Horror in the Angel-room and a deadly conduit
The narrative reveals a house of horror with a hidden pipe from a decayed cemetery that released a poisonous miasma into the Angel-chamber. Five victims died as the unseen destroyer drew breath through a concealed panel, while other sections describe agricultural data including wheat, maize, potatoes, and livestock numbers for 1858 to 1859.
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Mawry
Annesley
Miyary
Sremone
Charles
Rusk
Charleo
lLivestock
Tne
Dee
Moreton Bay
Harley
Bishela
Agricultural statistics of New South Wales report
A published statistical snapshot shows land occupation counts and holdings by county and district for 1859. It lists occupiers, total acres held, cultivated, and uncultivated, with averages per occupier and by district. The figures cover Settled and Pastoral Districts and total cultivation across the colony.
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Woldings
Immigration Question to the Editor of the Leader
A reader argues immigration shifts labor markets lowering wages and harms workers. He urges recording his views, contending increased labor supply does not create more jobs for existing workers and warns against leaving immigration to price laws of supply and demand. The letter critiques uninformed calls for large influxes.
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THE
Leader
Immigration Debate on Labor, Rights, and Economics
A writer argues against mass immigration, warning it will depress wages by expanding labor supply. He contrasts California’s single worker class with colonies of diverse laborers, questions moral rights to land sale revenues, and favors immigration governed by supply and demand. He notes widespread unemployment, insolvencies, and a hard struggle for essentials despite potential population growth.
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Stalworth
The
Argus
California
the Argus
Old Country
Gueas
Hua
England
Michio
Working Man’s Call For Plough In 1961 Melbourne Letter
A Melbourne reader writes that straits result from excess consumers and too few willing to work. He blames complacent workers who prefer idleness over toil, urging producers to shoulder responsibility and labor hard to fix economic strains.
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Law
Melbourne
China News From Pekin Treaty Signed And Fire At YuenminYuen
News dated late November reports exchange of ratifications for the Pekin convention and the Tientsin treaty, with Lord Elgin and Prince King signing in Pekin. Fire destroyed Yuenminyuen, the emperor’s summer palace, on the 18th and 19th. Remains of four prisoners were buried, 300000 taels compensation paid, Brazzon and Abbé Luc execution noted, and details of the Pekin convention outline indemnities and territorial provisions. Army movements toward Tien-tsin are described, with Allied forces to advance from Pekin and Elgin residing in the city.
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China
Mesara
Henry
Sunbeam
Nimrod
Wynmiatt
Peiho
Pekin
North China Herald
Tientain
Earl of Elgin and
Kincardine
King
Yuen-min-yuen
T. W. Bowlby
de Normann
Anderson
Phipps
Walla of Pekin
Brabazon
R.A
Luc
Tung-chow
Board of Ceremonies
Tien-tsin
Tien-tsim
Canton
Shameen
Tien Tsin
Hong Kong
Emire
Chusan
Ta-ku
Mavehing
Lord Elgin
Inquest Into Miner David Tobinson's Death
Dr Clendinning presided at an inquest into the death of David Tobinson at Bendigo Hospital from injuries after a fall in the Magpie Gold Mining Company shaft at Smythesdale in August last. Fractured spine, paralysed legs, heat fever, and fatal complications followed. Tobinson, 28, left a wife and child. The verdict cited the fall as the cause of death. Another coroner’s inquiry at Bendigo Hospital reviewed Min Yok's paddle-claim accident. five tons of earth fell on him, causing severe fractures and death days later. jury verdict aligned with medical testimony.
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Darve
Clendinning
David Tobinson
Magpie
Smythesdale
Northumberland
Bailaarat
Fata
Cunaman
Bendigo
Min Yok
Ahs
Long Gully
Atkinson
Bendigo Advertiser
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Agricultural Statistics OF
New South Wales
Sears
Sim
Pore
Aska Pe
Sudan
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