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  2. THE LARGEST AMERICAN CITIES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 202 words
  3. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS.

    THE operation of the regulations under the new Public Instruction Act, we learn, has had the effect of considerably enlarging the enrolment and attendance at the Public and Denominational schools of the ...

    Article : 253 words
  4. GOLDSBROUGH'S WOOL WAREHOUSES.

    EXTENSIVE additions have recently been made to Messrs. Goldsbrough's palatial warehouses. The new warehouse lately completed is the largest in Melbourne, extending as it does in one unbroken line from ...

    Article : 682 words
  5. THE DIFFICULTIES OF FREE SELECTION.

    THROUGHOUT New South Wales perhaps no question is of such all-absorbing interest as "The Land," and certainly nothing touches our material interests more nearly. No excuse is therefore needed for another ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  6. THE NEW MAIZE DUTY.

    THE chief item in Mr Berry's new budget which will affect the trade between New South Wales and Victoria, under existing conditions, is the increase in the duty on maize from sixpence to one shilling per ...

    Article : 499 words
  7. THE FAMILY APPOINTMENTS OF MR. BERRY.

    THE appointments of Messers. Benjamin and Graham Berry, jun. (says the Argus) were before the Assembly on Thursday, a discussion springing up on the questions put by Mr. Murray Smith to elicit the facts of ...

    Article : 396 words
  8. SYDNEY AND THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS.

    A FEW of the couutry members from time to time try to gain a cheap popularity by attacking the metropolis and representing that it receives an undue amount of attention from, the Government, Nothing is easier ...

    Article : 599 words
  9. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SQUIBS.

    THE American papers are of course, full of puffs and squibs on the presidential election. The majority are racy, humorous, and full of point. Here is a sample squib, from a Republican journal:—A "Constant ...

    Article : 289 words
  10. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE IN SPAIN.

    THE Madrid correspondent of the Daily News furnishes the following particulars of the falling of a bridge on the Ebro, involving the death by drowning of half a battalion of soldiers:—A horrible catastrophe has ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. HOW COAL AND PETROLEUM OIL WERE FORMED.

    A WHITER, Mr Moses Zweizig, in an American publication, describing the coal beds of North America, says that in the United States the coal beds and seams are thicker and more numerous on the eastern, or ...

    Article : 867 words
  12. BISHOP MOORHOUSE ON THE PRESS.

    IN an exhaustive paper on general topics lead by the Bishop of Melbourne on Tuesday at a meeting of the education section of the Social Science Congress he thus referred to the press as an educator:—"Who ...

    Article : 334 words
  13. IRISH SECRET SOCIETIES.

    IN England we are ready enough to condemn the machinations and assassinations of the Nihilists in Russia, the Socialists in Germany, and the Communists in France, but the vast majority of us are ...

    Article : 884 words
  14. AN EYE TO BUSINESS.

    AMONG the multitude of insurance solicitors who infest our city (says the S. F. News Letter), there is one young fellow who, for the possession of admantine check, and all the obtrusive qualities which go to ...

    Article : 497 words
  15. SYDNEY WORKS AND SYDNEY WANTS.

    THE following are a few extracts from late Sydney papers showing the persistency with which everything metropolitan is drummed into the cars of the Government:—It is rumoured now that the Government do ...

    Article : 327 words
  16. THE RAGE FOR IMMENSE STEAMSHIPS.

    A GLASGOW paper of September 4, in an article describing the active shipping trade now going on in Glasgow and neighbouring ports, has the following information:— ...

    Article : 406 words
  17. THE DUKE OF MANCHESTER.

    IN replying to the toast of the "Health of the Duke of Manchester," on Friday evening, his Grace, who was enthusiastically received, said he confessed he was covered with confusion. If it were not that he ...

    Article : 769 words
  18. THE GLEBE (SYDNEY) FREE LIBRARY.

    AT the opening of the Free Library and Reading Room on the 26th October, Sir W. Allen said his recollections of the Glebe dated much further back than its incorporation. He was the oldest resident in it, ...

    Article : 716 words
  19. SANGUINE THOUGHTS.

    "I wish I was a edytur, I'd in my sanktum stand An' wear upon my countynance A smile jist orful bland, ...

    Article : 93 words
  20. A CHINESE ATROCITY.

    ON the morning of the 25th day of the fifth moon (2nd of July), a large and heavy plank of wood floated past Hankow. The people saw that it had a most picturesque appearance; a fair damsel of 19, well ...

    Article : 248 words
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