took place in Sydney on Tuesday, the 9th November, recals attention to his very long and memorable career. He was born on the 26th April, 1786, so that he was ...

    Article : 441 words
  9. GOVERNMENT DREDGES.

    A VERY good illustration of the difficulties that may beset a paternal Government, was given the other day. A deputation waited on the Minister for Works to urge upon him the necessity for the immediate ...

    Article : 376 words
  10. REVISION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

    THE New Testament of the Revisers has, it would seem, reached that stage at which we may sum up what has been done, and take stock of the work. The well-known Unitarian scholar, Dr. Vance Smith, ...

    Article : 827 words
  11. RICHMOND RIVER.

    THE weather during the past week has been very changeable. Thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain and violent gasts of wind being of daily occurrence. We are informed that down the river the wind has ...

    Article : 337 words
  12. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.

    THE Tasmanian Tribune reports a fatal boat accident which occurred at Hobart Town on the Prince of Wales' Birthday. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, a waterman's boat left town for Kangaroo Point. The ...

    Article : 280 words
  13. SPORTING ITEMS.

    SOUTH GRAFTON RACES.—A meeting of the stewards of the above races took place at Mr T. Hawthorne's, Harp of Erin Hotel, on Tuesday last, 16th instant. The attendance was good, the whole of the members ...

    Article : 543 words
  14. ANOMALIES OF THE LAW.

    SOME of the sentences passed by his Honor Mr. Justice Faucett, during the present session of the Control Criminal Court, will appear somewhat anomalous and irreconcilable to the philosophic mind, ...

    Article : 524 words
  15. THE TENTERFIELD PETITION.

    WHEN nature is unusually sparing in the allotment of a man's physical proportions she generally, by way of compensation, adds an inordinate amount of motaphysical blaster to the composition that the fittest ...

    Article : 348 words
  16. TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCHES.

    THERE has been a good deal of fighting at Perak. The English troops captured some stockades, repulsed the Malays, took six cannon, and burnt villages along the line of march. ...

    Article : 51 words
  17. Australian Associated Press Telegrams.

    Mr Richard Driver has been elected Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Assembly. Notice of resolutions given condemnatory of Members of the Assembly practising as land agents. ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. THE RAILWAY AGITATION.

    THE Glen Innes people appear determined to stand upon their dignity, and, as far in their power, to obtain railway communication with Grafton, a project which has been mooted for some time past. ...

    Article : 513 words
  19. LATEST SHIPPING.

    The C. mid N. E. S. N. Co's, steamer New England sails for the Clarence River to-night. The ship Damascus, from London, arrived to-day. The Vasco di Gama, with the English mails, via ...

    Article : 48 words
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