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  2. THE GAWLER INSTITUTE RURAL FETE.

    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 words
  3. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

    REVERSE 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 words
  4. SUPREME COURT.

    Mr. 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 words
  5. VTCTORIA.

    Flour, £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 words
  6. TUNGKILLO.

    Present—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 words
  7. TRADE PROTECTION CIRCULARS.

    There 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 words
  8. MYPONGA.

    A 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 words
  9. PUBLIC TELEGRAM.

    The following was yesterday posted outside the Telegraph Office:— MELBOURNE SHIPPING. March 9. ...

    Article : 43 words
  10. LOCAL COURT—MAGILL.

    Louis 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 words
  11. ANGASTON.

    No quorum. SATURDAY, MARCH 5. Present—The Chairman (W. Clark), James Bidgway, and The following publicans received certificates authorising ...

    Article : 358 words
  12. THE BUSH FIRES.

    Sir—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 words
  13. POLICE COURT—ADELAIDE.

    DRUNKENNESS.—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 ...

    Article : 1,028 words
  14. INSOLVENCY COURT.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 78 words
  15. MUNNO PARA EAST.

    Present—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 words
  16. A POINT FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA TO CONSIDER.

    Sir—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 words
  17. PORT GAWLER.

    Present—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 words
  18. LOCAL COURT—ADELAIDE.

    BARTLETT 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 words
  19. THE MODERN PULPIT.

    The 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 words
  20. FACTS ABOUT FARMING.

    RAPIDITY 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 words
  21. YANKALILLA.

    I 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 words
  22. POLICE COURT—PORT ADELAIDE.

    DISTURBING 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 words
  23. "HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR IS DUE."

    Sir—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 words
  24. LOCAL COURT—PORT ADELAIDE.

    REYNOLDS 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 words
  25. ONKAPARINGA.

    Present—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 words
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    DISTRESSING 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 words
  27. ALDINGA.

    Present—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 words
  28. TUNGKILLO.

    A 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 words
  29. ECHUNGA.

    Present—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 words
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    ADVENTURE 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 words
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    CORRECT 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 words
  32. RAPLD BAY

    Present—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. ...

    Article : 139 words
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