Mr. Joshua Marshman, of this place, fell from a haystack yesterday and broke his thigh and wrist. As we have no local doctor a medical man had to be brought from ...
Article : 35 wordsA very successful meeting was held last evening in the Town Hall, Mount Gambier, on behalf of the Bishop of Adelaide's Home Mission Society. The Mayor presided, and ...
Article : 79 wordsA large and influential meeting was held here to-day to consider the condition of the ma[?] road through the bills in the direction of Blanchetown. Mr. T. Scott, J.P., ...
Article : 130 wordsOn Sunday a harvest thanksgiving service was held in St. Ann's Church, which was prettily decorated with field and garden products. The service was conducted by the ...
Article : 42 wordsAfter a very hot week a beautiful cool change has set in this evening from the southward. Bush fires have been raging all round for the last four or five days. The Discovery ...
Article : 296 wordsWhile Mr. A. A. Stephens, teacher at the Springbank School, was riding home in company with several other young men on Saturday night his horse stumbled and fell. ...
Article : 101 wordsAnniversary services in connection with the Wesleyan Chapel were preached here on Sunday last by Mr. F. W. Holder, of the Burra, to good congregations. Yesterday ...
Article : 62 wordsA smart thunderstorm passed over our town this afternoon. The rain came down grandly for about half an hour, when the gauge registered 0 390. The water was soon ...
Article : 230 wordsCLARE, February 8.—Works ordered—Top-metalling near Hill River Head Station, metalling and culvert near Slab Hut Creek, spoondrain east side of Wallis's Hill, spoon ...
Article : 2,583 wordsFor the last week the weather has been uncomfortably warm, yesterday being disagreeably hot, but towards evening the wind changed, and the night was pleasantly cool. ...
Article : 434 wordsDuring the thunderstorm which passed over here on Wednesday last a farmer, Mr. G. T. W. Freeman, caught 120,000 gallons of water in his dam and tanks—a supply that ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Athelstone and Montacute Wesleyan Sunday-schools went to the Semaphore for their annual treat on Wednesday, February [?]. Various games and sports were indulged ...
Article : 59 wordsWe have had very hot weather lately. The large fire which is burning at Bublacowie has made it worse. The fire is approaching this district, and if the weather does not soon ...
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Advertising : 489 wordsSatisfaction is expressed here that at last the unsold lands in this district are to be offered for lease in blocks suitable for pastoral purposes; but the general opinion is ...
Article : 82 wordsThe weather daring the past week has been extremely hot, almost allowing the stripper to finish its work. The farmers are now busily engaged threshing their grain, ...
Article : 57 wordsOn Tuesday evening, February 1, a successful entertainment of the Christy Minstrel order was given here by a number of local gentlemen, styling themselves the Western ...
Article : 61 wordsWe have experienced a week of very hot weather. It, I believe, has delayed the farmers in a great many cases from proceeding but slowly with their barley threshing, ...
Article : 78 wordsOn Thursday evening, February 10, Canon Poole, of St. John's Church, Adelaide, delivered an interesting lecture entitled "Ballads," in the Oddfellows' Hall, in aid of ...
Article : 99 wordsAfter a long spell of hot weather—five days being over 100 in the shade—a nice cool change took place on Sunday evening, and it is quite cold to-day. Numerous bush ...
Article : 60 wordsLast Sunday forenoon a fire broke out on the premises of Mrs. Cox, in the vicinity of Messrs. Hill & Co.'s stables. There were several large haystacks in the immediate ...
Article : 276 wordsThe extreme heat of the past week has given plane to a cool change, a south-westerly wind mowing to-day with wintry appearances. ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 19 Feb 1887, Page 16
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