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  2. OUR RAILWAYS. To The Editor of the Herald.

    SIR.—It is very desirable that the public in general and members of Parliament in particular, should be acquained with the cost of construction and actual worthing of the railways in New South Wales. ...

    Article : 942 words
  3. LECTURE ON THE REVIVAL OF THE TURKISH OR ANCIENT ROMAN BATH.

    THE following lecture on the above subject was delivered at the Grosvenor-place School of Medicine, by T. SPENCER WELLS, F.R.C.S., Lecturer on Surgery, Surgeon to the Samaritan Hospital, &c.: ...

    Article : 5,301 words
  4. THE SQUATTERS AND THE NEW LAND BILL.

    SIR,—In reading, over the debate on the 12th clause of the Land Bill relative to the sale of land to squatters, I was rather amused at the ideas entertained by Mr. Windeyer and the extreme [?]quottoclasts, as I may ...

    Article : 604 words
  5. TEMPATIONS TO ILLICIT DISTILLATION.

    SIR,—Is two former letters on the subject, I referred to the temptations which a high scale of duties offers to the illicit distillation of rum, brandy, and spirits of wine. I will now, with your permission, invite attention to some prohibitory provisions ...

    Article : 989 words
  6. POLICE OFFICE JUSTICE.

    SIR,—I have placed above, side by side, two decisions arrived at by the Sydney Bench within forty-eight hours of each other. I would draw your, attention, ahd that of the hon. member for Morpeth, as well as ...

    Article : 969 words
  7. THE REVENUE DEFRAUDED.

    GENTLEMAN,—By the second section of the Publicans Act, 13th Victoria, No. 29,1849, it is compulsory that all persons retailing ginger beer, being a "fermented liquor," shall obtain from the Government certain licenses, the nature of which ia particularly ...

    Article : 295 words
  8. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—Trusting to your known liberality and willingness to advance any benefit that might accrue to the citizens, from any suggestions that may be submitted, I beg to solicit tne favour of a space in your ...

    Article : 349 words
  9. A VOICE FROM MORUYA.

    SIR,—Some days ago, advertisemeant appeared in the Sydney newspapers that arrangements had been made to run a steam vessel between Sydney ead Moruya, at an early date, and that was finally changed to the Mimoss for Moruya, at ten a.m., on ...

    Article : 380 words
  10. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—I beg to draw the immediate. attention of the city surveyor to the dangerous, state of a house situate in George-street, at the corner of Essex-street, on the side wall of which is painted "Vinegar ...

    Article : 118 words
  11. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—Can you inform the public whether the Act relating to tanners, soap boilers, tallow-m[?]lters, &s., and which ought to have been on forsed and after the 1st January, 1860, has been set aside, or whether the proceedings of the select committee ...

    Article : 267 words
  12. To the Editor of the Herald.

    SIR,—I beg a space in your widely circulated journal, to offer a few remarks with regard to the manner in which the telegraph posts are erected in and around Armidale. Some of the posts ore two feet seven ...

    Article : 254 words
  13. THE RECENT ESCAPES OF PRISONERS.

    SIR,—AS the head of a family, I trust that you will exert your powerful influence in calling for a strict and impartial investigation of these matters, and in advocating a thorough reformation of the present lax state of prison discipline. The escape of ...

    Article : 522 words
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