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EIGHT HOURS QUESTION.
Sir—As representatives of the building operatives collectively, we wish to make a few remarks on the above question, and in doing so we will offer no comment on the insulting epistle of ...
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PORT WALLAROO.
The weather on Friday last gave every promise of a favourable day for the projected feter on board the Liberator, and as the hour approached a tolerably large company of invited guests began ...
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WOODSIDE.
The 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 ...
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To G. S. Walters, Esq., Agent-General for South Australia.
Dear Sir—In answer to your favour of the 16th. containing a letter from Mr. Passmore, respecting the proposed telegraph from India to Australia, &c., I quite agree with his recommendation of a land ...
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THE JUDGE OF THE INSOLVENT COURT AND MR. PARKER.
The following correspondence, which has not before been published in this colony, appears in the Melbourne Herald of the 12th inst:- (No. 1.) ...
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KOORINGA.
Winter appears to have come at last. All day on Sunday it was cold and wet, and during the night there was a good deal of rain. On the following morning there was a thick, hazy sort of drizzle, ...
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CENTRAL ROAD BOARD APPROPRIATION.
Sir—The question of a more equitable apportionment of the funds placed at the disposal of the Central Road Board has been before the Board for several meetings past. On the first occasion, when ...
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GAWLER.
Yesterday being the day set apart in South Australia for the celebration of the marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, efforts were made to do some honour to the occasion in Gawler, ...
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MINTARO.
Since writing my last we have had some splendid showers, much to the gratification of our farmers, who are now extremely busy in putting in their crops. ...
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MOUNT GAMBIER.
BODY FOUND.—On Sunday week the body of a man was found on Heathfield Run in a state of great decomposition. It appeared to be that of a man of about 30 years of age, with fair hair, and ...
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WALLAROO.
On Friday evening, at Moyle's Exchange Hotel, there was a meeting held by the storekeepers of Kadina, for the purpose of considering the drainage question. Several of the other residents were ...
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BUSH FIRES.
Sir—I have before addressed you respecting the bush fire which occurred in February last on the Mount Benson Run supposed to be malicious, and as several fences in this district have been set ...
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NAIRNE.
A public meeting of the ratepayers of this district was held at the Millers' Arms Inn, Nairne, on Friday evening, May 15, to discuss the proposed alteration in the distribution of the funds of the ...
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETING.
Sir—I have no desire to occupy unnecessarily your columns, or to prolong a discussion which will only engender petulance instead of argumeut. I will therefore only trouble you with ...
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HAWKERS AND THEIR MEDICAL COMFORIS.
Sir—Being in the habit of travelling in the North I should like to know throught the columns of your widely-circulated paper what quantity of spirits a hawker would he allowed to carry for his ...
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PORT ADELAIDE WATER SUPPLY.
Sir—The water question here is now drawing attention, and as you have expressed strongly your views in reference to it, will you be good enough to reply in plain terms, for the information of the ...
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THE LOSS OF LIFE AT THE ILLUMINATIONS IN LONDON.
Sir—I am directed by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor particularly to request the favour of your inserting the enclosed copy of a communication this day received from Lieutenant-General Knollys, ...
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HARROWGATE.
This picturesque little township, laid out a few years ago by the Hon. John Baker, is situated on the sources of the Bremer, and formerly known as Hutchinson's sheep station. It is ...
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PENOLA.
The Penola correspondent of the Border Watch thus writes on May 13:- "The Penola Institute may now be considered fairly on its legs, and I sincerely hope it may ...
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FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
Sir—Isce by your paper that the Attorney-General has obtained leave tointroduce the second edition of the Friendly and Building Societies Acts. So thoroughly unsuitable was the first effort of Mr. ...
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STOCKPORT.
There need be no further fears entertained as to the insufficiency of rain. Most of our farmers had begun to complain that the land was too hard to plough; but these difficulties no longer remain, ...
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JAPAN.
We predicted that the murder of Mr. Richardson in Japan would not be passed over in silence by the English Government as many previous outrages and insults had been. We thought it would ...
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AD VALOREM DUTIES.
Sir—Some of the chief objections to the reimposition of ad valorem duties which I have encountered lately are, that they are antiquated, are opposed to free-trade principles, and against ...
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ABORIGINES' FRIENDS' ASSOCIATION.
Sir—Permit me to correct an error into which your Kooringa correspondent has inadvertently fallen in reporting the remarks which fell from me at the meeting on Monday evening respecting the ...
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MOUNT PLEASANT.
The most important and interesting news which I have to report from this district is that we have at length been favoured by an abundant and continuous fall of rain, which commenced about ...
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MARBLE.
Sir—I am glad that you have a correspondent who appreciates my recommendation to build for posterity in marble instead of plaster. I did not speak of it before, but I had a view towards a large ...
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CURRENCY CREEK.
The adjourned public meeting of the Farmers' Association was held at the Middleton Hotel, on the evening of Saturday, 9th instant—Mr.Foster in the chair—for the purpose of receiving and ...
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RIVERTON.
On Sunday night last we had a good soaking rain, which, continued all night, and, with a few intermissions, during the whole of Monday. A great deal of rain fell, but it came down so ...
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THE ATTORNEY-GENERALSHIP.
Sir—Your report of the proceedings in Parliament will not bear you out in saying that quoted Macaulay in favour of the AttorneyGeneral having a seat in the Legislature. I was ...
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PORT ELLIOT.
The Revising Officer (Mr. J. Hindmarsh) and Mr. B. F. Laurie, S.M., held the half-yearly Court of Revision here on Saturday last, when the following additions were made to the electoral rolls: ...
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THE WASTE LANDS.
Sir—With your kind permission I wish to call the attention of our legislators to the present depressed condition of the agricultural interest, which at the present time is passing through a ...
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KAPUNDA.
On the 7th inst. a little girl named Mary Barker, aged five years and a half, was sent by her parents to a neighbour's house. They resided at Tothill's Creek, near the ranges. The child did not return, ...
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DOMESTIC DANGERS.
Sir—Your much-to-be-pitied correspondent "Mintaro," in relating the melaucholy and deplorable accidents which he and others have met with in drawing water from a well, seems really to have ...
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BLACK SPRINGS.
I am happy to state that the rain so long desired and greatly needed by agriculturists and others in this locality has fallen very copiously within the last few days, so that the farmers will be able to ...
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