The Gawler Holiday Pic-nic has been a decided hit a complete success--and well deserves to be imitated in other parts of the colony. It came off on Tuesday, 8th March, on Captain Lawson's grounds, at Cockatoo Valley, about six ...
Article : 1,419 wordsREVERSE OF FORTUNE.—Robert Risdale, of the Turf, who died recently at Newmarket, won £46,000 hy one race in 1832, and at one time had nearly 200 horses feeding on his estate of Murton, near York; ...
Article : 1,794 wordsMr. Justice Boothby sat to arrange the list of causes to be tried at the approaching Civil Sittings, which will commence on Monday next, the 14th March instant. The following is the order in which they will be heard:— ...
Article : 406 wordsFlour, £17 15s. to £18 10s. Wheat, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 6d. The sale of the late Mr. Cruikshank's stock is proceeding satisfactorily. ...
Article : 45 wordsPresent—All the members, with the exception of the Chairman, in whose absence Mr. William Barrow took the chair. Clerk reported Mr. Joyner's work in defining roads had ...
Article : 98 wordsThere have been for some years established in London and elsewhere, certain offices and associations called "Trade Protection Societies," the objects of which are to collect information ...
Article : 744 wordsA public meeting of the ratepayers was held according to notice, on the 7th instant, for the purpose of appointing a Committee to divide the district into wards. Mr. Greenshields, having been called to the chair, stated the object of ...
Article : 156 wordsThe following was yesterday posted outside the Telegraph Office:— MELBOURNE SHIPPING. March 9. ...
Article : 43 wordsLouis Cust, a German lad, about 12 years old, pleaded guilty to the charge of having on Monday, the 24th February last, entered the garden of Mr. Lucking, of St. Bernard's and stealing therefrom a quantity of fruit of the value of ...
Article : 173 wordsNo quorum. SATURDAY, MARCH 5. Present—The Chairman (W. Clark), James Bidgway, and The following publicans received certificates authorising ...
Article : 358 wordsSir—My disgust on reading in the Melbourne Argus the proceedings of Mr. Bakewell, is only equalled by my asto[?]hment on reading in your columns to-day Mr. Bakewell's own letter. ...
Article : 240 wordsDRUNKENNESS.—M. Moore and J. Cornon were fined 5s. each for this offence. ASSAULT.—W. Williams appeared to answer a charge preferred against him by Francis Hancock, landlord of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 wordsPresent—Messrs. Garlick (Chairman), Buttfield, Peters-wold, and Hogarth. Mr. Joseph Bartle and neighbors offered to subscribe 5l. towards repairs of road through Sections 1729 and 5617. ...
Article : 90 wordsSir—The subject of connecting England and Australia by telegraphic wires, is attracting the serious attention of the New South Wales Legislature; there is no dispute about the immense advantages of such ...
Article : 407 wordsPresent—Messrs. Gilks (Chairman), Easton, and Secomb. Received, circular from the Bush Fire Relief Committee Clerk requested to collect contributions. Received, petition from inhabitants of the Light, ...
Article : 86 wordsBARTLETT V. PEATE.—Mr. Ingleby appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Morgan, for Mr. Lawrence, for the defendant This was an action to recover 3l. for the carriage of goods to the Government Farm. The defendant pleaded that ...
Article : 527 wordsThe intellectual qualifications of the colonial clergy are again made the subject of controversy in our columns, and all parties seem to admit that the standard is lower here than in the ...
Article : 1,031 wordsRAPIDITY OF MODERN IMPROVEMENTS.—The great drainage crusade is but 20 years old; 10 years have made guano and superphosphate universal, and employed at a cost of several millions a year; steam ...
Article : 915 wordsI am happy to call the attention of your readers to the fact that at last we have got steam communication between Port Adelaide and Yankalilla, an interesting account of which has appeared in your paper. It has ...
Article : 575 wordsDISTURBING THE PEACE.—John Walsal, apparently a native of India, who was brought up on this charge, appeared from the evidence of the police to have conducted himself in a most disorderly manner, and to have made use of most ...
Article : 106 wordsSir—I was not aware till yesterday (owing to my absence from town) of the existence in your paper of a short paragraph and extract from a London paper, headed in the above manner, or I should have taken ...
Article : 282 wordsREYNOLDS V. MURRAY.—Action for 14l. 19s, balance of account for building cottage. Defendant admitted being indebted in the amount of 7l., but disputed the balance. To stand over by consent. ...
Article : 1,422 wordsPresent—Messrs. Lauterbach, Pugh, Priess, and Lorimer. One month's rations by Destitute Board to Mrs. Diemel and Mrs. Boon respectively. Letter from the Public Works office, stating that 8l. in aid ...
Article : 327 wordsDISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—A correspondent at Encounter Bay furnishes us with the following particulars of a very distressing event, which we now relate in the words of our correspondent. He says—On ...
Article : 433 wordsPresent—All the members. Mr. F. Boys was appointed to distribute the electoral papers. Mr. T. Jones having applied for the office of Clerk to the ...
Article : 120 wordsA meeting of ratepayers was held, in pursuance of advertisement, on the 7th instant, to determine the number of cattle to he depastured on the waste lands of the Crown within the limits of the district. Mr. W. ...
Article : 145 wordsPresent—All the members. The Clerk reported that he had made a tour of the district for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of damage done by the late fires. Several persons had suffered, but there ...
Article : 221 wordsADVENTURE WITH A BEAR.—A Quebec (French) paper mentions an extraordinary adventure with a bear. A man fired at the bear but did not materially injure him, when the bear gaye chase, and the man, not having time ...
Article : 214 wordsCORRECT INFORMATION NOT ALWAYS A REPLY.—A stutterer was asked the way to Waterbury. With great politeness he strove to say it was ahead, but in vain; the more he tried the more he couldn't. At last, red in the ...
Article : 131 wordsPresent—Mr. Randall (Chairman), Messrs. Williss, Christie, and Sclanders. The following tenders were received for side-cutting on the road through Section 1540:—J. Pells, 10 chains, 30l.; A. ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Thu 10 Mar 1859, Page 3
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