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  2. White Wings on the Waves.

    That excellent institution, the Port Adelaide Sailing Club, will hold the opening demonstration to-morrow. The yachts have to be underweigh at ...

    Article : 510 words
  3. Shipping News

    Afric, from Liverpool, due Nov. 11. Dalgety & Co., agents. Albany, from Hamburg, due Dec. 1. Geo. Wills & Co., agents. ...

    Article : 1,547 words
  4. New Home for Sons of the Sea.

    Truly the strength of a nation is in her sea-board. In Australia it has been contended, however, that that is just where our weakness lies. ...

    Article : 1,039 words
  5. Stuck for a Drink

    Science has transformed the world. The days when the Jack Tar had few words in his vocabulary have passed into the limbo of forgotten things. ...

    Article : 677 words
  6. Beach Bathing.

    The first record of a bath is that it was taken by a woman. In the second chapter of Exodus it is recorded that “The daughter of Pharaoh came ...

    Article : 1,084 words
  7. Heathen Chinee

    Bret Harte in his immortal poem on the unfathomable idiosvncracies of the “Heathen Chinee” has drawn for us a portrait of the inscrutable Celestial ...

    Article : 589 words
  8. Would not Pay his Debts.

    A man who had been previously before the Port Local Court pleaded that he could not pay his debts. Mr. Oldham (counsel for the ...

    Article : 140 words
  9. Merchant Service Officers’ Christian Association.

    Captain W. MacGowan, the honorary representative of this society, has just received word from England that an annual in connection with it will ...

    Article : 84 words
  10. NAUTICAL NOTES.

    The recent unpleasant incident at Edithburg does not reflect credit on the system of managing marine matters in South Australia. While we ...

    Article : 555 words
  11. Local Opinion on White Pearlers.

    Mr. A. R. Pascall, who is at present acting as relieving officer for the Adelaide Steamship Coy., has had a good deal of experience in pearling in the ...

    Article : 140 words
  12. A Command of Language.

    A seaport city must be of necessity cosmopolitan. In it you may hear the tongues of all the world. And they are more than seven. Detective ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. Peppermint for Rats.

    Rats and mice have been found to possess a strong antipathy to the odor of peppermint, and will flee from any place where it can be smelled. ...

    Article : 110 words
  14. Enteric Fever.

    The German sailing ship Anna, which is discharging timber from Freidrickstad, had two cases of enteric fever aboard. The patients are a ...

    Article : 55 words
  15. May’s Engineering Works.

    It has been persistently rumored that on the return of the senior partner in May’s works from his English trip a branch of the works will be started ...

    Article : 56 words
  16. Truly Rural.

    Clerical Member of Parish Council: “Well, the first thing to do is to have the new burial ground consecrated.“ Rural Member: “I object to that, ...

    Article : 50 words
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