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  2. The Late Mrs.J. S. Calvert,

    AUSTRALIA has produced so few ladies who have attained eminence in the literary and scientific world, that we feel a melancholy pleasure in referring to one who passed away a few years since ...

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  3. Notes and Queries. HEAVY FLEECES FROM AUSTRALIAN SHEEP.

    SIR,—My attention having been attracted to accounts of rams fleeces, shorn by Mr. James Lee, of Larras Lake, and Messrs. Bowman, of Cassilis, the former showing an average weight of 13lb 6½oz, and ...

    Article : 169 words
  4. "TICKLED WITH A HOE, IT WILL SMILE WITH A HARVEST."

    SIR,—There appeared in the last issue of your journal a letter signed " Chilblain," which, if left unanswered, may tend to mislead. sir, your correspondent "Chilblain" is under the opinion ...

    Article : 877 words
  5. EELS IN THE WESTERN WATERS.

    Sir,—It is said of the rivers which drain the western slope of New South Wales, and flow into the Murray, thence through Lake Alexandria, and finally disembogue into the Southern Ocean, that they are devoid ...

    Article : 108 words
  6. A CURIOUS OLD LETTER.

    Sir,—I have a characteristic letter dated January 31, 1803, in my possession, and I should like to know Borne particulars of the author. It is from a missionary, evidently in reply from one of Governor ...

    Article : 202 words
  7. GREAT HEAT ON THE COAST.

    Sir,—To-day, the 14th November, I put a thermometer in thesun at 11.15 a.m., it being then 90deg. in the shade. It rapidly rose to 120deg. in the sun, and then the glass bursted the bulb into fragments. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. ANOTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE OBERON DISTRICT.

    SIR,—In a recent issue of your paper a letter appears with the heading "Tickled with a hoe, it smiles with a harvest." I know this part of the country pretty well, and will endeavour to give the merits and demerits in as disinterested and ...

    Article : 770 words
  9. THE FIRST FREE EMIGRANT.

    The first free emigrant, and indeed the first person of any class in society, who obtained a grant of land in the colony of New South Wales was a German, of the name of Philip Schoeffer. He had been sent out ...

    Article : 415 words
  10. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.

    Sir,—A few weeks back a correspondent inquired whether a woman ever had four children at one birth. I beg to state a fact that occurred about fifty years ago in the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, ...

    Article : 92 words
  11. A POEM BY TENNYSON.

    Sir,—In reply to W. H. (Yass) in "Notes and Queries" in your issue of November 9, the following are the lines of Tennyson, in which the words " Form, form, riflemen, form, &c, &c, occur. The piece is ...

    Article : 92 words
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