Mr. T. P. Hill gave his second elocutionary entertainment in the Oddfellows Hall on Friday evening, 15th instant, to a large and respectable attendance. The subject, "An Evening with the Pickwickians," ...
Article : 1,953 wordsUnder 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 : 62 wordsBobby, one of the supposed murderers of poor Mrs. Rainberd and her children, was taken some 20 miles north of Kapuuda, by a settler and woodsplitter, after having been several times fired at before ...
Article : 152 wordsSir—Mr. J. H. Clark beats Mr. Whitridge. If the ratio ia kept up, what will be the statements of the last of the Governors on the list ? I abide by my statement in my letter about the ...
Article : 357 wordsSir—Having seen the account in the Chronicle of the 16th of the meteor seen in Victoria, I thought it would be well to give you all the information I could get respecting one seen, here on the same day and at ...
Article : 163 wordsOf late fortune has been smiling on others besides Captain Hughes, and copper is quite as good in quantity or quality, so far as opened, on the new Cornwall claims. The lode cut there is a great fact, ...
Article : 376 wordsThe Quarterly Committee of the above Friendly Society, was held on Monday last, March 18, at Court Huntsman's Pride, Huntsman's Hotel, North Adelaide, at 10 o'clock a.m. Present-D.C. R. Cornish, D.T. ...
Article : 922 wordsSir—A letter from Mr. Cawthorne, impugning the conduct of the Board of Governors, appears in your columns this morning. Mr. Cawthorne's individual statements might well be left to pass for what they are ...
Article : 627 wordsTHE FAMINE.—From Jubbulpore we hear under date the 20th-" The Governor-General is expected here some time next month. Grain is rising in price. We have had an extraordinarily warm season. Peach ...
Article : 227 wordsThe chief topic of interest in this locality for the last eight or ten days has been, I regret to say, the most unusual amount of sickness prevalent in the neighborhood. I believe there has never been even ...
Article : 230 wordsAN INCOMPETENT GOVERNOR.—The Straits Times thus characterises the administration of Colonel Cavanagh, who is now about quitting Singapore :- Again, let us ask, what single reform has been ...
Article : 1,008 wordsThis township has been visited with smart rains ;. the creeks are filling up fast. The mail from the Far North arrived on horseback, the road being too heavy and watery to bring on the ...
Article : 197 wordsThat never-failing subject, the weather, has engrossed our attention during the past week, the first three days being the hottest of this season, thermometer ranging as high as 118 in the sun. About ...
Article : 769 wordsSir—I do not know what the Pelican, flag is, nor where Mr. Cawthorne means to hoist it. But supposing that it will be something respectable, I beg leave to suggest as its heraldic ornaments, a goose ...
Article : 72 wordsOn Sunday, 17th inst., we attended at the Wesleyan Chapel, Pirie-street, for the purpose of hearing Dr. Jobson, one of the Bishops of the Wesleyan Church. The reverend gentleman has lately arrived from London ...
Article : 5,830 wordsSir—Your Kapunda correspondent says that Dr Ward has already held an inquest at Riverton, but it is considered irregular, and he believes another inquest trill be held at Kapunda. ...
Article : 546 wordsWe have Indian news to January 12 ; Hongkong, to January 30; Ceylon, to February 13; Singapore (Struits Times), February 2; and Bombay (telegraphic), to February 15. We extract the ...
Article : 796 wordsSir—I trust you will excuse me; but having read in your paper of a gentleman at one of the meetings having proposed a poll-tax, I do most sincerely trust that the day has arrived when we in South Australia ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 23 Mar 1861, Page 3
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