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SUBIACO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1878.
No. 59.-w-VOL. V.
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mannitatoties Ins 20,690 men and boys, and 3260 women and girls. In 1868 there were 227,464 yards woollen -cloth manufactured, while last year only 271,452 yards were turned ou bein
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twos banquet took place afterwards, alarm, and ordered the engines to go
at which the Minister of Railways, in slow, slower, and finally stop. The responding for the Ministry, stated that vessel struck, and continued to strike. the contract for the Albury section of She was at the time, so far as we have IN'ItERCOLONIAL. eighty-four miles was to be completed been able to learn, broadside on the by Deoember,1880, when the two capi- shore, but soon she swung round, and, . 15768 int, this jprk, peel *VA in, finally lay stern on to the alaz,101"1"4") holreisei from 14,000 ewt. tals, Sydney and Melbourne, would be heading shore in water just deep enough to work in 1868 to 37,000 cwt. in 1877. connected by rail. her alternately ahead and astern. The NEW SOUTH WiLZS. Tobacco, colonial grown and manufacParliament was opened on Tuesday, majority of the passengers (some sixty 8000 from of Governor's The an increase tured, showed the 10th September. The new clip of wool is beginning to cwt. to 19,000 cwt. in all) retained their presence of mind. the of defences speech says that the When the steamer had settled down in arrive freely. of miles It with. are being proceeded 14 to the present time 650 The total exports afield season's wool railway are opened for passenger traffic colony to the renewal of the Border the cove some abortive attempts were alludes made to launch the boats. Two of the amount to 120,190 bales. in this colony. Various lines are being Treaty with South Australia, sad the During the past year the value eighteen efforts which are being made to bring boats were smashed right away, and a of rate the at constructed of coal exported reached £5,256,038. third, in which there were three men, miles annually, and 208 miles are now about the customs union with other During last year 6018 immigrants under construction in different direccapsized. Two of the men swam ashore ; announces that the proposed colonies came from England and the United without difficulty, and the third clung tions. issue of a loan of one million and a -half States. Wales has been postponed, owing to the un- to the boat until his comrades rendered South of New squatters The Arrangements are being made for him assistance. When the three men are combining to carry out Mort's state of the English money another match between the champion frosen meat project. Large sums have settled had landed on the rocks lines were a for provision market ; promises rower, Trickett, and Rush, the Clarence passed from the steamer to the shore the city by for the been contributed, especially sewerage and water supply passengers River man. Trickett is willing to row Riverina squatters. chose connected and suburbs, and other parts of the and made fast, and then the Rush in wager boats, with fixed seats, interest colony ; also the introduction of the were landed. As the morning advanced grazing and pastoral with the less E200. -A.
than any sum not and the tide fell, the vested settled down in Queensland are co-operating in the following measures viz. :-The Elecbe Trickett's injured hand is now quite Bill, a bill to firmly so that a plank road could Lily movement. Amendment toral the rocks ; healed and strong. has been consolidate laws relating toe the city of laid communicating with conference selector's A free Edwards, the New Zealand pedesthe donkey engine war set to work, and held at Sydney. A resolution was &c., a large endowment bill trian, was ansUccessful in his attempt passed that the practice of selling land Sydney, to the insane, a bill to consoli- a gang of men also got the cargo out of relating to walk a hundred and ten miles in in which, when the tide by virtue of improvements should be date and amend the land laws, and con- the main hold, twenty-four hours, but he succeeded in abolished. A motion was also carried there was about five its lowest, at was the to amend bill nected therewith a walking a hundred and two miles and A lifeboat was pulled to water. feet of ; also in favor of the abolition of commissioners laws relating to dividing fences three hundred yards. of the ship, and the yards 200 within and the substitution of a land board of several others which are considered of that A foot race for £200 aside for a to be minor importance-bills to consolidate captain on being hailed stated a and chairman, five members as the distance of 200 yards has been demembers law, to assistance was not required, the Government, licensing by amend appointed law, criminal finitely arranged between Watson and able to make their way to be elected every three years, with consolidate the custom laws, consolidate passengers were Aplett, to come off at Maitland on the to the shore. The the right to appeal to the Minister of the public debt, and the further endow- over the planking The 2nd November. metropolitan land ment of the University of Sydney. mails were next safely landed. the or to Lands Reynolds, the German pedestrian, City of Newcastle when afloat represenThe early at an should exist. if such be submitted board, will Estimates was uncommenced his attempt to walk 100 principle was affirmed tigno land bill date for railway proposals embracing ted a value of £16,000. She miles in twenty-four hours at ten p.m. unless the construction of 1000 miles of lines insured, the H.R.N.S. Company taking the country to will be acceptable on the 14th September, but gave up After some of the the same were dealt with on fixed for the consideration of Parliament. their own risk. next afternoon. After having done principles, the details to be framed by steamer broke in the was saved, cargo Government on the Eleven members sat about sixty-seven miles he became very machine', having little of her two, very apand subject to Executive the Opposition, fo,r
