The principal events of the past fortnight have been our annual races and the anniversary of the Loyal Port Lincoln Lodge, L.O.O.F., M.U. The former event came off on the 15th and 16th. The course presented a ...
Article : 296 wordsThe following is the minute presented to His Excellency the Governor by the Hon. the Chief Secretary, on the occasion of his tendering the resignation of the Government:— ...
Article : 2,110 words[Under 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 discussed and free from ...
Article : 83 wordsOur last article treated of the wine in the vat. We may now pass to the " decuvage," or in English style, disvatting (as in a new study, we claim to be allowed to use, now and then, new words). ...
Article : 2,122 wordsSir—I am sorry to trouble you, but feel it my duty to do so under the circumstances to which I am about to allude, and to which I most particularly wish to draw your immediate attention, viz., Licensed Wine ...
Article : 689 wordsSir—Your correspondent signing himself "A Hater of Cant" would never have provoked a reply from us had it not been for the pointed allusions in his last paragraph, for, in our opinion, his splenetic effusions ...
Article : 367 wordsThe members of the Port Lincoln Lodge held their first anniversary meeting on Thursday, 22nd March. The Brothers assembled at the Pier Hotel, at 11 a.m., and marched through the township en route for the ...
Article : 807 wordsWe were shown a specimen of copper ore yesterday, taken on the day previously from the Wheat Hughes Mine. It was stated that the ore had just been met with at a depth of 12 fathoms, and that the appearance ...
Article : 342 wordsSir—Being desirous of escaping the £5 penalty for an incorrect return, I have carefully perused the formidable document, which has carried terror into so many homes. So far as I can see, the Government, if so disposed, will ...
Article : 787 wordsSir—In your issue of the 15th, it is stated that the Chief Secretary said in the House the day preceding, with regard to the Forlorn Hope, that the boat went away without having leave to go. Now, for men who ...
Article : 142 wordsThe following accounts of the Boiler Explosion, and the Burning of the Bingo Enginge House, are abridged from the Wallaroo Times of the 24th March :— Boiler Explosion.—On Thursday afternoon, at ...
Article : 1,415 wordsSir—In reading your report of the new City Market Meeting I observed that the Town Clerk was absent, and that the Mayor displayed very great ignorance of his duties. It is a pity the Town Clerk was not ...
Article : 359 wordsSir—The reports of these proceedings which have recently appeared in your columns, having been reflected on by a local journal of a week old, in terms seeking to attribute to your correspondent partiality as ...
Article : 885 wordsSir—I observe a letter signed "Veritas" in your issue of the 17th referring to the late case of poisoning near Williamstown, in which all the statements of the case, except as to the quantity of laudanum taken, and ...
Article : 320 wordsThese races, under the auspices of the Wellington Jockey Club, came off on the Thursday and Friday 22nd and 23rd instant. Stewards—Messrs. Mason, Harslett, and W. Burford. ...
Article : 1,329 wordsSir—The writer of a letter in your issue of the 10th instant appears to disapprove of the system of employing Clerks of Local Courts to collect the census, and expresses himself of opinion that the appointment of ...
Article : 391 wordsSir—At a meeting of the Marine Board, on the 19th March, a letter was received from sundry agents requesting that the overtime charged for mustering passengers be refunded, and the Board recommended the ...
Article : 205 wordsSir,—With reference to a letter in your paper headed "Schools and Pounds," I may state that the Pound adjoins the present poundkeeper's residence ; that it is not incumbent on him to appear in propria persona, as ...
Article : 162 wordsSir—I fear we should soon carry off the palm from the Sydney people in applauding the acquittal of gallant and daring highway robbers. I certainly think the fact pf men living in brothels, together with other ...
Article : 115 wordsSir—On a recent visit to Kadina and Wallaroo I inspected the Government Water Tanks, but was much surprised at their smallness, and to find that the water was just drained into them from the surface of the ...
Article : 154 wordsSir—The police and the reporters have stated that the house which Rogers and Cocking occupied, in Sussex-street, was a brotheL Being proprietor of the house allow me, through your paper, to correct so ...
Article : 116 wordsSir—witnin the last six months two letters from me have been published relative to my long projected expedition to Nichol Bay on the North-West Coast. The first was written in hope that it might perhaps tend to ...
Article : 810 wordsSir—In the Local Court at Goolwa, in the case of Police v. Holmes, I see by your report of the case, the Magistrates—B. F. Laurie, S.M., and Dr. Taylor, J.P.—censured the parents of the child, who was ...
Article : 356 wordsSir—Our peaceful neighborhood was disturbed on Tuesday evening, about 8 o'clock, by the report of a gun, and by the shot flying across tho main road much to the annoyance of passers-by, and dangerous to the ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 31 Mar 1866, Page 3
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