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To Select a Page Group when displayed, right click and select 'Open'. Five of the 25 statewide students who passed the exams were from the College. Australia First rules formulated for Australian Rules Football. First protective tariffs introduced by Victoria on imports from other Australian colonies.

Australia J B Higham patents the first shearing machine. Last convicts transported to Western Australia. Attempted assassination of Australia's first Royal visitor, the Duke of Edinburgh. Introduction of the first comprehensive system of State cj lord building exmouth market in Victoria. Australia Cj lord building exmouth market mail service to North America established.

First Factories Act passed in Victoria. Art Gallery of NSW first established. Australia Death of Truganini, last of the pre-contact Tasmanian aborigines. Legislative protection given to labour unions in New South Wales. The population of the Cj lord building exmouth market colonies reaches 2, Australia First Australian professional foot-race, the 'Stawell Gift' inaugurated.

First artesian bore in central Australia flows. Australia First Caulfield Cup run. Cj lord building exmouth market intercolonial trade union congress held in Sydney. Australia The 'Bulletin' first published. First cargo of Australian frozen meat delivered in London. Australia First simultaneous census held in all Australian colonies - population 2, Salvation Army formed in Adelaide. George Morrison reports 'The general health of the School has been excellent.

Australia First Australian exhibition buildings in Sydney destroyed by fire. Gold discovered at Mt Morgan, Queensland. Australia Rail link between Sydney and Melbourne completed. Charles Rasp, boundary rider discovers lead-zinc ore at Broken Hill. Queensland annexes south-eastern New Guinea.

Australia H V McKay develops the first stripper-harvester. First agricultural college in Australia established at Roseworthy, SA. Australia Federal Council formed, the first formal move towards federation of the Australian colonies. First Western Australian gold rush in the Kimberly. Ten-storey building erected in Melbourne. Australia Chaffey brothers commence irrigation scheme at Mildura. Rabbits reach the NSW-Queensland border.

Amalgamated Shearers Union formed. Australia Nellie Melba makes her first appearance in grand opera - 'Rigoletto' in Brussels Adelaide to Melbourne rail link opened. Australia Tamworth, NSW becomes the first country town to be electrified. Rail link between New South Wales and Queensland established. Land purchased on the Barwon River for a boat shed and the first boat shed constructed.

Australia First exhibition of the 'Heidelberg School' of Australian impressionistic painters. Henry Parkes calls for 'a great national government for all Australians'. Lawrence Hargrave discovered the principle of the rotary engine. Australia The great maritime strike occurs. Responsible government established in Western Australia.

University of Tasmania founded. Football paddock of 7 acres laid out. Australia First Labour Party formed in Queensland. First draft of a bill to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia produced at the Federal Convention in Sydney. Population of Australia 3,Australia Great financial crisis deepens with onset of economic depression.

Gold found at Coolgardie, Western Australia. Sheffield Shield cricket competition began. Measles epidemic affects School. Australia Cj lord building exmouth market South Wales ends plural voting. Australia South Australia becomes the first Australian colony to allow women to vote. Rabbits cross South Australian border into Western Australia. Lawrence Hargrave tests his theories of flight with boxkites.

Warrnambool Melbourne cycling race first contested. Wages Board established in Victoria. Australia Second Federal Convention on federation meets. Queensland passes an Aborigines Protection Act with new restrictions. First Australian Labour Party government formed in Queensland lasts 6 days.

New classroom built for the Junior School and boys cj lord building exmouth market than eight admitted to the Preparatory Form. Australia Western Australia voted in favour of Federation.

Australian Naval contingent sent to the 'Boxer Uprising' in China. Australian National Flag chosen. Interstate free trade established. Old age pensions introduced in Victoria and New South Wales. Australia Women enfranchised for all federal elections.

William Farrer's new wheat strain 'Federation' introduced. Another storey built above the 'old' Dining Room. Purchase of land to form the new cricket and football ground. Australia 'Such is Life' by Joseph Furphy published. Federal High Court first established. Cj lord building exmouth market and Main Oval opened on 14 December First Henley-on-Yarra regatta held in Melbourne.

Large Class Room for the Fourth Form erected. Australian Men's Singles Tennis Championship first played. Australia Commencement of cj lord building exmouth market telegraphy between Queenscliff and Devonport, Tasmania. British New Guinea becomes an Australian territory renamed Papua. Surf Bathing made legal in Sydney. Opening of a workshop for Manual Training using the Sloyd system. College to be governed by a Council appointed by the Church. Norman Morrison continued as Principal. Charles Shannon appointed first Chairman of Council.

Prefects appointed for first time. Australia Invalid and old-age pensions established in Australia. Visit of the 16 white-painted ships of the United States Pacific Fleet. Yass-Canberra district chosen as the site for cj lord building exmouth market new Federal capital.

