... commenced on Tuesday, the 27tb August. Ten oared caike, and caiks of one, two, and three-pair of senlSs, were as p’entifol as blackberries polled by John Turk in bis best Bairutn costome. And these were mingled with gaudily-painted Maltese boats, Austrian and ...

... bygone years, before the goldfields were overrun by the rush of immigrants, and when golden holes were as plentiful as blackberries, a party of two or three men worked out a good claim which had yielded, say £5OO a mao, would for ward their gold to the ...

... justice. The office was worth, in ordinary limes,about £l,OOO a year, and extraordinary, when crown prosecutions cropped like blackberries, the days of Wbiteboyism and Itockism, double or treble that amount. If divided per counties the office will vary In amount ...