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  2. GANG LABOUR AND IMMORALITY IN THE FEN COUNTRY.

    There is, perhaps, no fact in English politics more important or less generally understood, than the existence of deep chasms or rifts in our social civilization. People comprehend in a vague way that we ...

    Article : 969 words
  3. COTTON.

    Cotton cloth was fabricated many centuries before the Christian era. The first mention of it in history is by Herodotus, who, in his description of the usages of the people of India, speaks of those Orientals as ...

    Article : 662 words
  4. THE FIELD AND GARDEN.

    IN THE FIELD, the wet weather of the last two months has delayed work. A good deal of scrub and other fallen stuff is still lying about, a few days' dry weather being necessary to prepare it for burning off. ...

    Article : 996 words
  5. BOILING DOWN.

    This is undoubtedly the one subject of greatest importance to the stockowner just now. There is plenty of talk about it, and so many schemes are under discussion, that if the one-half of them are carried out, ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  6. SCAB.

    At a meeting of the Queensland Philosophical Society held in Brisbane on Friday evening the following paper was read by Dr. Bancroft:—Everybody has heard of sheep scab, many think it ...

    Article : 1,406 words
  7. NEWCASTLE AND THE HUNTER.

    The terrible effects of the floods in the vicinity of Maitland are yet unknown. The only news received up to the present is by the steamer Agnes Irving, which arrived yesterday evening from Newcastle, with ...

    Article : 370 words
  8. CULTURE OF TOBACCO.

    Look out a plot of rich land; dig it up deep; make it fine on the top; if you strike it out into beds one yard wide you will clean the weeds much better; make them as long as you like; batter the top with the back ...

    Article : 756 words
  9. THE CANADA RAILWAY LOAN BILL.

    The decision of the House of Commons on Thursday night, on the Canada Railway Loan Bill, may be accepted as the final completion of the great work of British North ...

    Article : 615 words
  10. THE FLOODS IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The accounts which reached Sydney on Friday night and Saturday morning, from the flooded districts, were so contradictory and yet alarming, that in order to place our readers in possession of full and ...

    Article : 1,366 words
  11. DESTRUCTION OF THE DENISON BRIDGE AT BATHURST.

    At Penrith it was reported that the Denison Bridge, near Bathurst, had been carried away bodily one mile down the river. This bridge consisted of three 90 feet spans, with two 65 feet side spans. It ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. MR. HERBERT'S CAREER.

    The following article, from the Melbourne Argus of June 14, is amusing if it is nothing else:—An announcement eminently calculated to give satisfaction to colonial statesmen lately appeared in ...

    Article : 1,403 words
  13. THE FLOATING LIGHT AT THE SOW AND PIGS.

    On Saturday afternoon the Light-ship inside the Heads displayed a signal of distress, which was seen from the hill at Watson's Bay. The news created considerable alarm, and was soon communicated to ...

    Article : 221 words
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