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  2. WESTERN DISTRICT.

    STILL GOING.—The Stoney Creek diggings are gradually draining our town of its labouring population. Day by day, parties of pedestrians, loaded with tin pots and dishes, and the other lighter paraphernalia of ...

    Article : 721 words
  3. PATCHWORK. IN VESTE VARIETAS SIT.

    I PEAR lest an overbold emulation of that provident frugality which we have all seen exercised upon fragments, of various hues and fabrics, may have led me to a task which savours of presumption. For much ...

    Article : 887 words
  4. OPEN-AIR PREACHING.

    SIR,—Knowing that you are an advocate for the good order of society, and on exposer of all abuses against the same, I wish to call attention to the proceedings of some parties in Hyde Park on Sunday last. ...

    Article : 492 words
  5. ODDS AND ENDS.

    An enquiry for a brief definition of a good style might be met, perhaps, thus—a fine flow of words, filtered. A statesman is one who sees the best thing to be done, and can persuade people to do it; a miracle not ...

    Article : 137 words
  6. TRUTH AND GOLD.

    Truth is said to be at the bottom of a well, just as gold is said to be 'buried in the mine; when the truth is that both are scattered about the world, and we have seldom to go deep for either. The sages ...

    Article : 1,180 words
  7. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    WE have papers from Adelaide to the 2nd instant. MINING.—A question of considerable importance is now before the public, namely, the probabilities or improbabilities of South Australia containing ...

    Article : 1,977 words
  8. TO THE ELECTORS OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

    GENTLEMEN,—Let me remind you that to-morrow, July 15th, is the last day for those persons whose names are omitted in the Electoral Lists just prepared to send in their claims to have their names inserted. ...

    Article : 194 words
  9. JUDGES IN THE FORUM.

    The brief remarks which follow must not be perused with the freedom admissible to every public question, without first duly and respectfully acknowledging the learning, patience, and zeal by which, in this privileged ...

    Article : 466 words
  10. DRUNKENNESS. No. 5.

    HAVING enumerated most of the known causes from which the abhorrent vice of drunkenness arises, it may not be out of place to consider if anything can be done by our Legislators that will afford a hope of its ...

    Article : 2,400 words
  11. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.

    SIR,—Will you allow me to correct an error in your leading article of Saturday? You say, I analyzed the rivers from which it was proposed to supply water to Melbourne, and that I pronounced one to be of ...

    Article : 197 words
  12. MIGHT NOT AUSTRALIA BE STOCKED WITH GAME?

    SIR,—I should wish, through the instrumentality of your columns, to suggest to some of our leading men the possibility and propriety of adding to the animal productions of the country. They seem to think that ...

    Article : 592 words
  13. TETHERING A HORSE.

    I need hardly frame an excuse, in a country of wayfarers, for entering upon a subject which affects every traveller. Most of us have gone to sleep, before the camp fire, in the comfortable assurance of a horse ...

    Article : 726 words
  14. NATIVE FLOWERS.

    SIR,—Like many other persons, I took a stroll yesterday afternoon along the Botany Road, and rambled about for an hour on the "Sand-hills." Although the locality was familiar enough to me, I had never before ...

    Article : 383 words
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