It was hardly to be supposed that the initiation of a new system of taxation in South Australia could be peacefully carried out. No one relishes the visit of the taxpayer, and in ...
Article : 1,752 wordsA more enjoyable day than Monday for holiday-makers could hardly have been imagined, and in consequence all the principal places of amusement were largely ...
Article : 4,714 wordsSir—It appeared some time ago that something would be done to curtail the salaries of the employes in the Civil Service whose salaries are a long way too high for the work done. ...
Article : 147 wordsSir—I was much surprised at receiving an income tax notice informing me that I was in receipt of £400 a year. I am prepared to prove that my income for the last three years has not ...
Article : 85 wordsSir—I feel, and so do a great many more poor men in my position, that the land tax is most unsatisfactory. We have been assessed doable what is a fair valuation of the land in ...
Article : 192 wordsSir—At the present moment we hear a great deal said about the weekly efflux of people from our colony to Victoria and New South Wales, and there is a general and most ...
Article : 777 wordsSir—I am one of the majority of old colonists who belong to the backbone of South Australia. I assume this position from the fact that I have made it my adopted home, ...
Article : 454 wordsWemake the following extracts from a private letter received from a gentleman formerly a resident and still taking a deep interest in this colony, and who is not? living in ...
Article : 807 wordsSir—I have seen a few of Mr. Russell's taxation notices, and I think the public will acknowledge that they are ridiculous in the extreme. We must all acknowledge that district councils ...
Article : 205 wordsSir—Thinking over the fearful prospects we as a community have before as of nearly all having to go to law against our inclinations to defend what little we may have left, against ...
Article : 221 wordsSir—I see that a suggestion has been made to of Assembly to discontinue the weekly drills of the volunteers and substitute monthly drills. I ...
Article : 180 wordsSir—Like many others when I came to this colony I had to work hard, my labor being of such a nature that I had to be exposed to the elements both night and day for many years. ...
Article : 506 wordsSir—There are many like Mr. Furner, not altogether satisfied with the revised Estimates. The working class know that the present Ministry have done, and are doing, everything ...
Article : 449 wordsSir—Persons engaged in labor offices in Adelaide should see that they are supplied with a duplicate of their agreement, signed by the employer or his agent. A case has transpired ...
Article : 127 wordsThe immigrant ship Ashmore arrived on Nov. 7. The following is a list of the immigrants who embarked at Plymouth:— Married couples and their children—John, Kate, ...
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Advertising : 696 wordsSir—Notice of assessment just to hand, and not a little surprised at the outrageous price placed on my land, particularly the unimproved value, which since I filled in my return ...
Article : 795 wordsSir—When either individuals or communities are in the condition of the colony of South Australia at the present time they must retrench unless it is in their power to launch out in a ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1881 - 1889), Sat 14 Nov 1885, Page 6
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