benches, twelve on proval. A resolution was adopted in eighteen on the cross benches, including been recovered. favor of the continuance of pre -leases, Sir H. Parkes. Sir J. Robertson and condemnation of the non -residence severely criticised the administrative QUEENSLAND. clause. Mr. Farnell, the Premier, has acts of the Government during the promised to consider the suggestions recess. He denied that the colony was A boat's crew from the May Queen, made by the conference. in a prosperous state, and stated that schooner, an island trader, landed to get At a meeting of the Agricultural the action of the Government in the water on the island of Pentecost on the Society, the Governor presiding, it was administration of the land laws had 16th August. A mob of natives, who decided to carry out the International injiired the public credit. The address were lying in ambush, rushed the boat, Exhibition of 1879. The Governor was carried without a discussion. The and fatally tomahawked Brown, the thick. cordially supported this proposal, as in- Treasurer promised to introduce a bill mate, and one of the crew. Four Tanna The quantity of sugar manufactured volving the honor of this colony. The to abolish the duty on gold. A bill to boys who jumped overboard and swam in New South Wales, during the year meeting resolved on the organisation of prohibit the importation of grapes and to the vessel, were fired at with muskets ending March last amounts to 150,744 a scheme for the collection of subscrip- grape vines was read a first time. and arrows. The bodies of the two lb., showing an increase for last year of tions, and to obtain a proportionate The Underwritens' Association have murdered men were afterwards re56,784 lb. amount of aid from Parliament. Public resolved to present Captain Binnie, of covered much mutilated. Baron Macleay, the New Guinea subscriptions for the International Ex- the Cairnbulg, with a testimonial in The cutter Neiser, of Newcastle, was explorer and naturalist, strongly advohibition have already reached £3000. recognition of the navigation of his ship wrecked on Bing's Reef, near Townsa zoological of formation cates the a procircumThe Cabinet are considering to Sydney under difficult ville, and the crew murdered by the station at Sydney similiar to that at posed flom Victoria to join in subsidis- stances. blacks. Naples and elsewhere. ing a Cape service. Decision is as yet The annual meeting of the National Parliament was prorogued at noon Since 1872 the total amount of land unsettled. Shipwreck Relief Society was held on on the 10th September by the Governor. alienated is 16,926,626 acres, of which It is estimated that the sum of 30th Aug. The report of the commit- The Governor's speech referred to the 9,965,873 acres have been free selectotal receipts for the year legislative activity of the past session. tions; while the present Government £150,000 will be required to complete tee shows the out of which £472 has Since 1874 large numbers of laws ''of to be £6560, sold 578,770 acres by auction and under the new Post Office. The work will been granted to six widows, and £72 to unexampled importance had been embe proceeded with at an early date. improvements. Regulations for the re -construction of nineteen seamen. The total balance to bodied in the statute book, chiefly the The Under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. society is £5813, of which Elections Act of 1874, Education Wood, and the Geological Surveyor, the volunteer force have been issued. credit of the is on fixerbdeposits. The report Act 1875, Land Act 1876, Electoral £5500 commissioned appointment of The of tour after a have returned to Sydney unanimously. Districts Act. It says that great beneinvestigation of the Western districts of officers will be vested in the Governor. was carried China papers brings news of the fits have accrued therefrom, and adds the colony, re the application for assis- They will be required to undergo tance from the grant of £5000 in aid of examinations and take junior rank with wreck of the Austarlian ship Bedew that a succession of unfavorable seasons prospecting. Shortly a similiar inquiry officers of the permanent force in the on thl coast of Cnina. She is expected is a cause of the depression of trade, and will be made in the north sad south colony. 'The payments will range from to become a total wreck. Steamers that no grounds exist for any serious £100 per annum to the lieutenant- have gone to her assistance. Three out apprehensions as to the condition of the districts. The estimated population of the colony colonel of artillery and intently to £12 of four of the boats which left the ship interests and industries of the colonies. Mr. Miles, Minister of Works, has on the 30th June was 675,316, showing to privates of all divitiont of the were picked up. Nine of the crew are Mr. still mining. resigned his seat in the Cabinet. an increase of 13,014 since the end of force. A demonstration took place at Wagga The following account of the wreck Griffith, Attorney-Geseral, takes Works, last year. The statistics of the trade and com- Wagga on the 8rd of September, in of the Sydney steamer City of New- and Mr. Garrick, Minister of ,Lands, coerce of New South Wales, just celebration of the opening of the section castle on the rocks between true Bogey becomes AttorneyhGenend. The Leads published, show that the imparts for of railway from Junee to North Wagga, HOlnand the Long Beach, Newcastle, portfolio will not be filied until Am 1877 amounted to about £14,500,000, three miles from the Murrumbidgee New South Wales, is abridged from the the general election. Mr. M'Ciimers, would appear that the a prominent atesabar of *re and the exports to about £13,250,000, river at Wagga Wagga. The Minis- Daily Pilot ri showing, on reference to the past nine ters, who were accompanied by several morning of the 12th September Mil party, bas declared WI tiost the Opposition-il moonlight until some the South clear on members of New Vitalet bright and the per cent. increase 73 Tears, imports, and only 32 per cent. increase Parliament, wek-e presented with an little while after Redhead had bee* million loan for the i on the exports. The exports to the address. Miss Burns, the daughter of passed. Then a dense fog seddealy ton of railways, laareased, and a property tax. adjoining colonies fell last year 25 per the Postmaster-General, then declared enveloped the vessel, but no A Are oefourred, lacent. The wool export was 5,260,000 the line open by breaking a bottle of was anticipated until about five do1:1128, The Dumber of eerployffs in champagne over an engine. A sump- when Captain Summerbell took. the the 28rd September, De
ill, and was obliged to be removed. Rich deposits have been found at the Back Creek diggings. A reef has been discovered at Little River, Braidwood, which yielded 10 os. of gold to half a dish of quartz. A valuable seam of coal has been struck on Mrs. Hannel's estate at Wickham, at a depth of 160 feet. The seam is seven feet one inch
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