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  2. A BAD PRACTICE IN BUILDING.

    SIR,—I wish through the medium of your widely circulated journal, to bring before the public a matter deeply affecting the sanitary condition of this city and colony; although it may appear to our disgrace, because we have ...

    Article : 519 words
  3. AMERICAN NOTES.

    I LANDED in San Francisco on a Sunday morning, and, with a fresh recollection of the decent manner in which that day is observed in the principal cities of Australia, I could ...

    Article : 1,567 words
  4. THE MULLIGAN GOLD-FIELD.

    WE derive the following account from the special correspondent of the Cooktown Herald, who writes from Hemmant's Town on the 2nd April:—After leaving the left bank of the Palmer, that ...

    Article : 768 words
  5. TREATMENT OF LUNATICS.

    SIR,—Perhaps of all the affections to which ww are subject that of lunacy is the most deplorable. To see the endowment of reason, which marks the distinction between man and the lower orders of creation, unseated, and the brightest ...

    Article : 489 words
  6. SILK GROWING IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    SIR,—It is a rather startling fact, that but for the zeal of the one grower who has shown interesting specimens for several seasons past this year's agricultural exhibition would have passed over without a single sign of such a ...

    Article : 1,171 words
  7. LATE ACCIDENT TO THE YOU YANGS (s).— MARINE BOARD INQUIRY.

    AN extraordinary meeting of the Newcastle Local Marine Board was held on Saturday, May 6, to make a preliminary inquiry into the striking of the You Yangs (s.), Alfred Thrussell master, when on her passage to this port from ...

    Article : 3,919 words
  8. ESCAPE AND CAPTURE OF PRISONERS.

    ON the 3rd instant (reports the Telegraph) several gangs were at work effecting repairs in the Melbourne gaol yard. One of the gangs consisted entirely of young male prisoners, under the charge of warder Adams, and two of them, ...

    Article : 331 words
  9. LARRIKINISM.

    SIR,—Many thanks for your truthful and needful leader in Tuesday's Herald on Larrikmism. I trust that, as you have called public attention to it, further steps will be taken until the nuisance is out a stop to. In the old country ...

    Article : 211 words
  10. ARE LAW PEERS "LORDS."

    SIR,—Being only a "new chum" of course I may be excused for being ignorant of "ye manners and ye customs" of this fair and rapidly progressing colony. But there is one point to which my attention has been specially ...

    Article : 267 words
  11. MR. RUSKIN'S ENTERPRISE.

    THE writer of the " London Town Talk" in the Melbourn Argus gives interesting particulars of Mr. Ruskin's remarkable doings in his endeavour to reform the present age:— ...

    Article : 899 words
  12. ENMORE ROAD.

    SIR,—With reference to the letter in this day's Herald signed " Marrickvillean," respecting the dangerous state of the Enmore Road, near Stanmore, I beg to point out that this portion of road is situated between the junction of the ...

    Article : 225 words
  13. USEFUL TIMBER TREES.

    SIR,—Although I most willingly admit that a public establishment is at all times subject to fair criticism, yet I fancy that the writer of the letter in this day's Herald, signed "Common Sense," somewhat abuses this privilege ...

    Article : 250 words
  14. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.

    SIR,—No lightminded person will doubt the utility of friendly societies to the working population of this and every other civilised country. I imagine also that but few who have joined such but will acknowledge the great ...

    Article : 716 words
  15. AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM.

    LIST of donations during the month of April:—An owl, Stirx delicatulus, presented by Mr. Streatfield, Blayney. Specimens of intestinal worms (Filaria sp)—by Mr. John Brazier, C.M.Z.S Two specimens of Port Jackson shark, Cestracion philippi—by ...

    Article : 420 words
  16. DRUNKENNESS.

    SIR,—Without at all questioning the desirability of closing public-houses on Sunday, I think it must occur to any one who passes on Satutdny afternoon through some of the great thoroughfares, such as Parramatta-street and parts ...

    Article : 216 words
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