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  2. RAILWAYS FOR AUSTRALIA.

    AGAIN and again have we urged the absurdity, enunciated by some, that young countries should not avail themselves of the improvements and inventions of old countries, until their ...

    Article : 770 words
  3. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1856.

    1. Mr Button to move—"That he will move the further consideration of the Licensed Victuallers' Act Amendment Bill in Committee" ...

    Article : 325 words
  4. DOMESTIC NEWS.

    MADAME CAILLY'S SECOND CONCERT.—Are our fellow-citizens not to be influenced by sweet sounds; are they not to be swayed by the charms of really good music; that there was such a poor attendance at Madame ...

    Article : 971 words
  5. NAIRNE.

    The Clerk reported cash in hand and in the Bank £432 7s 7d. The balance-sheet, duly audited, was laid on the table, and was ordered to be published. ...

    Article : 194 words
  6. FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1856.

    1. Mr BLYTH—"That he will ask leave of the Council to bring in 'A Bill further to amend the Act No. 13 of 1851—For the declaring of Main. Lines of Road in South ...

    Article : 489 words
  7. WILLUNGA.

    Present—Messrs Colville, Oliver, Clift, and Cox. The Clerk reported £424 5s. 6½d., funds in hand, and that he had collected rates to the amount of £349 13s. 3d. ...

    Article : 254 words
  8. LAW AND POLICE COURTS

    The Criminal Sittings of this Court commenced yesterday, with a heavier cause list than has been known tor some considerable time past, there being nearly fifty prisoners for trial. The classification is— ...

    Article : 245 words
  9. THE ESTIMATES COMMITTE.

    Sir—"The weakest goes to the wall." A vary old proverb, and one which the Estimates Committee seem determined to render still more decrepit. As type of that Committee I will take the hon. member for Mount ...

    Article : 311 words
  10. THE CHOLERA IN THE MAURITIUS.

    The Melbourne Herald regrets to learn, from St. Louis papers, to the 12th March, that the cholera had again broken out, with great severity, after the partial cessation of its ravages announced ...

    Article : 462 words
  11. LOCAL COURT—GAWLER TOWN.

    HARRIS v. HIPWELL AND ANOTHER.—An action for £5, cartage from Adelaide to Lyndoch Valley of 35 bags sugar and sundries, to which a set off was made for value of two bags sugar short delivered. The evidence ...

    Article : 535 words
  12. PUBLIC MEETING.

    Mr Editor—I am an old colonist—one of many such whom the Estimates Committee had induced to determine on making final arrangements to leave South Australia, while means for doing so existed. The ...

    Article : 187 words
  13. KENSINGTON, NORWOOD, AND STEPNEY SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE.

    A meeting was held yesterday evening in Mr Barrow's old chapel, Kensington, for the purpose of considering the practicability of establishing a literary and scientific institute in the above locality. The chair ...

    Article : 759 words
  14. SELECT COMMITTEES.

    "To inquire into and report upon the manner in which the Police Force has been conducted, and the disputes which have taken place between the Commissioner, Superintendent, and Inspectors, respectively, ...

    Article : 115 words
  15. "PULL, DEVIL—PULL, BAKER"

    Sir—In the coming contest in the House on the Estimates, faintly shadowed forth in the above old English saying, I hope the Government and the truly liberal members will evince a proper sense of obligation to a ...

    Article : 491 words
  16. DISTRICT COUNCILS.

    Present—Messrs Arthur Blyth (in the chair), Jones, Turner, Hornsby, and White. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. ...

    Article : 773 words
  17. GROSS FAVOURITISM IN THE MILITIA.

    A young man, about twenty-seven years of age, descended from a noble family, after six months' service in the Inverness-shire militia, has been made colonel of that regiment. He ...

    Article : 360 words
  18. Advertising

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    Advertising : 50 words
  19. THE CORPORATION.

    Present—His Worship, the Mayor (in the chair), Aldermen Hall, Richman, and Glandfield. Councillors Lawson, Thomas, Powell, Martin, Witt, Linklater, Hall, Cumming, Cox, Mason, and Hilton. ...

    Article : 1,141 words
  20. THE ESTIMATES COMMITTEE AND THE GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM.

    Sir—Our old friend, Mrs Harris, seemed in a desperate fuss the other day on the above subject, and one of "the most extraordinary" documents of the session—not to call it by the profane title of the ablest document ...

    Article : 972 words
  21. WINE AND SPIRIT LICENSES.

    Sir—Knowing the motives of the promoters of the petition to allow wine merchants to sell any quantity not less than a bottle of wine, spirits, &c., and not to be drank on the premises, I think it is desirable the ...

    Article : 622 words
  22. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

    1. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY—"That he will move the consideration of the Esti mates in Committee of the whole Council," 2. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO MOVE— ...

    Article : 98 words
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