MR. HARDY, of Bankside Vineyard, writes to the South Australian Register as follows:— On the farm of Mr. Jesse Ridley, about a couple miles north of Salisbury, on the Gawler Plains, and near the railway, may be seen from three to four acres of ...
Article : 328 wordsA FEELING of deadly hostility exists between the white and aboriginal races in the vast tract of Northern country brought to light, and more or less utilised by the white man, since the opening of the Palmer diggings. A correspondent of the Brisbane ...
Article : 348 wordsThe death of Captain W. H. Hovell, the companion of Mr. Hamilton Hume, in the celebrated overland journey from Goulburn to Port Phillip in the year 1824, occurred at Sydney on November 9 He had attained the ripe age of 90 years before ...
Article : 1,008 wordsRESPECTING an attack made by natives of the Northern Territory on the Blue Mud Bay Prospecting Expedition, the South Australian Advertiser publishes the following particulars received by telegraph from Pine Creek, on October 22:—“Thomas Walker, ...
Article : 353 wordsCONSTABLE DILLON, who came into Cooktown on the 14th October, from his trip to the Norman by, has given the Cooktown Herald an account of the latest: raid of the blacks in that direction. It appears that on the 8th October five Chinese carriers ...
Article : 635 wordsTHE s.s. Hero, on a recent passage from Sydney to Auckland, encountered a fearful cyclone, during which the second officer, Mr. John Wisner, aged 27, and who had been employed on board the steamer for about six months, was washed overboard ...
Article : 503 wordsTHE examination of the Gulf of Carpentaria by Lieutenant Connor Seems (says the Brisbane Courier) to have finally set at rest the question of the existence in that great bight of a natural port or harbour suitable for the reception of large vessels. His ...
Article : 582 wordsTHE Chudleigh correspondent of the Launceston Examiner gives the following account of the tragedy briefly noticed in our “ Chronicle of the Month” :—For some years back a man named John Lambert has resided in a two-roomed hut at ...
Article : 680 wordsIN its last monthly summary The Argus reported under this head:—On all the various gold-fields work has been carried on both in the gold-bearing and prospecting mines apparently with the usual amount of success, and the yields that have been published ...
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Australasian Sketcher (Adelaide,SA : 1874 - 1885), Sat 27 Nov 1875, Page 14
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