Gladioli praise and cultivation tips for amateurs
This gardening note extols gladioli as beautiful, easy, and prolific bulbs from the Cape. It outlines popular varieties such as Gandarensis and Colville, notes on hybridizers like Mr Groff, and offers cultivation guidance from soil to planting depth, spacing, and harvesting spikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape
Urade
Oura
Messrs. Seerle and Sons
Anderson and Company
Mr. Selkirk
Killara
Messrs
Oldgate
South Australia
Groffs
Groff
America
England
France
Pew
American Giant Gladioloes Offered in New Strain
D. R. Hunter & Son Reedsmenn Merchants Plant announces American Giant Gladioloes, a new strain with latest varieties in stock. Large bulbs mixed colours priced per dozen post free. smaller bulbs mixed colours 49 per dozen post free. Sydney plant address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Amusing Dairy Farm Anecdote Cited by British Medical Journal
A British Medical Journal article recounts a visit to a dairy farm in a large provincial town. The driver finishes milking and his cow offers to take the visitor into a cooling room, prompting bemused readers with a celebrated comma misplacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Medical Journal
Surprising Early Career of Mr. Chamberlain Revealed
A profile tracing Joseph Chamberlain’s pre political life in London and the Midlands. It highlights his early work as Sunday school superintendent, tireless work ethic, leadership at Nettlefolds, and moves that built his public and later imperial influence.
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Chamberlain
Birmingham
Joe
London
Schoo
Tle
Nettlefalds
Nettlefolds
Times
Tham
George Dixon
Board School
Pike Pickering
A. B. Spark
Sydney
Norfolk Island
W. H. Adams
Malaggatta Bay
Twofold Bay
Melbourne
Stubbs and Child
Messrs. Wise
Peter Stroebel
Charles Hopcott
W. O'Gorman
James Porter
Charles Sweet
EB. B. Davis
David Roff
Anne
F. F. Gibba
Thomas
Snow
Sir John Franklin
Behring’s Straits
Commissioners of Naonal Education
N.8
J. H. Plankett, Esq
Mesers
J. P. Egan
J. Kidd
L. Morgan
N. Russell
P. B. Whitfield
John Gibbs
Theatre Royal
W. Clash
M.C
Plot That Failed In Lisbon Involving King Edward VII
English detectives traced an attempted crime during King Edward VII's Lisbon visit. A notorious anarchist plot aimed at the royal circle linked to a French servant of a Portugal-connected brother. The crest of the conspiracy led to subsequent arrests.
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Edward VII
Lisbon
Portugal
Royal
Homebush races and city news from Sydney 1858
Reports from Homebush races include the Metropolitan Maiden Plate and the Australian Plate with winners Seducer Samantha and Sampson noted among others. The paper lists betting, riders, and officials, plus a robbery at a Castlereagh Street pub and shipping news from the Harriet and the City. It also covers births marriages and local society notices.
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Homebush
Little John
Mr. Malineaux
Calendar
Boce
Mr. Maloney
Martineau
Jullien Coleman
The
Scho of Arts
Lady of Lyons
J. F. Downes
Butterworth
George Fitzroy
Fitzroy
Messrs
Essington King
Col. Bloomfield
Lith
Peel
Raymond
G. Smith
C. Newton
RK. Fawcett
J. B. Darvall
M.L.C
B.A
J. R. Holden
Scott
Mr. Badgery
Higginson
Windham
Ford
T. Roberts
H Vanguard
Kelly
Seducer
Vanguard
Gilles
John Brown
Mr. Martineer
Mr. Holmes
Mr. Healy
Mr. Fawcett
Cooramin
Healy
Jock
Sportaman
Mr. Roberts
Jack Steppard
Brian
Fawcett
James Robertson
Castlereagh
Campbell Streets
Plymouth
Ward
Old Times Book Describes Early Days and Crumbling Notions
A fragmentary notice touts a remarkable early days book with engravings and thousands of facts. It mentions a collection from old colonists now living and references various sections including governors, cuts, criminals, insurance, and publishing.
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Commergal Publishing
Portuguese Troops Mutiny Reported At Orpoto
An infantry column of the 1th Regiment mutinied at Orpoto and was taken to Lisbon then secretly embarked on the cruiser Dona Amelhia to be sent to Africa. Debates claim hunger and high casualties. The government suppresses telegrams on the affair and several officers are placed on the unattached list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpoto
Lisbon
Dona Amelhia
Africa
Woman Defies Committal Over Judgment Summons at Birmingham Court
A Birmingham County Court judge hears a case in which Harriet Hanson, claiming she is now married, provides a muddled answer about her surname and marriage date and husband’s whereabouts. The woman’s committal order is granted after inconsistencies and her claim her husband was in South Africa.
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Birmingham
Eng
Harriet Hanson
Registry Office
South Africa
Six Years of Neuralgic Suffering Ends in Clements Tonic Cure
An Australian woman, Katie Warren of Newtown Sydney, recounts six years of neuralgia and related ailments, detailing her failed remedies until a relative advised Clements Tonic. After months, her pains faded, appetite returned, and health improved, with a formal declaration endorsing the tonic’s effect while cautioning against overblown claims.
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Newtown
Katie Warren
Wilcon-street
Arelative
Clements
Clements Towle
Clements Tonle
Wileon-street
Sydney
New South Wales
Commonwealth of Australia
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Gladioli
D. R. Hunter & Son
Reedsmen Merchants
Pitt-Street
MR. Chamberlain
Ell
Yous
Sextoriaie
Sizeiaue
Herald
James Clegg
Hobart Town
Emma
A. Doddy
Northumberland Hotel
A.A. Company
Liverpool Plains
Batrye
French
Dr. Dobie
Messrs. Cheeke
Samuels
Burgess
Big Sampson
Syrs
Lake Albert
Captain Fiteroy
Cook
Burt
T. Roberta
Jack Sheppard
Martineer
Plover
Higgersop
Bather
Acorn
Gannon
Alcorn
J. Ryan
Brenan
William Russell
King-street West
Palace
George Henry Loveday
George Street South
C. H. Buchanan
Berrima
John Evelyn Liardet
Parramatta
William Munro
Queanbeyan
A. Meyers
Sussex-street South
James A. Lyttle
Miller's Point
B. Lucas, Watson
Glenmore Road
Kennedy
George-street
J. M‘carthy
William-street
Frederick Ford
Ebenezer Chapel
Riley Street
Thomas Blue Pope
Mary Noble
St. Phillip’s
George Whitfield
Marianne Yeates
Trinity Church
J. C. Grylls
Frederick George Terry
Emmy Sophia
A.T. Holroyd, Esq
Dr. Lang
William Spuuner
Elizabeth Armitage
Robert Farlow
Wilberforce
Junction Inn
James Day
Francis Street
Riley Estate
Afr
George Smith
Senor
Peter Robinson
Robert Syers
Shelley's Flats
William Champion
Jane Hunter
Princesstreet
Donald M‘bain
Woolloomosloo
Morpeth
Liverpool
John Coghill
Braidwood
Portugese
K. Warren
Clements Tonic
Bema
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