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  2. COST OF SCHOOLING.

    Nominally when the Public schools were made free to all children education was cheapened, but it is doubtful if there be one father of a family of, say, four school-children ...

    Article : 326 words
  3. THE CONTRIBUTOR

    The progress of agriculture early formed a prominent topic in the local press. The fact of the issue by the Governor of an order "for encouraging the cultivation of the cane, and ...

    Article : 1,417 words
  4. IMMIGRANTS FOR NORTH AUSTRALIA.

    The Northern Territory has lately come very prominently into public notice. Some little while back in the world's history, when hundreds of families of the Calabrian peasantry ...

    Article : 263 words
  5. "THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT."

    The modern Lutetia in darkness and Cimmerian night is a thing almost incredible; but a recent London cablegram assures us that, owing to a strike of ten electric-light ...

    Article : 281 words
  6. VICTORIAN ELECTIONS.

    On Wednesday, the nominations for the State elections, which will be held on the 15th inst., closed. No fewer than 18 Ministerialists have been re-elected unopposed. They are—Mr. Bent ...

    Article : 165 words
  7. OUR NORTHERN OUTPOSTS.

    Australia's northern outposts are few and far between, and judging by developments of recent years the strongest military settlement for the defence of our Northern ...

    Article : 266 words
  8. MR. ASHTON'S RETIREMENT.

    At Coogee last Saturday Mr. Ashton spoke on surf-bathing, and his rumoured retirement from politics. He prefers sea, sand, and solitude to politics and publicity. Everyone must ...

    Article : 384 words
  9. THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

    We of this generation shall see man fly. Nothing is more sure than that the air has been conquered, and that the primary secrets of aerial navigation have been discovered. ...

    Article : 196 words
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  11. TITIAN AND TURNER.

    A message by cable states that a fire which broke out at Englemere Lodge, Ascot, the residential mansion of Sir William Frederic Miller (a baronet well-known for his ...

    Article : 276 words
  12. COOKTOWN "NORTHERN TERRITORY."

    The "British-Australasian" is a weekly published in London, and its advertised aim is "to be of interest to Australians in Great Britain, and to Britishers interested in ...

    Article : 300 words
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