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Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 213, 9 December 1873, Page 7

■ A “ cackling out newspaper fowl" is the epithet applied by one Sacremento editor to another in a recent argument, A Chicago railroad lias provided its passenger trains with Bibles, securely chained and marked so as' to prevent their being stolen. ■ 'A baby show is to be a feature in the annual Caledonian games at Riverton. The barbarism of a cock-fight is ' also to be indulged in. A good story comes from Melbourne. The officials in one of the public offices got up a sweep on the Cup—-fifty members at a pound each, and the whole to go the first horse. The entries at the time were scratched down to fifty-one, and as no one cared to take two chances, it was decided to leave out one of rim outsiders that stood no chance. The task of elimination was loft to a clerk who was supposed to have a superior knowledge of the ttufj find ho struck out—Don Juan ! Wo quote the the'following sensible remark's from a letter in a Victorian exchange; — <( t hold, and have held for years, the opinion that the State should not sell an inch of its lands to anyone, but, instead, should retain its proprietorship over them, and let them to all settlers at an annual rental of so much per acre. Leases to be issued to all who would settle oil the lands, and comply with the conditions, and these leases to be renewable from father to son, the preference being always given to those in possession. By tin's means a permanent source of revenue would be derived by the State from its lands—yearly increasing in value—and that revenue would in due course prove amply sufficient for all the requirements of the State.”

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