This tract of country, which embraces soils of many descriptions, from a blowing sand to a stiff black clay, is chiefly an alluvial deposit. The upper stratum is in many places of great depth, ...
Article : 2,012 wordsA meeting was held at Crace's Hotel on Wednesday, March 12, to consider the railway charges on agricultural produce. Mr. White was voted into the chair. About 100 persons assembled some ...
Article : 1,291 wordsThe anniversary of the All Saints' Church Sunday-school was held on Thursday, March 6, when the teachers and scholars assembled to the number of about 100, and passed in procession ...
Article : 1,406 wordsA general meeting of the subscribers to the Educational Association was held on Friday evening, March 7. at. the Court-House, Port Adelaide. Sir. A. W. Gliddon, J.P., was voted to the chair, and ...
Article : 728 wordsPresent—Messrs. Mildred, M.P. (in the chair), Hawkes, S.M., Beddome, S.M., and Moore (Colonial Surgeon). The Believing Officer reported that he had issued ...
Article : 592 wordsThe anniversary of the Loyal Highercombe Lodge was celebrated on Wednesday, March 12. At about 3 o'clock a procession was formed at Mr. Haines's, Teatree Gully Hotel, which, headed by ...
Article : 3,803 wordsOn "Wednesday evening last the inaugural dinner of the South Australian Debating Club look place at the Masonic Hall, White's Room. The number of gentlemen present was about 40. Neither ...
Article : 1,990 wordsA correspondent says:— "The residents of Port Adelaide, feeling the necessity there existed for a superior class of education, have made a more towards the attainment of the desideratum. A ...
Article : 360 wordsJohn Scaver, the murderer of Inspector Pettinger. suffered the extreme penalty of the law on Tuesday morning, March 11, within the walls of the Adelaide Gaol, in pursuance of the sentence ...
Article : 1,349 wordsAn inquest was held on Saturday last at Bentley, Gawler Hills, before Mr. R. J. Turner, S.M., on the body of Emma Samuels, a coloured woman, a native of St. Helena, supposed to be about 48 ...
Article : 1,028 wordsA public meeting, convened by advertisement, was held on Tuesday evening, at the Lefevre's Hotel, Lefevre's Peninsula, for the purpose of considering the adoption of means for the erection of a public ...
Article : 1,685 wordsJudges—Messrs. J. Brooks, Natt, T. Collins, and Johns. Quite an unusual episode occurred on Thursday, March 13, in the scattered township of Mount ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 15 Mar 1862, Page 4
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