The Christmas number of Melbourne Punch is an uncommonly good one, both as regards its literary and artistic merits. The principal cartoon is a very spirited illustration of the ...
Article : 369 wordsAbout quarter-past 7 o'clock on Thursday, December 30, our usually quiet township was aroused with the cry of " Fire." A dense cloud of smoke was seen issuing from (he store-room ...
Article : 400 wordsFriday night—New Year's Eve—was a busy time in Adelaide. The shops were open till a late hour, and the streets were thronged with people. During the last hour of the old year ...
Article : 2,804 wordsDecember 29.—This Council met at noon. Present—All South Kapunda culvert still to stand over. James Gregor's contract in Maryvale Ward reported nearly completed. ...
Article : 111 wordsDecember 27. —No quorum. December 31. — Present — Messrs. Beyer, Holley, Kanaley, and Anderson. Clerk reported rates received £31 13s. 6d. ...
Article : 42 wordsAfter a political career of about fortyfive years, during which he has been three times Prime Minister, the Earl of Derby has at last vanished from the scene. He ...
Article : 2,637 wordsThe annual picnic in connection with the Alliance Tent, No. 2, of the Albert District of Rechabites took place on New Year's Day. About 9 o'clock a.m. the brethren, with many ...
Article : 288 wordsOar annual races came off on the 28th inst. The attendance on the course was very email indeed as compared with years gone by, and the fields of horses not so good as might have been. ...
Article : 496 wordsThe annual picnic in connection with the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows was held on New Year's Day, and although perhaps not so great a success as on some former occasions, still, ...
Article : 1,799 wordsNew Year's Day was ushered in at the Port and its environs amidst the din and clanging of innumerable bells and bands, the whiz of rockets, and the reports of guns. Soon after ...
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Advertising : 1,851 wordsThere was a large attendance at each, and at the soiree the chair was occupied by Mr. J. Pickering, President of the Temperance League. Addresses were given by Messrs. McKinlay, ...
Article : 162 wordsAmongst other attractions provided for New Tear's Day not the least prominent was the Reedbeds picnic and bazaar, held on the grounds of Mr. C. White, near Henley Beach. The ...
Article : 240 wordsChristmas has come and passed, and holidaymaking was not without difficulty. A bad hay harvest and a wheat harvest of about six bushels to the acre are not exactly inspiriting; ...
Article : 175 wordsThis favorite place of resort wore hardly so animated an appearance on New Year's Day as it did on the 28th and other holidays. Nevertheless, a large number of ladies and gentlemen ...
Article : 105 wordsThe advent of 1870 at the Semaphore was, for the nonce, divested of much of the barbarity which has obtained on similar occasions in day's of yore. Instead of the usual chapter ...
Article : 155 wordsOn Monday, 20th instant, we were visited by a Bevere dust-storm, which lasted the whole day. The weather was exceedingly hot, and the wind brought with it clouds of dust and ...
Article : 195 wordsThe Museum, Arts Exhibition, and Botanic Garden were all fairly attended during the day and evening. The only accidents intelligence of which has ...
Article : 60 wordsAnd so it has gone for ever, Like thousands of other years That have passed into that long silence Which speaks for no human ears. ...
Article : 350 wordsTrade is very quiet, and the farmers at a distance do not seem inclined to bring their wheat to market until the tramway is opened, when they will be able to place it here at a saving of ...
Article : 254 wordsThe annual circuit festival in connection with the Wesleyan Church in this district took place on Christmas Day at Normanville. Preparations were made on a large scale, and Dunslall's ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Mon 3 Jan 1870, Page 3
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