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  2. THE GROWTH AND MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR.

    SIR,—I am greatly pleased with the letters that have lately appeared in your columns on teh cultivation of sugar, which [?]regard as a matter of much importance to the colony. Perhaps Mr. Scott is aware that last year the Maitland Agricultural ...

    Article : 441 words
  3. CONDITION OF WOOLLOOMOOLOO BAY.

    SIR,—With reference to the above subject, will you permit me a space in your columns to again reiterate the urgent necessity that exists that some speedy and effectual steps should be taken to ward off, if possible, what appears to me ...

    Article : 825 words
  4. MACLEAY RIVER.

    NOVEMBER 26.—The schooner Woodpecker, an old trader to this river, was nearly wrecked on the 13th instant. She was laden with maize, and was going out to sea on the cbb tide. When outside the North Head, the master tried to stay his vessel, but ...

    Article : 770 words
  5. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION THIS DAY.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 2,441 words
  6. THE PROPOSED TARIFF.

    THE following petition, from Mr. David Jones, was presented in the House of Assembly, yesterday, by Mr. Love:— To the Honorable the Legislative Assembly in Parliament ...

    Article : 289 words
  7. THE PROPOSED TARIFF—ITS EFFECT ON THE WORKMAN, AND IN STIMULATING MANUFACTURES.

    SIR,—Referring to the opening paragraph of your leader of this date, I beg permission to show the working man how the proposed ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. Will enhance to the consumer the cost of all the goods subject to it, not merely by 15 or ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  8. THE PROPOSED NEW TARIFF.

    MR. DARVALL presented the following petition on Tuesday last:— To the Honorable the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, in Parliament assembled. ...

    Article : 246 words
  9. DISTRICT COURTS.

    SIR,—Having already endeavoured to draw attention to the necessity for an early enquiry into the working of the District Courts, for the purpose of legislative amendment, I would now allude to some matters of an administrative character not ...

    Article : 697 words
  10. PROTECTION TO NATIVE INDUSTRY.

    PETITION of the manufacturers of candles, wax lights, gas lamps, candlesticks, street lamps, snuffers, oxtinguishers, and of the producers of oil, tallow, resin, alcohol, and generally of everything connected with lighting. ...

    Article : 1,744 words
  11. MELBOURNE.

    MONDAY, DECEMBER 7TH.—His Excellency Sir Charles Darling proceeds to-morrow to Geelong, on a tour of inspection which will take in Ballarat and some other of the western gold-fields. The good people of the second city of the colony are making ...

    Article : 1,778 words
  12. TO MY FELLOW-PROTECTIONISTS.

    MY DEAR FRIENDS,—I cannot help telling you that you are all wrong in stopping short at the timid half-measures to which your speeches, resolutions, and petitions are now limited. As it has been always my main business ...

    Article : 503 words
  13. THE RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS.

    SIR,—I beg, through the medium of your valuable journal, to complain of a grievance now existing on these gold-fields, viz., the want of a bailiff for the Court of Requests. Several of the business men here have verdicts against debtors, but for the want ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—I think it right to explain that the Attorney-General, according to the report in this morning's Herald, appears to have misunderstood the purport of the Solicitor-General's communication to me relative to the resignation of my seat in the ...

    Article : 1,186 words
  15. AD VALOREM DUTIES, &c.

    SIR,—I can easily understand why when an increase of the duty on bonded goods is contemplated it should be levied at once; but can anything be more preposterous and unjust than the immediate imposition of the 10 per cent ad valorem duties? Certainly it ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.—No. II.

    SIR,—It has been said by a wiseman that there never yet was a successful imposture which did not contain some truth—that the mind of man is so constituted in an inherent love for truth that it revolts against unmitigated error. Hence, when we find a large ...

    Article : 1,272 words
  17. THE BUDGET.

    SIR,—It is my misfortune to be of humble Spanish origin, hence, I suppose, the illtreatment I have met with at the hands of British legislators generally. I had hoped brighter days had dawned upon me, as enlightened ideas have, for some years past, ...

    Article : 192 words
  18. THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

    SIR,—We have had our attention called to the paragraph in yuor issue of yesterday, respecting No. 3 Contract Great Southern Railway, and as we know your correspondent, we are not surprised at the production yuo have printed; but we are convinced ...

    Article : 185 words
  19. BUTCHERS' CARTS AND THEIR DRIVERS.

    SIR,—May I draw your attention to what I conceive to be a very dirty habit amongst the men employed to drive the meat carts from Pyrmont to Sydney. It is as follows:—When the carts are filled with meat, the driver, and very often another man ...

    Article : 109 words
  20. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—I noticed in your report of Parliamentary proceedings of the 7th instant, "Mr. Lucas asked the Secretary for Public Works, If he was aware that colonial beech, of Brisbane Water growth, is specified to be used in the laminated arches of the ...

    Article : 208 words
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