Our servants went to the races, so W. and I (two girls who had passed University examinations) resolved to show ourselves equal to kitchen work as well as to ...
Article : 1,869 wordsAnother splendid fall of rain took place on Sunday last, the registration at Deniliquin being 81 points, making about 3 inches for the month. During the two ...
Article : 863 wordsA few marked types among the denizens of a peculiarly attractive country are sketched in this little book by an artist possessed of a ...
Article : 1,543 wordsGood Friday was kept as a close holiday. Religious services were held in some of the places of worship. A cricket match was played at the Oval between Clare and Burra, which was won easily ...
Article : 180 wordsThe question of the temperature of the moon is one that has a pure scientific interest of its own, but its popular interest resides no doubt in its bearing on the possibility of the ...
Article : 1,795 wordsA meeting of members of this Association was held on Monday morning at the Mine Stage for the purpose of dealing with correspondence received from the Mine Directors ...
Article : 885 wordsA very successful athletic meeting was held to-day. The principal event, the Yunta Handicap, was won by Coombes, Buttery being second, and Coulis third. A special prize given by Mr. McGregor Day ...
Article : 68 wordsEaster time passed over quietly here. We had a fair number of visitors to the seaside. On Saturday evening a concert was given in aid of the local Institute Funds by Mr. Lyons and Company, which ...
Article : 108 wordsA tea and concert were given in the Institute in connection with St. John's Church on Monday. There was a large attendance at the tea, and the Hall was filled for the concert. The programme ...
Article : 51 wordsAnniversary services in connection with the Arthurton Wesleyan Sunday-school were celebrated on Sunday and Wednesday, March 30 and April 2. Sunday services were ...
Article : 105 wordsSir—What ridiculous blunders are made even in apparently carefully got up books. Reading Dr. Lankester's "Our Food" a little time ago I came across the statement that the ...
Article : 512 wordsAn entertainment was given in the Druids' Hall to-night. Mr. B. F. Lloyd, J.P., presided, and the hall was well filled. The entertainment, which was in aid of funds of the local Druids' Lodge, was ...
Article : 134 wordsThe weather was very pleasant up till Tuesday, when a very heavy fog set in from the west. We are feeling the want of a good downpour rather severely. I hear that the rabbits are very bad ...
Article : 47 wordsBy the bed the old man, waiting, sat in vigil sad and tender, Where his aged wife lay dying; and the twilight shadows brown ...
Article : 370 wordsThe weather is still dry and cool. A good soak of rain would be very welcome just now to start the feed and cereals and ensure an early season for grass. ...
Article : 34 wordsThe Rev. G. Rendrew, the newly appointed minister to this Circuit, has arrived here in place of the Rev. G. Ball, who takes the Gumeracha District. On Sunday Mr. Kendrew conducted the anniversary ...
Article : 83 wordsThe grasshoppers have appeared in large quantities, doing some damage. ...
Article : 14 wordsThe weather here keeps cool and dry with high winds. The farmers are busy sowing again. Our roads here are frightfully cut up with the wheat-carting, and as the Government have reduced the ...
Article : 125 wordsA large meeting of ratepayers was held to-night at Kirby's Hotel to consider the best means to take to get several from the Georgetown District Council on account of the expensive character of the ...
Article : 113 words[At the Supreme Courthouse, before one of their Honors the Judges of the Supreme Courts.] Appeal from Police Court, Adelaide. ...
Article : 138 wordsPresent—All but Councillors Harris, Reid, Pellew, and Wigley. The Town Clerk read some additions to the minutes of a previous Council meeting. At a subsequent meeting ...
Article : 816 wordsSir—The utterances of Sir Henry Parkes at Broken Hill assure the residents of that important mining district, the squatters of adjacent country, and the public of South ...
Article : 539 wordsWe were favoured with rain on Sunday morning, but it is now as dry as ever. The locusts have made their appearance in countless myriads, and are devouring every green thing ...
Article : 48 wordsCAMPBELLTOWN, April 2.—Present—Crs. J. Mines (Chairman), A. G. Martin, S. Pierson, and M. Byan. Tenders accepted—No. 19, 200 yards of 2½ in metal. Rostreyor-road, at 4s. 10d. per yard. ...
Article : 1,694 wordsHarsh Sorrow I enter not To wreck that time-worn soul, Hast pity quite forgot, So merciless thy role? ...
Article : 178 wordsTommy Walker, an aboriginal, and Sarah Ryan, for having used indecent language, were fined £2 each. Mary Raffan, for drunkenness, paid £1, and John Russell, Henry ...
Article : 269 wordsBess went to Church one sultry day; She kept awake, I'm glad lo say, Till "fourthly" started on its way. The moments into hours grew: ...
Article : 403 wordsSir—With your kind permission I wish to publicly thank the members of Tattersall's Club who attended the last general meeting with a view to keep the clubrooms in the ...
Article : 281 wordsSir—Allow me to submit for consideration the following propositions:—1. All land now belongs to the State. 2. Stop the sale of lands by the Crown. ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Wed 9 Apr 1890, Page 7
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