... connecting the neighbouring ports with Sydney by railways. Of Railway projects in Australia we shall take another opportunity of speaking. Meanwhile, the Australasian Steam Navigation Company, determined make the most vigorous exertions to meet the increasing ...

... discovered at Bingara, in the Gwydir district, bids fair to rival Mount Alexander itself. Mr. Bligh, the Government commissioner, speaks in the highest terms of the riches of the district, and demands additional police assistance. The features of the district ...

... £120,000. FOREST CREEK is said to be nearly deserted for Bendigo, and the new diggings in the vicinity of it, which report speaks highly of. The different fieids, however, under the head of Mount Alexander, are yielding enormously, as may be seen by last ...

... the worst indications in the case. Money to an enormous exteut is spent in drunkenness. And it is alleged, that generally speaking, men were far more steady and prosperous upon half their present wages. Severe reflections are thrown alike upon the immigrants ...

... earliest settled, and the climate there is, as is well known, dry and warm; and from this being the case, we at home have come to speak of , Australia generally from the ono district—at least such I think is partly the cause of such erroneous notions prevailing ...

... of class here now; every man calls himself a gentleman; cabmen, porters, carriers, policemen, and public-house keepers, in speaking to you, call themselves gentleman, for they are quite as rich as any, much more so, than most of the Government officials ...

... we have repeatedly quoted, (Argus of January 3) whose opportunities of judging are of course immeasurably superior to ours, speaks encouragingly, and at the same time moderately, on this point. There must be a great amount of privation as we have said: ...

... this anti-Paradisian state of matters attempted to be fastened on the innocent press at home, by allowing the disappointed to speak for themselves. Greenock comes forward with the testimony of what it calls a young sailor, but evidently a penny-a-liner ...

... wet decks. In colour, the clothes should be rather dark than otherwise; if not, they will soon get soiled and shabby, not to speak of constant washing, and their being useful at all sorts of work. The male of cleaning clothes on board is by the use of a ...

... Creek the sinking through a quartzose formation and heavy concrete varies from sto 15 feet. Formerly it yielded nothing to speak of; but seems to have been prematurely abandoned. The 6,000 are nattered for a distance of five miles around the creek. The ...

... do I consider them to be, that I have determined to procure one for my own use. And last, though not least, the cost is, to speak within bounds, from 30 to N per cent, less than that of a house constructed of any other materials in the colony. I would not ...

... game of mercantile speculation than either of the more excited colonies of New South Wales and Port-Philip, which, properly speaking, were the gold colonies. Various were the circumstances which contributed to the formation of this opinion; and we judge ...