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  2. IMPERIAL DEFENCES.

    Two very important papers were read in April last before the United Service Institution, by Sir C. H. Nugent, K.C.B., on Imperial defences at home and abroad. They are very lengthy and exhaustive, and place the matter ...

    Article : 3,165 words
  3. LEGAL PROCEDURE.

    When Mr. Darley, Q.C., and those who aided him brought about a reform of the proceedings of the Equity Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court by the adoption of a portion of the English Judicature Act, they failed to ...

    Article : 2,062 words
  4. QUEENSLAND SUGAR INDUSTRY AND THE LABOUR QUESTION.

    The Gairlock plantation, the manager of which is Mr. O. A. M. Morris, is one of the properties of Messrs. Fanning, Nankoville, and Co. The total area is about 5000 acres, of which about 1050 acres are under cane, ...

    Article : 1,840 words
  5. MUNICIPAL WAYS IMPROVEMENT BILL.

    Sir,—This bill, which seems to have been passed by the Legislative Assembly with little or no consideration, has a very plausible appearance; but I fear that it contains a very dangerous departure from the principle of municipal ...

    Article : 714 words
  6. CIVIL SERVICE BILL.

    Sir,—I would crave space in your valuable journal to express an opinion, and explain why I think the proposal in the Civil Service Bill to regard rent of officers' quarters as a portion of their salary would not be fair so far as the Post ...

    Article : 965 words
  7. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—This bill arbitrarily proposes to compel owners to pay one-half the cost of kerbing, guttering, and paving in front of their properties whenever and wherever the council may from time to time decide. Practically this will be in ...

    Article : 511 words
  8. THE LAND BILL.

    Sir,—In your issue of the 17th I find the following report (clause 79, sub-section 3):—"Mr. Ogilvie moved the amendment of sub-section 3 by substituting the word 'may' for 'shall' in that portion of the sub-section providing for ...

    Article : 520 words
  9. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—Feeling sure that you will be glad to publish any suggestions which might tend to make the bill now before Parliament a more just, equitable, and perfect measure, I send the following remarks with regard to the classification ...

    Article : 685 words
  10. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

    Sir,—Some few weeks ago a circular was issued from the office of the Department of Public Instruction, authorising teachers to suspend from attendance at school all children suffering from contagious diseases. Children living in any ...

    Article : 658 words
  11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.

    Sir,—In clause 130 of the new Land Bill, as originally drafted, an action for trespass could not be brought against the squatter by the selector until his land was fenced, and vice versa. The other night Sir Alfred Stephen moved the ...

    Article : 571 words
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