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  2. LECTURES. SPINSTER LIFE: BOOKS AND FICTION.

    The Rev. James Jefferis, LL.D., gave in Pitt-street Congregational Church last evening the fifth of a series of lectures on "Spinster Life," the subdivision treated of being "Books and Fiction." The congregation was so ...

    Article : 2,642 words
  3. THE OUTBREAK OF SMALLPOX.

    Following in rapid succession upon the outbreak of variola at Lower Randwick, two fresh cases of smallpox have made their appearance in Sydney. In the first case the disease has attacked a seaman belonging to the A.S.N. ...

    Article : 1,494 words
  4. NATIVE FLOWER SHOWS.

    No one who knows Mr. Morris will for a moment doubt that the wanton destruction of wild flowering plants is as distressing to him as to any other lover of natural beauty, and it cannot be denied that, as he ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  5. MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY.

    On Thursday night Mr. Edwin Quayle delivered the 12th of a course of lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy, in the Pharmaceutical Society's Rooms, 142, Phillip-street. In dealing with the metals of the alkaline earths the lecturer ...

    Article : 1,023 words
  6. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—Of late a great amount of writing has been going on with reference to the destruction of our native plants and flowers—it is to be hoped that good results will follow. There will doubtless be in the memory of many of your ...

    Article : 364 words
  7. A MODEL STATESMAN.

    "A Model Statesman" was the subject of an address delivered in St. Peter's Churchy St. Leonards, last night, by the Rev. W. S. Frackleton, M. A. M.Sc., B.D. The rev. gentleman, after quoting Ruskin's saying that "a ...

    Article : 1,731 words
  8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—May one protest against the unnecessary vandalism of putting down the beautiful trees which still adorn some parts of our suburbs? More than inoffensive, they are both shade-giving and ...

    Article : 72 words
  9. AMUSEMENTS.

    The popularity of "The Bohemian Girl" was shown in the assembling of as large a house as could well be accommodated in the New Opera House on Saturday night. Mr. Lithgow James, as was expected, made a good Count ...

    Article : 630 words
  10. VITAL STATISTICS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 953 words
  11. THE RABBIT PEST.

    Sir,—The many complaints of the increase of rabbits, and the enormous sums voted and spent for their destruction, together with the many useless suggestions made for the removal of this trouble, urges me to send a few lines on the ...

    Article : 835 words
  12. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—A general dual has recently been written as to the cause of the destruction of native plants, but I am inclined to believe that the rapid influx to the suburbs has more to do with it than the holding of flower-shows, the collectors ...

    Article : 226 words
  13. FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT IN THE HARBOUR.

    A fatal boat accident occurred in the harbour yesterday afternoon. Three men, named, respectively, George Brown, Edward Taylor, and Walter Lane, were out for a sail in a pleasure-boat, when she suddenly capsized whilst they were ...

    Article : 310 words
  14. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—I read with a great deal of satisfaction the letter in your columns from Mr. James Norton, in which he directs attention to the wholesale and increasing destruction of our native plants and flowers through the medium of these ...

    Article : 379 words
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    The French Government has awarded a diploma and gold medal to Mr. F. S. C. Moore, late boatswain of the British vessel Perseverance, of Plymouth, in recognition of his gallant services in saving, at the risk of his ...

    Article : 57 words
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