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  2. THE BRUSSELS EXHIBITION.

    The Belgian Government has decided upon celebrating the 50th anniversary of the independence of Belgium by a national Exhibition, to be held at Brussels in September of this year; and Mr. Beckx, the Belgian consul general for Australia has ...

    Article : 305 words
  3. WRECK OF THE LADY KINNAIRD.

    This South Australian Register furnishes the following additional particulars relative to the wreck, on Tuesday, January 20, af the barque Lady Kinnaird, Captain Laws, on the rocks oil Cape Burr, on the west coast of Spencer's Gulf, while on a voyage ...

    Article : 556 words
  4. MINING IN QUEENSLAND.

    THE Brisbane correspondent of The Argus, writing on January 5, said:—In mining, we close the year, on the whole, in a satisfactory manner. The older gold-fields, Gympie and Charters Towers, are doing well. It is complained that at the last-named ...

    Article : 1,173 words
  5. VICTORIAN ZOOLOGICAL AND ACCLIMATISATION SOCIETY.

    The annual meeting of the members of the society was held in the society's offices on February 2. Mr. F. R. Kendall in the chair. The hon. secretary (Mr. Le Souef) read the report of the council, which was as follows :—The council of the Zoological and ...

    Article : 702 words
  6. FIRES.

    BETWEEN half-past 4 and 5 o'clock on the morning of January 31 a somewhat extensive fire occurred at No. 40 Flinders-lane, Melbourne, on the premises occupied by Messrs. J. and D. Spence, merchants and wholesale grocers. The flames were first ...

    Article : 687 words
  7. THE WAIMATE PLAINS (N.Z.) DIFFICULTY.

    THE following extracts from recent New Zealand papers throw some little light upon the military measures the Government are taking to assert their authority in connexion with the Waimate Plains difficulty:—The Patea correspondent of the Wanganui ...

    Article : 678 words
  8. A FATAL FIGHT.

    AN inquest was held at the Creswick Court - house, on January 30, by the coroner, Mr. J. Thompson, on the remains of Thomas Woods, who died the previous evening from injuries received fit the hands of Patrick Montgemery. keener of tho Farmers' Arms ...

    Article : 389 words
  9. STICKING -UP A CONSTABLE.

    A SINGULAR INCIDENT, which occurred near Maryborough, Victoria, on February 2, is thus reported in ft despatch dated February 3 :—At the Police Court this morning, two men named respectively F. Jones and J. Johnson were charged with having. ...

    Article : 342 words
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