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  2. FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

    We extract, as not inapplicable to ourselves, the following passages from an article in the Westminster Review on free publie libraries:— "Besides the evils of indifference and hostility in ...

    Article : 1,051 words
  3. MR. TROLLOPE'S TASMANIA.

    Mr. Trollope has evidently formed a pretty correct opinion as to the duty of Government with respect to the continuance of the Port Arthur penal establishment. It requires little ...

    Article : 5,141 words
  4. OUR LAUNCESTON LETTER.

    Since the notices were issued calling upon those liable for the payment of the railway rate to pay that impost, the subject has been the principal topic of conversation; and the holding of the Deloraine ...

    Article : 773 words
  5. TASMANIAN TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE.

    The seventeenth annual meeting of the Tasmanian Temperance Alliance was held-at the Alliance Rooms last night. Before the public meeting was held there was a tea meeting, at which about 100 ...

    Article : 3,588 words
  6. CITY COUNCIL.

    The Council met at 4 o'clock. Present: The Mayor, and Alderman Risby, Cook, Belbin, Pearce, Rheuben, Walch, and Green. The minutes of the last meeting were read and ...

    Article : 798 words
  7. PIGEON ENGLISH.

    With a parcel of tea which we lately purchased there came a curious piece of Chinese advertising. It is a native tea merchant's bill or circular, printed on red paper sprinkled with gold leaf. ...

    Article : 1,008 words
  8. OATLANDS.

    Present: The Warden, John Rowland Roe, Esq., and Councillors Burbury, Jillett, Jones, and Pillinger. Councillor LORD the newly elected Councillor, having made the necessary declaration, took his ...

    Article : 953 words
  9. QUEENSLAND.

    The Times, in describing a snake bite accident, concludes with a statement that suggests that the sufferer must have her residence in a place anything but pleasant to live in. Our ...

    Article : 470 words
  10. CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM.

    We are quite ready to admit that decorum is in itself a good thing. The familiar spectacle of gentlemen speechless and staggering from the effects of heavy potations could not ...

    Article : 1,444 words
  11. ST. DAVID'S PARISHIONERS AND CONSISTENCY.

    SIR,—I was content to submit to your somewhat caustic remarks on the procedure of the parishioners of St. David's, at the two meetings recently hold in Harrington-street school-room, feeling that those with ...

    Article : 509 words
  12. THE REPUBLIC IN SPAIN.

    Fears are entertained that the Federalists, who are in arms and occupy several points, excited by the recent events, will resort to violence. The Government is supported by all ...

    Article : 261 words
  13. A QUAIL'S CROP.

    SIR,—All true sportsmen must have shivered and sickened when they read of the brutal amount of butchery that the great guns of the season had inflicted upon the innocent little quail. Soon, too soon, ...

    Article : 270 words
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