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  2. Our Letter Box. "QUEENSLAND OF TO-DAY."

    "Ye who write, choose a subject for your abilities." —HORACE. Our contributor "T." has written to ua as follows:—The Rey. J. E. Tenison Woods, in his report ...

    Article : 158 words
  3. Our Bookshelf.

    William Black, one of the most delightful and deservedly popular novelists of the present day, is a comparatively young man, having been born in Glasgow in 1841. He received his education at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 724 words
  4. THE PRACTICE OF SHEEP FARMING.

    "The Practice of Sheep Farming," by Mr. Charles Scott, published by Mr. Thomas C. Jack, Edinburgh and London, is a book from which a number of useful hints may be obtained. The work deals principally ...

    Article : 115 words
  5. A NAME WANTED.

    Referring to a suggestion that during the centesnial year the name of the colony should be changed to something more characteristic than that of New South Wales, William Donald, Goulburn, ...

    Article : 181 words
  6. CHARLES DICKENS'S MOTHER.

    Mrs. Dickens was a little woman, who had been very nice looking in her youth. She had very bright hazel eyes, and was as thoroughly good-natured, easy-going, companionable a body as one would ...

    Article : 193 words
  7. RABBIT TRAPPING.

    Alluding to what has been said and written in New South Wales respecting the rabbit pest, Thos. M'Hale, Launceston, Tasmania, says that at a meeting held some time ago in that colony, Mr. Brown, ...

    Article : 362 words
  8. LITERARY GOSSIP.

    Julian Hawthorne has been appointed literary editor of the New York WORLD, and George Parsons Lathrop literary editor of the New York STAR. There are 4000 public libraries in the United ...

    Article : 530 words
  9. New Zealand News.

    REVENUE OF THE COLONY.—The Customs revenue collected in the colony for the first half of the financial year was £547,598 14s 5d; being £57,401 5s 7d below the Treasurer's estimate for that period. The ...

    Article : 658 words
  10. ASSISTING COLONIAL INDUSTRY.

    Referring to a paragraph in our commercial news, in our last issue, a Sydney firm has written as follows:—When protection came in in Victoria, candles were very much higher in price than they ...

    Article : 189 words
  11. FORBES-WILCANNIA RAILWAY.

    A Bourke correspondent has written to us as follows: I see by the Wilcannia paper that the good folk there have held an indignation meeting anent "Murtie's" remarks in the TOWN AND ...

    Article : 323 words
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  13. "THE PHANTOM CITY."

    "The Phantom City," a volcanic romance, by William Westall, published by Cassell and Co., limited, is a story of the Utopian order. The hero, however, does not make his way to the unknown city by sea, ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. REPORT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.

    The "Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for the year 1885" has just been issued from the Government Printing Office. It is a handsome volume of 240 pages, and ...

    Article : 181 words
  15. Advertising

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    Advertising : 127 words
  16. MISCELLANEOUS.

    Disappointed Miner (Lower Turon): It is related of Sir Walter Raleigh that he once wrote with a diamond on a window pane. " I fain would climb, yet fear to fall," Queen Elizabeth, perceiving this, ...

    Article : 504 words
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