Norman Morrison killed in a gun accident. First Australian High Commissioner appointed to London. University of Queensland founded. Australia First Commonwealth of Australia bank notes issued.

First Australian naval vessels, 'Parramatta' and 'Yarra' arrive. Australia Site of National Capital chosen. University of Western Australia established. Royal Military College at Duntroon opened. First Australian air pilot's licence issued to W E Hart.

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Ship Arrivals at the Port of Quebec, The following arrivals were extracted from the Quebec Morning Chronicle of Please note that sometimes an issue is missing so this extract may not contain all vessels to these ports. The pilot of the Lady Seaton , arrived on Saturday, reports a large vessel ashore on the Magdalen Islands, and another on the St. The bark Douglas left for Montreal on Saturday evening, in tow of the steamer St.

The steamer Canada arrived from Montreal yesterday afternoon, with the ship Cambria , and four deeply laden barges in tow. The Cambria is ready for sea. Havre Line of Steam packets. Our four steamers are the Christophe Colomb , the Canada , the Darien , and the Ulloa , each of horse power. It has abolished the Differential Duties in favor of the manufactures of Great Britain, and, it is hoped, that Kingston will next year be made a free port as St. This, it is thought, will produce a very considerable traffic with the United States as well as with France and Germany.

At Bytown , on the 3 rd instant, Margaret Dooley was addicted for attempting the murder of her husband by poison, which it was insinuated was supplied to her by a paramour named Hart. She had been sixteen years married to her husband, and he and their daughter and the husband's sister were the principal witnesses against her. The prisoner was acquitted. Nelson has resigned his professorship of anatomy recently held by him in the school of medicine.

He has been led to take this step in consequence of bad health. We have been told the number of deaths in Westport is terrifying, and that on Thursday last no less than 15 dead bodies were put into one hold at the rear of the work-house, in a sand-pit, without a sufficiency of earth to cover them. The accounts from the south are frightfully bad.

A gentleman named Creed thus writes from the town of Macroom, under date April 18th: Persons of all ages are dropping dead in each corner of the town, who are interred with much difficulty after rats have feasted upon their unfortunate frames.

The frequency of such inhuman and tragic exhibitions divests the mind of its wonted feelings of disgust and regret. White, the apothecary, whose exertions, and those of his son, on behalf of the suffering poor, are indeed beyond all [fold in paper], when he witnessed in his professional capacity that actually would chill the blood of the most hard-hearted and indifferent. A family, consisting of eight, got sick of fever near the town-all of whom died, except the father and two children, who struggled hard against the ravages of this fierce malady, but ultimately fell its victims; Mr.

White, and the Rev. O'Donnell of Clondrohid, on revisiting this hut, pregnant with pestilence and poverty, found the parent dead, and the two children apparently embracing him, but who were found to be dead.

Here is a report from Mallow: Crowds of starving creatures flock in from the rural districts, and take possession of some Hall-door, or the outside of some public building, where they place a little straw, and remain until they die. Disease has, in consequence, spread itself through the town. There are now over individuals afflicted with fever and dyssentery. Deaths by the road side, aye, and in some of the principal through-fares, are frequently the consequence. The grave-yard has its entrance in the centre of the main-street, and, in several instances, when the gates were closed against parties seeking to bury the remains of their friends, the coffins were placed on the wall and abandoned.

A letter dated Clonmell, April 17, says,-"Fever is making fearful ravages all over the country. Not a day, nor scarcely an hour, passes that we do not hear of some member of the wealthy classes being stricken by this malady, and almost in every instance death is the result. As for the poor, their cases are so numerous and so little regarded, that they excite no attention!

The Kilkenny journals say, that no less than 15 of the deceased poor of the workhouse of that city were buried in one grave on Friday last. In the counties of Mayo and Galway, the deaths by fever amongst all classes, last week, were considerably more than during the same time with the year.

From Killarney we learn the average number of deaths has fallen off from 30 to 9, and the sick list of the workhouse was on Monday but , the common average for months being So far this is cheering, and speaks well for the exertions of the local gentry, who are nobly doing their duty. The Cork Reporter , speaking of the dreadful sufferings of the poor of that county, says: Mahoney says that in his parish of Coachford, the population of which is , the average of deaths from famine is 50 [fold in paper with at least one line gone] Walsh, bishop of Cloyne and Ross, states, on the authority of a parish priest of his diocease, that in one of his parishes, containing a population of , the number of deaths for the last month was , and that 'in one of the sea-coast villages, which six months ago contained a population of persons, there are now standing but three hovels, with about a dozen persons.

