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  2. CORRESPONDENCE.

    "M. W. S."--We would rather leave the question of music is churches to be dealt with by the congregations. If they are satisfied, we are. ...

    Article : 219 words
  3. AMERICAN NEWS.

    By the steamer Alexandra, which arrived at Sydney on Saturday, the 27th ult., from Auckland, the Californian mail has come to hand. The English news has been ...

    Article : 648 words
  4. A GREAT BANK SWINDLE.

    Boston, 2nd June.--A defalcation of between 80,000 and 90,000 dollars has been discovered on the part of one of the tellers of the Merchants' National Bank ...

    Article : 173 words
  5. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.

    RYAN. v. COUNCIL OF MALMSBURY.--Mr. Purves and Mr. M'Kinley for plaintiff; Mr. Wrixon and Mr. Williams for defendants. An action to recover damages for personal ...

    Article : 375 words
  6. CO-OPERATION AND COMPETITION.

    SIR,--There are co-operative associations under the competitive system which ought not to be confounded with the social movement known as co-operation. The house of Rothschild is a ...

    Article : 368 words
  7. THE GIPPS LAND ROAD.

    SIR,--You hare on several occasions courteously thrown open the columns of your journal on behalf of Gipps Land readers, I am therefore encouraged to believe you will kindly give this ...

    Article : 1,058 words
  8. STRIKES IN AMERICA.

    New York, 17th June.--The striking sugar refiners have asked permission of the police authorities to parade in the lower part of the city to-morrow morning, and are expected to turn out ...

    Article : 302 words
  9. ELECTION OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES.

    SIR,--The difficulty that will be found in passing an Education Bill to please all parties will no doubt have the effect of delaying the settlement of the question. Allow me therefore to ...

    Article : 156 words
  10. DROWNING OF AN AERONAUT.

    Nashville, 29th May.--Professor Atkins, who was attached to the circus which exhibited as Decatur, Alabama, on Monday, ascended with a hot air balloon during the afternoon, when the ...

    Article : 138 words
  11. YARRA FLOODS PREVENTION SCHEME.

    SIR,--Several years ago the writer, believing he had discovered the right scheme for disposing of the storm water coming down the Yarra, addressed a letter to the Argus detailing the ...

    Article : 542 words
  12. INSOLVENT COURT.

    His Honor delivered judgments in the following cases:--Re John Walker, of Melbourne, publican: Motion to admit of proof of debt by Wood and Son for £680. The ...

    Article : 158 words
  13. MINING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

    SIR,--Parliament it is said has the power to take land from owners-- 1st Because the Crown did not part with its right to mine for gold ; 2nd. Because it is for the public good. There may be ...

    Article : 336 words
  14. THE BOSTON JUBILEE.

    Boston,17 h June --The first day of the International Peace Jubilee opened with delightful weather. The British band arrived this morning about sunrise. Cannon are pealing and bells ...

    Article : 514 words
  15. THE EARL OF ABERDEEN IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

    St. Louis, 15th May.--James C. Fisher, an enlisted man in the United States army, died in the hospital at the Arsenal on Sunday last of consumption, leaving a wife and children in an ...

    Article : 188 words
  16. KILLED BY A BONE IN THE THROAT.

    The district coroner held an inquest yesterday at the William Tell Inn, Milkmaid Flat, on the body of Richard Lucas, a laborer, forty five years of age, who was ...

    Article : 384 words
  17. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

    A PITIABLE CASE--Henry Hodgson, a middle-aged man, was brought up charged with vagrancy. The apprehending constable said he saw prisoner go up to a man at the corner of Flinders and ...

    Article : 619 words
  18. BANK SWINDLERS IN THE SOUTH.

    Augusta, Ga., 31st May.--On Monday a party representing himself as George Holmes, want to the Georgia Railroad Bank with a tetter of introduction from the New York National ...

    Article : 191 words
  19. MINISTERS AND TEACHERS.

    SIR,--As the education question seems to be the prevailing topic at the present time, will you kindly permit me, through your widely circulated journal, to make a few remarks upon some at ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  20. DRILL INSTRUCTORS.

    SIR,--Before acting on the proposition to increase the drill-instructors' salary to 10s. a day I trust steps will be taken to prove how much work is really done by these, in most peoples ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. COLONIAL JAM INDUSTRY.

    SIR,--Consumers of colonial jam find at all grocers' shops the inevitable one pound tin; now I am aware that many families would prefer being able to buy the jam in jars of moderate size, say ...

    Article : 199 words
  22. SUBURBAN RAILWAY.

    SIR,--What a pity it is that the company has not long ere this planted a hedge on both sides of the railway in its course through Richmond paddock--quickset for instance. What a pretty ...

    Article : 140 words
  23. CONFESSION OF SCOTT.

    The Ballarat Star, 2nd August, remarks:--"It would appear as if Scott (who may now be justly designated as the Egerton bank robber) is determined upon being ...

    Article : 340 words
  24. DEATH OF J. GORBON BENNETT.

    New York, 1st June.--James Gordon Bennett died at 7.25 pm. His son and daughter are expected to arrive home from Europe next Saturday. The Herald, in announcing the death of ...

    Article : 292 words
  25. COMMON SCHOOLS.

    SIR,--As there is such an evident with to assimilate school teachers in the matter of examinations to other more fortunate civil servants, it shows no little lack of consistency that this effort to ...

    Article : 1,585 words
  26. SENTENCE ON MAXWELL.

    Some crimes bear their own punishment with them, and one of those, judging by the statement of the prisoner Maxwell, is the fearful crime of matricide. When asked by ...

    Article : 400 words
  27. UNIVERSITY FEES.

    SIR,--Can yon tell me why the University make charge of the same fee to students living in the country, and who find it impossible to attend lectures, as they do those who attend ...

    Article : 212 words
  28. THE SHIRE OF JIKA AGAIN.

    SIR,--When the northern portion of the old shire of Darebin was severed from ours we hoped to have been clear of the element of jobbery and corruption which caused to much trouble, and ...

    Article : 655 words
  29. SPIRITUAL EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG--WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE?

    SIR,--The injunction of our Saviour to His disciples, "Feed my lambs," is hardly regarded in the present day by those who assume the office of overseers of the flock as an imperative ...

    Article : 799 words
  30. THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC RAILROAD.

    St. Louis, 18th June.--A large meeting of the Board of Trade and citizens generally was held in the Southern Hotel last night, to consider the subject of the extension of the Atlantic and ...

    Article : 365 words
  31. SOUTHERN INSURANACE COMPANY.

    The sixteenth ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Southern Insurance Company was held yesterday, at the company's offices, Queen-street. The chair was ...

    Article : 853 words
  32. NARROW ESCAPE.

    Mr. Taugge, who was covered up by a fall of earth at the Try Again Company's claim on Wednesday afternoon, had an exceedingly narrow escape, and his escape with his life ...

    Article : 174 words
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