Bush fires have been raging during the last week more extensive and destructive than those of any previous years since Black Thursday. Ships along the coast ...
Article : 83 wordsThere is no more useful department under Government than that presided over by Mr. J. E. Brown. Leaving out of consideration the effect of forests ...
Article : 7,836 wordsHer Majesty the Queen has consented to become Patron of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, of the Council for which the Prince of Wales is President. ...
Article : 60 wordsAn accident on the Derwent was reported yesterday, and has created great sensation here. The boat which upset was a small river ...
Article : 161 wordsPremier—So this is the first Cabinet meeting since the holidays, eh ? Welcome, gentlemen ; welcome ! Where's Furner ? Wish you all a happy New Year, and ...
Article : 1,787 wordsThe bodies of Kate Williams and John King, who were drowned in a boat accident off Garden Island on New Year's Day, were recovered by the water police ...
Article : 288 wordsParliament will meet for the swearing in of members on January 12, and the Queen's Speech formally opening the session will be delivered, on the 21st. ...
Article : 29 wordsH.M.S. Lotus, gunboat, operating on the Nile, has captured nine nuggars laden with munitions of war. Calcutta, January 3. ...
Article : 59 wordsA valedictory banquet was given as the Imperial Hotel this evening to Mr. McMichael, Manager of the National Bank at Terowie, who is transferred to Port ...
Article : 111 wordsM. Freycinet has accepted the task of forming a new Ministry. ...
Article : 20 wordsServia and Bulgaria have appointed delegates to conclude terms of peace. The place of meeting has not yet, however, been fixed. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe lad Arthur Alien, through whose negligence in lighting a fire to boil his billy without taking precautions to prevent its spreading, the fire near Five-mile Railway ...
Article : 55 wordsAdvices from General Stephenson report that the Soudanese rebels have retired bey pad Daibar, and that the British forces are now returning to ...
Article : 38 wordsMr. Hannibal Orchard, who for eighteen years held the position of Overseer on the South Australian Railways, and who kept the Aberdeen Hotel, Burra, but who latterly ...
Article : 74 wordsNews has been received from Burmah that a body of Dacoits attacked and murdered three Europeans who were, returning from work in the timber districts. ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. W. Watt, farmer in the Hundred of Port Pirie, some time ago sank a well 45 feet deep, and struck good stock water, which, however, after a time turned salt, and stock would not ...
Article : 151 wordsDr. O'Doherty arrived at Cooktown yesterday by the Duke of Westminster from London. Arrangements are being made to give him a fitting reception on ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Right Hon. W. E. Forster, who for some time has been seriously ill, is now improving in health. ...
Article : 26 wordsAdelaide wheat off-coast cargoes is quoted at 36s. per quarter. The wool market is quiet. The arrivals to date for next sales consist of 130,000 ...
Article : 30 wordsLast night Stuart's Royal Exchange and the Central Hotels were broken into, the breaking of a window in each case being the means of entering. All the small chance and ...
Article : 189 wordsMessrs. Money "Wigram's steamer Kent, from Melbourne November 6, arrived at London this morning. ...
Article : 15 wordsA carpet snake has been found on the Auckland Racecourse, supposed to have been imported in a case of Australian wine. ...
Article : 172 wordsThe Three and a Half per Cent. New South Wales Loan is quoted at £94. The Four per Cent. Queensland Loan is worth £102. ...
Article : 33 wordsThe mails per the Orient steamer Liguria, from Adelaide November 29, were delivered here yesterday via Naples Colombo, January 4. ...
Article : 80 wordsAn inquest was held yesterday by Mr. H. Oppatt on the body of Carl Janick, aged 73, who committed suicide by hanging himself in a chaffshed on the farm of his son-in-law. ...
Article : 88 wordsThe Ministers returned, unopposed to-day were Sir John Robertson for Mudgee, Mr. Gerald Spring for Young, Mr. J. E. Burns for Hunter. Mr. R. M. ...
Article : 210 wordsThere is no change to record regarding the wharf labourers' strike. Mr. McIlwraith's conduct in acceding to the terms of the men is regarded ...
Article : 394 wordsAfter about a weeKs intense heat with the thermometer ranging from 90o to 116o in the shade, a splendid change came last evening followed by eight hours of steady rain. The ...
Article : 568 wordsAn extraordinary snooting case occurred last night at Beaufort. A boy aged 13, named Robert Ballantyne, went to a neighbour's and borrowed a gun ...
Article : 143 wordsA farmer named Thomas Minogue, living near Geelong, was to-day committed for trial for ill-using his mother, a widow, who was possessed of property which he ...
Article : 129 wordsAt a meeting of plasterers to-day it was stated that several employers had agreed to the men's terms of £3 per week of forty-four hours. Fully half the men are ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Thu 7 Jan 1886, Page 5
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