Articles from page 5: Previous page Next page

  1. Please wait. Loading browse data... loading
  2. REVIEWS.

    There are few among the many who write on children's subjects, or about children, who do not fail in one of two directions, either by writing in too heavy a style, or by making their ...

    Article : 481 words
  3. IN THE MUSEUM.

    There can be no doubt that the Museum ranks among the most effective instruments of education wielded by modern civilisation. There, alike, the reader of travel and adventure and natural history, and the ...

    Article : 2,252 words
  4. AS YOU LIKE IT.

    What about the Governor's speech? The Premier is away perorating, and has left no deputy public orator—and I doubt very much if he has left the draft of the Governor's speech for next Tuesday behind him. ...

    Article : 2,690 words
  5. Congregational Independency: Its Introduction to Queensland, with Reminiscences of the Churches. By GEORGE WIGHT, author of "Queensland, a field for British Labour and Enterprise," "Geology and Genesis," &c. Brisbane: Gordon and Gotch, 1887.

    Mr. Wight, when occupying the chair of the Queensland Congrogational Union last year, was requested to prepare a small volume embodying a manual of Congregational Church polity, with reminiscences of the ...

    Article : 540 words
  6. A STATUE OF JOHN KNOX: APPEAL BY DR. CAMERON LEES.

    Sir,—I wish to erect a statue of John Knox in St. Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh, of which church he was for many years the minister. Will the Scotsmen of Australia enablo me to do this P ...

    Article : 212 words
  7. THE PRESIDENT OF VHE ROYAL, SOCIETY ON SCIENCE.

    Her Majosty the Queen having on two occasions during the past year sent messages to the Victoria Institute signifying her pleasure in accepting the volumes of its journal, and the fact that its annual address was to be ...

    Article : 1,232 words
  8. WORK AND WAGES.

    Sir,—In your issue of the 7th of September appeared a letter from a gentleman who signs himself "Economist," upon the question of work and wages. I see sir, also in a leader in your issue of this day, Monday, that you are in ...

    Article : 941 words
  9. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    The following official notifications were published in yesterday's Government Gazette:— APPOINTMENTS.— Mr. Henry Gordon, police magistrate and clerk of petty sessions at Gosford, to be Crown land ...

    Article : 464 words
  10. Romance of the Wool Trads. By JAMES BONWICK, F.R.G.S., author of "The Last of the Tasmanian," "Port Phillip Settlement." &c. London: Griffith, Farran, and Co. 1887. Sydney: Turner and Henderson.

    Mr. Bonwick may fairly be regarded as the most invetorate of colonial book-makers. Before this essay at "Romance," ho had some 10 books on Australasian subjects actually in print, and a great many more out ...

    Article : 1,090 words
  11. THE ROAD FROM EASTWOOD TO PENNANT HILLS.

    Sir,—You will allow me through your columns to draw attention to the dangerous state of the road from Eastwood to Pennant Hills. The other day I went with my daughter to visit a friend at Pennant Hills, and the road from ...

    Article : 220 words
  12. A PUBLIC NUISANCE.

    Sir,—I am a comparative stranger in Sydney, but have had frequent opportunities of enjoying walks in the capacious and beautiful grounds that are open to the public. In doing so I have on three occasions innocently carne into ...

    Article : 218 words
×

Buy

Download

Please choose from the following download options:

Share

Share this item on:

Print

Print page as...

The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages.

Scope
Format of download
as... PDF PDF

You need to login before you can save preferences.

$