SIR,—You have always condemned the system of official centralization which prevails in this colony; but when we find that it is accompanied by plurality of power and patronage in any one department, you must ...
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Article : 270 wordsSIR,—The letter in your paper of Saturday from you "London Correspondent," subscribing himself "Atticus," is a production likely to produce mischief, and to foster, rather than allay, the differences it denounces. ...
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Article : 391 wordsA meeting to promote the mission to the Chinese was last night held in the United Presbyterian (Mr Ramsay's) Church, Collins street. The attendance was rather thin, about fifty or sixty persons only being ...
Article : 275 wordsThe Paris correspondent of the Times makes the following striking remarks on the state of the arts in India, apropos of the display of Indian curiosities in the Paris Exhibition: ...
Article : 1,723 wordsBetween eight and nine o'clock, p.m., on the 16th instant, the dwelling-house of John Littman, Ballarat, was feloniously entered, and the following property stolen : one gold hunting lever watch, with white dial ; one gold repeater watch, with ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Fri 4 Jan 1856, Page 3
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