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Article : 212 wordsSir—It has given me great pleasure to see that the subject of National Defence has been so warmly taken up by the people, the Press, and the Legislature. The suggestion of "Protective, jun.," that the arms ...
Article : 781 words"Sir—I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication relative to my letter in yesterday's Advertiser. "It certainly was my impression that I was rightly ...
Article : 278 wordsSir—A Bill is before Parliament, the object of which is to brand a man who is insolvent with the infamy of felony, without trial by Jury. May shame alight upon us, and may we be blotted out from ...
Article : 357 wordsSir—South Australians are not disloyal; if our homes are to be well defended every man in the colony must be enrolled, and no favor or exception shown from the Governor downwards; the volunteer ...
Article : 105 wordsSir—It was with feelings of great disgust and indignation that I read the report of the manner in which the majority of a large meeting received Mr. Torrens's proposal to form a Volunteer Rifle Corps. ...
Article : 295 wordsSir—In looking over jour paper this morning, I was somewhat surprised to find that my name had been rather freely made use of in a letter from "A Lover of Architecture," and I trust you will ...
Article : 1,023 wordsThis mournful and unexpected event occurred on Saturday morning, May 7, at Mr. Sturge's residence, at Edgbaston, Birmingham. He had risen at his usual early hour, about half-past 6 o'clock, and his ...
Article : 669 wordsSir—I see by your issue of to-day that the expenditure of £1,000 for mail guards is to be considered oil Wednesday next. Now is it not monstrous to see what a foolish, piece of humbug and waste of public ...
Article : 230 wordsSir—I confess I was much surprised (I won't say gratified) to see the announcement in yesterday's Gazette that volunteers would be allowed, as a further inducement to enrol, the munificent sum of £1 to ...
Article : 428 wordsA subject very full of interest at the present moment is that of the various battles which have taken place between the two great countries now face to face in the marshes of Piedmont, and about to recommence a ...
Article : 647 wordsSir—Having allowed my loyalty to outrun my discretion, and permitted myself to be enrolled as a volunteer, you will, I am sure, sympathise with, me when I state the unfortunate position I am placed in ...
Article : 291 wordsSir—I have ventured to break the silence which has followed with reference to the withdrawal of Government protection in the transmission of mails; and in so doing, I do hope Sir, that the honorable ...
Article : 285 wordsSir—It is easy for any one conversant with the present state of the mind of the working men of the colony with respect to the volunteering question—the Government showing such distrust in wanting ...
Article : 356 wordsSir—I think it a very hard case that 60 many of our letters by every successive mail from home should be sent to Sydney; it must be most inconvenient for the mercantile portion of the colonists, and for the ...
Article : 105 wordsSir—I am frequently required to give a description of various instruments used, and becoming daily more valuable to the public as their respective qualities and worth are understood. The aneroid barometer being ...
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Article : 1,426 wordsSir—I am an admirer of "the soft green carpet nature spreads." Goodness knows there is little enough of it in or near Adelaide, yet the Park Lands in front of South-terrace are crossed and re-crossed ...
Article : 103 wordsAlessandria, or Alexandria, the capital of the province in Piedmont of the same name, and one of the strongest fortresses in Europe, is situated in a rich and fertile plain declining towards the east, 65 miles by road, 46 ...
Article : 573 wordsThe Rev. Thomas Binney—for notwithstanding the diplomas showered upon him, he has chosen to to retain the name ungarnished—will this morning finally quit our shores. For a period longer than the ...
Article : 1,037 wordsSir—I am never surprised at our worthy citizens grumbling at the badness of the times and the increasing I assessments, but I am surprised when their representatives, in solemn conclave, should hatch such a piece ...
Article : 313 words"What will he do with it?" Ah, little thought Sir E. L. B., When his last work began, Of how this motto soon woUld be ...
Article : 294 wordsSir—Will you be bo kind as to insert the following correspondence? "TO E. A. HAMILTON, ESQ. "My dear Sir—I have ever been desirous to be on ...
Article : 525 wordsSir—In reading this morning's paper I was rather surprised at seeing a letter by one of the working-classes, respecting the loyalty of the above-named por-tion of the community. As one of the working classes ...
Article : 427 wordsSir—In the House of Assembly the Attorney-General said that the majority of the thinking portion of the population were in favor of immigration. This insolent assertion is a direct insult to the ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 23 Jul 1859, Page 4
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