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  2. REVIEWS. Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water. By Mrs. HOWARD VINOR[?]. London: Sampson Low and Co. [?].

    This is a remarkable book. Mrs. Howard Vincent, it will be remembered, accompanied her husband on a voyage round the world nearly two years ago. He was for six years, according to the preface, "Director of ...

    Article : 2,069 words
  3. DEPUTATIONS. POSTAL ACCOMMODATION AT MARRICKVILLE.

    A deputation representing a portion of Marrickville waited on the Postmaster-General yesterday, to ask for a change of the site of the post and telegraph office to a more convenient and central locality. The members of the ...

    Article : 558 words
  4. GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

    The following notifications appear in yesterday's' Gazette:— PUBLIC HOLIDAY.—Thursday, 4th February, is declared a public holiday in the district of Illawarra. ...

    Article : 1,167 words
  5. ABOLITION OF TOLLS ON PUNTS AND FERRIES.

    A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Thomas Cameron, G. H. Stephens, J. G. White, and J. M. Smith, representing residents of the Hunter, district, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday to ask that the Government would in ...

    Article : 289 words
  6. CIVIL SERVICE "TEMPORARY" EMPLOYEES.

    Yesterday a deputation of temporary employees in the Civil Service, more particularly from the droughtmen's departments, interviewed the Colonial Secretary, with a view to having themselves placed in the service under the ...

    Article : 770 words
  7. Sermons by Mark Pattison, late Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, London: Macmillan and Company, 1885.

    In the days when the Edinburgh Review was young and saucy, Sydney Smith wrote thus of the pulpit labour of his contemporaries:—"The great object of modern sermons is to hazard nothing; their ...

    Article : 2,250 words
  8. RAILWAY FROM BOWNING TO BURROWA.

    The Hon. L. F. Heydon, Minister for Justice, introduced a deputation to the Minister for Works yesterday, who desired that the railway to Burrowa might be made to join the main line at Bowning instead of at Galong ...

    Article : 344 words
  9. PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR PARRAMATTA SOUTH.

    A deputation, consisting of several of the aldermen of the Borough Council of Parramatta, waited upon the Minister for Public Instruction yesterday, for the purpose of bringing under his notice the necessity for a ...

    Article : 269 words
  10. A Vagrant Wife. By FLORENCE WARDEN. Messrs. W. Stevens-and Co., 421, Strund, London. 1885.

    Shortly after Hugh Conway caught the public faucy by his tour de force, "Called Back," there appeared in the "Family Herald" a story entitled "The House on the Marsh," which attracted nearly as ...

    Article : 424 words
  11. TRAMWAY FROM DENILIQUIN TO HAY.

    Mr. A. Cameron, on behalf of Mr. Fietcher, M.L.A., introduced Messrs. H. and J. Tarrant, as representatives of a syndicate, to the Minister for Lands yesterday to obtain permission for the construction of a tramway between Denliquin ...

    Article : 113 words
  12. SYDNEY FIRE BRIGADES.

    A deputation from the Metropolitan Fire Brigades Board waited upon the Colonial Secretary to ask that tenders for the erection of a fire brigades station on land recently purchased for that purpose by the late ...

    Article : 365 words
  13. SUNNY CORNER TOWNSHIP.

    A deputation from property owners of the township of Sunny Corner waited yesterday on the Minister for Lands, for the purpose of drawing his attention to the extravagant prices fixed as upsets for the township allotments. ...

    Article : 397 words
  14. IMPROVEMENTS TO GREAT WESTERN-ROAD

    A deputation consisting of Aldermon Hughes and Wheeler, of Petersham, waited upon the Minister for Works yesterday, to ask that the Government would provide funds for kerbing and guttering the Great Western-road ...

    Article : 104 words
  15. Botany Past and Present. By FRANOIS MYERS. Sydney: John Woods and Co., 13, Bridge-street. 1885.

    In this book of 96 pages Mr. Myers gives a suc[?]inet account of Botany, of its past and present, and of the future before it. To him that future appears a promising one, although he does not make light of the ...

    Article : 226 words
  16. THE CONDITION OF WAVERLEY.

    Sir,—I think the unqualified thanks of the residents af Waverley and the city are due to you and your reportor for your article in lost Saturday's Herald, headed "Pollution of the "Water Supply." ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. STEAM WHISTLES.

    Sir,—I desire to draw the attention of the authorities to what has become a most intolerable nui[?]. I refer to those abominable American whistles used on several locomotives which run between Rodfern and Parramatta. The ...

    Article : 137 words
  18. CULVERT NEAR HURSTVILLE.

    A deputation representing the Hurstville Progress Committee was introduced to the Minister for Works yesterday by Messrs. S. A. Stephen and W. G. Judd, Ms.L.A., that the members of it might ask the Government to ...

    Article : 127 words
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  20. REPAIRS TO ROADS IN SINGLETON.

    A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Singleton and Aldermen Burnett and Wiles, was introduced by Mr. A. J. Gould, M.L.A., to the Minister for Works yesterday that the members of it might ask the Government to provide ...

    Article : 277 words
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