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  2. AN ARROWROOT FARM.

    On Wednesday last we had the pleasure of payina a visit to that rather celebrated farming settlement— Oxrey. Probably few localities can be found in this colony that have had more ups and downs than have ...

    Article : 2,043 words
  3. PARRAMATTA —PUBLIC BUILDINGS, SEWER AGE, AND WATER SUPPLY.

    Sir,—In the early days of this town (Parramatta) a dam was built across the river for the purpose of Forming a reservoir. The town increased in size and importance, and a" female factory" was established in the ...

    Article : 1,254 words
  4. MR. J. G. WHYTE MELVILLE.

    George John Whyte Melville, the subject of our present article, was born in 1821 and sent to Eton, where he had the advantage of a system of discipline under the celebrated Dr. Keate, in days when proper ...

    Article : 864 words
  5. TALKING POTATOES.

    An impromptu philosopher was describing the habile of the hyena. "This hyena," he said, " goes into the wilderness, and he laughs, and he laughs, and he laughs; but what the devil he laughs at I could never ...

    Article : 1,812 words
  6. BARBAROUS PROSECITION OF JEWS.

    M. Bratiance, Minister of the Interior of Roumania, and the present persecutor of the Jews of Moldavia, was, and probably still professes to be, a Liberal of the first water. He had studied law in the schools of Paris, ...

    Article : 1,550 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EMPIRE.

    Sir.—The new Land Bill being now before the public, is open to criticism, and as good may result from a diffusion of ideas, 1 trust you will excuse my writing you. ...

    Article : 1,047 words
  8. CURIOSTIES OF JUSTICE.

    There seem to have beea two kinds of criminals who formerly refused to plead to their indietments—the one, men of property, who by suffering death by pressure instead of by hanging preserved their landed ...

    Article : 747 words
  9. BEET ROOT.

    Sir, — lt is only fair that they who are endeavouring to promote a new branch of industry should be ready to answer all inquiries, and to impart the most, correct information as their power upon the subject I ...

    Article : 793 words
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