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  2. "CLAWING."

    MR. DALLEY must really try to find time to edit a revised edition of "The Polite Letter-writer." He is inimitable in the graceful way in which he invites a man to accept an office of emolument and profit. ...

    Article : 428 words
  3. THE WOULD IS FULL OF BEAUTY.

    THERE is a voice within me, And 'tis so sweet a voice, That its soft [?]pings win me, Till tears start to mine eyes: ...

    Article : 405 words
  4. NARROW-GAUGE AND OTHER RAILWAYS AND BRIDGES IN CALIFORNIA.

    WE take the following extracts from a letter in the Queenslander, which, although written for Queensland, is equally applicable to this district.- Santa Clara, February 13, 1876. ...

    Article : 2,151 words
  5. THE HAMILTON GHOST.

    THE Hamilton (Victoria) Spectator writes:—"A considerable sensation prevails in the neighbourhood of Macarthur owing to the nocturnal presence of an apparition which has been seen by several persons on ...

    Article : 315 words
  6. REMARKABLE TRIAL FOR MURDER.

    A REMARKABLE trial for murder has just taken place at Nenagh. The accused, Michael Burke, was tried twice before, in conjunction with his father, Martin Burke, the victim of the outrage being Stephen ...

    Article : 519 words
  7. LAND SALES.

    GRAFTON.—The following lots will be offered at the Police Office, Grafton, on Wednesday, 1yth May: —Country Lots: Lot A, 49 acres, B, 48 acres 3 roods, county of Clarence, parish of Southgate, adjoining the ...

    Article : 1,527 words
  8. BRIDGING THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.

    A RIVAL project, as audacious, perhaps, as that of the propound tunnelling of the English Channel, has just been broached, for attainment of the same object, by the building of a causeway over "the little streak" ...

    Article : 254 words
  9. "ITS' A LEE."

    RATHER a good joke was got off upon elderly Scotchman the other day at the Exhibition (reports the Newcastle Herald.) At one of the printing plants in operation within the building various publications, ...

    Article : 213 words
  10. LIGHT READING.

    Nautical.—Boatmen are apt to be crafty. A man who must draw the Line Somewhere.—A surveyor. It will be seen by the list of failures that the United ...

    Article : 2,746 words
  11. ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO POISON.

    WILLIAM M'EWAN, blacksmith's striker, was charged at the Police Court, Sydney, last Monday, with having, on the previous Tuesday, administered poison to his wife with intent to murder. Isabella M'Ewan, ...

    Article : 1,214 words
  12. GRANDILOQUENT PUFFING.

    WE are not sure that the attractions of Easington Grange, in Northumberland, are not outdone by the attractions of another spot in the same part of England, which is now also for sale, but which bears the ...

    Article : 563 words
  13. TAKING THE HAT ROUND.

    As amusing story comes from Paris, which is too good not to be true:—Some time ago there was in London for the season a lady who is very well known in the French fashionable world. One day she ...

    Article : 258 words
  14. NEWSPAPER STATISTICS.

    FROM the "Newspaper Press Directory for 1876" we extract the following on the present position of the Newspaper Press:—"There are now published in the United Kingdom 1642 newspapers, distributed as ...

    Article : 172 words
  15. WHO'S WHO?

    "WHO'S who," (says the Echo) is always a must interesting question, though sometimes a rather delicate one to answer. In England a whole book has been written in order that everybody may know who ...

    Article : 576 words
  16. DISTURBANCES AT THE MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY.

    THE rowdyism of the Melbourne University students which commenced on the 22nd ultimo culminated on the 27th in one of their number, who had written to the Daily Telegraph to support the statements of "An ...

    Article : 335 words
  17. CAPTAIN COOK'S VESSEL.

    THAT the brotherly Love, the vessel on board of which the great circumnavigator, and discoverer of New South Wales and Victoria, Captain Cook, served his time and obtained his certificate as mate, should ...

    Article : 171 words
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