The marriage of the Prince of Wales, the Polish revolution, and the riots in the cotton districts are the.chief features of the months news. Whilst great rejoicings have been ...
Article : 1,829 wordsI am sorry to have to record another sudden death, the result of a sad accident which happened to a young man named Woods. The unfortunate youth was a bullock driver engaged in carting ...
Article : 363 wordsSir—In your report of the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Kanmantoo Mining and Smelting Company, Limited, which took place yesterday, you state that some men are earning ...
Article : 209 wordsOn Saturday last, the 9th inst., as the youngest son of Mr. William Sommerville, of Edgehill, near Riverton, was harrowing, he was kicked by one of the bullocks, which broke his leg a little ...
Article : 110 wordsIt appears from the various reports in the newspapers that less rain has fallen in this neigbourhood than in any other agricultural district, and the want of it is now most severely felt. This ...
Article : 520 wordsSir—Can you inform me when a person has been bound over to keep the peace, and breaks the same within the Riven time, and has been fined two guineas for the offence, how to proceed to estreat ...
Article : 244 wordsWhile I am writing steady showers of rain, which have been much required, are falling, and will prove most acceptable to the farmers. The Gumeracha Institute has just completed ...
Article : 1,771 wordsSir—It has been well said that "Knowledge is power." Nearly every page of the world's history proves this aphorism to be true; but from no branch of knowledge has man, I am inclined to ...
Article : 4,107 wordsThe war in America still "drags its slow length along." The position since our last news reached us is but slightly altered. Perhaps on the whole, as has usually been the ...
Article : 1,606 wordsI am happy to say that a much felt local want has been lately supplied by the Government in placing the name of Mr. Arthur King, of this neighbourhood, on the roll of magistrates for the ...
Article : 117 wordsSir—I perceive that universal dissatisfaction exists among the licensed victuallers of this province with reference to the licence granted to storekeepers to sell liquors. The publicans object ...
Article : 321 wordsOur township has been somewhat dull of late, but was rather enlivened during the week by the arrival of the Directors and Captains of the Spring Creek Copper Mine, which property has recently ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Revising Officer, Mr. Hindmarsh, J. P., held a Court of Revision here to-day, when the additions made to the electoral rolls were for the Legislative Council 40, for the House of Assembly ...
Article : 242 wordsSince my last we have been favoured with occasional showers. Last night a moderate quantity of rain feli, yet not so much as might he desired. On Tuesday night, after a public auction, the ...
Article : 298 wordsSir—Is there any proviso to enable a duly oppointed guardian to resign his trust through his inability to obtain possession, of deeds and other property from defunct trustees of devisce without ...
Article : 56 wordsSir—Some years ago you published a letter from Mr. Babbage, in which he furnished some information relatice to saccharometers; showing how to compare them, and explaining their utility in ...
Article : 304 wordsA meeting of the officers and men of the Port Gawler and Virginia Bide Company was held at the New Wheatsheaf Inn, Virginia, to consider whether the company should be disbanded at ...
Article : 244 wordsThe Wesleyan Chapel in this place has now lost its notoriety for its heavy debt with which it had long been encumbered. Though not a large building, and of comparatively recent erection, it ...
Article : 341 wordsIt is seldom that anything of importance occurs here to relieve the monotony of everyday life, hut the announcement that the new bridge crossing the Para, on the way to Virginia, was ...
Article : 248 wordsSir—At a time when horse-stock is every day becoming more valuable and is fast superseding the old drudgery of bullock-driving for farming and other purposes, it may not be deemed ...
Article : 481 wordsThe Blinman Mining Company are bringing plenty of ore to grass, and require cartage. From what I can hear a considerable quantity of rain has fallen upwards; we have had a few partial showers ...
Article : 289 wordsThere is nothing of a very interesting nature to chronicle from this neighbourhood, sickness, death, and drought forming the chief topics of conversation. ...
Article : 252 wordsThe anniversary of the Wesleyan Sunday-school was held on Sunday last. The Rev. H. T. Burgess preached in the morning and evening to large and attentive congregations. In the ...
Article : 481 wordsOn Monday, the 4th instant, the foundation-stone of a new Wesleyan chapel at Stanley Flat was laid by Mrs. Ussher, the wife of our much-respected Wesleyan minister. A tea and public ...
Article : 363 wordsSir—I shod like to no hu Mr. V. U. F. kals kwax, as he is so kapitle cheekie abowt is nolij. Thar is plenti ov men as nose as mush ov an ors—I taik it, as he doz or enny other pursun from the ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 16 May 1863, Page 1
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