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  2. INTERCOLONIAL ITEMS.

    A deputation, representing the mining interest of Victoria, waited on the Premier on Thursday to request that the Government would place a sum of £100,000 at the disposal of mining boards, with the object of reinvigorating ...

    Article : 747 words
  3. TAYLOR v. BARTON.

    On March 6 the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council gave judgment in the appeal case Taylor v. Barton. There were present (we learn from the Times) the Earl of Selborne, Lord Blackburn, Loid Monkswell, ...

    Article : 2,700 words
  4. OUR NEW ZEALAND LETTER.

    This colony is still "depressed," but we have got so used to the depression by this time, it has so become our chronic state, as it were, that we do not take as much notice of it as we did two years ago. That things age ...

    Article : 2,964 words
  5. CONTINENTAL GOSSIP.

    Decidedly the European communities cannot do without exhibitions. Austria is meditating one; Spain is also considering the possibility of thus attacting its neighbours and friends to Madrid; France is still ...

    Article : 2,357 words
  6. THE BRYCE v. RUSDEN GASE.

    As our readers are aware, Mr. Bryce, late Native Minister for New Zealand, obtained a verdict for £5000 damages against Mr. Rusden, for certain charges made against the Minister in Rusden's History of New Zealand. ...

    Article : 712 words
  7. THE TRIP OF THE SUTLEJ FROM SYDNEY TO MELBOURNE.

    The R.M.S Sutlej, of the P. and O. Company, felt the full force of the gale. She met the tempest in all int [?] and was assailed so [?] as to place her in an extremely dangerous position for a time. The wind was from the ...

    Article : 1,003 words
  8. NEW CALEDONIA.

    From files of New Caledonian newspapers received yesterday we translate the following:- On April 10, at 5 o'clock in the morning, a duel with swords took place at Anso Vata, between a sub-lieutenant ...

    Article : 480 words
  9. THE CIVIL SERVANTS' SUPERANNUATION FUND.

    Sir,—As the Civil Service Act is now before the Legislature for amendment, it might not be out of place to comment upon its main feature, viz., the deduction of 4 per cent from the salaries of Civil servants for the purpose of ...

    Article : 667 words
  10. NAVAL SALUTES.

    Sir,—In your issue of this morning I read a statement of the courtesies ships of war have to render by way of salutes fired from the big guns in honour of this or that distinguished person. The information is valuable in ...

    Article : 613 words
  11. THE PROPOSED LAND TAX.

    Sir,—I am quite willing to pay my share of taxation, and do not object to a land tax, though it comes a little hard upon men who have been compelled to buy land under the old law of 1861. Under that law the tenant's choice was, ...

    Article : 521 words
  12. THE INCOME TAX.

    Sir,—While agreeing with the principle of taxing incomes, under certain circumstances, I think the Treasurer's proposals should be amended in at least two particulars, 1st, As it is not absolutely necessary to clear off tht [?] ...

    Article : 147 words
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