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  2. OUR PROGRESS.

    Sir,—This Colony possesses in its climate and soil, peculiar advantages, but at the same time conditions opposed to the concentration of a large population. My attention has been directed to these during a transitory ...

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  3. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    MOUNT REMARKABLE SURVEY SALE.— Thissale [?]menced on the 26th, and about 8000 acres [?] sold, principally of the hilly, mineral, and [?]red sections, at an average of 14s. per acre. ...

    Article : 698 words
  4. THE SARAH SANDS STEAMER.

    Sir,—I hope the following will find insertion in your useful paper:- The advertisement regarding the above steam-ship, published in the Sydney Morning Herald, and also in ...

    Article : 377 words
  5. DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

    THE P[?]OROGATION. — Amongst all the splendours and peculiarities of the august ceremony, which was yesterday enacted in resolving the "talking-shop" in Bourke-street into its elements, nothing excited so much ...

    Article : 2,624 words
  6. HOW THE DERBYITES NURSE A CALAMITY.

    Lord Derby, it cannot be denied, is turning the Duke's death to a very good account. We had our misgivings, and we expressed them, when we first heard that the ...

    Article : 1,435 words
  7. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

    Sir,—I chanced to be camped for the night in the neighbourhood of the Lincolnshire Arms, an Saturday last; and on yesterday morning, at 6 o'clock, I was much amazed to find a large party, some in hired ...

    Article : 212 words
  8. TOPSY-TURVY.

    Bill Sykes's home was a cadger's ken, With a sack for a pillow and shavings for sheets: He was never taught nothin' he don't know when, His grand tour was the tramp and his school was the ...

    Article : 958 words
  9. THE FARMERS.

    DEAR "ARGUS,"—It has been often said of late that growing wheat does not pay, because reaping and grinding cost so very much. But I would ask, is there no remedy at hand,—is such a state of things to ...

    Article : 158 words
  10. THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

    Sir,—No one can read the alarming Report of the Sanitary Commission without feeling that the disclosures contained in it regarding the mortality of this city, merits the anxious attention of all, and more ...

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  11. THE LAND QUESTION.

    Sir,—Of the various kinds of opposition, perhaps there is none more difficult to overcome than that which arises from selfishness. A malicious opposition seldom survives long after the detection of its motive, and a ...

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  12. DANIEL WEBSTER.

    Daniel Webster surpassed all his contemporaries among American statesmen in a certain sinewy knitness of mental constitution. He was to the rest what the gnarled oak of the ...

    Article : 478 words
  13. [?]TERN AUSTRALIA.

    We f[?] the following items of intelligence the Adelaide Register:- From the Perth papers we learn that the in[?]enza had been very prevalent in the colony. ...

    Article : 534 words
  14. REVENUE OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The official abstracts of the levenue of the colony of New South W[?] and the pa[?] year show, us might have been expected, an incr[?] on both periods, though ...

    Article : 530 words
  15. AUSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION, THIS DAY.

    Cargo of the Cu[?]oden. Messrs. Sym[?]ns and [?] on the ground—Two [?]ly residences in [?]reat [?]ick-street, Collingwood; at the Commercial Sales Roo[?] Books, station ...

    Article : 262 words
  16. POST-OFFICE MANAGEMENT.

    Sir,—I venture to address you on the subject of the Post-Office in Melbourne, as I know you take an interest in the poor Diggers of Victoria, and [?]ver advocate their cause as their patron, friend, and champion ...

    Article : 513 words
  17. [?]ESSOR LIEBIG ON THE WINES OF AUSTRALIA.

    [?] following letter from Professor Liebig, [?]n, whose reputation as a chemist is [?]n all the world over, was written to a gen[?]n in New South Wales, who had ...

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  18. CHANCE BURIALS.

    Sir,—Permit me, through your worthy journal, to lay before the public the fearful fact as follows:—On Wednesday or Thursday week last my attention was taken to a spot of ground near the lagoon, not 100 ...

    Article : 222 words
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