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  2. VICTORIAN TOPICS: MELBOURNE STREET IMPROVEMENTS.—I.

    For some time past the principal thorough fares of the city have been in the most admired disorder. One street after another has been thrown into confusion by the pulling up of channels and foot pavements, the ...

    Article : 2,177 words
  3. OUR BRISBANE LETTER.

    We had one night's discussion on the Land Bill in committee this week. Not much progress was made, but a rather important amendment was moved by a Government supporter, Mr. Kellett, which is believed to ...

    Article : 2,081 words
  4. CONTINENTAL GOSSIP.

    The Congress now sitting at Versailles, violently quarrelling over the proposed remodelling of the actual French Constitution, has hitherto signalised its sittings mainly by the remarkable "naturalism" of its ...

    Article : 1,824 words
  5. COLONIAL FEDERATION.

    The recent proceedings in Australia having reference to the subject of federation, go far to prove the correctness of Sir Henry Parkes' judgment, when declaring, at the Intercolonial Conference of 1881, "that the time had not ...

    Article : 566 words
  6. PROTECTION AND POLITICAL REFORM LEAGUE.

    The Protection and Political Reform League held its annual meeting—for general business and for the election of officers for the ensuing 12 months—at the Temperance Hall on Monday evening, the president, Mr. William ...

    Article : 724 words
  7. NORTH SHORE BRIDGE.

    Sir,—Owing to an absence of several days from town, I was unable to answer " C. E.'s" questions at once, which I now do with pleasure. Although there are going to be answered a good many ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  8. The AGED and INFIRM MINISTERS' FUND of the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

    Sir,—At the last General Assembly it was resolved that a collection should be made in all our churches during the month of September in aid of above fund. It is not my intention to question the right of this august assemblage to ...

    Article : 788 words
  9. An AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION for the ADVANCEMENT of SCIENCE.

    Sir,—I read with great interest and pleasure the letter of Professor A. Liversidge—in the Herald, September 13— about a project for the foundation of an Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. ...

    Article : 212 words
  10. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

    Sir,—We who live in country towns have reason to complain of the way in which the grant for technical education is being expended. Lecturers were sent to wh[?]t our appetite for scientific knowledge, and to ascertain by the number of ...

    Article : 462 words
  11. THE DESTRUCTION of NATIVE TREES and POLLUTION of our RIVER WATERS.

    Sir,—I wish to bring under your notice the wholesale destruction and exterminating of our native trees. During the past seasons stockowners were forced to supplant the grass with scrub as food for their stock, and what is meant ...

    Article : 396 words
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