The week that has elapsed since I closed my last report has not been marked by anything but a continuance of the general dullness in all branches which has ruled now for so long; indeed the dearth of ...
Article : 1,078 wordsSir—I think that I can assign the true cause of the delay in the arrival of the English Mail. I saw, some weeks since, a letter from an eminent firm at Plymouth, to the son of the senior member and the brother of ...
Article : 186 wordsThe "great argument" has come to a sudden and most unexpected conclusion. Seldom has the House of Commons presented so remarkable an aspect as it did on the night of the 21st of May, when the debate ...
Article : 1,284 wordsSIR—"On the best authority," I can state that it is decided to repeat the amateur performances at the Theatre, varied as respects the second piece, some time next month. From the same reliable ...
Article : 248 wordsSir—I had to call on a friend this morning, and while waiting picked up the Advertiser, when my eye fell on the place where Mr. Young is reported as ...
Article : 284 wordsSome time ago the question was raised in the daily papers respecting the natives, whether they are capable of being educated and civilized. Mr. Mildred, and others of his way of thinking, described the attempts ...
Article : 1,276 wordsSir—In the immigration resolutions there is a stipulation to the effect that the emigrants shall be chosen in equal numbers from the United Kingdom of Great Britain. I should like to know when that regulation ...
Article : 139 words[In accordance with the pledges given by the editor before the publication of this journal, an open column is devoted to the free expression of sentiment and opinion on all important public questions, provided discussions are conducted with ...
Article : 73 wordsSir—Will you or any of your correspondents be kind enough to give an answer to the following query:—Will wine or spirits, the produce of these colonies and shipped direct to England, be subject ...
Article : 94 wordsSir—It is usually acknowledged that "self-proservation is the first law of nature;" and although I may not be missed from among my fellow-creatures if I should suddenly quit this sublunary sphere, I have ...
Article : 254 wordsSir—The debate which took place yesterday at the Chamber of Commerce, as to whether a memorial should be adopted to the House of Assembly, praying that a moiety of the Land Fund should be set apart ...
Article : 837 wordsSir—By means of your journal, allow me to call the attention of the worthy Secretary of this Institute to what I with many other members have felt to be a great defect and inconvenience in the present ...
Article : 254 wordsSir—Your correspondent G. P. Doolett, in his letter headed "City Watch," has taken upon himself the ungracious task of censuring a most useful and effecient portion of the public service, namely, the police force ...
Article : 373 wordsWhat a change a few months makes in the nature of international feelings! A little while ago the good people of Sydney were magnanimously collecting money in aid of French sufferers by the overflow of the Rhone ...
Article : 909 wordsThere is an old adage, "Prevention is better than cure;" and, not doubting the truth it contains, I have decided upon asking the favour of you to publish in your columns a few words from me on the state of a ...
Article : 786 wordsSir—My solicitor advised me this morning not to lend out money on the new Act, saying there was no security, as, in case of default, no power of sale was given in the bill of mortgage. On referring, however ...
Article : 295 wordsWe are happy to learn that the Aborigines' Friends' Society have been exerting themselves on behalf of the natives at the Goolwa. They have appointed an agent who has distributed supplies of food and ...
Article : 920 wordsSir—If the announcement contained in your paper of this morning, that "Mr. Babbage is not more than 90 mill's from Port Augusta," is a fact (and I have no reason for doubting it), it is one which deserves ...
Article : 703 wordsSir—In the Register of this morning appeared a paragraph with the above heading, the perusal of which greatly amused me. The writer, whoever he is (I am sure he is not a Portonian), has given ...
Article : 272 wordsWe regret that we were been unable in our last issue to supply an account of the soiree at Magill, which took place on Thursday, July 29. We avail ourselves, however, of the present opportunity to ...
Article : 2,580 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 7 Aug 1858, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: