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  2. NEW NOTICES.

    Mr. W. C. Browne to ask the colonial Treasurer,—Is it the imtention of the Government to pay the Civil servnals their month's salary on saturday next, instead of Monday, which is a Bank holiday? ...

    Article : 566 words
  3. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH EXTENSION IN CITY AND SUBURBS.

    AN adjonrned meeting of Conference on the above subject was held, last evening in the Phillip-street Presbyterian Church, The Rov. Mr. Tait presided. The proceedings were commenced with the singing of a portion of the 104th ...

    Article : 1,393 words
  4. READING-ROOM AT THE SCHOOL OF ARTS.

    SIR,—It is a great pity for the subseribers in the readingroom at the School of Arts, while they are devoting their attention and study to books and papers, to hear a most unpleasant sound when individuals enter the door, and ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. PRIVILEGES.

    SIR,—It is somewhat amusing to what you term a lively imagination to observe the amount of forensic cloquence that has been displayed on the question of Parliamentary privilege. To me modern legislation and practice might ...

    Article : 200 words
  6. BULLI COAL COMPANY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 505 words
  7. THE VALUE OF TREES AS ABSORBENTS.

    SIR,—One of your correspondents—Mr. Charles Thorne— has proposed the planting of the willows as an absorbent of water. No doubt the willow, in common with other trees, has this property, but my experience has been that when ...

    Article : 533 words
  8. WRECK OF THE STEAMER POYANG—LOSS OF 100 LIVES.

    IT is rarely that a typhoon happens at such an carly period of the year as [?] the present. Though [?] lent, and less destructive than the visitation [?] last September, it has proved a sad calamity, and many ...

    Article : 488 words
  9. THE PROPOSED EMIGRATION TO YULE ISLAND.

    SIR,—In your impression of the 12th May last I find a report of a large and in[?]uentral meeting held in Sydney, with reference to a contemplated expedition ot New Guinea, consisting of a number of persons who are emigrating ...

    Article : 1,533 words
  10. AGRICULTURAL SETTLEMENT ON OUR GOLD-FIELDS.

    SIR,—There is one defect in the existing land laws and their administration which appears to have been overlooked by the framer of the Amending Land Bill, now being discussed in Parliament. As, in my opinion, the defect is in ...

    Article : 2,039 words
  11. LEGAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND.

    SIR,—In the editorial article on Lore Selborne's proposed reforms, appearing in this morning's Herald, there is a misstatement which, though often made by way of a joke, is, when seriously repeated, astounding to any one ...

    Article : 1,045 words
  12. NEW ZEALAND.

    FROM New zealand we have received files of papers to the 17th instant. from which we extract the following items of news. The little boy Scott, fourteen years of age, at Dunedin, ...

    Article : 1,964 words
  13. KILLED ON THE RAILWAY.

    THE Argus states that John Vauekler, a glue manufacturer residing at Yarraville, was accidentally killed on the Williamstown railway on Saturday night, He returned by the night train from Geelong, ...

    Article : 302 words
  14. MOUNT PERRY COPPER COMPANY.

    REPORT to be presented to general meeting of shareholders. on Friday 30th July:— The directors of the Mount perry Copper Mining Company (limited) have now the pleasure to lay before the sharcholders the ...

    Article : 905 words
  15. Advertising

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    Advertising : 113 words
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