The Waukaringa Branch of the A.M.A. held their first anniversary on Saturday, August 30. Captains Hosking and Patterson, of the New Alma and Alma Extended Mines, granted a general ...
Article : 171 wordsA ploughing match was held to-day, the attendance being fair. There was very poor competition in all classes except the champion. Some of the work was excellent. First ...
Article : 813 wordsServices in connection with the Bible Christian Home Missionary Society were conducted here on Sunday by the Revs. G. Paynter and J. Thorne. The annual meeting was held on Tuesday. ...
Article : 35 wordsThe Conservator of Water was here last week making the necessary enquiries as to a suitable site, &c., for providing a reservoir for this place. He met many of the residents, and laid before them ...
Article : 169 wordsMonday was observed as a holiday in this neighbourhood, and the weather being fine induced a considerable number of persons to visit our township, the source of attraction being the annual ...
Article : 307 wordsLambing has been very fair; I have heard of over 90 per cent, being recorded. The District Council seems to be in a muddle still, with no end of elections. It is hard to, say ...
Article : 47 wordsThe roads are quite impassable for anything but light traffic, some of the made roads being cut through in places to a depth of nearly three feet. A petition to the District Council is being ...
Article : 102 wordsWe have had an epidemic of diphtheria, and death has claimed four juvenile victims within a short time. Our cemetery is about to be closed on account of its proximity to the township. ...
Article : 35 wordsA tea and concert were held in the Blackwood Chapel in connection with the Band of Hope there on Monday, September 1. The tea and concert were both very good. The performers were mostly ...
Article : 69 wordsGILBERT, August 16.—Present—All. Overseer instructed to get posts carted from Mr. Harris's and attend to culvert. Overseer to get road south of Mrs. Horner's attended to as soon as weather ...
Article : 3,249 wordsThe Amalgamated Friendly Societies held their annual sports on Monday, September 1. The weather turned out all that could be desired for outdoor sport. The members of the various ...
Article : 66 wordsA public meeting was held in the Town Hall, Clare, on Friday afternoon, August 29, to consider the most profitable method of co-operative dairy-farming. There was not a large attendance, but all ...
Article : 235 wordsOne of the drawbacks to the general use of water gas is the absence of smell by which leakage may be detected. It is proposed by Mr. J. Zewkowitsch to give water gas a smell ...
Article : 283 wordsThe shearers in this district are now all busily employed, and no disturbances have been reported. Wool is coming in rapidly; it is estimated that fully 10,000 bales will be brought into Cockburn for ...
Article : 159 wordsArbor Day was celebrated here yesterday. About sixty children from the local school under the superintendence of the teacher (Mr. Greenlees) visited the Southern Dairy Factory, now nearing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 105 wordsPolitical matters hare received but little attention since the election. The progressive land tax is not a burning question in this district, and we are content to wait a while before pronouncing as to the ...
Article : 253 wordsRecently Mr. Castine, M.P. for the district, visited this part of his constituency and obtained a good deal of information as to the requirements of the port and the people. He expressed his ...
Article : 65 wordsFriday, August 29, saw the inauguration of Arbor Day here. The weather brightened up in the afternoon, but not sufficiently to dry up the ground, which was rather sloppy in places. The ...
Article : 231 wordsJ. P. Dempster.—Machine for pulling up trees, in which the end of the beam is composed Of two iron plates kept apart to allow of the hook being shifted up and down the length. ...
Article : 118 wordsOn Tuesday evening last Mr. C. Cross, of Gawler, delivered his popular lecture "Proverbs" in the Pinery B.C. Church, and on Wednesday evening the same gentleman lectured on "Love, Courtship, and ...
Article : 76 wordsGeneral satisfaction is felt at the fact that the Minister of Education has promised to take steps to have the mall service altered without delay. We confidently look for an alteration in the present ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 6 Sep 1890, Page 16
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