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  2. Intercolonial Mining in Brief.

    STAWELL.—The Enterprise Company have come on a promising find. The men engaged in the drive found that they had reached the high reof of the gutter, or what may be described as ...

    Article : 1,488 words
  3. Science and Tailings.

    THE New York Herald, of April 3, contains the narrative of a discovery by the famous scientist —Edison—that will assuredly create a sensation, both in the mining and scientific world. It gives ...

    Article : 1,576 words
  4. Women's Work.

    GREAT changes are taking place all round us, in every department of life; but perhaps in none is the change more marked than in the regard paid now adays to girls education. A few years ...

    Article : 1,708 words
  5. Psittacl.

    THIS species is almost as well known as the Banksain variety, and as far as Queensland is concerned it is the most commonly seen of all the varieties. It is a bird of the interior as well as ...

    Article : 696 words
  6. Saving Sugar-cane from Frost.

    A CORRESPONDENT sends us the following paper on the above subject. We think the plan quite practicable as regards small plantations, for we ourselves have Been its benefit in the case of ...

    Article : 652 words
  7. Cedar and Settlement on Some Northern Rivers.

    A CORRESPONDENT who signS "Timber Getter," and dates from Port Douglas, sends us some rough notes of it trip made by him in the Kitty, cutter, from which we make a few extracts. ...

    Article : 446 words
  8. How we Civilise the Blacks.

    IT has been objected that the incidents narrated in this column constitute a Newgate Calender. This is true to a certain extent. The crimes recorded equal in atrocity those described ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  9. Hobbling Horses.

    SIR,—In your issue of 3rd April "North Kennedy" rather autocratically condemns the plan of h[?]bbling horses which I sent you, and apparently without even having given it a fair ...

    Article : 1,138 words
  10. Jungle Fowls.

    SOME time ago, when reading the "Naturalist," I was much interested in an account given by a subscriber of curious mounds or pyramids composed entirely of earth aud decaying vegetable ...

    Article : 400 words
  11. A New Steam Sugar Boiler.

    ANY discovery in the appliances of sugar boiling interests such a large number of our readers that we gladly copy from the St. Christopher Gazette and Charibbean Courier, a paper ...

    Article : 563 words
  12. Close Season for Ducks — Is it Wise to Protect the Bower Birds?

    I HAVE had several letters asking for my opinion upon the present close season for ducks. For the last two years I have been residing among the islands of Moreton Bay, and have ...

    Article : 652 words
  13. White versus Black.

    SIR,—Having had some fourteen years experience among Queensland blacks, both on inside and outside country, you will perhaps allow me a word on the "Black versus White" ...

    Article : 402 words
  14. Disease-resisting Potatoes.

    NEVER Since 1845 has there been known such a disastrous year as was last year for potato-growers in England. From all the counties the same tale of failure through disease is told, and ...

    Article : 380 words
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