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THE REAPING-MACHINE CONTEST FOR THE £4,000 BONUS.
In an age [?] for the labour saving inventions, and in a colony which has given to the world some of [?] wheat and has produced the Ridley [?]—a machine [?] ...
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Correspondence.
Sir—I think there are a great many in this colony who will rejoice equally with myself that at last there is an attempt to be made to encourage enquiry into and to record data ...
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FARMERS' ASSOCIATION.
A preliminary meet ing for the purpose of considering the desirability of forming a branch in Adelaide of the Farmers' Mutual. Association was held at Penn ...
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BIGGS V. McELLISTER.
Sir—Your leader of 10th instant puts the conduct of Mr L. M. Cullen in an unfavourable, and I think, on reading the letter I now ask you to insert, yon will admit in an unfair light. I ...
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NEW WHEAT.
Mr. W. Crawford, jun., of the Exchange Hotel, has sent us a small sheaf of wheat which he received from the old World's End Station, east of the Burra ...
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RAILWAY CROSSINGS.
Sir—Now that several lines of railway have been started, or are about to be started, I should like to draw attention to what appears to me to be a great mistake. I refer to the manner in ...
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BURTON V. HENRY.
Sir—Allow me through your medium to correct the statements yon have made in your issue of this morning in the case of Burton v. Ivan Henry, which are not only untrue but ...
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MEDICAL ATTENDANCE AT KANGAROO ISLAND.
Sir—It appears strange to me and many more that a doctor should come on a flying visit to Kangaroo Island without any one knowing he is coming. He stopped a few days at Hog Bay, ...
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RED RUST IN QUEENSLAND.
Sir—I beg herewith to enclose yon a letter which I received yesterday from Queensland. The writer of it has been engaged making experiments with carbolic acid, said to be a specific ...
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MOLD'S ENNOLBING WHEAT.
On the arrival of the English creeping wheat, grown by Mr. W. H. Mold at Ashford, Kent, and known as ennobled wheat, which was sent out to the colony from the ...
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HANOORNE V. GAWEN.
Sir—I would ask you to allow me to call the attention of storekeepers more particularly to the decision of the Judges in this late appeal. The information was laid in the first instance ...
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A SANATORIUM FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
Sir—Believing that your columns are ever open for the ventilation of such matters as you deem calculated to promote the well-being and convenience of the public, I have ventured to ...
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OVERGROUND BUSH CLAY TANKS FOR WATERING SHEEP FROM WELLS.
Sir—It is well known that to water a large number of sheep in paddocks successfully from wells large overground tanks and troughs must he erected, in order that they may come at any ...
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CHRISTMAS FARE AT PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Sir—Last year you gave your kind encouragement and support to an effort I made to provide comforts for the sick in the Hospital at Christmas. The appeal proved so successful ...
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TAXATION.
Sir—Now that Parliament is in recess I don't think a few thoughts on the present and future state of the colony would be out of place. The first thought I have in my mind is that the ...
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MAIN-ROAD CONSTRUCTION MONEY.
Sir—I presume the Executive have the power to apportion to each district from the £200,000 voted for construction and maintenance of main roads such sums of money as they think proper, ...
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BISHOP MOORHOUSE ON IRRIGATION.
His Lordship the Bishop of Melbourne delivered a most interesting address in the Temperance Hall last night on the subject of "Irrigation;" His Worship the Mayor in the ...
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WATER-BORING APPARATUS.
We learn that Captain Matthews, who was sent by the Government to America some time ago to obtain the boring apparatus necessary for sinking to great depths in search of water, has ...
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FIRMS AND FIREARMS.
Sir—As the holidays are approaching special attention is necessary to the "Bush Fires Prevention Act." There will be numbers of private and public picnics in the neighbouring ...
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RIVOLI BAY RAILWAY COMMITTEE.
Sir—Nine years ago, in consequence of my report to Premier Hart (Parliamentary Paper No. 111' of 1870), Commissioner. Carr was obliged to admit in Parliament that"If in future" ...
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