This act seemed to have rendered the crowd audacious, as in an hour after they attacked a potato-store, which they also pillaged. The next day, as the peasants approached the town on their way to the market, they were attacked and deprived of whatever articles of food they were bringing with them. The crowd was parading the streets when the courier fell[? We give below the time occupied by other vessels at the same period, which will afford some idea of the state of the weather.

The Sarah Sands passed on her voyage six of the finest of the New York packets that had sailed before her, the average passages of which were about 48 days, while the Sarah Sands was 20 days 10 hours. By the arrival of H. Burkit, of the Halifax Exchange News Room. By a postscript in the Acadian Recorder of the 15 th we learn that the mail steamer Britannia reached Halifax at half-past 10, that morning, having made her passage from Liverpool in ten days and 20 hours.

The second Battalion 60 th Regt. Royal Rifle Corps, under the command of Lieut. Nesbitt, embarked on board H. Present strength of the battalion, The number of passenger vessels at Grosse Isle on Saturday last was stated at 13, on board every one of which is sickness.

The hospital is filled to repletion, and the medical officer at the station is so overwhelmed with his duties that it has been found requisite to despatch to his aid three assistants. To prevent the introduction of sickness into the city, our newly-appointed Health Committee must be up and doing.

It can only be by the enforcement of stringent regulations that we may expect to have existing nuisances removed, and efficient sanitary precautions adopted. Nothing else will do with those who are cursed with filthy habits. Appeals to them on the score of personal or public safety, are only words lost.

The following is the list of passengers, in the Britannia: Black, Major and Mrs Dunsmore and Servant. Messrs W Noak, W. Gubbin, John Russell, W. Welch, Wm Young, R.

Bennett, -Brock, -Christie, C. A letter has been received from Capt. He states that the water was up to the 'tween deck beams. The crew are actively engaged discharging what they can of the cargo, into small craft.

The Captain is apprehensive that if it should come on to blow the vessel will go to pieces. Andrew , Lorby, was cleared at Montreal on Saturday, for Liverpool. The bark Livingston , and the brig Fanny have both proceeded to Montreal, the former in tow of the Lumber Merchant , and the latter in tow of the Point Levy. The weather continues raw and cheerless, with an almost uninterrupted prevalence of north-easterly wind for the last four or five weeks.

The arrivals from sea, not withstanding the favourable direction of wind, come slowly in, compared with former years; the total number up to this date being less than half that of last season up to the same period. Agricultural operations have been going briskly on, however, since about the middle of the month, when the snow began to disappear; the fields and the woods have assured a vernal aspect, and upon the whole, the harvest prospects are not so gloomy as might have been anticipated.

The Kingston News contains the advertisement of the meetings of the electors in the different wards of the city,-at all of which resolutions were carried in favor of Mr. MacDonald's re-election and committees appointed to canvass the said wards.

It is still confidently stated that there will be no opposition. Considerable excitement has been produced in town by the many unauthenticated rumours that are in circulation respecting the sickness at the Quarantine Station. To set at rest all surmise and to prevent exaggeration, we have thought it would be serviceable, if the very arduous duties of the medical superintendent would permit, were an official bulletin furnished by that officer to the press of the city, say twice or three a week.

We do not think it would be productive of any injurious effect, whilst it would certainly tend to prevent erroneous statements from being circulated either here or at a distance. Connected with this subject we may state, that A. They will be erected on a separate part of the island from where the sick are, and will be appropriated for the healthy portion of the emigrants, who are necessarily detained.

Buchanan is fully empowered to make such further arrangements as he may conceive necessary, and for this purpose leaves for Grosse Isle this morning in the steamer St. George , which in future is to make two trips weekly.

Large Departure of Vessels From Liverpool. In one tide no less than vessels, of which 45 were coasters, and the remainder bound to foreign ports, went out to sea. The scene was one of lively interest. Many of the vessels were American, and others of large class.

The Northern Railway of the Emperor Ferdinand was opened on the 7 th ult. It completes the largest line of railway projected in Germany, and unites Vienna, Berlin and Hamburgh, three of the most important mercantile towns in the Germanic confederation. Arrived at Grosse-Isle since Sunday: Shipping Intelligence The steamship St. George returned from Grosse Isle last night, and reports 21 vessels with passengers at that place yesterday.

The bark Erromanga , arrived yesterday, reports having seen the ship Albion and the Belleisle , in the Straits of Belleisle, on Sunday week last. They are both bound to Montreal. The bark Cherokee , arrived yesterday morning, came up the river in company with the Rankin and the John Bolton , both with passengers. Mary , Petitpas, cleared at Boston for Quebec on the 20 th instant. The following letter has been received by Messrs.

Grainger, Dear Sir,-I am under the painful necessity to inform you that the Rory O'More struck on a reef of rocks off Little Metis, at half-past 2, this morning, during a thick fog, running with the wind from eastward.