The harvest is completed in this locality, but the crop is small. Potatoes are almost a complete failure. Some of the' formers are' calling their creditors together, and it is hoped that all of them will ...
Article : 172 wordsThere is nothing of very great importance to chronicle from my district this week. I think, however, that business is somewhat livelier than it has been for some time, what with wood carting, hay ...
Article : 176 wordsOn Thursday last a lecture on " Burns as a Poet" was delivered by the Rev. John Gardner in Messrs. Walker & Co.'s large store. Daring the evening the rev. gentleman recited several of Bums's poems in ...
Article : 186 wordsUnder this heading—and subject to the conditions and regulations published in another column—we offer to our readers medium for the free interchange of opinion upon topics of public interest, if temperately discussed and ...
Article : 58 wordsSir—As I have not observed any more kind letters about myself and our new Building Society in your Open Column during the last two days, I suppose I may venture to presume that Messrs. " Scrip " and ...
Article : 413 wordsWe have been favored by the Captain of the Boomerang with a file of the Hobart Town Advertiser to the 30th ult. The following is the latest commercial news ...
Article : 195 wordsOn Friday, the 6th instant, the quarterly conversazione of the Mechanics' Institute was held. The attendance was about 50. The want of a pianoforte, for which was substituted a harmonium, and the want ...
Article : 472 wordsSir—What is a " deputation ?" Is it correct to use the word " party" In the singular number ? I am, Sir, &c., IGNORAMUS. ...
Article : 117 wordsAt Winchester Assizes, on the 10th of December, before Mr. Justice Byles, Fernando Petrina, a fine-looking Austrian seaman,.was indicted for the wilful murder of a man known by the name of Jones, on the ...
Article : 2,192 wordsOur town on the 12th presented a gloomy appearance owing to all the principal places of business being closed on account of the Agricultural and Horticultural Show in Adelaide. The Show was ...
Article : 359 wordsSir—On looking over my Chronicle this week I observed your valuable article on the above subject, and in reply to your invitation to an expression of other persons' opinions I now venture to trouble you ...
Article : 248 wordsI got safely through the clutches of the Douane at St. Malo, and wanted a carriage to convey me to the old feudal town of St. Cancan. A wretched shandrydan stood at the door of the Custom House, and the ...
Article : 1,192 wordsBy way of Hobart Town we hare news from Hong-kong to the 1st December. We condense the following from, the Summary published in the Hobart Town Advertiser ...
Article : 723 wordsSir—In reply to Mr. Glyde's letter, in which he says that neither "Scrip" nor "Permanent" have embraced the opportunity of distinctly naming the societies in which the improvements recommended by ...
Article : 252 wordsSir—As most of the recently elected members of the House of Assembly have expressed their intention to vote ia favor of a resumption of the ad valorem duties em the best method of increasing our ...
Article : 352 wordsThe anniversary services in connexion with the Primitive Methodists took place in their chapel, on the Gilbert, on Sunday, February 15. Sermons were preached by Mr. Tallack,the circuit minister, to good ...
Article : 209 wordsAccording to advertisement the farewell concert of Messrs. Poussard & Douay was to have taken place last Monday evening at the Woodside Inn, bat as report has it the impossibility of borrowing a ...
Article : 169 wordsSir—It is all very well for Mr. Glyde to imagine that the new Building Society at Kensington is a perfect one, and his letters to your papers are capital advertisement; but whilst I do not intend to ...
Article : 328 wordsIn a few days this district will be without a clergyman, the Ber. Astley Cooper, for more than two years missionary in the districts of Yankalilla, Hay Flat, Sapid Bay, Gape Jervis, and Port Elliot, being ...
Article : 314 wordsSince my last communication the Farmers' Association have disposed of the second lot of wheat (5000 bushels), Mr. White, of Aldinga, being the purchaser; its destination is, I believe, Sydney, and ...
Article : 624 wordsBy the arrival of the Havilah we have newspapers to the 11th instant. GOVERNOR'S SALARY BILL.—In the Assembly, on the evening of the 10th February, Mr. Haines moved ...
Article : 421 wordsSir—You gave two columns of critique upon last Thursday's "Show," and you hare certainly hit the right nail upon the head. You hare ventured to be honest, and tell a true tale. ...
Article : 187 wordsThis exciting contest was fought on the day on which the November Mail was made up, and we reported the fact and the result of the battle a month ago. By the present Mail full ...
Article : 756 wordsArrangements for the annual races hating bean made, the same are fixed to come off at the dose of Feb., and I trust there will be a good muster, and that things will be carried out in good style. ...
Article : 247 wordsSir—It was with mingled astonishment and regret that I read the leader in the Register of the 11th inst. The Register evidently thinks Mr. Hodgkiss wants justification, else why write so long an article in his ...
Article : 718 wordsWe have by way of Melbourne news to the 7th instant. THE INTERCOLONIAL CONFERENCE.—We learn that, in reply to a telegram from Mr. Cowper to the Chief ...
Article : 508 wordsThe unfortunate man who was found dead on Wed-nesday last, on the Adelaide-road, is now identified as Mr. Carter, farmer, living near the Little Pars. An inquest was held On the body on Wednesday evening ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 21 Feb 1863, Page 3
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