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  2. RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA.

    Although attention is just now directed naturally towards the Upper Nile and South Africa, the coasts of Chins, and the islands in the South Pacific, it would be unwise to ignore the effect of persistent Russian encroachment in ...

    Article : 2,022 words
  3. THE EXPLORATION OF NEW GUINEA.

    A meeting of the administrative council of the Geographical Society of Australasia was held at the rooms of the society, 142, Phillip-street, on Monday afternoon, the 2nd instant, Sir Edwsrd Strickland in the chair. ...

    Article : 903 words
  4. OUR BRISBANE LETTER.

    Ministers are invited to and attend many feasts, but they do not give their entertainers much return in the way of political information. This week the trip was to Stanthorpe, when the usual show was followed by ...

    Article : 2,128 words
  5. OUR MELBOURNE LETTER.

    There is just now an epidemic of suicides in Melbourne. They are variously drowning themselves, cutting their throats, shooting themselves through the head, taking prussic acid, and getting decapitated on ...

    Article : 1,640 words
  6. THE CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE PATRIOTIC FUND.

    Sir,—My attention having been drawn to the letter of the Hon. Sir Henry Parkes, which appeared in your issue of the 5th instant, having referencs to a circular addressed to the officers of a public department, inviting them to ...

    Article : 1,054 words
  7. THE HIGHKST POINT OF MOUNT KOSCIUSKO.

    Sir,—It was my intention not to have taken part in the correspondence which has appeared in your columns under the above heading, nor should I do so now were it not for a letter inserted in your Thursday's issue from Dr. Von ...

    Article : 1,004 words
  8. THE RUSSIAN PLEDGE AS TO THE AFGHAN FRONTIER.

    "A correspondent writes to the Times:—It will be recollected that Sir Peter Lumsden made, with those memberaof his staff who accompaniad him from Europe, a preliminary visit to the country around Sarakhs, pending the arrival of ...

    Article : 612 words
  9. TO THE EDITOB OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—It were well, perhaps. if the beads of departments or public offices who may feel desirous of issuing circulars (as some, I believe, have done), enjoining the officers or servants under them to subscribe to the Patriotic Fund, ...

    Article : 249 words
  10. ANOMALIES IN RAILWAY FARES.

    Sir,—As attention has been directed to trains travelling along the Southern line by your sub-leader in today's Herald, now may be a good time to refer to another aspect of it. ...

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  11. THE BISHOP OF RIVERINA.

    Sir,—I beg permission to call the attention of all members of the Church of England to the announcement already made of the services of welcome to the Bishop of Riverina, at the Cathedral, in the morning and afternoon of Sunday ...

    Article : 493 words
  12. TEACHERS AND THE CIVIL SERVICE ACT.

    Sir,—The Minister of Public Instruction misunderstands the voice of the large and thoroughly representative meeting of Public school teanchers, held at the Temperance Hall in January last, whose mouthpiece in the shape of a ...

    Article : 431 words
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