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  2. WESLEYAN CONFERENCE.

    We hare been supplied with the following official report of the Conference business : — THIRD DAY: SATURDAY, JANUARY 20. Opening services, conducted by the Rev. E. King. The ...

    Article : 367 words
  3. MOUNT TORRENS.

    The christening of the newly-completed bridge, by Messrs. Cook 4 Goad, took place on Thursday afternoon last in this township; several of the workmen employed and inhabitants of the township were ...

    Article : 375 words
  4. THE OPEN COLUMN.

    Under this heading—and subject to the usual condition and regulations—we offer to our readers a medium to the interchange of opinions upon topics of public interest if temperately discussed, and free from needless personality ...

    Article : 120 words
  5. HORRIBLE MURDER.

    The following account of a fearful fourfold murder at Otahuhu, New Zealand, is given by the Daily Southern Cross:— The peaceful settlement of Otahuhu was on Friday ...

    Article : 2,619 words
  6. THE SQUATTING QUESTION.

    Sir—When the squatting question was under discussion prior to the last elections, I bad the temerity to say that, in my humble opinion, it would add to the general prosperity, and permanently benefit the ...

    Article : 655 words
  7. ONKAPARINGA DISTRICT SCHOOL.

    A public meeting of persons interested in the nomination of a teacher for the Woodside District School was held at the Schoolhouse, Woodside, at 8 o'clock p.m., on Friday, January 19, 1866. ...

    Article : 1,413 words
  8. ROAD CONTRACTS.

    Sir—I see that one of the Surveyors of the Central Board of Main Roads ia suspended daring the investigation of the charge that more money has been paid for contract work than work done. I hope this ...

    Article : 158 words
  9. WESLEYAN MISSIONS.

    The annual public meeting, in connection with the above, was held in the Pirie-street Wesleyan Chapel, on Monday evening, January 22. There was a very large attendance, and the Rev. W. A. Quick, President of the Conference ...

    Article : 2,127 words
  10. SADDLEWORTH.

    Mr. McCulloch, one of our farmers in this place, met with rather a serious accident on the 18th inst., returning from Kapunda through the night, with fire horses and waggon. In parsing through a cutting ...

    Article : 214 words
  11. JURY ACT NOTICES.

    Sir—It is to be hoped that the objectionable practice of posting the Jury notices yearly on the doors of all places of worship in the colony will be put an end to by a clause in the Bill now before ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. GOSPEL OAK IRON WORKS.

    Sir—A rumor having been somewhat extensively circulated that the manufacture of the Gospel Oak galvanized iron has ceased, I beg to contradict such an assertion, and to inform you that the only ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. BREMER GOLD FIELDS.

    The goldfields on the Bremer Binges still continue to be a great attraction. Numbers of equestrians are constantly visiting the scene. Several parties have been with the intention of commencing ...

    Article : 283 words
  14. ORDER OP DRUIDS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 593 words
  15. CENTRAL BOARD OF MAIN ROADS.

    Sir—I had expected by this time to have seen that the Road Board, or the Parliament, would hare informed the public that they should have an opportunity of seeing that the public money is ...

    Article : 151 words
  16. LAND ADMINISTRATION.

    Sir—Although I have from time to time disagreed with the pastoral policy enunciated in your journals, still I cannot withhold my praise of nearly every paragraph of your recent leader headed—"Our Land ...

    Article : 766 words
  17. PUBLIC MARKETS.

    Sir—This morning, according to arrangement with a friend, I turned out before the sun shed forth his rays over the eastern hills. I passed the Post-Office at 5 o'clock, called at my friend's house, rang ...

    Article : 361 words
  18. MINING.

    The development of the Yelta continues to be [?] by fresh discoveries and increased richness of ore. In Wearing's shaft the lode at the bottom is about seven feet wide, but its actual width ...

    Article : 1,052 words
  19. COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO MR EDWARD PRESCOTT.

    On Thursday evening, January 18, the friends of Mr. E. Prescott invited that gentleman to dine with them previous to his departure from this neighborhood. About 42 gentleman partook of a first-class spread provided and served up ...

    Article : 865 words
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    A Coroner's inquest was held at the Police Court, Port Adelaide, before Mr. G. W. Hawkes, S.M., in the absence of the Coroner, on the body of a newly born male child (name unknown) found in a bag in ...

    Article : 580 words
  21. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

    Sir—In your notice of the various buildings now in progress in the City of Adelaide, yon hare entirely overlooked that fine stack of houses at the east end of Gilles-street, and which, I believe, the Hon. the ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. WEIGHT OF GOLD.

    Sir—Could you inform me through the medium o your paper the weight of a square foot of gold. It having been a matter of conversation, and we cannot agree as to its weight. ...

    Article : 46 words
  23. TO THE EDITOR.

    Sir—I don't know what your correspondent "Y' means by a square foot of gold, as such a quantity might be represented by a square foot of gold leaf. A cubic foot of pure gold is given in the table in "The ...

    Article : 93 words
  24. TO THE EDITOR:

    Sir—I see in your Saturday's issue a correspondent enquires the weight of gold, which I find according to Adcock is per foot cube:—Gold, 20 carate, fine, 982.0; the same hammered, 986.0. ...

    Article : 50 words
  25. OUR NEW ARRIVALS.

    Sir—Before any gentleman assumes that our Emigration Agent, has fallen into the grave error of applying colonial funds "to the sending out of lads from the English Penitentiaries ana Reformatories ...

    Article : 447 words
  26. COLONIAL ALE.

    Sir—I have several times heard it stated that the brewers of colonial ale are in the habit of using large quantities of nux vomica in its manufacture. Should not some of our authorities look to this? ...

    Article : 136 words
  27. ANNIVERSARY OF ARCHER-STREET CHURCH.

    The services attendant upon the anniversary of the Archer-street Wesley an Church were continued on Tuesday January 23, when a tea meeting, followed by a public meeting, was held. The latter, which was presided over by ...

    Article : 1,126 words
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