THE famous chapter on " Snakes in Iceland" in which island there are no snakes, would in the estimation of some persons be paralleled by a disquisition on ...
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Article : 2,307 wordsIt has been decided by the commission appointed to report on the navigable condition of the Suez Canal that the present channel be widened. ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Franchise Bill has passed its final parliamentary stages, and has received the royal assent. ...
Article : 22 wordsThe West Maitland Public Park was formally opened yesterday afternoon by the mayoress of West Maitland. There was a grand demonstration. In which the various ...
Article : 613 wordsSir. Upington, the Premier of the Cape Colony, was mobbed during his visit to Kimberley as a manifestation of popular displeasure at the action of his Ministry ...
Article : 40 wordsA warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man named Talfourd Thos. George Young for obtaining goods under false pretences. He had been passing himself off as a theatrical ...
Article : 134 wordsThe statements made by Kerry concerning alleged massacres of natives of New Guinea are republished in the English press. The Standard throws discredit on the ...
Article : 48 wordsCompetent experts have pronounced some diamonds lately received from Australia to be superior to those commonly brought from the Cape diamond-fields. ...
Article : 28 wordsAdelaide wheat off coast is selling at 34s. 6d. to 35s. New January and February consignments are selling freely at 34s. 3d. to 35s. 3d. ...
Article : 31 wordsAnother case of smallpox has been reported, the patient being John Ca[?]ing, a butcher employed in a shop in Elizabeth-street, City, and residing at Ada- street. He left off work ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Bill for the extension of the franchise passed its third reading in the House of Peers last night, and the House then adjourned till February. ...
Article : 37 wordsIt is with great regret that we announce the death of Dr. Moore, which occurred on Saturday morning at his residence, North terrace. The deceased gentleman arrived in this ...
Article : 788 wordsAdmiral [?] has sent dispatches to the French Government announcing that he has again opened up negotiations with the Hovas. ...
Article : 26 wordsWe are now being visited by a severe thunderstorm, with wind and rain. Damage is feared to the crops. ...
Article : 28 wordsAdvices have been received from Lord Wolseley stating that a detachment of the 19th Hussars and the first battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment arrived at ...
Article : 93 wordsA heavy thunderstorm passed over the town on Saturday afternoon. About an inch of rain fell in half an hour. ...
Article : 23 wordsAfter a hot, oppressive day a severe storm of rain and hail, accompanied by heavy thunder and vivid lighting, passed over the township this evening between the hours of ...
Article : 51 wordsA severe thup[?]derstorm passed over here this afternoon, accompanied by vivid lightning and heavy rain. Over four hundred points fell in less than two hours. The ...
Article : 54 wordsThe result of the negotiations between the Government of Spain and the West African Convention is that Spain is pledged to support the decision ...
Article : 52 wordsThe first consignment of new wheat came in to-day from Spalding. It consisted of a parcel of fifty bags, purchased by the agent of the Milling Company. Mr. E. Twopenny. The ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Premier has received a telegram stating that the Victorian Commissioners of Railways agree to allow Mr. Speight to visit Tasmania to advise the Government on a ...
Article : 200 wordsThe Salvation Army, under the command of Captain Whitefield, opened permanently here on Saturday evening. Hitherto they have only held weekly meetings. ...
Article : 65 wordsThe total quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,780,000 quarters. Chilian copper is worth £49 15s. ; tin is quoted at £75. ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Rev. C. Goodenough Taplin has accepted a call from the Woodville Anglican church, and will leave here at the end of the year. ...
Article : 75 wordsThe British-India steamer Duke of Sutherland left to-day on her homeward voyage. ...
Article : 33 wordsAn accident happened to a farmer named Mu[?]gavin at Pinda yesterday. He was attending to his reaping machine, when his fingers were caught by the boaters and the ...
Article : 78 wordsThe Sale police on Friday received intelliof a shocking calamity, the charred body of a woman named Effie Scott having been found about fifty yards from a hut at Tarraville. It ...
Article : 453 wordsThe annual meeting of the Victorian Rifle Association was commenced on Saturday at the butts, Williamstown. There was a fair attendance, the weather being good. ...
Article : 566 wordsThe barque Bebington, with 1,100 tons of wheat, and drawing 16 feet 3 inches, was towed to the anchorage on Saturday against a flood tide and head wind in two hours and a ...
Article : 142 wordsThe meetings of the central committee and the local branch of the Farmers' Association lapsed on Saturday owing to the want of a quorum. This is the first time such a ...
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Advertising : 426 wordsThe down train from Adelaide last night narrowly escaped being thrown off the line. A pair of iron wheels had been placed across the lines about the 99th mile-post between ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Mon 8 Dec 1884, Page 5
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