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  2. SCOTTISH BANK DEPOSITS.

    Probably the most important item which I have to record this month (writes a correspondent) is the fact that, after much confer ence on the subjsot, the Scottish banks have ...

    Article : 558 words
  3. THE LAND AND THE LANDLORD.

    The legislation of Moses, leaving its mark upon so many subsequent codes, has not lost for Christians its general significance as to God’s will concerning the constitution of ...

    Article : 1,131 words
  4. SELECTED POETRY.

    What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Bstween this time and the sweet time of ...

    Article : 288 words
  5. ALIEN LANDOWNERS.

    ‘A Resident Englishman’ writes from California:—‘The Seate of Cdifornia has passed a law forbidding aliens to acquire title to land whether by purchase or ...

    Article : 316 words
  6. TEMPERANCE NOTES.

    Dr Markham, editor of the British Medical Journal, in summing up a lengthened discussion on alcohol in that journal, said, ‘We are in conscience bound to say that science ...

    Article : 581 words
  7. FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

    Mr Tucker, M.L.A. as chairman of the Tariff Board, has visited Sydney to enquire into the operation of the tobacco duties there. The Sydney Morning Herald of 18th ...

    Article : 692 words
  8. LAZARUS.

    When Lazarus left his charnel cave, And home to Mary’s house returned, Was this demanded, if he yearned To hear her weeping by his grave? ...

    Article : 209 words
  9. PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING.

    A writer in Macmillan's Magazine supplies some specimens of humorous Parliamentary reporting;— Drummond’s famous saying, ‘Property has ...

    Article : 316 words
  10. GRANNY GORTON'S BIRTHDAY.

    Saturday, 21st January, was a great day in Central Village, in the State of Connecticut, in Americ On that day Mrs Jonathan Gorton was 100 years old, and formally ...

    Article : 924 words
  11. EQUITABLE TAXATION.

    SIR.—We poor Victorians are always in trouble over taxation, and I suppose are likely to be for some time to come. Many who previously give themselves but little ...

    Article : 916 words
  12. ALL ALONG THE RIVER.

    Author of ‘Lady Audley’s Secret,’ 'The Venetians, or All in Honor.’ ‘Aurora Floyd,’ ‘The Cloven Foot,’ ‘Dead Men’s Shoes,’ ‘Just as I Am,’ ‘Taken at the ...

    Article : 3,384 words
  13. THE COLONIES AND ENGLAND'S FOOD SUPPLY.

    At the Imperial Institute, on 7th March, Professor James Long read a paper on “Our Food Supply: Can the Colonies Provide It?” The Earl of Cork (chairman) in ...

    Article : 473 words
  14. THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

    New York, Paris, and Berlin combined lack 42 square miles of having as great an area as London. Launhank. once examined a section. of ...

    Article : 377 words
  15. NEW ZEALAND UNEMPLOYED.

    The scheme matured by the Government for coping with the unemployed difficulty (writes a correspondent) was not introduced before it was wanted. Pressure upon ...

    Article : 573 words
  16. ELECTRICITY.

    Great Falls, Mont., appears to be fairly entitled to the distinction of being called the Electric City. At Black Eagle Falls, three miles above the town, an immense dam has ...

    Article : 326 words
  17. A FARM COLONY EXPERIMENT-

    Facts of an encouraging character are to be found in the first report of the Rev. Herbert Mills on the subject of the home colonisation experiment, begun something ...

    Article : 274 words
  18. HOW THE TELEGRAPH SAVED INDIA.

    At the time of the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny the telegraph lines from Meerut to Delhi, from Agra to Indore, Delhi, and Cawnpore, and from Cawnpore to Allahabad ...

    Article : 219 words
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