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  2. SUMMARY OF NEWS.

    ON Christmas Eve there was, as usual, a fine display of luxuries and comforts in Hobart Town, designed for the festive commemoration of the great annual holiday. The [?]utchers displayed their customary show of ...

    Article : 4,112 words
  3. SPORTING.

    WITH the exception of settling accounts on the late Melbourne Champion Race Meeting, there has been little doing in the sporting community during the month. The particulars of that great event we leave our home readers ...

    Article : 381 words
  4. THE SALMON.

    To those who take an interest in our attempts to breed salmon in these waters, the following extract of a letter from Mr, Ramshottom to the Secretary of the Victorian Acclimatisation Society, rood at one of their last weekly ...

    Article : 325 words
  5. THE MERCURY.

    WE have little or nothing that is new, either in the political or commercial world, to report since the date of our last summary. The COLONIAL SECRETARY is on a visit to Victoria, owing to a ...

    Article : 4,348 words
  6. THE VOLUNTEERS.

    VOLUNTEERING has occupied a large amount of attention during the month, the various corps having been bus[?] engaged in passing their aunual classification. The individual firing terminated early in the month, ...

    Article : 1,360 words
  7. PUBLIC WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS.

    The Town Hall has progressed during the month as far as circumstances permitted. Men have been engaged on the interior work, including the ornamental mouldings round the upper walls of the large room, and this ...

    Article : 705 words
  8. EDUCATION.

    In addition to the Christmas Examinations mentioned in our last Summary, we have to notice that of the pupils at the Tasmanian Academy, conducted by Mr. Bromfield, which took place in the presence of the Rev. ...

    Article : 573 words
  9. METEOROLOGY FOR DECEMBER, 1865.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 774 words
  10. POLITICAL.

    IN our little political world all is now at zero. We are midway or thereabouts between the two sessions of parliament, during which time with us politics are usually allowed to die out. Parliament does not meet again ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. CUSTOMS RETURNS.

    The general revenue returns for the past year have not yet been made up. They will not in all probability be published until the beginning of next month. We know of no reason for this beyond the dilatori[?] with which ...

    Article : 358 words
  12. AMUSEMENTS.

    EXCURSIONS Were taken at Chriatmas by the holiday people by all the available means, boating, steamers, up "the mountain," to the Bower, Water Works, and to Rainy. The Monarch steamer was resorted to on its ...

    Article : 539 words
  13. BENEVOLENT AND RELIGIOUS.

    BOXING DAY (26th December) was as usual distinguished for its holiday fetes, excursions, and Sundayschool gathorings. The Now Norfolk folks took advantage of the season to get up a ba[?]ar in aid of the ...

    Article : 1,483 words
  14. THE FIJI ISLANDS.

    THE following letter has been addressed to us on the subject of the rapid sproad of Christianity in these islands, and we lose no time in giving publicity to it. It should, we think, go to England by this mail:— "To ...

    Article : 272 words
  15. THE NEW CATHEDRAL.

    A[?]KETO9H-—PLAN and estimate for a new cathedral in Hobart Town h[?]s been received from Mr. Bodley, of London, and it has been submitted by Bishop Bromby to the Synod Cathedral committee. The [?]ave and ...

    Article : 135 words
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