The death of the Hon. James Martin causes an extraordinary vacancy in the Legislative Council, and will also have the effect of bringing about the retirement of ...
Article : 254 wordsDecember 28 was the sixty-third anniversary of the colony, and, as is usual, fine day was given up to holiday-making. Grlenelg, rof course, was the great centre of ...
Article : 259 wordsOut of a mob of 2,500 fat-sheep belonging to Mr. M. Kennedy, which was travelling from Barmedan to Sydney last week, no fewer than 800 died from want of water. ...
Article : 283 wordsThe Vienna correspondent to that "Times" states that the nervousness of Continental diplomatists in view of the British reverses in South Africa implies a ...
Article : 625 wordsALDINCRA, December 26.—Great preparataons are being, made for the annual picnic of the Court of Aldinga Foresters to be held on New Year's Day. The Ceres ...
Article : 1,021 wordsSincc the year 1896, when the "Messiah" was given on the Oval, Christmas Day has been allowed to pass in Adelaide (owing to the non-existence of a strong Cuoral ...
Article : 154 wordsJames Baird, William Furze, and Alfred Henry Furze were charged before Mr. Maitland, P.M., at the Police Court to-day. with having stolen a safe containing £25 ...
Article : 124 wordsFor some time rumour has been busy concerning possible complications in the Fair East. "In spite of the assurances to the contrary made by M. Pavloff, the ...
Article : 408 wordsSamuel Gray, Primitive Methodist Manse, Strathaiuyn, writes:—"In the interest of the [?] I desire to call attention to a barefaced robbery which took place near ...
Article : 212 wordsOn New Year's Pay the first, match by telegraph between the South Australian and the recently formed New South Wales Chess Association will be played. The ...
Article : 250 wordsJohn Osborne, a bookmaker's clerk, was drowned in Swan River on Christinas Day Delightful weather has favoured the Christmas holidays. All outdoor festivities ...
Article : 62 wordsA Steel Company, of London, which claims to have solved the difficulty of converting New Zealand iron sand into steel, has made a proposal to the Government to purchase ...
Article : 114 wordsThe steamer Euryalus, which arrived on Saturday last from Calcutta, brought for the Zoological Gardens two pairs of Entelhis monkeys, a pair of civets, an Indian ...
Article : 93 wordsThe precautions to prevent the introduction of bubonic plague into the colony were pushed forward to-day. Of acven adults and two children who landed here ...
Article : 735 wordsOn Wednesday afternoon the members of the South Australian cricket team who are to play the return matches with Victoria and New South Wales left Adelaide for ...
Article : 538 wordsThe Government hat purchased for £4,000 from Mr. Phillips, the present owner, 1.500 acres of the well-known Castambool Estate, formerly the property of ...
Article : 79 wordsThe Department of Agriculture is mak ing arrangements to send 70 tons of cheese to London as a trial shipment. The body of Mrs. Margaret Manley, aged ...
Article : 418 wordsThe Minister of Agriculture, Hon. K. L. Batchelor, the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Hon. L. O'Loughlin, and Mr. R. Caldwell, M.P., visited the Produce Export ...
Article : 122 wordsThe homeward-bound German liner Bremen arrived from Mellyourm early on Friday morning with a fairly large complement of passengers. She anchored in ...
Article : 182 wordsWhen the Lark, three-masted schooner, arrived at the Semaphore on Saturday morning she had a homing pigeon on board. The bird had lighted on they vessel when she ...
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Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), Sat 30 Dec 1899, Page 28
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