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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 08, 1869
Page
3
A fragment describes a French theater academy modelled after France, a Frenchman Forierache proposing a royal circuit of 400 000 frames, opposed by D Argenson, and Forteroche’s idea shifting to England for a London theatre with machinery. Queen Anne is noted as charmed by the concept of a London theatre with complex machinery.
Fraser's Magazine discusses Anglo Indian and native dynamics including marriage boundaries, veiling, social mixing, servant bonds, and perceptions of virtue. It contrasts native views of Anglo Indian wives with Anglo Indian tolerance and dependence within households, noting tensions, loyalties, and the blurred lines of caste and affection.
The article contrasts fox and feline predation, noting the fox seizing prey with dexterity and gnawing to consume from skull to brain. It discusses imagined cruelty in writers versus real canine and feline behaviors, arguing the difference lies in each animal's nature rather than moral qualities.
A history of the wild cat across Europe notes its ferocity and hunting night habits, destroying small rodents and birds while threatening farms. A separate menagerie tale describes an anubis and a macaque’s unlikely bond, with Nana Sahib comforting the macaque and the pair becoming a crowd spectacle at Wombwell's.
A small female macaque with infant is moved to a keeper’s private room after the母 mother and child arrive amid a savage baboon named Nana Sahib. The infant curiously survives as the keeper, Mrs Fauguere, tends to it, amid tensions with the notorious den animal.
Captain G G Budd’s lecture recalls his 1832 voyage aboard the Dunscombe as trading master from Taywania to the Bay of Islands and onward to Opotiki where natives captured the ship. He endured captivity, saw his crew imprisoned but spared, and survived by scavenging taro, kumeras, maize, fish while plotting escape under hostile guard before a war imminent near Whakatane.
A sailor narrates his arduous trek through a swamp and hostile terrain to reach the Whakatane tribe. He aims to sell himself to a man named Taylor for escape, faces cannibal fears led by chief Toihou, and is spared by Teeapa. Captured and recaptured, he eventually reaches Tarranes, boards Columbine, returns to Sydney, then travels to Launceston and Portland Bay aiding in building the colony’s first house.
An 1840s column discusses water saving inspired by Moorish Spain and Lombardy, urging Australians to store scarce rainwater, dam outlets, and adapt to dry days. It contrasts old and new worlds, warning against watering habits, and cites Geraldine Warden’s letters from Salt Lake City about Brigham Young’s community and frontier life.
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