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  2. A DEAD FLAT.

    AFTER a storm comes a cilm—is an old and generally received maxim; and so, after any great and overpowering extreme its opposite follows. Is it not thus at present with all the ...

    Article : 1,508 words
  3. SHORT TIME SHORT PAY.

    SIR,—Perceiving in your columns an advertisement calling a meeting of masons for the purpose of reducing the time of labour to eight hours per day, and otherwise knowing that a number of agitators among the masons (who are agitators indeed), and who ...

    Article : 569 words
  4. COUNTRY COMMENTS ON PASSING EVENTS.

    COULD wasted breath, congeal, and perpetuate itself— a silent satire on the vociferousness of its expender —in intelligible crystal characters on the glass against which it beat, with what a copious catalogue of failure ...

    Article : 2,310 words
  5. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

    SIR,—Seeing the following advertisement in your issue a few days ago, I beg to forward the enclosed calculation:— "WANTED, a Calculation for the construction of a ...

    Article : 539 words
  6. WEEKLY EPITOME.

    IN Parliamentary matters, the expected event of the week was the financial statement—the unexpected event, the actual resignation of the Ministry. It was not so much the want of principle in the Government ...

    Article : 1,018 words
  7. RAILWAYS. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

    SIR,—Once more I beg to intrude on the space you have deemed my observations worthy of occupying in your columns, and on this occasion I propose to accept the controversy on the conditions and bases of the ...

    Article : 2,052 words
  8. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

    SIR,—Want of time prevented my fully answering "Portorius" last week. All his arguments lose sight of the main objection— the expenses of making the rail and working it being ...

    Article : 1,252 words
  9. DEATHS BY DROWNING.

    SIR,—I have of late been much pained at the perusal in your columns of so many fatal accidents by drowning, and I have, moreover, been particularly struck with the melancholy fact that there has not been one ...

    Article : 689 words
  10. IMPOUNDINGS.

    ROPE'S CHEEK POUND.—16th August. From Mr. Chalker's crop of wheat, near South Creek:—Blue and white strawberry bullock, W on off rump, W near rump, a blotch on the near ribs, AW (the A writing capital) on thigh off side. Black cow, white back and ...

    Article : 156 words
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