The new South Australian loan has proved a partial failure. Of the total amount £125,200 was subscribed for at an average price of 95¼ ; the balance of ...
Article : 502 wordsThings generally are assuming an active appearance, consequent upon the anticipated progress which our connecting line of railway will cause.—An allotment here lately changed hands ...
Article : 152 wordsThe half-yearly services in aid of the trust funds of the Minlaton Baptist Church were held on Sunday and Tuesday, August 4 and 6. On Sunday sermons were preached by the Rev. J. ...
Article : 109 wordsA public meeting was held at the Iklee Iklee Hotel on Saturday evening, August 3, to consider the advisability of petitioning the Local Board of Main Roads, North District, to ...
Article : 177 wordsThe weather is all that can be desired, and the fanners hope to reap a bountiful harvest. The late sown crops look spendid.—The roads are very bad and badly want putting in repair. ...
Article : 201 wordsSince my last we have bad an abundance of rain, which has made the roads almost impassable. The road through the Nine-mile Scrub is in a disgraceful state. Last week a heavy ...
Article : 104 wordsThe prospects in this locality have improved a great deal since my last. The weather for the past fortnight has been very changeable. It has some times been extremely cold, but the ...
Article : 178 wordsDr. Jno. Dunmore Lang has died, aged 79. He was one of the oldest and most respected colonists. Sydney, August 9. ...
Article : 124 wordsI have nothing fresh to chronicle this week. Our little port is as usual pretty lively. The bulk of the season's wheat is away, so the craft are loading back with wood to Port Adelaide. ...
Article : 73 wordsSince I last wrote to you we have bad plenty of rain in a succession of showers, so that the ground has absorbed nearly all. With all the rain, however, the creek has been very little ...
Article : 92 wordsThe sad news of the sudden death of Mr. F. B. Carlin was received in Port Lincoln with the most sincere regret. The deceased gentleman had during the last 10 years taken an active ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 965 wordsDr. Lang will be buried on Saturday. The Government intend to close the public departments on the occasion as a mark of respect to the deceased for his long and ...
Article : 588 wordsWe have had our share of the late rains, but as the nights have been very cold the late sown wheat is rather backward.—A township has at last been surveyed in the Hundred, and a ...
Article : 173 wordsEarl Beaconsfield Has sent the following telegram to the Mayor of Brisbane:— "Have forwarded your telegram to the Queen. Pray express my warmest thanks ...
Article : 37 wordsThe late rains, followed by fine weather, have been the means of causing vegetation to grow rapidly. There is now plenty of feed for stock, and the crops are coming on quickly.—During ...
Article : 564 wordsThe Yunga arrived from Noumea last night. The insurrectionists are making a stand. They are surrounded by a body of troops, armed colonists, and natives ...
Article : 76 wordsThe funeral of Mr. Robert Canavan took place to-day. The body was removed to the Roman Catholic Chapel at 10 a.m., and was followed by a procession of about 250 persons. ...
Article : 140 wordsThe Mary Webster, Captain Arthur, arrived yesterday from Browse Island, which she left on July 28. Mr. Lewis and another person are passengers by her. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe weather has been splendid as yet, and every thing is looking remarkably weel. The wheat in one paddock on the plains is already out in ear. The dams and tanks ...
Article : 109 wordsA cash box, containing about £100 in cheques, notes, and silver was stolen this morning from Mr. G. Williams, of the Orroroo Hotel. Trooper McBeth very ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Koolunga Bridge, although not quite finished, has been opened by Mrs. John Little who was presented with a silver cup as a memento of the occasion. Athletic sports were ...
Article : 168 wordsA successful ploughing match and show of entires in connection with the Balaklava and Dalkey Agricultural Society was held to-day. About 400 persons were present. ...
Article : 117 wordsSir Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has made his financial statement, announcing a deficit of £4,250,000. The House of Commons has agreed to a ...
Article : 81 wordsThe weather of late has been delightful, and the crops are looking pretty well in consequence. Water is plentiful.—We were in hopes that after our deputation had waited on the Government ...
Article : 392 wordsA train of 21 trucks containing sheep passed our station southward to-day.—On Monday, July 29, Mr. W. H. Harry, master of the Saddleworth public school, was presented with a gold ...
Article : 59 wordsJohn Ware, jun., butcher, was killed by the capsizing of his cart this afternoon. The installation of the officers of the John Watson Lodge, No. 4, I.O.G.T., took place ...
Article : 272 wordsThe Assembly last night read the Customs Duties Bill a second time, disposed of the redgum duty question, and postponed the wattle bark question after a ...
Article : 425 wordsSince my last we have had very changeable weather—some days warm and others cold, and towards night rain, with high winds, accompanied by thunder and lightning.— Considering the ...
Article : 92 wordsThe s.s. Aconcagua sails on Monday. The seventh meeting has been held of the St. Hubert's Vineyard Company. The profits have been small, but the prospects ...
Article : 302 wordsWe have had splendid rains for some time past with fine warm days between. The crops are looking splendid everywhere and grass is in abundance. The farmers are in high spirits ...
Article : 81 wordsA well-attended meeting was held at Drought's Hotel on Tuesday, uly 30, to take into consideration the necessity of having a imber reserve, as the scarcity of timber for fencing and ...
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South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), Sat 10 Aug 1878, Page 21
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