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  2. A TAX ON BREAD.

    Sir,—Having taken part in the correspondence that has appeared in your columns during the last week or so on the above important question. I read this morning with more than usual interest your criticisms of the various statements ...

    Article : 916 words
  3. NOTES OF TRAVEL.

    In these somewhat desultory notes I have already stated that I do not pretend to give anything like a complete account of the zoology of the countries I visited. This would be a very large affair, and in any ...

    Article : 3,679 words
  4. FREEDOM VERSUS OPPRESSION.

    Controversy, even under the most favourable circumstances, has to reckon with the fact that few persons have the time, and fewer still the disposition, to study more than one side of any question; and of all possible ...

    Article : 2,487 words
  5. ODDFELLOWSHIP.

    At the semi-annual meeting of St. John's Lodge, No. 32, Independent Order of Oddfellows, held at the Grand United Order of Oddfellows' Hall, George-street South, on Friday evening last, the half-yearly report and ...

    Article : 631 words
  6. PARLIAMENTARY PROCRASTINATION.

    Sir,—The law's delays are proverbial; but we have much to learn of the procrastination that is too common in Parliamentary proceedings. As far as the public business is concerned, we see month after month wasted in useless ...

    Article : 666 words
  7. MR. HALLORAN'S POEMS.

    Amid the multitude of Jubilee poems and odes by great and small, those from Mr. Halloran's pen have no unworthy place. There is a vast difference between verse made to order and that which springs directly ...

    Article : 769 words
  8. LECTURE.

    Mr. S. A. Byrne delivered a lecture on "Athens and Sydney," in the School of Arts, Pitt-street, on Saturday evening. The hall was well filled. In the course of the entertainment the lecturer spoke of the customs and the ...

    Article : 109 words
  9. PROTECTIONIST TARIFFS.

    Sir,—In your issue of the 29th Mr. B. R. Wise gives an account of what he calls a protectionist tax imposed in Germany, and draws a certain lesson therefrom for New South Wales. The method here adopted by Mr. Wise of ...

    Article : 715 words
  10. PROTECTION IN GERMANY.

    Sir,—German sugar has been landed in Melbourne. This is an item of news that our free-trade friends may do well to ponder over, for the manufacture of sugar from beetroot has been raised, under a protective tariff, in Germany and ...

    Article : 470 words
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