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  2. METROPOLITAN FIRE BRIGADES BOARD.

    The fifth annual report of the Fire Brigades Board, which has been submitted to Parliament, states that on comparing the gross total of the amounts held at risk by the insurance companies, a slight ...

    Article : 2,050 words
  3. REVIEWS.

    In these days when money is accumulating with unexampled rapidity, and when it is being supplied in such immense amounts for the requirements of States and corporations any work on the Funds ...

    Article : 1,568 words
  4. OUR REGULAR MILITARY SERVICE.

    On the conditions of service of our local regular soldiers be improved, and the corps itself rendered more popular and of more general utility? When our only regular military force, the ...

    Article : 1,997 words
  5. IN THE HOUSE.

    Mr. Hutchison (Canterbury) began by demanding to know if no scheme had been formulated for supplying Petersham with water. It is not so very long since a very excellent scheme for supplying ...

    Article : 1,623 words
  6. THE DRINK BILL OF THE COLONY FOR 1888.

    Sir,—The Rev. F. B. Boyce has again brought before your readers our annual drink bill. According to the rev. gentleman, the money paid for [?]coholic drinks last year exceeded four millions. He also informs [?] that ...

    Article : 1,649 words
  7. EFFECT OF SATURDAY RACK MEETTNGS ON RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

    Sir,—The treatment which we regular travellers on the suburban line are subjected to week after week for the convenience of racecourse proprietors, bookmakers, &c., is simply outrageous, and as the largest portion of ...

    Article : 264 words
  8. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.

    Sir,—I beg small space to say a word or two on the above subject. I am afraid that nothing new can be said, but all which has been lately advanced, has been rather garbled and piecemealed, so that the true ...

    Article : 480 words
  9. COMPENSATION FOR IMPROVEMENTS.

    Sir,—Before the colony is committed to a law which will practically charge the public estate with an enormous mortgage, permit me to show how the burthen of improvements may be easily borne by those ...

    Article : 761 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—"Taxpayer's" silly attack on Mr. J. P. Abbott, because he declared for the above question, is scarcely worth a reply. But just pu[?]h his argument to its limit, and how ridiculous it appears. The question of ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. SMOKING CARS ON TRAMS.

    Sir,—Large accommodation of the above kind is on most lines given to those who smoke, but there is one exception, which, with your permission, I would wish to draw attention to, and that is in respect to the morning ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMINALS.

    Sir,—From a recent debate in the Upper House it would appear that Sir William Manning expressed great abhorrence at the notion that revenge was the underlying motive which prompts the State in ...

    Article : 525 words
  13. THE TOWN HALL ORGAN.

    Sir,—I regret to find from the P. S. to Mr. Rea's letter, published in your columns this morning, that he has misunderstood a remark made in my letter which appeared yesterday. I desire to say that I had no ...

    Article : 396 words
  14. CRAWLING CABE.

    Sir,—I am very glad to see that a sufferer—one of many, I am sure—has taken up this matter. In the narrow, crowded streets of Sydney it is simply absurd that scores of empty cabs should be allowed to adopt this ...

    Article : 129 words
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