A "DROWNED" COAL-FIELD.—A coal-field, thirty square miles in extent, on the cast side of Newcastle, is now, in mining language, "drowned:" in other words, there is beneath the surface a lake of 100 ...
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Advertising : 2,379 wordsOn Friday evening, May 10, a meeting of ratepayers was held in the Oddfellows' Hall. About 120 persons were present. The MAYOR read the requisit[?]on, in answer to which he ...
Article : 3,627 wordsSir—Referring to the Postmaster's public answer to Mr. Blyth's motion (for which I as one of the public thank him, it being so seldom that any Government department condescends to give reasons so ...
Article : 137 wordsSir—I hope that you will allow me to direct attention to this extraordinary demand on the part of the Treasury benches, the only ground for which is that the Government have recently sold a township there. ...
Article : 293 wordsVAGRANCY.—Christopher, a colored man, was charged with being found in an occupied house in Hindley-street on the previous night. The defendant pleaded guilty, but as the owner of the house was not in attendance to prosecute the ...
Article : 100 wordsSir—I see by your report of the proceedings at a meeting of the candidates for the Burra and Clare that Mr. Clark was questioned whether or not he did not come out under the immigration agency; and his ...
Article : 150 wordsPresent—Messrs. Hamilton (Chairman), Waters, Filmer, Brockmeyer, and Sandeson. Circular and memorial for signature received from Tungkillo District Council reflecting on conduct of Commissioner of Crown Lands, &c., for ...
Article : 135 wordsSir—Allow me to call attention to the necessity, in the event of Government aid being withheld from schools in towns, of enabling Corporations to lease or build schools within their jurisdictions, and to pay ...
Article : 180 wordsPresent—All the members[?] except Mr. McCord. John West's tender accepted for the repairs of the waterhole leading to the Virginia bridge, at 2l per rod. The inspector to write to Haws, the contractor, to complete his contract. ...
Article : 55 wordsSir—The question of immigration is again occupying the attention of candidates for legislative honors, forcibly remembering one of the table of the Shepherd Boy and the Wolf. It must be quite visible ...
Article : 502 wordsNo members present. Adjourned to May 20. ...
Article : 12 wordsPresent—All the members, except Mr. Ifould. Agreement made with Mr. Stone to exchange roads. Mr. Warren to make necessary surveys. Letter from Mr. Richardson stated that, to best of judgment, opened road to South Para ...
Article : 75 wordsPresent—All the members.Tenders accepted: Munday's, forming Adam-street, 8s. per chain; Coombes's, forming road in Brompton, 9s. 3d. per chain; Whittock's, stoning Sandhill-road, 1[?]s. 6d. per chain; Keady's, raising ...
Article : 109 wordsSir—I was very glad to see the announcement you made the other day respecting Mr. Rounsevell's new conveyances. I have been much amused with his advertisement of the Royal Mail Coaches being the ...
Article : 198 wordsPresent—Messrs. H. Dawson (Chairman), John Kowald, Samuel N. Allnutt, Joseph Thycr, and Richard Gillard. Letters from Para Wirra and Teatree Gully Councils relative to cutting at Breakneck Hill. Mr. Thyer reported ...
Article : 129 wordsPresent—Messrs. May (Chairman), Good, Paltridge, and Pearce. Clerk to write to Commissioner of Crown Lands to request if Government intend to make any alteration in boundary of district of Strathalbyn, that they will not ...
Article : 80 wordsSir—It has long been my intention to bring before the public, and especially before hon. members of Parliament, the following facts. In the first place, Mr. Editor, I refer to the ...
Article : 632 wordsPresent—All the members. Mr. Robinson to get road passing sections 5 and 177 secured from water. Clerk to see that former minute, relative to reserve on banks of rivers Inman and Hindmarsh, be carried out, or lay informations. ...
Article : 159 wordsSir—To establish the geographical position of this colony, and having once established that position, to keep it in all its true bearings and relations before the eyes of the scientific world, has been the aim of ...
Article : 696 wordsPresent—Messrs. J. Smith (Chairman), Wm. Moorhouse, and Ely Butterworth. Chairman reported that he had inspected new road proposed by Mr. E. Jeffery and others, to connect Dairy Flat and Cockatoo Flat roads, and considered ...
Article : 185 wordsPresent—All the Councillors. Received 8l, Paid 12l. Memorial from Gilles Plains for repairs of road from the O. G. to the Torrens; from Tam[?]o[?] Shanter, for repairs of road there; from Talunga Council, urging co-operation in ...
Article : 141 wordsCORRIGENDUM.—In our report of Friday's Parliament, we only gave one division list. We may stato that the first question—that[?]the paper be printed, was nagatived by 16 to 11; the second question,—that ...
Article : 625 wordsSir—We are frequently astonished at the extraordinary achievements of some of the new invented rifles when tested from a "machine rest," this being the only certain method of proving the merits of a ...
Article : 477 wordsSir—In a communication received from Colonel Blyth by the Captain of the company of which I am a member, relative to the positions to be adhered to when firing for the Government prizes, a paragraph ...
Article : 276 wordsTHE NEW CORNWALL MINERAL ASSOCIATION. —The fallowing extract from a letter from Captain Nicholls to the Secretary of the abovo Association was posted up in the Exchange on Saturday last:—"In two ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Mon 13 May 1861, Page 3
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