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  2. FUGITIVE NOTES:

    That broken column on the Parramatta River, unveiled by Mr. Melville to the memory of Searlo on Thursday, has several claims to be described as truly a "speaking" memorial. It is appropriate, ...

    Article : 2,379 words
  3. ON THE PERVERSITY OF INANIMATE OBJECTS.

    Too exclusive association with their elders is not good for children, and those people who never quite grow up must find the world of to-day with its know-all, cut-and-dried positivism, rather wearisome. The ...

    Article : 1,975 words
  4. LIFE IN LONDON AND THERE-ABOUT.

    A few days ago London was disturbed by a report that the Queen, just now at Balmoral, was seriously ill. No one could trace the origin of the report or speak with confidence as to its ...

    Article : 1,974 words
  5. THE EMPEROR OF BRAZIL.

    A few days ago a cable message announced the death of that remarkable ex-Emperor, Dom Pedro II. of Brazil, and yesterday we announced that his funeral had taken place at Lisbon. The late ...

    Article : 1,458 words
  6. A NIGHT IN HYDE PARK.

    Sydney Hyde Park, of course. The worst of Britons is, that even when they turn their backs on the old island home they never leave it behind them. They carry with them the names of its ...

    Article : 2,327 words
  7. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

    A great sensation has been made in literary and theatrical circles in Brussols and Paris by the production of a now play, "La Princesso Maleine," by a new author, M. Maunce Maeterlinck—being, ...

    Article : 2,761 words
  8. CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

    Sir,—As many of your readers take a keen interest in chrysanthemums and all that appertains to them, I think that the following extract from Sir Edwin Arnold's recently-published work, "Seas and Lands," ...

    Article : 889 words
  9. THE DUTY ON TEA.

    Sir,—Now that the Government have proved a majority in their favour in the Assembly, I would like to point out the unfairness of the proposal to remit the duty on ten on so shott a notice. The ...

    Article : 340 words
  10. DEFICITS AND SURPLUSES.

    Sir,—I should like to be informed by what system of bookkeeping our Colonial Treasurers at their financial statoments. One creates a debit and another a credit out of the same figures, but presume they put ...

    Article : 192 words
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