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 ...
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Article : 61 wordsThe 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 wordsSir—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 wordsPOLITICAL.—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 wordsThere is nothing in the papers calling for extract. The following telegram appears in the Melbourne journals:— Sydney, Wednesday. ...
Article : 138 wordsSir—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 wordsSir—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"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 wordsThe 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 wordsA 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 wordsA 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 wordsOn 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"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 wordsThe 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 wordsSir—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"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 wordsSir—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 wordsI 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 wordsSir—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 wordsThe 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 wordsIt 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 wordsSir—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"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 wordsSir—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 wordsSir—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 ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 22 Jun 1861, Page 3
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