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  2. VIRGINIA.

    On the 8th inst. a deputation of the Virginia Rifles, headed by Lieutenant Bradshaw, waited upon Robert McCord, Esq., their late Captain, and requested him to withdraw his resignation, and accept the command ...

    Article : 425 words
  3. INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 56 words
  4. 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 : 61 words
  5. ADELAIDE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.—DISTRIBUTION OF PHIZES.

    The half-yearly examination of the pupils of Mr. John L. Young took place at White's Boom on Friday. June 14, in the presence of a large number of friends and spectators. ...

    Article : 1,375 words
  6. JUDGES RESIGNED AND JUDGES RESIGNING.

    Sir—Taking a friendly glass of brandy hot with an old acquaintance, the conversation turned upon the recent castigation of the Judges by the Law Officers of the Crown in England. ...

    Article : 137 words
  7. VICTORIA.

    POLITICAL.—A Bill to alter and amend the Constitution Act, in so far as it provides for pensions to responsible Ministers who may hold office for a period of two years, was introduced by Mr. Levi, ...

    Article : 1,956 words
  8. NEW SOUTH WALES.

    There is nothing in the papers calling for extract. The following telegram appears in the Melbourne journals:— Sydney, Wednesday. ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. IMMIGRATION.

    Sir—Will you have the goodness to insert the following communications which have just reached me on a subject of much public interest. I am, &c., ...

    Article : 36 words
  10. THE DOG ACT.

    Sir—Availing myself of your invitation, I wish to make a few remarks regarding the tax on dogs, and may also suggest some improvements upon the present system. I consider the object of the Act to be ...

    Article : 690 words
  11. "To S. Tomkinson, Esq.

    "Sir—Having read a correspondence in the Weekly Chronicle on the subject of immigration, in which you speak of the scarcity of labor in the country districts, I beg to endorse your assertion. For two years ...

    Article : 407 words
  12. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Melbourne papers contain telegraphic news from Sydney relative to the progress of the war in New Zealand. The intelligence has, however, been already telegraphed to this paper and published in ...

    Article : 34 words
  13. WOODSIDE.—PUBLIC MEETING ON ASSISTED IMMIGRATION.

    A public meeting of the inhabitants of the District of Onkaparinga was held on Monday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, for the purpose of taking into consideration the question of assisted immigration. ...

    Article : 1,532 words
  14. TRIFLES OF WIT AND HUMOUR.

    A CONTRADICTION.—When is a sick man a contradiction ? When he is an impatient patient. TWICE RIGHT.—No man is always wrong. A clock that does not go at all is right twice in the ...

    Article : 1,419 words
  15. RIVERTON.

    On Monday evening, June 17, a meeting was held at the schoolroom, pursuant to notice, to make arrangements to have a tea meeting in connexion with the Sabbath schools in this place, to raise funds ...

    Article : 369 words
  16. From——(Mining Captain, Wallaroo) to S. Tomkinson. Esq.

    "My dear Sir—I duly received your letter and also the petition; I have also read your able letters in the Weekly Chronicle; I feel somewhat surprised that any opposition should be given to import bone ...

    Article : 296 words
  17. PORT AUGUSTA.

    The Marion arrived yesterday, a day later than her usual time, and leaves again this morning at 10. Of news there is not much, as for what old woman's pot upset, and what two neighbors had a quiet growl in ...

    Article : 148 words
  18. CLERKS OF COURTS.

    Sir—It not unfrequently happens that individuals pertaining to small communities have very exaggerated ideas about their own importance and that of their immediate neighborhood ; they are apt to grow ...

    Article : 578 words
  19. REPORT ON CLASSICS.

    "First Class—Have been chiefly enraged in studying carefully and accurately Arnold's Greek Prose Composition, the first and second books of Arnold's Latin Prose Composition; also in reading the first book of Caesar's Commentaries, ...

    Article : 693 words
  20. SALT WATER MADE FRESH BY MR. NEALE'S PROCESS.

    Sir—I observe in Friday's and also in to-day's Advertiser your remarks upon the question of comparison of the water made fresher by Mr. Neale's process and that of the Torrens at Adelaide, to which ...

    Article : 243 words
  21. LIPSON'S COVE.

    I regret to state that the information communicated by me to you in my last, in reference to the arrest of the two natives on a charge of being concerned in the murder of poor Mrs. Impet, turns out to be incorrect ...

    Article : 407 words
  22. IMMIGRATION PETITIONS.

    Sir—I am sorry to perceive a tone of levity adopted by some members of the House when petitions are presented in favor of immigration. Messrs. Reynolds, Townsend, and Lindsay, particularly, have gone out of ...

    Article : 192 words
  23. THE LIPSON'S COVE MINES.

    The following, extracted from the last report, dated 13th Jane, 1861, from Mr. Varcoe, the Captain of tho Lipson's Core Mining Company, has been forwarded to us by Mr. Driffield, the Secretary :— ...

    Article : 410 words
  24. STREAKY BAY.

    It is now some tune since I forwarded you any news from this district, as the mail has ceased running up here for some time, as it now comes no further than Mr. P. Maurice's station, at Bramfield; but I ...

    Article : 330 words
  25. TRANSACTION IN GRAIN.

    Sir—In your issue of June lst in the Advertiser, and the Chronicle of the 8th, reference is made to the fact, that some orders on a party in town given in payment for wheat, had been dishonored. As the agent ...

    Article : 127 words
  26. REPORT ON DRAWING.

    "Having inspected the drawings executed during the past half-year by the pupils of the Adelaide Educational Institution, I beg to report as follows:— "l. The nun holding a crucifix' is the most meritorious ...

    Article : 979 words
  27. IMMIGRATION.

    Sir—Although my last called forth a long and angry retort from Mr. Clark, he advanced no argument against my proposition, which was this, that many thousands of honest and industrious men ...

    Article : 515 words
  28. THE DOG ACT.

    Sir—Remarking on the Dog Act, you say now is the time, or never, if we have anything to say about it. The Dog Act first sprang up through so many curs being kept about towns and villages, and not on ...

    Article : 206 words
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