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  2. FIBRE PLANTS.

    Sir,—Your correspondent, "Always Onward," appears to be under the impression that the home of the Ramie fibre plant (Bœhmeria nivea) is New Caledonia, and that the French are very jealous with ...

    Article : 1,979 words
  3. FIVE YEARS OF COLONISATION AT THE CAPE.

    Some valuable particulars about Mr. Arnold White's colonisation experiments in South Africa have been published in the Cape Argus. In the case of the Tennyson settlement Mr. White found some private ...

    Article : 1,800 words
  4. MEETINGS. PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.

    A meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works was held in the Colonial Secretary's department yesterday. There were present Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.L.A. (chairman), Messrs. W. J. ...

    Article : 1,124 words
  5. THE RESCUE OF EMIN BEY.

    Some further and most interesting details of Stanley's expedition for the rescue of Emin Boy, are furnished by the explorer himself in an official report which he has supplied to the English Government at the request ...

    Article : 2,964 words
  6. EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA.

    In view of the reported outbreak of epidemic influenza in New Zealand, and still nearer at home in Victoria, the following report by Dr. Ashburton Thompson, chief medical inspector to ...

    Article : 2,125 words
  7. TRADES UNIONISM.

    Sir,—In your issue of the 19th instant appears a letter signed "Veritas," under the above heading, agreeing with "A Pessimist" (another of your correspondents) that trades unionism is responsible ...

    Article : 1,729 words
  8. WORDS OF WISDOM BT WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, ON DIVORCE.

    Sir,—In recent issues of yonr journal Sir Henry Parkes has quoted various weighty sayings of this great man on important subjects of the day. I beg space to add some of his very latest utterances upon a subject ...

    Article : 716 words
  9. METROPOLITAN TRANSIT COMMISSION.

    The weekly meeting of the Metropolitan Transit Commissioners was held at the offices, Castlereagh-street, yesterday. The Mayor (Alderman S. Burdekin) occupied the chair, and there were also present ...

    Article : 397 words
  10. THE V SECTION FERRY-BOAT.

    Sir,—You have a paragraph in this morning's paper referring to the New York ferry-boat Bergen, which has been recently built on the V principle aa a doubleended screw vessel, and by some inadvertence you give ...

    Article : 303 words
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