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  2. PARIS SAMUSE.

    I wonder do they over think, those people with whom the gaieties and frivolities of the gay city of Paris have passed into a byword, of what a serious business this business of pleasure is after ...

    Article : 2,220 words
  3. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

    Queen's Hall, which seats nearly 3000 people, and is now the principal concert-room of London, is now the scene of a long series of promenade concerts, which began at the end of August and ...

    Article : 1,525 words
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    Advertising : 265 words
  5. LITERARY GOSSIP.

    We have had the news this week of the death of two distinguished literary men— William Morris and George Du Maurier. The latter's end, somehow, raises an almost ...

    Article : 1,775 words
  6. AT THE BEGINNING.

    We are often told that a very large proportion of the crime and misery in the world is caused by drink, but if we want to get to the origin of the evils, we must look deeper. It may be admitted ...

    Article : 1,248 words
  7. CHESS.

    Secretaries are invited to furnish club news of general interest; correspondents, the scores of unpublished games and original problems. These should be accompanied by diagrams and full analyses. A register is ...

    Article : 51 words
  8. PROBLEM No. 97.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 words
  9. PROBLEM No. 96.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 174 words
  10. NEWS FROM JAPAN. From Japanese papers to hand we take the following items of news:— GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE.

    The total expenditure of all departments of the Government for 1896 is estimated at yen 307,000,000, an increase of yen 114,000,000 over the estimate for 1895. The Minister for Finance, it is reported, has ...

    Article : 141 words
  11. CURRENT LITERATURE.

    Messrs. George Robertson and Co. publish a novel called In Sunny Australia, by Nonine St. Clair, and dedicated by permission to Lady Hampden. The plot is rather involved, and although ...

    Article : 493 words
  12. THE PRIMATE AND HIS CRITICS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—"When people are taught," says the Lord Bishop of Liverpool, "that all who are baptised are as a matter of course born again, and that all baptised persons should be addressed as 'children of ...

    Article : 784 words
  13. COTTON FROM THE MULBERRY TREE.

    A new process to manufacture cotton thread from the mulberry tree is reported by the Nichi Nichi to have given satisfactory results on trial. An Osaka mill experimented with the new material, mixing ...

    Article : 71 words
  14. NOTES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 468 words
  15. JAPANESE IN HAWAII.

    According to the Official Gazette there were, on the last day of 1895, 35,374 Japanese emigrants (free and contract) working on the sugar plantations in the Hawaiian Islands. The number of contract ...

    Article : 85 words
  16. THE FALL IN EXCHANGE.

    The Chugai Shogyo attributes the recent decline in exchange to the following causes:—1. The activity of the general market in America, which has brought forth a considerable quantity of silver heretofore ...

    Article : 93 words
  17. INCREASE OF NATIONAL EXPENDITURE.

    Attempting to forecast the budget for 1897 the Yomiuri says a substantial increase of expenditure may be expected. Seven million yen additional is needed for formosa, and all the other departments ...

    Article : 74 words
  18. TRAVELS OF A JAPANESE EXPERT.

    Captain Sakamoto, from the Japanese Admiralty, at present, said a correspondent writing on 15th July, is on a visit to view the Imperial dockyards At Germany. After having visited the ...

    Article : 84 words
  19. COTTON IN KOBE.

    Seventy thousand bales of cotton, which were imported from the United States and from Bombay, are now in Kobe warehouses. Most of this cotton has been ordered by Japanese millowners, and it is ...

    Article : 50 words
  20. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

    A. H.—Solution of No. 94 duly to hand. We note your remarks, and have credited you with the solution. J. M. O'D.—Kindly advise us of the number of the problem in question. ...

    Article : 38 words
  21. YOKOHAMA HARBOUR REGULATIONS.

    The new regulations for Yokohama harbour were to take effect on 1st September. They are as follows:— No tugboat shall tow more than three boats at one ...

    Article : 153 words
  22. A WESLEYAN PASTORAL.

    An important Wesleyan in Pastoral to the Methodists of Great Britain, bearing the signatures of the Revs. Marshall Randles, D.D., and Marshall Hartley, the president and secretary of the Wesleyan Conference, ...

    Article : 952 words
  23. THE PHARMACY BILL.

    Sir,—I beg to point out what appears to be a very patent defect in the provisions of this bill as they now stand. Apparently, under the provisions of clause 11 all assistants and apprentices for less ...

    Article : 720 words
  24. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—In the belief that the following utterance of the first Bishop of Australia, whose attachment to the doctrine and principles of the Church of England were always beyond question, and whose ...

    Article : 363 words
  25. SUGAR DUTIES.

    Sir,—In a recent issue of your paper appeared a letter signed W. H. Webb. In reply, I don't see how the danger he speaks of will come about unless getting a larger return off their holdings is dangerous, ...

    Article : 359 words
  26. "A VOICE FROM THE BUSH."

    Sir,—Your article in Monday's Herald re the moral responsibility of the Dederers for the notorious Boggabri murder was very much to the point. "Every reflecting mind in the community must ...

    Article : 539 words
  27. CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES.

    Sir,—Will you permit me to ask some kindly disposed M.P. to endeavour to elicit from the Premier information as to when it is likely payments to Civil servants will be made according to the ...

    Article : 279 words
  28. THE MUNICIPAL ENDOWMENT.

    Sir,—I see by the reports of different municipal council meetings there is great indignation being shown towards the Government on account of the restrictions placed upon the endowment granted to ...

    Article : 153 words
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