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  2. A PAPER OF TOBACCO.

    "I never take tobacco,' said the Colonel, emptying the paper and handing the tin-foil back to its owner, "without recalling that terrible trial upon the Rio Grande." ...

    Article : 2,052 words
  3. THE CABLE-STEAMER HIBERNIA.

    On Saturday last at 2.a.m., the Hibernia and Edinburgh, cable-steamers, began the task of connecting New South Wales with New Zealand. The S. M. Herald gives a description of those ships and the modus ...

    Article : 1,062 words
  4. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.

    DEAR SIR,—I suppose I ought to consider myself highly honoured at having my letter of the 20th ult taken notice of by the Minister for Works. It shows me in the most unmistakeable manner that ...

    Article : 254 words
  5. LOVERS BY PROXY.

    If one cannot be a lover oneself, the next best thing is to make love on somebody else's account. At least, so seem to think a large number of persons who are never so happy as when they are up to their necks in ...

    Article : 503 words
  6. OUR ATILLA LINE.

    SIR,—Atilla, as you are aware, was the renowned king of the Huns, who used to boast that a blade of grass never grew wherever his horse had once passed over. But this was in the old barbaric days, when ...

    Article : 900 words
  7. THE DIFFICULTIES OF LEARNING TO READ.

    The late Assistant-Commissioner of Endowed Schools for Scotland, Mr. J. M. W. Meiklejohn, writing to the Daily News, says:—Your pleasant article a few days since, and the address of Sir Charles Reed on ...

    Article : 1,284 words
  8. ANOTHER HEROIC DEATH.

    ANOTHER HEROIC DETH.—A sad case of drowning is related by the Melbourne Telegraph to have occurred recently at Boroondara, whereby a fine young lad named Patrick Kenny, the son of Mr. Thomas ...

    Article : 584 words
  9. PENNY POSTAGE.

    SIR,—You have been trying to induce the Hon. George Thorn (our Postmaster-General) to immortalise himself by inaugurating a system of ocean penny postage. ...

    Article : 182 words
  10. THE FORTUNES OF SINGERS.

    A New York journal has some interesting notes on the fortunes of singers;—"In no profession can people make such largea sums of money in a short time as in the lyric, when they ...

    Article : 242 words
  11. THE WHOLE TRUTH.

    SIR,—I, with many others, was somewhat surprised on reading in yesterday's Queensland Times, Mr. Farrelly's statement that none of the twenty votes for the Roman Catholic Church property were recorded at ...

    Article : 1,666 words
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