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  2. The Weekly Chronicle. ADELAIDE, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1861.

    A LETTER of a most extraordinary—we might say—of an unprecedented character, has just been printed by order of the House of Assembly. It consists of "memorandum" addressed to ...

    Article : 13,938 words
  3. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir—If you will allow me a few words on the Chinese question, and I natter myself that I shall be permitted this favor, as I have been the only person in the colony who grappled with the question; my ...

    Article : 856 words
  4. THE OPEN COLUMN.

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

    Article : 62 words
  5. THE MURDER OF MRS. IMPETT.

    Sir—I shall esteem it a favor, if, through the medium of your widely-circulated paper, you would endeavor to ascertain why and by whose authority the natives that so cruelly murdered the late Mrs. Impett ...

    Article : 190 words
  6. EXCAVATING MACHINES.

    Sir—I beg to forward you the following extract from an old number of "The Mirror." I think it describes a more useful excavating machine than Mr. J. B. Hughes's scoop. ...

    Article : 117 words
  7. THE CHINESE.

    Sir—However quiet, retiring, or unassuming, there are times and occasions in which the most humble of our citizens and the meanest of our colonists feel called upon by a stern sense of moral duty to lift up ...

    Article : 1,381 words
  8. IMMIGRATION.

    Sir—Seeing an article in the Chronicle stating that there was a law in force in the colony that, if a man wanted to send home for his friends, he could, by paying into the Treasury the entire passage-money, ...

    Article : 267 words
  9. THE NEW EDUCATIONAL SCHEME.

    Sir—A most important resolution, affecting the status of education in this colony, was recently passed in the House of Assembly with little or no deliberation. Could the resolution of the House be carried ...

    Article : 666 words
  10. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir—Permit me to ask, through the medium of your "Open Column," have the majority of the House of Assembly, in their late rote on the repeal of the Chinese poll-tax, consulted the wishes of their ...

    Article : 161 words
  11. GOVERNMENT PRIZES.

    Sir—That "fair play is a jewel" few will deny, but the Hon. Mr. Hawker seems to be of opinion that fair play means fair play for the majority, and that a minority have no right to demand it at all. He goes ...

    Article : 379 words
  12. NATIONAL RIFLE MATCHES.

    Sir—I am sorry to see that the sum subscribed for carrying out the national matches is as yet very much short of the amount required. Though a few have come forward liberally to support a movement ...

    Article : 856 words
  13. LAWS OF THE PROVINCE.

    Sir—I have perused the evidence, as published in the papers, of Mr. Justice Boothby, and the report of the Committee of the House of Assembly the soon, and have arrived at this conclusion, that if the Judge's ...

    Article : 1,041 words
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