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  2. THE OPEN COLUMN.

    Under this heading—and subject to the conditions and regulations published in another column—we offer to our readers a medium for the free interchange of opinions upon topics of public interest if temperately discussed, and ...

    Article : 68 words
  3. NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS.

    The following despatch has been forwarded to the Victorian Government:— "Chief Secretary's Office, Adelaide, Nov. 6, 1860. "Sir—I have the honor, by desire of His ...

    Article : 521 words
  4. CLAYTON CHAPEL, KENSINGTON.

    On Sunday last, the services at Clayton Chapel, Kensington, were conducted by the newly arrival pastor, the Rev. Mr. Harcus. There were two services as usual, morning and evening, the chapel being crowded an both ...

    Article : 2,437 words
  5. THE PRECEPTORS' ASSOCIATION.

    Sir—I have always had an avowed dislike to pedantry in any shape, or in any profession, trade, or calling, but above all in those who put themselves up, and forward, as the teachers of the young and rising ...

    Article : 1,134 words
  6. ENFIELD RIFLES.

    Sir—Would the author of the letter published in the Advertiser of December 5, signed "One of the Challengers," and who stated that soldiers threw away their Enfield rifles in the late Indian war as ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. ADELAIDE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE

    The distribution of prizes to the successful competitors at the recent examination of the scholars attending the Adelaide Educational Institute, under Mr. Olive Young, took place on Monday at White's Rooms. ...

    Article : 3,788 words
  8. CANDLE MAKING.

    Sir—In the account of Lord Elgin's mission to China and Japan, I found the annexed description of a process for enabling tallow candles to resist heat, which may possibly be of use to the manufacturers of ...

    Article : 188 words
  9. BURRA BURRA MINERS AND MECHANICS INSTITUTE.

    Sir—Even with your permission I have no desire to continue a scribbling contest with anyone. The remarks, however, in last Monday's paper respecting the above Institute call for a reply, which I hope ...

    Article : 608 words
  10. THE EXAMINATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS.

    Sir—A letter in your Saturday's Advertiser affords an apt illustration of the puddle in a storm. The writer, as if his own acquirements were about to be questioned, denounces in all the flaringly opprobrious ...

    Article : 436 words
  11. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER MILITARY FORCE REPORT.

    Sir—I have the honor to forward, for the information of His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, a report on the Volunteer Force, for the period ending 20th November, 1860. ...

    Article : 632 words
  12. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS IN PROSPECT.

    Sir—Are the means by which an unpaid country district Clerk of the Court becomes a paid official honorable or just? Some of your numerous readers may not ...

    Article : 308 words
  13. THEBARTON RACES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 865 words
  14. THE POTATO TAX.

    Sir—I hope you will use your best endeavors to get the licence fee exacted by the Corporation of Adelaide knocked off or reduced, as fer as concerns people from the country bringing in potatoes, &c. ...

    Article : 127 words
  15. TRIAL OF RIFLES.

    Sir—The train of reasoning by which "Volunteer" arrives at his conclusions is so extraordinary, that I must leave the difficult task of following it to others; for instance, he states that my being party to a ...

    Article : 1,212 words
  16. THE POISONOUS PLANT.

    Sir—Dr.Mueller having raised a doubt as to the poisonous properties of this So-called poison plant (Lotus Australis), and to imagine the mischief to arise from some other plant, further search and more ...

    Article : 373 words
  17. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MURRAY

    We have just received a call from Captain Randall, of the Murray steamer Bunyip, and it is our painful duty to have to record the loss of another life on that river. The unfortunate deceased is a lady, a Mrs. ...

    Article : 574 words
  18. MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

    Sir—With reference to the paragraph headed "Auburn Medical," which appeared in the columns of last Friday's issue, I hope you will allow me space to offer a few words in explanation. ...

    Article : 300 words
  19. WHO'S WHO?

    Sir—Will you be so good as to inform me if this Mr. Egan, who has been lately appointed Crown Lands Ranger at Mount Gambier, is the James Egan who lately held the office of Keeper of Her ...

    Article : 60 words
  20. GOVERNMENT AND THE LABORERS.

    Sir—It is now some time since I troubled you with any lucubrations of mine, deterred partly by the ill success of my former one in trying to convert some of our fellow-citizens, who have been elected. ...

    Article : 330 words
  21. THE IRISH IN AMERICA.

    Sir—As you have republished the foul assertion of the Times, respecting the Irish in Italy, perhaps, you would have no objection to insert the Marquis of Normanby's letter addressed to the Globe, in which ...

    Article : 142 words
  22. DEPARTURE OF COLONEL FREELING.

    At 1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon about 40 gentlemen assembled in the Speaker's Room, Parliament House, for the purpose of presenting to Lieut. Colonel Freeling the address which accompanies the testimonial ...

    Article : 1,283 words
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