The population of New South Wales on the £lst December last is given by the Registrar - General of that Colony at 560,275—307,329 males, and 252,916 females. The Sunday amusement of the youths at Hill-eud, N.S.W., consists in lowering and raising one another down and up shafts 100 and 150 ft. deep. Grace Greenwood relates, as an instance of the extravagance of New England humor, that when a young tanner’s wife made her first boy’s pants precisely as ample before as behind, the uirmer exclaimed, “ Goodness ! he won’t know whether he’s going to school or coming home. ”(
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Evening Star, Issue 3516, 30 May 1874, Page 2
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96Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 3516, 30 May 1874, Page 2
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