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  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    The Public Service Board is virtually defunct, but has not yet suffered "the last penalty," though sentence has been passed and there is no hope of reprieve. Its dying speech and ...

    Article : 3,168 words
  4. ENCOUNTERS WITH CROCODILES.

    Perhaps you boys would like to hear something about crocodiles. We up north generally call them "gaters," short for alligators, you see. But, as probably you know, true alligators are ...

    Article : 4,115 words
  5. THE STOLEN "DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE."

    We are at length able to throw some light upon the mystery of the contury, and to announce news concerning Gainsborough's celebrated picture of Goorgiana, Duchese of ...

    Article : 1,644 words
  6. SOME OF THE HUMORS OF SIAM

    Mr. Douglas Sladen contributes to the Queen an article on the Humors of Siam. He begins with a story of a white elephant once shown in a circus at Bangkok. ...

    Article : 673 words
  7. WINE AND BRANDY MAKING.

    SIR,—I see that Mr. Waters has gone to some trouble in picking out one or two minor points of my letter on the above subject, which really do not affect the main point, viz., making ...

    Article : 497 words
  8. THE WAGES QUESTION.

    SIR,—At a meeting of the Silverton Tramway Company Mr. Jas. Grice, one of our landed gentry, when grumbling at the reduced dividend, said, "Now was the time to turn the tables on ...

    Article : 193 words
  9. MUNICIPAL AUDITORS' FEES.

    SIR,—To meet the times, the salaries of the civil servants have been reduced from 5 to 15 per cent., but municipal auditors' fees and allowances, it is proposed, shall be out down 25 ...

    Article : 619 words
  10. TESTING THE RAILWAY BY-LAWS.

    SIR,—I am glad to see by your report of a case tried at Dandenong yesterday that the Railway Commissioners have been again "slated" on this obnoxious by-law. I am a ...

    Article : 687 words
  11. RAILWAY TO MILDURA—AN URGENT NATIONAL WORK.

    SIR,—One or two members of the Assembly seem to think and speak of the extension of our railway from Wycheproof to Mildura as bound to follow in the "dim distance," but that there ...

    Article : 550 words
  12. IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

    SIR,—I would like to express the pleasure felt at your article of yesterday's date, wherein you indicate "the growing necessity for a truly Imperial parliament, which will deal with the ...

    Article : 108 words
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