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  2. A SCOTCH WITNESS BEFORE A COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

    In the days of the railway mania, so numerous were the applications to Parliament, that the majority of the House of Commons were drafted out into committees to hear, yawn, and determine. ...

    Article : 2,333 words
  3. OUR GOLD-FIELDS.

    The Victoria Gold Mines Company is the offspring—it cannot be called the development—of the old " Ironbark Quartz Mining Company," whose property it purchased some twelve months ...

    Article : 1,768 words
  4. ARRIVAL OF THE BEHAR WITH THE OCTOBER MAILS.

    The Balclutha arrived at Adelaide yesterday evening with the English mails for South Australia, transhipped at King George's Sound. The English news is to the 26th of ...

    Article : 619 words
  5. PROTECTION VERSUS FREE TRADE.

    SIR,—Some months ago, three or four letters against protection appeared in the Argus under the signature of "B. Windsor." As the writer betrayed his ignorance of the question now at ...

    Article : 1,375 words
  6. MR. BARTON AND NORTH MELBOURNE.

    SIR,—A rumour is current in the press that it is my intention to resign my seat in the Legislature. I beg to say that I have no such intention, and that I will be found in my place ...

    Article : 179 words
  7. A MINER'S VIEWS ON PROTECTION.

    SIR,—Being mining on one of the Gipps Land mountain streams where political news are somewhat irregular in reaching, I sometimes wish to be a Melbourne resident, that I ...

    Article : 770 words
  8. CHEAP WINES.

    The late Mr. Porter, in his evidence before the wine duties committee says:— "In the towns of Plymouth and Devonport a large proportion of the respectable inhabitants consist of ...

    Article : 752 words
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