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Article : 161 wordsThe annual exhibition of the Agricultural Society opens on April 23, and closes May 4. Nearly 900 immigrants were released ...
Article : 188 wordsThe Sultan and the Czar have exchanged compliments on the conclusion of peace. The Russians are removing all obstacles to the navigation of the Danube. ...
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Article : 103 wordsThe Italian Opera Company has separated here. Guadaguina, Gambetti, Cessari, Nobili, and the orchestra and chorus leave per Hero for Sydney and Melbourne. The ...
Article : 44 wordsGeneral Ignatieff takes the treaty of peace to St. Petersburg for ratification. Meanwhile, though its publication is deferred, the leading articles are known. The ...
Article : 87 wordsThe Bertha, A. S. Newster, master, has arrived from Hong Kong, with 200 Chinese for Palmerston, and 300 for Cooktown and Sydney. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe Rev. F. Page, the pastor of the local Baptist Church, having accepted a call from the Laura Church, has resigned his charge here. The rev. gentleman is much respected in this ...
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Article : 422 wordsThe Argonaut ship, bound from London to Adelaide, has put back to repair damages incurred in a collision with the Bombay. The latter vessel sank. ...
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Article : 95 wordsElection affairs take up a good deal of attention in our locality, and people here have comfortably settled the matter by asserting that Messrs. Bundey and Henning will be elected. ...
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Article : 230 wordsThe Derbin Willder prosecution was partly heard to-day, and so far it has been successful. The case was adjourned for a week. ...
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Article : 309 wordsThe Government have engaged Sir J. Coode to report on the best means of securing a permanent entrance to the Gippsland Lakes at a fee of 500 guineas. ...
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Article : 169 wordsSplendid rain fell here on Tuesday afternoon and evening. The fall varied from one to two inches at different places. ...
Article : 30 wordsTwo large haystacks, containing about 40 tons, belonging to Mr. Wimmer, caught fire about 1 o'clock to-day. Fortunately they were in an open paddock. The flames ...
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Article : 244 wordsThe weather for the past week has been most oppressive. The thermometer stood at 100° in the shade, yesterday. We had a thunderstorm here this evening, and it is now raining steadily ...
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South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1868 - 1881), Sat 9 Mar 1878, Page 21
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