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  2. OUR GRASS.

    SIR,—And so a free trade Parliament have actually imposed a duty of 400 per cent, upon salt, in order to encourage the manufacture here of an inferior article! And prominent among such freetraders has been Mr. ...

    Article : 1,502 words
  3. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALASIA.

    SIR,—Australian colonists are no doubt indebted to Mr. Commissary Ross for the figures by which, through the favour of your columns, he supplied proof to British capitalists that the trade and future prospects of the ...

    Article : 491 words
  4. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    SIR,—As a citizen, and in no wise looking for a Government billet, nor likely to accept one, even if offered, I crave a small space in yow paper for a remark or two on the present question of the ...

    Article : 591 words
  5. MINOR ROADS.

    SIR,—By two very sensible matter-of-fact letters that appeared in the Herald of the 3rd and 7th of March instant, I find the usual grant for the repair of minor roads throughout the colony is to be discontinued. ...

    Article : 839 words
  6. KEEPING A THOUSAND HENS.

    WITH a flock of 1000 fowls at leabt six acres are requisite. Some have given this rule—an acre to each hundred. This area should be fenced in with boards or pickets, and houses erected large enough to ...

    Article : 497 words
  7. JUDGES' LAW V. JUSTICES' PRACTICE.

    SIR,—In your issue of the 18th a case is reported in which a prohibition was applied for against the decision of two Justices, at the Central Police Court, on two grounds—"that Mr. Dangar had not been ...

    Article : 697 words
  8. TRADE CIRCULARS.

    In the face of the gigantic struggle between Germany and France, it is cusious to note how little the home demand for all descriptions of wines and spritis has been unfavourably affected— the quantities exported from the United Kingdom, however, ...

    Article : 507 words
  9. THE THISTLE BILL.

    SIR,—I notice that the gentleman who has charge of the above bill in the Upper House, says in his examination before the select committee that docks, which are included in the bill, "may be destroyed by ...

    Article : 627 words
  10. COTTON.

    The import cotton into Great Britain in the year 1870, the deliveries for export and home consumption, and also the stocks remaining in the several ports at the end of the year, compared with those of previouse ones, are particularised in the annexed ...

    Article : 835 words
  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    SIR,—I have just seen the following extract from your columns, copied into a local paper:- "Pleuro-pneumonia is again upon us; if the investigation was made, it might be found that the ...

    Article : 448 words
  12. THE MARTENI-HENRY RIFLE.

    IF the history of the British army ever comes to be written, the circumstances connected with the adoption of a breechloading rifle for the use of the troops will form a curious episode. It will have to be ...

    Article : 2,355 words
  13. RETRENCHMENT AND FREE TRADE COMPATIBLE.

    SIR,—Looking on at the political conflict which has now raged for so many years, and the various proposals for equalising our revenue and expenditure— so persistently urged on one side, and as persistently ...

    Article : 1,513 words
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