The secretary of the Queen's Home has received by cable from Sir John Cockburn, late Agent-General, £51 collected in London on behalf of the home. The programme ...
Article : 203 wordsAn old resident of the Burra has courteously furnished to us these interesting notes:—The occasion of the visit of the two young explorers, Messsrs. John and ...
Article : 381 wordsDuring the past month several important sections of the Public Library have been considerably strengthened, particularly those devoted to useful arts and political ...
Article : 497 wordsOn page 41 we give some interesting! details regarding the Burra Burra Mine. In the year 1859, when copper was £115 per ton, the South Australian Mining ...
Article : 292 wordsA meeting of the ratepayers of the Districit of Walkerville was held in the local hall on Tuesday evening to consider the advisableness of planting trees along the ...
Article : 262 wordsA new railway by-law was sanctioned in Executive Council on Wednesday. It provides for extending the operations of bylaw 49, approved on June 19, in order that ...
Article : 109 wordsThe steamer Barwon, built by the Blyth Shipbuilding Company, Limited, of Blyth, to the order of Huddart, Parker, & Co. Proprietary, Limited, of Melbourne, was taken ...
Article : 272 wordsThirty-nine years ago on Tuesday. June 23, the late John McDouall Stuart and his band of intrepid explorers camped on the bank of the Roper ...
Article : 138 wordsSome amusement was caused in a case heard before Messrs. W. Johnstone, S.M., W. O. Archibald, and E. Branford in the Port. Adelaide Police Court on Monday. ...
Article : 282 wordsA man named William Hutchison dropped down dead at the North Adelaide railway station on Saturday morning. It appears that he had received a letter from his ...
Article : 198 wordsAn address by South Australian pioneers is to be presented to H.R.H. the Duke of Cornwall. This will be signed by only those in the province before ...
Article : 132 wordsOn June 12 the two nurses who were sent to the quarantine station to attend to the patients there were isolated, and on June 18 one of them, Miss Lunmer, began ...
Article : 277 words"We have seen the state coach of our constitution come forth from the coachbuilders. It is a beautifully finished and complex affair. It has been built at the ...
Article : 371 wordsThe Railways Commissioner, Mr. A. G. Pendleton, some time ago forwarded a report to the Premier dealing with the then proposed Interstate Commission Bill. Mr. ...
Article : 74 wordsDuring the O.B.I. Easter camp at Port Noarlunga a plucky rescue from drowning by William Hewitson James, aged 17, was reported. The circumstances of the ...
Article : 183 wordsIn several parts of Australia mover[?]nts have been set on foot for the erection of some lasting tribute to the brave South Australian soldiers who have been slain in ...
Article : 189 wordsSome time ago fifty of the unemployed signed an agreement to proceed to the Bundaleer Waterworks to work there. Several of them did not put in an appearance, and ...
Article : 102 wordsThe Marine Board's enquiry into the stranding of the schooner Le Mael at the anchorage was concluded on Friday afternoon, but the finding was reserved. The ...
Article : 381 wordsLieut. H. A. Reid, of the South Australian Imperial Bushmen, with a force of 20 men, recently captured Commandant; Schroeder, 41 men, 47 rifles, 23,000 rounds ...
Article : 135 wordsA meeting of the Liverpool Local Marino Board was recently held at which Captain D. Evans, of the Liverpool barque Oakhurst wag presented with a gold watch, awarded ...
Article : 462 words"Want to see the white King" is the excuse given by a number of dusky natives, who hove recently been camped in the park lands. They have travelled long ...
Article : 145 wordsOur Tarcool correspondent wrote on June 16:—"Mr. Norman Richardson, the well-known mail contractor of Port Augusta, has broken the record from Port ...
Article : 145 wordsSome time ago the Hallways Commissioner called for tenders for the completion of the Adelaide Railway Station. The work consists of the removal of the existing ...
Article : 142 words[?] another column will be found a description of the South African war medal and the colonial auxiliary forces long service medal, which are to be distributed by ...
Article : 165 wordsSome time ago a petition was presented to the Governor, urging the release of two natives who were serving a sentence of eight years in the Yatala Stockade for ...
Article : 93 wordsIn the House of Representativen on Thursday the Prime Minister stated that the Federal Government desired to take over the Northern Territory when suitable ...
Article : 51 wordsStamp duties from July 1, 1900, to June 22,1901, amounted to £29,453, or £836 more than was obtained during the corresponding period of the previous financial year. ...
Article : 121 wordsThe Commissioner of Public Works, Hon. R. W. Poster; the Railways Commissioner, Mr. A. G. Pendleton; the Engineer-inChief, Mr. A. B. Monerieff; and General ...
Article : 110 wordsOn Monday the Public Service Classification Board left Adelaide for Oodnad a and en route will examine the public departments at Port Augusta, Quorn, Hawker, ...
Article : 83 wordsM[?]r. A. E. M. Norton received a cable message on Saturday morning from Lieut, H. A. Reid. U.S.O., in South Africa, stating that the Fourth South Australian ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 29 Jun 1901, Page 30
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