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  2. PORT ADELAIDE CORPORATION.

    Present—The Mayor, and Councillors Godfrey and Menpes. The Town Clerk reported the balance in bank to be £418 7s. 6d.; also that the Burgess's Roll had been prepared and signed, and ordered to be printed. ...

    Article : 376 words
  3. PROCEEDINGS IN PARLIAMENT

    Petitions were presented as under:—From F. W. Stokes, against the valuation of his run, the Coonatto run, and praying that it may be revalued; from 59 persons in the South-Eastern District, praying that the House would refer ...

    Article : 3,192 words
  4. Trifles of Wit and Humour.

    "My notion of a wife at forty," said Jerrold, "is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties." Home Tooke being asked by George the Third ...

    Article : 1,661 words
  5. SELLING RAILWAYS.

    Sir—Probably there is no measure of greater importance before the country than the proposal to dispose of the railways and tramways. I include tramways, because it would be defective legislation ...

    Article : 588 words
  6. BRIGHTON CORPORATION.

    Present—The Mayor (in the chair), Councillors Chinner and Ottaway. Mr. Hodgkiss attended, and was duly sworn as Councillor, and took his seat. ...

    Article : 130 words
  7. MARINE BOARD.

    Present—The President, and Captains Stevenson and Bickers. Treasury minutes read:— 1. Approving recommendation of the Board for the ...

    Article : 876 words
  8. THE OPEN COLUMN.

    Under this heading—and subject to the usual conditions and regulations—we offer to our readers a medium for the interchange of opinions upon topics of public interest if temperately dismissed, and free from needless personality ...

    Article : 123 words
  9. THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION.

    Sir—In dispassionately perusing the remarks I met with in your paper of the 14th instant, bearing upon the management and interests of the expedition that so lately left our shores for the Northern ...

    Article : 947 words
  10. LAW AND CRIMINAL COURTS.

    Mr. Ingleby and Mr. Boucaut for the plaintiff, and Mr. Bruce for the defendants. This action arose in respect of the carriage and delivery of some wheat. The plaintiff had agreed to Sell to H. Cowie ...

    Article : 642 words
  11. INSOLVENCY COURT.

    Final hearing. Mr. Moulden for insolvent Mr. John Kelsey Sturt, agent for Messrs. Kearne, lent insolvent £150 about two years ago, upon mortgage, but afterwards could not get the deeds that ...

    Article : 124 words
  12. ENOUGH AND NO MORE.

    Sir—In reading the papers, for read them I do, I search every column to find something true;—true to old Ireland, the place of my birth, where more warm-hearted kindness there's not upon earth. Yet ...

    Article : 935 words
  13. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21.

    Final hearing. The Accountant's report was as follows:— "Liabilities. £890 16 8 Assets—Stock-in-trade valued by ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. CORONER'S INQUEST.

    An inquest was held at Ford's Hotel, Port Adelaide, on Thursday morning, before Dr. Woodforde and a respectable jury, on the body of Charles Maxwell, seaman of the brig Rona, who died on the previous day ...

    Article : 1,449 words
  15. LOCAL COURT—ADELAIDE.

    LINES V. GEORGE.—Mr. Bruce for the plaintiff, and Mr. Andrews for the defendant. This was an action for the recovery of the amount of some repairs done to premises let by the plaintiff to the defendant. ...

    Article : 163 words
  16. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19.

    Mr. Fenn moved, pursuant to leave resered, for a rule nisi calling npon the plaintiff to show cause why the nonsuit, entered in this case should not be set aside, and a verdict entered for the plaintiff, or a new trial had between the parties. ...

    Article : 539 words
  17. POLICE COURT—ADELAIDE.

    DRUNKENNESS.—Alexander Carmichael, charged with being drunk in King William-street, was fined 5s. and costs. Daniel Cox and James Cox were charged with riotous conduct calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. ...

    Article : 235 words
  18. POLICE COURT—PORT ADELAIDE.

    Edward Saren, seaman of the Oryx, pleaded not guilty to being absent without leave on Thursday. Captain Gell stated that he brbnght the defendant on shore to see Dr. Gething, who stated that he was suffering ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. LECTURE ON WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES.

    Sir—Seeing the above in a recent number of your paper, I was induced to read it, having been told that the lecturer (Mr. Glyde, M.P.) had served his time as an apprentice to the manufacture of woollen ...

    Article : 517 words
  20. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21.

    Mr. Hatchett applied, on the petition of Carl Frederick Henrich Heydecke, for a decree for the dissolution of his marriage with Sophia Caroline Heydecke, his wife, on the ground of adultery. ...

    Article : 1,267 words
  21. DISTRICT COUNCILS.

    Present—Messrs Martin, Dawe, and Middlebrook. Mr. Krichauff wrote requesting co-operation of Wiilunga Council to procure a cross country road, connecting nearly all main lines of the colony about equidistant from Adelaide to the ...

    Article : 143 words
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