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  2. FROM CANTON TO TEE CHINESE CAMP.

    It is said that steamers cannot ascend the river beyond Ngehau. There is reason to believe, however, that at this season of the year river steamers of considerable draught could go at least 400 miles further ...

    Article : 2,539 words
  3. THE TIMBER AND TIMBER TRADE OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    There comes a time sooner or later in the life of almost every man when the scales fall from the eyes and the ground lifts from beneath the feel, when the spiritual vision becomes foer a brief space clear as day, and the ...

    Article : 1,905 words
  4. MIDDLE-CLASS SELFISHNESS.

    In Goldsmith's immortal comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer," Tony Lumpkin remarks, with unconscious humour, "I don't mind a' disappointing of others but I can't abide to disappoint myself." Despite advanced ...

    Article : 1,089 words
  5. OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

    They are still wrangling over the Licensing Bill in the Assembly, and petitions for and against it are being presented by the score. One was submitted the other night, said to be a quarter of a mile long, and ...

    Article : 1,570 words
  6. THE RELIGIOUS QUARREL AT TONGA.

    The correspondent of the Fiji. Times, writing from Nukualopa, on 6th August, says:— "Much of interest has occurrod since I last wrote. The return of the Consul was a slight restraint upon the ...

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  7. A PLEA FOR OUR WILD FLOWERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I earnestly hope that Mr. Norton's suggestion in regard to an exhibition of our native plants, alive and growing, will not only not be lost sight of but will be seted on by many at once. True it is that, as far as this season is ...

    Article : 539 words
  8. NEW PUBLICATIONS.

    We have received from the Government Printing Office Part 2, Volume 2, of "Australian "Orchids," a most intersting publication, compiled by Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald, F.L.S., deputy Government surveyor. Mr. Fitzgerald has ...

    Article : 636 words
  9. SUGAR-REFINING BY ELECTRICITY

    A Liverpool correspondent writes:—"It has been for some months past a matter of curiosity and concern to sugarrefiners, both in this country and America, to know that a process of refining sugar by electricity was being perfected ...

    Article : 652 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—As a wanderer from Victoria, 1, yesterday, visited the wild-flower show at Manlv, and was quite enchanted with the temple of floral beauties, constructed and arranged with so much artistic skill and taste by the (may I say?) ...

    Article : 230 words
  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I was much gratified by the letter of the Hon. James Norton, in your issue of Friday last, re the destruction of our wild flowers, brought about by the "Wild flower shows." ...

    Article : 185 words
  12. A PARCEL POST WANTED.

    Sir,—I wish to support the remarks of Messrs. Horton and Company in the Herald, and hope we shall soon have a parcel post from Sydney to all parts. The postage of articles which I send away often exce[?]'s their own value. ...

    Article : 154 words
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