Sir,—I read with much interest the correspondence in your columns on the question of the value of improvements on the leasehold lands of New South Wales. From my experience of leaseholds and ...
Article : 494 wordsSir,—I agree with you that it is high time the city railway was made and the citizens ceased begging for what will be a profitable investment for the colony, as well as a great public convenience. If it is intended ...
Article : 502 wordsThe fortnightly meeting of the Hurstville Municipal Council was held on April 4. There were present the Mayor, Hugh Fatrick, with Aldermen Milsop, Fripp, Humphrey, Halstead, O[?]good, Bull, and Sproule. ...
Article : 467 wordsThe first of a series of lectures arranged by the committee of the Roman Catholic Reading-Rooms was delivered lest evening in the Bible Hall, William-street, by Cnrdinal Moran, the president of the institution. ...
Article : 951 wordsRapine, avarice, expense, " This is idolatry; and these we adore! Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause ...
Article : 1,449 wordsvate[?]jected socialistic demonstrations, that were have come off last Sunday in Paris and in all the other large towns, came to nothing, thanks to the vigour with which the decision of the contral ...
Article : 2,120 wordsSir,—Few will deny the desirableness of the extension of the railway through the city to the Circular Quay. Many will agree with the statement in the leader in your Saturday's issue, that "the time for ...
Article : 633 wordsSir,—It will be found by referring to the [?] of plants which have become naturalised in Australia and Tasmania that no species of Barberry has established itself in this part of the world. Sir J. D. Hooker in ...
Article : 499 wordsA meeting of this, council was held on Thursday evening, Alderman T. Muston, Mayor, presiding over a full council. The only business transacted was passing accounts and salaries amounting to £29. The ...
Article : 84 wordsThe Alhambra Music Hall was packed to the doors last evening with an enthusiastic audience to witness the change of programme. Mr. Alf. James, in his medley, "Hurry little children," set the ball of mirth ...
Article : 217 wordsSir,—Just now the public are much concerned about the Western Division. The Minister for Lands has been out West, has seen much, and heard more about the needs of that vast territory lightly called the West. ...
Article : 887 wordsSir,—In your leader of Saturday, the 6th, you say that "in a democracy the majority must govern." Mr. H. Spencer recently published in New York an essay, in which he says that the great political superstition of ...
Article : 1,021 wordsAt the request of the Free Trade Association, we publish the following extracts from a speech delivered by Mr. Cobden in 1844. The remarks made 45 years ago by Mr. Cobden are considered largely applicable to ...
Article : 551 wordsSir,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your valuable journal, to call the attention of the engineer and council of Waverley to the disgraceful condition of the approach to these otherwise highly ...
Article : 292 wordsSir,—A letter in your paper of the 4th instant, headed, "Railway grievances, or a Hint to the Commissioners," signed W. Beckford, has brought forward a very great injustice to the travelling public, and a ...
Article : 416 wordsSir,—I was pleased to read in your valuable paper the able letter of your correspondent "Luddenham" with reference to the state of the above road, and I have no doubt his description of its condition, would ...
Article : 453 wordsThe following are the results of the examinations lately held at the University in the department of engineering:— Engineering and architecture.—Honours: Class I., ...
Article : 142 wordsSir,—If "the great heart of the city" has done "pulsating" over the arrival of the Calliope, perhaps it will now find time to pulsate a little over the largehearted generosity shown by the Samoans. To put the ...
Article : 351 wordsShortly after 10 o'clock last night a coal lumper, named Edward Galabin, aged 30 years, residing at No. 90, Gloucester-street, was working at the s.s. Port Denison, when he fell down the forehold, a distance of ...
Article : 183 wordsSir,—Mr. Forsyth's letter in a recent issue of the Herald is only a fair and just criticism of the platform of the proposed Liberal Political Association as it at present stands. With the exception of three definite ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Tue 9 Apr 1889, Page 5
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