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  2. THE CONDEMNED MEN MONTGOMERY AND WILLIAMS. A REPRIEVE URGENTLY REQUESTED.

    The agitation for the reprieve of Montgomery and Williams, sentenced to death for assaulting Police-constable Bowden with intent to murder him, after the Bridge-street burglary, in February last, was ...

    Article : 2,221 words
  3. MEETINGS. WOMANHOOD SUFFRAGE LEAGUE.

    A meeting of the Newtown branch of the Womanhood Suffrage League was held in the Oddfellows' Hall. Wilson-street, Newtown, last night, the Mayor of Newtown (Alderman William Rigg) ...

    Article : 168 words
  4. SOME LONDON BREWEOUSE TRADITIONS.

    They are numerous and interesting. Burton, of course, is the beer capital of England nowadays, and the student of commercial enterprise should an he want to see the newest—the most developed ...

    Article : 1,894 words
  5. MUNICIPAL COUNCILS. PETERSHAM.

    At the Petersham council meting on the 22nd May the Mayor (Alderman Rofe) presided and Alderman Hughes, Brothers, Golding, Russell-Jones, Toms, Bains, Webster, London, Langdon, and Salier, ...

    Article : 491 words
  6. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—Dr. Johnson remarks in a paper in the Rambler that "to equal robbery with murder is to reduce murder to robbery, to confound in common minds the gradations of iniquity, and to incite the ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  7. ABOUT BANK-NOTES.

    There are few more tantalising experiences than to be present in tue printing-room of the Bank of England when the bank-notes are being printed. It is bad enough to visit the vaults and see the trucks full of ...

    Article : 2,407 words
  8. THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' ASSOCIATION.

    A special general meeting of the Commercial Travellers Association was held at the rooms, No. 118 Pitt-street, last evening. The president (Mr. R. Bennetts) occupied the chair, and there was a large ...

    Article : 129 words
  9. WASPS AT HOME.

    There is probably only one, and that a very limited class, even among naturalists, who will rejoice in the amazing fertility of the wasp-broods during the present summer. Yet (remarks a writer in the ...

    Article : 1,963 words
  10. THE RUSSIANS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.

    Sixty years ago Sultan Mahmoud conceded to Russia the exclusive right-of-way through the Dardanelles. The treaty, that of Hunkiar Iskelesi, by which Turkey thus delivered the keys of these ...

    Article : 1,166 words
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  12. WATERLOO.

    A meeting of this council was held on Wednesday. The Mayor (Alderman Walsh) and Aldermen M. Smith, Williams, S. F. Smith, Greenwood, Anderson, and Collier were presemt. Alderman Williams called ...

    Article : 232 words
  13. MINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY BILL.

    Sir,—A letter from Mr. W. E. Abbott appears in your issue of to-day deprecating the action of the Legislative Council with regard to the above bill. As have taken a somewhat active part in opposing ...

    Article : 669 words
  14. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

    Regarding the review held on the anniversary of the Queen's Birthday, the Major-General, in answer to inquiries yesterday, said that, considering all the draw backs of curtailed training, &c., the turnout and ...

    Article : 746 words
  15. PILOTAGE RATES.

    Sir,—In your issue of 16th instant, in a leader dealing with the count-out in the Assembly on the 15th instant, when the important question of the reduction of pilotage rates was under discussion, ...

    Article : 537 words
  16. UNIVERSITY RETRENCHMENT.

    Sir,—I notice that the University authorities are not disposed to surrender their claims upon the State without a struggle. Will you allow me to point outthat there is another way to effect the ...

    Article : 255 words
  17. WHICH IS ENTITLED TO OUR SYMPATHY THE CRIMINAL OR THE VICTIM?

    Sir,—Somewhat more than 50 years ago a powerful leading article appeared in the London Times upon the occasion of the death sentence then passed upon a notorious criminal. It stated that a great ...

    Article : 163 words
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