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  2. PORT DARWIN AND. JAVA.

    THE reply of the Queensland Government to the application from South Australia, for a fair contribution towards subsidising a steamer to convey telegrams and mails ...

    Article : 690 words
  3. THE ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM.

    AT a recent meeting of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Mr. Richard Andorson, of Uddington Oil Works read a paper "On the Origin of Petroleum." He alluded to the differant theories which had been ...

    Article : 857 words
  4. ENCOUNTER WITH A KANGAROO.

    THE Geelong Advertiser relates that a remarkable and desperate encounter with a kangaroo occurred at Pirin Yalloak, near the Stony Rises, in the Colac district, on Sunday last. A party of eight, principally residents of ...

    Article : 328 words
  5. AN AWFUL INSECT!

    THE imagination of Lucretius pictured India us a land of wonder, a land rich in spices and jewels, drugs, and gold, but jealousy guarded by a strange line of sentries. "It is girt," he ...

    Article : 1,745 words
  6. PRISON PHOTOGRAPHY.

    A VERY good plan for assisting the police to recoguise criminals is adopted in New South Wales, and might well be followod by the prison authorities in this colony. Every prisoner before he leaves the prison at the ...

    Article : 343 words
  7. THE SPOILS OF CULLODEN.

    CALLING upon the Misses Macdonald, of Achtriachtan, the other day, at Port William, we were shown some very fine old silver plate, having a history of its own, to the recital of which we listoned with no small ...

    Article : 512 words
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    Advertising : 69 words
  9. THE SOCIALITIES OF SPORT.

    SOCIETY should be grateful for Ascot and for Goodwood. The charges against the turf that it tends to entirely demoralise its votaries should certainly have set off against them the ...

    Article : 1,363 words
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    Advertising : 269 words
  11. THE KOOKA EXECUTIONS.

    The Times gives the following recital of the circumstances attending the Kooka executions, together with an explanation of the decision of the Indian Government;—About the middle ...

    Article : 948 words
  12. CHARTERS TOWERS.

    THE following information is given by the Miner's correspondent at the alluvial rush:— "Since last writing to you from the rush the prospects of the place have increased. Gold has been struck ...

    Article : 1,037 words
  13. A STRANGE STORY.

    THE following extraordinary story is now going the round of the French journals:—" Some time back an illustrious foreigner, the Prince Guennouris son of the reigning Emperor of Morocco, appeared in the most ...

    Article : 455 words
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