Since about noon yesterday we have had rather a lively scene here, resulting from two or three small nuggets of gold having been picked up by some young persons on the roadside catting near the 23rd ...
Article : 589 wordsThe elections for the Legislative Council nave taken place here to-day, in the long room at the Burra Hotel. There was but little interest manifested- out of about 400 electors only fifty-four voted. ...
Article : 157 wordsSir-The insertion of my name as one of the local Committee of the North Arm Company and apparently as one of its promoters, is entirely without my authority. ...
Article : 80 wordsThe opening of the Congregational Chapel tooK place on Sunday, the 2nd instant. A sermon was delivered in the morning by the Rev. Henry Bath, Wesleyan minister; the Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Kadina ...
Article : 1,372 wordsSir-As allusions have been, made in the public papers to my name appealing on the list of the local Directors of the North Arm, Port, and Land Company, I beg to state that sot only did I not authorize ...
Article : 168 wordsSir-Allow me to contradict some statements made by your Meadows occasional correspondent in his letter published to-day, and also in Wednesday's Advertiser. ...
Article : 107 wordsSir-There is often very useful information for the million, and otherwise, in your valuable paper. Would it be of any advantage to your general readers, or amongst them the lovers of the " Fine ...
Article : 558 wordsWe sometimes hear it remarked that our best shooting will now bear but very unfavorable comparison with the scores made at home, so rapid has been the progress there effected. In this observation ...
Article : 1,353 wordsThe election to fill up the three vacancies now existing in the Upper House came on to-day for the dare division. Sixty-five good and true men came to the poll. The scrutineers were-Messrs. Gleeson ...
Article : 166 wordsSir-On reading your report of the discussion in the House of Assembly on Mr. Coglin's motion, relative to the Queen's Hundred, I perceive that Mr. J. Lindsay stated that he would not support the vote ...
Article : 500 wordsHaving nothing particular to communicate of late I have not felt it necessary to trouble you weekly with the news that we have had a great deal of wet weather, that the crops are all looking well, that times are very ...
Article : 279 wordsA meeting of shareholders in the New Cornwall Mineral Association was held at the Hotel Europe, on Wednesday, August 12. ...
Article : 868 wordsSir-Mr. Macfarlane stated in the House that those members who were interested in the National Bank would have displayed more taste if they had stopped away when the matters affecting the Bank ...
Article : 90 wordsAs I informed you in my last communication, all the necessary preparations were being made to haul the Flying Squirrel off the beach. Three anchors and cables, with running tackle of the strongest ...
Article : 422 wordsUnder this heading-and subject to the usual conditions and regulations-we offer to our readers a medium for the interchange of opinions upon topics of public interest, if temperately dismissed and free from needless personality ...
Article : 76 wordsSir-May I call the attention of the authorities, through your columns, to the fact, that the whole of the road contract for clearing the scrub from the Hummocks to Kadina is ...
Article : 219 wordsSir-Having read in your issue of the 5th instant, the report of the meeting held at Finniss Flat for the purpose of deciding on the best route from Bull's Creek to Goolwa, I venture to crave a space in your = ...
Article : 550 wordsThe annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held at the Exchange on Monday afternoon, August 10. There were present-Mr. T. Graves (Chairman), Mr. G. Young (deputy Chairman), and about 25 members beside. ...
Article : 2,275 wordsSir-The commissioner or Crown Lands, Mr. Glyde, is reported to have said, on Mr. Stow's motion on Wednesday last, " that it had nothing to do with the present Ministry to say that Messrs. Torrens, ...
Article : 970 wordsThe weather still continues very wet, which has in a great measure retarded the growth of the crops and feed. Last Friday, the day of the election for the Upper House, was very showery, which rendered ...
Article : 352 wordsPresent-The Mayor, and Councillors Monck and Wright. Resolved, that the Mayor take steps to obtain the services of a police constable during the gammer months of the year, in accordance with the provisions of the new ...
Article : 107 wordsAs there were several gentlemen from the locality of Finniss Flat in oar township this evening, it was announced that a meeting of those interested in the construction of the Bull's Creek line of road to ...
Article : 1,259 wordsSir-In your paper of the 4th inst. your correspondent " B." says, in reply to a letter of mine, that it is fallacious to assume " that men work for just what will maintain them." ...
Article : 294 wordsPresent-Messrs. W. C. Belt and W. Cavangh. M.P. APPLICATIONS FOR LICENCES. Applications for licences in due form were received ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 15 Aug 1863, Page 3
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