Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa, with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 26 wordsGeneral Cameron is about to leave town for a tour of military inspection in the South. Owing to confidential communications received by the Governor two commissioners are ...
Article : 76 wordsDISORDERLIES[?]—Alexander Hepbu[?]a, seaman, was charged with being drunk and disorderly; and Mary Coombes with the same offence, and behaving in an indecent manner in the public streets, at 3 o'clock on Friday afternoon. They were ...
Article : 53 wordsSir—As there are many persons both in Parliament and out of it who cannot see the need of a change in the Government scheme of education, I will, with your permission, point out some of its ...
Article : 375 wordsPresent—Messrs. James Sim (Chairman), Rayner, Korff, and Cordes. Memorialists for road through section 529, in Lyndoch Valley, to pay 17l. towards expense. Clerto to reply to Mr. Kenneday about road. Mr. W. H. Bussell's tender[?] ...
Article : 105 wordsA new Ministry has been formed by Fox, including Featherstone, Wood, Martin, Williamson, and Henderson. ...
Article : 20 wordsLondon has been thrown into a perfect furor of excitement by the appearance of a very young and talented artiste, Mademoisello Adelina Patti, at the Royal Italian Opera. She is only 18 years of age, ...
Article : 1,250 wordsSpecial meeting. Present—Messrs. Ninnis (Chairman), Ashby, Moyses, and Hannaford. Office to be rented from Mr. W. Moyses at 5l. per annum. Seven constables appointed. Clare pound to be removed to a drier and cleaner ...
Article : 200 wordsPresent—Messrs. Dixon, Arthur Hardy, Davies, and Milford. Mr. Davies re-elected Chairman. Clerk reappointed. Letter from Mr. Hardy enclosing account, 2s. 2d., rent of land at Guppy's bridge; passed. Mr. Hardy ...
Article : 88 wordsPresent—Messrs. T. H. Be[?]re, J. L. Davies. Thomas Forrest, and B. Pope. Mr. Beare was elected Chairman, and Mr. Pope, Treasure. Application received from Mr. T. Masters relative to opening road through sections 563, 564, ...
Article : 158 wordsSir—Would you allow me space in your valuable journal to draw the attention of the working classes of this colony to the state of things existing in Victoria at the present time, and which, I hope, they ...
Article : 214 wordsPresent—All the members, except Mr. Ransford. Mr. Way's tender for making road near reserve, Second Valley at 1l. 14s. 9d. per rod, accepted. Mr. Joseph Hill applied for repairs to road between Messrs, Chapman's and Coles's; to ...
Article : 80 wordsPresent—Messrs. Henry D[?]wson (Chairman), J. Thyar, C. R. Hoffmann, W. Kelly, and R. Gillard. Letter from Mount Pleasant School Committee requesting assistance in erection of additions; sl. voted. Memorial for construction ...
Article : 164 wordsSir—As many of the citizens are desirous of planting trees in front of their premises, and have frequently consulted me as to the best mode of their care and culture, I beg, through the medium of your ...
Article : 472 wordsPresent—Messrs. Atkinson, Logan, Thomas, and Marshall. Balance in Bank 46l. 9s. 10d. Mr. Sampson Bastian sent his resignation as Poundkeeper, and Mr. W. Vanstone was appointed from August 1. Mr. Bastian also tendered ...
Article : 79 wordsSPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.—In utter ignorance of how the death was caused, man assume that it was caused by spontaneous combustion; and they imagine they bring evidence in proof of this assumption when ...
Article : 1,038 wordsMeeting of ratepayers to elect a Councillor in the room of Mr. Donald Gollan, resigned. Mr. Allen McLean was elected. SATURDAY, JULY 20. ...
Article : 126 wordsPresent—Messrs. R. Budgen (Chairman), J. Wilson, J. Clark, W. Oliver, and T. Pe[?]ler. Chairman stated he had waited on Commissioner of Public Works, and a surveyor would be sent out on a written application to that effect; ...
Article : 139 wordsVICTORIA THEATRE.—The theatre was crowded on Saturday evening, on which occasion Mr. Coppin appeared in the character of Paul Pry in the comedy bearing that title, and also as Jem Bags in the ...
Article : 790 wordsPresent—All the members, except Mr. J. C. Ferguson. The following persons were sworn in as district constables Samuel Coombe and Charles Cross for Brompton; Richard Coombe, Bowden; and the following were appointed ...
Article : 134 wordsThere was an error in the printing of my report of the meeting held here on Tuesday, July 23. I am represented as reporting. Mr. Lewis to this effect:— "Mr. Duffield was in favor of carrying the road along ...
Article : 128 wordsPresent—Messrs. W. Weir (Chairman), Gollop, and Reeds. Trees marked with red paint, on Kangaroo Bottom-road, reserved for use of Council. Mr. George Martin, of Hope Valley, allowed to take all unmarked trees in centre of above ...
Article : 93 wordsHaving had recently much rain in this neighbourhood, in common with other parts of the colony, the occasional sunshine with which we have bean favored during the last four or five days has tended both to ...
Article : 464 wordsPresent[?]Messrs. Ward[?]e, Price, Sunman, and Allen. Mr. R. Sunman was elected chairman. List of persons liable as constables was placed on the table and confirmed. Selection deferred. Clerk reported no tenders received for work near ...
Article : 240 wordsORDERS OF THE DAY— 1. Real Estate Descent Bill: in Committee. 2. Australian Trust Company's Bill: second reading. 3. Draft Standing Orders: in Committee. ...
Article : 1,284 wordsSir—Having for many years, as a mariner, been acquainted with the disorderly and unenviable condition of sailors' boarding-houses in Port Adelaide, and knowing the allurements and dangers to which seamen ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Mon 29 Jul 1861, Page 3
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