No. 101 THE MELBOURNE AND COLONIAL HOUSE-INVESTMENT COMPANY'S DESIGNS, ELEVATIONS OF HOIJSES, AND DIAGRAMS OF PLANS. THE latest intelligence from Australia shows that the demand for house accommodation is greater than ever, and that the scarcity of anything like suitable habitat

BOOKS ON AUSTRALIA. Cr New Books in connection with emigration to Australia, immediately on their appearing, are added ; to Stock, which, on this as on every other topic, is the most extensive and most complete in the West of Scotland. 1. PHUN'S AUSTRALIAN NEWS& MONTHLY 1. RECOR

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immediate despatch, rr HE very fine newlv-coppered Greenock• e .1 built - Barque JCLIET, 444 tons register, 11 years A 1 at Lloyd's, A. M'lreryitE, _ • Commander. Is well known in the India and China Trade as a remarkably fast sailer, and altogether affords an excellent opportun

n recent intelligence from the gold fields is somewhat more favourable than formerly. The diggers are returning to work after a somewhat prolonged indulgence in the festivities of Christmas; and the quantity of gold brought down by the last escort shows a slight increase. In the

CROAKERS always abound. When they want to croak they readily find a topic and an excuse for so doing. They catch hold of a tiny midge, fluttering away in the breeze, and, with their expansive imaginations, readily magnify it into a spacious and immoveable mountain. Such is the p

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