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  2. CORRESPONDENCE.

    "A Soft-goods Employe."--Our correspondent assures us that Mr. Stevenson has opposed rather than advocated the proposal to make Saturday, as well as Friday, a holiday ; but he is ...

    Article : 406 words
  3. PROVERBS.

    It is amusing to notice how different countries interchange canstic compliments more or less severe in their national proverbs. Thus, the Scot declares that, in case of short ...

    Article : 669 words
  4. THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE.

    SIR,--The telegram from Adelaide in Saturday's Age telling that the propriety of leasing the public lands is under consideration, makes me trouble myself to have my say on the ...

    Article : 739 words
  5. VICTORIAN SLAVERY.

    SIR,--You are deserving the thanks of every wife and parent for the insertion of the letter signed "Paterfamilias," in your paper of Saturday last, pointing out the injustice of the ...

    Article : 512 words
  6. SHIRE COUNCILS.

    OAKLEIGH COUNCIL (16thMay).--Present: the president (Mr. Jordan), Crs. Braithwaite, Hall, Savidge, Cornell, Armstrong, Orr, Miller, and Irwin. Letters were read from the ...

    Article : 520 words
  7. THE RICHMOND AND RIVERSDALE ROAD BRIDGE COMPANY.

    SIR,--In your issue of Saturday last, I perceive a paragraph stating that the above company was in a moribund state, and that it was contemplated as soon as the present company had left the ...

    Article : 297 words
  8. CHEESE VERSUS MEERSCHAUM.

    We should be very sorry to put a damper upon the nicotean enjoyment of any of our numerous readers, and lead them to suppose that every one of their nicely colored pipes ...

    Article : 484 words
  9. THE INDEX EXPURGATORIUM OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

    SIR,--It is difficult to understand the principle under which novels are excluded from the Melbourne Public Library. Why is there no department stocked with the works of Scott, Dickens, ...

    Article : 363 words
  10. SHIPBUILDING IN 1871.

    A parliamentary return, just issued, as to the ships completed and under construction in the United Kingdom in 1871, shows the extent of the change which is taking ...

    Article : 335 words
  11. ARCHITECTS VERSUS CONTRACTORS.

    SIR,--Permit me to draw your attention to a grievance, as existing between architects and contractors which was disclosed in a case tried before his Honor Judge Pohlman, in which I ...

    Article : 293 words
  12. A WIEOW IN MALE DISGUISE SHOOTING HER LOVER.

    On the line of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, some eight or nine miles from New Brunswick, in Middlesex county, New Jersey, is located a very pretty village, ...

    Article : 738 words
  13. AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

    Fine rains have fallen throughout the colony generally during the past week. The work of sowing is being rapidly pushed forward, and in many districts will soon be ...

    Article : 1,558 words
  14. DISTRICT ROAD BOARD.

    WHITTLESEA BOARD (15th May).--Present : Messrs. Hughes (chairman), Nicholson, Reid, Smith, Airey, Ryder, Hardy, Taylor and Houlthard. A letter was read from the secretary to ...

    Article : 320 words
  15. BOROUGH COUNCILS.

    KEW COUNCIL (21st May).--Present: the mayor (Mr. S. Kellett), Crs. Barnard, Wrixon, Marshall, Hedderwick, Jamieson, and Phipps. A letter was read from the Hawthorn council, ...

    Article : 1,163 words
  16. WHEN TO PAY WAGES.

    SIR,--I trust you will allow me a small portion of your space to complain of the practice, which is becoming so common, of employers paying their workmen on Monday night. Surely employers ...

    Article : 439 words
  17. IMPROVED WOOD PAVEMENT.

    The subject of street paying (says the Scientific American) still continues to attract the attention of inventors, who cannot fail to perceive the oxtent of the field open ...

    Article : 693 words
  18. THE TRANS-AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY.

    SIR,--I was glad to see in your columns of Saturday, a letter signed C.T.G., making a very patriotic and praiseworthy effort to expose tho gigantic swindle of the contemplated South ...

    Article : 251 words
  19. LIEBIG AT HOME.

    A foreign correspondent of the New York Tribune relates an interview with Baron Liebig. He says :--Baron Liebig's house is a large corner building, standing close to the ...

    Article : 1,142 words
  20. THE MAN IN THE IRO-N MASK.

    A curious theory has been started here respecting the "Man in the Iron Mask," which "man." after all, is said to have been a woman. There was certainly room for ...

    Article : 985 words
  21. WHY DON'T THE MEN PROPOSE ?

    SIR,--What in the name of philosophy does your "Fair Lady" correspondent mean by asking the reason "Why don't the men marry?" Does she not know that there are so many already ...

    Article : 190 words
  22. EDUCATION THE CURE FOR LARRIKINISM.

    SIR,--Larrikinism is no new thing. The eldest sen of old father Adam was a larrikin of the worst type ; then we have those of Gibeah, fearful specimens of the race, who brought ...

    Article : 675 words
  23. CARELESSNESS OR INJUSTICE ?

    SIR,--Allow me to call your attention to another case of justices' justice. I was accused at the Brunswick Police Court on Wednesday last of having, by negligent driving, injured a Mrs. ...

    Article : 406 words
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