OUR last summary [?]eft the Government, as was pre[?]med, in consultation on the subject of the new appoantments to the Legislative Council, the old body having expired by [?]ffonion of time, two days after the ...
Article : 2,241 wordsOne of the cheif events of the month has been a somewhat serious disturbance amongst the prisoners at Cockatoo Island. The confinees, comprising the very scum and dregs of colonial society, and number in all ...
Article : 955 wordsSeveral important improvements have been carried out, and others are in progress in the streets of Sydney. The continuation of Bridge-street, in front of the Government offices and tewards the entrance into the ...
Article : 239 wordsThe volunteer force, of this colony, is still on the increase; at present it numbers about 2200, a great majority of this number are well trained and disciplined. The principle features of interest in connection with ...
Article : 866 wordsThere have been no public holidays this month, and consequently no festivities of a general character. There have been, however, numerous entertainments of a more limited nature. First, in order of time, we find the ...
Article : 192 wordsCHURCH OF ENGLAND.—On the 27th May, the annual meeting of the Church Society was held in the Infant School-room, Castlereagh-street. The Governor was present. The Bishop of Sydney, and a considerable ...
Article : 1,218 wordsScanty, indeed, must be our chronicle of musical events during the past month, not one concert of note having taken place in the interval, unless we except the performance of the Creation, at the School of Arts, ...
Article : 703 wordsIt again becomes our agreeable duty to record, for a third time within as many monthe, a contiuneed improvement in the public health. For this we are principally indebted to the fineness of the secson, which has been ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,018 wordsReports of a very unfavourable kind have been received from time to time during the month, both from Taranki and Auckland, in reference to the disposition manifested by the Maories, now nominally at peace. ...
Article : 338 wordsThe Commissioners for the International Exhibition of 1862, have received a few specimens of colonial art, including some fine carving in cedar. They have just aucceeded in procuring the use of a spacious store in the ...
Article : 530 wordsSince our last summary we have very little additional news of the gold-fields. They still continue to yield fairly, and the population on them is increasing. Burrangong is still the centre of population in the mining ...
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Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), Fri 21 Jun 1861, Page 2
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