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Sydney.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] February 6.
Applications for space are still pouring in to the Commissioners of the International Exhibition from all quarters, and are understood to be far in excess of the available area. Victoria ...
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THE twelfth exhibition of the Eastern Downs Agricultural and Horticultural Association was held at the grounds of the society on Wednesday, February 5. The grounds are on the bank ...
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BEFORE the police-magistrate, J. H. Wheelwright, E. Thorne, and T. Illidge, JJ.P. MINOR OFFENCES.—Three drunkards were discharged; and John Smith, for a similar offence, ...
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SIR,—The action of the Municipal Council at last Monday's meeting was what may be termed a startler. To propose to vote away £425 as gratuities after having passed £400 for the Mayor, ...
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The Mayor's Salary.
TO THE EDITOR OP THE BRISBANE COURIER.
SIR,—I read with much pleasure your article of this morning respecting the want of public spirit—another name for patriotism—exhibited in Queensland. Every thinking man must ...
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SIR, — In this morning's issue I find that several statements of mine in relating the mishaps which befel the Ocean and the Mecca are criticised; and if I allow this criticism to pass ...
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'Bus Drivers.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISBANE COURIER.
SIR,—"Phaeton's" letter in this morning's paper is of such a nature that I, as a constant traveller on the South Brisbane 'busses, cannot allow to go unchallenged; it would have been ...
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THE Sydney Mail of February 1 contains the following account of the Champion Belt Race. Terms—For all-comers, in outriggers. Course: From between Kirribilli Point and Fort ...
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LASTt evening an experiment in electric lighting was made in Billingsgate Market under the auspices of the Markets Committee of the Corporation of London. An unfortunate accident had ...
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AT the pres[?]ut time, when the Government are despatching Professor Tate and an expedition to the Western districts, to test the practicability of obtaining water by deep borings in a country ...
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THE House of Lords (says the Galaxy), as at present constituted, consists of something less than five hundred temporal peers. The first in order of hereditary precedence, after the princes ...
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