At this Christmas season, when feasting and amusement are the order of the day, and when considerable sums of money are spent in the giving of presents, it will be well if we ...
Article : 3,269 wordsSo far as temperature was concerned Christmas Day left nothing to be desired. The dust and heat and uncertain weather of the few preceding days gare place to a ...
Article : 557 wordsEvery one has a vague idea that there are wonderful antiquities from the ancient cities of Nineveh and Babylon in the British Museum; but comparatively few visitors ...
Article : 2,259 wordsA very successful Catholic picnic was held yesterday in the Government Farm, near Belair Station. Over a thousand people visited the wound, which was a truly ...
Article : 177 wordsThe performance of Handel's "Messiah," which took place at the Town Hall, was a grand success in so far as the attendance was concerned. Long before 8 o'clock not only ...
Article : 884 wordsThe Military Sports and Tourney were held on the Exhibition Grounds, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators. By permission of Commissioner Peterswald ...
Article : 1,202 words"The Grasshopper" was presented at the Theatre Royal on Boxing Night to a good attendance, which contained a largo proportion of the juvenile folk, who all seemed ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Surprise Party presented a holiday programme at the Academy and were well patronised on Wednesday night. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe holidays were marked by the customary crowd of pleasure-seekers thronging every train, and spreading far and away on the beach in pursuit of amusement. There were ...
Article : 62 wordsThere were a large number of visitors at St. Kilda Beach on Christmas Day, where the weather was most propitious for a day upon the sands. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe above took place on the reserve, a short distance from the township. There were sixteen events on the programme, fifteen of which came off. The weather was very ...
Article : 986 wordsThe Cathedral was beautifully decorated for the Christmas season. Holy Communion was celebrated at 8 o'clock, and at the morning service a larger number of communicants ...
Article : 357 wordsThe fourth annual demonstration in connection with the Independent Order of Oddfellows was held on the Kensington Oval on Boxing Day, but the ...
Article : 1,014 wordsThe new Town Hall in Norwood was filled to overflowing in the morning by the young people attending various Sunday-schools in the neighbourhood and their friends. A ...
Article : 182 wordsOn Christmas Day the Town Hall was crowded in every part to its utmost extent, the object being a Christmas service in connection with the South Australian ...
Article : 816 wordsThe local mine, the centre of interest, is at present the scene of great activity. One hundred persons ore obtaining a livelihood directly from it, and 400 are indirectly ...
Article : 199 wordsThe attendance at the Zoo during the whole of the afternoon of Christmas Day was very large, the elephant in its howdah proving an undeniable attraction. A large number of ...
Article : 92 wordsThe public school here has been examined lately with most satisfactory results. For order and discipline 80 per cent, was obtained; for general efficiency 77 per cent. ...
Article : 166 wordsThe traffic returns on the Glenelg Railway lines on Christmas Day was 10,000, and on the Port line 8,972. The returns for the two days on the Adelaide and Suburban ...
Article : 44 wordsWhile this colony is not so prolific in holidays as some of its neighbours, it must be admitted that there is no dearth of opportunities for the cultivation of pleasure. ...
Article : 558 wordsThough a considerate quality of wheat has come in no very large parcels have arrived as yet, fanners being busy reaping. There is great demand for agricultural ...
Article : 37 wordsOn Friday afternoon a gale set in from the north-west, which increased in violence during the night, and raged nearly the whole of Saturday, with its usual concomitant, dust. ...
Article : 124 wordsThere was just what might be called a comfortable crowd at Largs Bay on Boxing Day, attracted thither by the fine spacious jetty, the bracing sea breeze which blew all ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 27 Dec 1883, Page 6
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