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  2. A YEAR OF STRIKES IN AMERICA.

    The year 1883 was memorable for the number and magnitude of its strikes. At no time since April 15, when the carpenters and cigarmakers made a demand for higher wages, was there a week in which some workingmen were ...

    Article : 2,038 words
  3. OUR MILITARY ORGANISATION.

    Our only regular military force, the New South Wales Artillery (popularly, though erronsously, designated the Permanent Artillery), was raised under a statute known as the Naval and Military Forces Act ...

    Article : 1,734 words
  4. OUR PARIS LETTER.

    The fresh disaster to British arms in Egypt—the army of Baker Pasha, however composed, was to all intents and purposes a British army—has produced a deep impression in France. Rightly or wrongly, this ...

    Article : 1,971 words
  5. The DAILY LIFE of a LONDON JOURNALIST.

    As it is, it occurs to me that it might be slightly useful to young men who are ambitions to adopt journalism as a profession to try to give, within, comparatively speaking, the compass of a nutsheli, a sketch of how a ...

    Article : 783 words
  6. A TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION.

    The Kimberley correspondent of the Times telegraphs the following particulars of a terrific explosion of dynamite on the Kimberley diamond fields, at the Cape:— " It appears that on Thursday the 10th February, one of ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  7. GENERAL GORDON AND THE SOUDAN.

    The following despatch from her Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul General in Egypt, enclosing instra[?]ons to General Gordon, was presented to the British Parliament on February 14:— ...

    Article : 823 words
  8. THE TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM.

    The number of exhibits received at the museum in the Outer Domain during the past fortnight has been greater than that during any previous fortnight of its existence. The specimens received have been chiefly minerals and rocks; but ...

    Article : 775 words
  9. (From the Times of India.)

    The fact has somehow escaped general notice that five years ago General Gordon predicted a universal revolt throughout the Egyptian territory as a consequence of the convention agreed to between the English Government and ...

    Article : 997 words
  10. EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIA.

    The Dresden Journal, in its issue of January 17, gives its readers certain ocurious information respecting Australia, of which the following is an outline. Life in Australia, though generally described in the most attractive terms, is ...

    Article : 409 words
  11. RECENT TRIAL OF FLOUR.

    Sir,—Your issue of 21st contains an account of a trial of flour from the three roller mills of Australia, in which article the New South Wales flour is represented as a trifle under the standard of the other two. This article is very ...

    Article : 539 words
  12. LETTER BOXES.

    Sir,—As the regulations concerning the Post Office box system proposed to be introduced in Sydney have been under discussion, it may prove interesting to your readers it endeavour to explain the practice observed in the New ...

    Article : 440 words
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