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  2. A NEW AUTOMATIC STOKER.

    Reference was made in these columns a few days ago to a new automatic contrivance for stoking boiler furnaces, which, so far as its application to marine engineering had been put into operation ...

    Article : 683 words
  3. A RUSSIAN VIEW OF THE ARMENIAN QUESTION.

    A correspondent writes to the St. James's Gazette; —The new and startling developments at Constantinople will attract fresh attention to the Armenian difficulty. The problem was for the moment ...

    Article : 1,259 words
  4. POLICE COURTS.

    Three small boys, named Alfred Smith, 15, William O'Brien, 15, and John George Avery, 14, appeared before Mr. C. Delohery, S.M., at the Water Police Court yesterday on a charge of having in ...

    Article : 1,197 words
  5. NEWS BY THE MAIL. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. TURKEY AND THE POWERS.

    A Router's telegram says:—At his audience of the Sultan on 13th November, which lasted nearly an hour and a half, Signor Pansa, the Italian Ambassador, speaking in strong terms, insisted upon the ...

    Article : 429 words
  6. THE OLD WINDMILLS OF SYDNEY.

    The occurrence of a record reign which will always be memorable because of the vast amount of progress with which it has been marked has been seized by many as a favourable opportunity for ...

    Article : 1,851 words
  7. SCHOOL VACATIONS.

    A successful concert was given on the 21st instant at the North Sydney School of Arts by the pupils of the Willoughby Public School in aid of the piano fund. A lengthy and varied programme was much ...

    Article : 788 words
  8. THE SHIFTING SCENE.

    The humonrs of Sydney tram travelling, like Mr. Weller's knowledge of London, are peculiar and extensive and perhaps no one but Mr. Weller's author could do anything like justice to the ...

    Article : 2,212 words
  9. THE LATEST NIAGARA MARVEL.

    A correspondent of the Times at Buffalo telegraphs to that journal an enthusiastic message describing how at 12.1 a.m. on 16th November the Mayor of Buffalo, with a distinguished company of ...

    Article : 162 words
  10. OLD AGE PENSIONS AND THE LABOURE UNIONS.

    Sir,—The article in your issue of the 18th instant re old-age pensions is a valuable one, and should strike and rivet the attention of your readers inasmuch is it shows boldly the cause of what has now ...

    Article : 1,275 words
  11. CENTENARY HALL THEOLOGICAL AND HOMILETICAL CLASS.

    The half-yearly examinations in connection with the above class were held at the hall on the 11th and 18th instant. The paper in the theological section (conducted by the Rev. B. J. Meek) was set by the ...

    Article : 270 words
  12. " THE BLIND MAY SEE."—T. A. EDISON.

    Mr. Edison has made a remarkable statement to the effect that by the use of the Röntgen rays the blind may be able to see, the only condition being that the optic nerve must be intact. Experiments ...

    Article : 75 words
  13. VALKYRIE AND SATANITA: JUDGMENT.

    The House of Lords on 19th November delivered judgment in the case Clarke v. the Earl or Dunraven, which was an appeal aganist an order of the Court of Appeal reversing the decree of the ...

    Article : 155 words
  14. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' DEMONSTRATION COMMITTEE.

    A meeting of the executive committee for completing all arrangements for Boxing Day was held at the New Masonic Hall last evening. Mr. P. Forbes, president was in the chair. Reports were ...

    Article : 359 words
  15. THE BOER PRESIDENT AND HIS PEOPLE.

    Mr. W. E. H. Lecky, M. P., who is married to a Dutch lady, gave on 11th November, when speaking at a meeting of the Historical Society in Trinity College, Dublin, the following appreciation of the ...

    Article : 626 words
  16. THE PROPOSED WHARF RESUMPTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—The above proposals of the Government should be most carefully considered in their every aspect, they are presumably to resume the wharfages fronting Darling Harbour—not all wharfs in the ...

    Article : 911 words
  17. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ASSOCIATION.

    The thirteenth annual meeting of the Commercial Travellers' Association of New South Wales, which was opened on Wednesday, was continued at the society's rooms, 173 Pitt-street, yesterday. Mr. J. ...

    Article : 293 words
  18. LAW NOTICES.

    Prothonotary's Office. —Before the Protbonotary Burns v. Burns, 2.15 Payten v. Hulbert, 2.30. Before the Chief Clerk; A. J. S. Bank v. Elhott, 9.45; Hogg v. Davies, 10; Sands v. Abel, 10.30; Featherstone v. ...

    Article : 49 words
  19. PROPOSED QUEEN'S RECORD COMMEMORATION.

    Sir, —Your correspondent "Observer," whose letter appeared in to-day's issue, is evidently so prejudiced in the cause of the Beuevolent Asylum in its relation to a maternity home for poor and ...

    Article : 480 words
  20. THE MAKING OF BR[?]TSH COLUMBIA.

    British Columbia has its Unitlanders—a considerable and increasing body of gold hunters, who for the last two years have been thronging into the heart of the Kootenay district from the United States. The ...

    Article : 693 words
  21. MR. BALFOUR AT EDINBURGH.

    Mr. A. J. Balfour, M. P., on 19th November opened a bazaar in the Music Hall, Edinburgh, in connection with a scheme to provide a field for physical exercise and recreation for the students of ...

    Article : 215 words
  22. MAKING BRICKS FROM SAND.

    According to an American paper, a great brick plant is to be established in proximity to San Franeisco, which will add materially to the city's manufacturing interests, and through new methods may ...

    Article : 505 words
  23. MEMBERS' FREE PASSES.

    Sir,—From your leading article this morning I learned of the action recently taken by the Victorian Commissioners for Income Tax with respect to Ms. P. travelling on their private business with their ...

    Article : 307 words
  24. WILD FLOWER GATHERING.

    Sir,—Will some of your correspondents kindly enlighten me as to the laws relative to wild-flower gathering? Some few days a couple of black-fellows were proceeded against for picking a bit of ...

    Article : 223 words
  25. A NEW AND AMUS1NG MILLAIS ANECDOTE.

    An old friend of Sir John Millais sends to the Chronicle the following new and amusing story of the late President of the Royal Academy; I found myself seated one evening at a rather grand dinner ...

    Article : 288 words
  26. THE NINETEENTH CENTENARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST.

    Sir,—It is a fact universally acknowledged by accurate historical investigation that the common reckoning of Anno Domini is four years short of the actual date of the Nativity of Christ. Hence it ...

    Article : 192 words
  27. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—With reference to Mr. Reid's scheme for the resumption of Sydney water frontages and wharfs, I think it is a grand move, and could be carried out as a great national work without much expense, as, no ...

    Article : 149 words
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