A large attendance witnessed an exciting match between the Strathalbyn and Willunga football clubs. The game resulted in a victory for the home team, who scored 6 gaols in ...
Article : 36 wordsIt is estimated that the wheat crop of the United Kingdom will be 11,000,000 quarters below the amount required for home consumption. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Anglo-German agreement in reference to Africa has been the subject of an animated debate in the Parliament of Cape Colony, the feeling being one of ...
Article : 252 wordsThe chairman of the district council (Mr. Hocking ) convened a meeting of ratepayers, which was held last night for the purpose of considering the advisability of forming Terowie ...
Article : 89 wordsThe last Australian wicket fell for a total of 154 runs, Burn making 21, and Charlton being not out with 13. LONDON, August 1, 2.10 p.m. ...
Article : 186 wordsMessrs. Corney and Humphries were entertained to-night at a smoke social at the District Hotel by a large number of townsmen. The proceedings were very enthusiastic, and success ...
Article : 57 wordsIntelligence has been received that the French envoy at the court of Dahomey has concluded with the king an agreement by which the towns of Kotonou and ...
Article : 56 wordsA painful accident happened to Mr. Wm. Hyde, near Terowie, last night. He was on his way home from Tarowie to his farm at Wonna in a boggy, when the wheels got into a ...
Article : 101 wordsIn connection with the threat of M. Stambouloff, the Bulgarian Premier, to withhold the tribute due to Turkey in the event of the continued refusal of the ...
Article : 82 wordsArbor Day was celebrated here to-day, when about 200 trees were planted, chiefly around the school and railway reserves. The stores were closed in the morning, and the children ...
Article : 55 wordsThe report that the Russian authorities have renewed the persecution of Jews in their territory and that the Hebrews are being expelled wholesale is denied by ...
Article : 81 wordsCrops are looking well, but are somewhat backward owing to the continued wet and cold weather. The prospects are considered better than last season. ...
Article : 34 wordsLast night the Cathedral choir gave a concert in the Institute in aid of St. George's Church. The hall was crowded although the night was wet and stormy. Mr. Croft, ...
Article : 134 wordsThe township in flooded. The water is up to the bottoms of the bags of wheat in stocks in the railway yard. The fall of rain registered this morning was 900 points. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe postmen who were dismissed for refusing to perform their duties, and who are urging the leaden of the Postmen's Union to dissolve that organisation on the ...
Article : 117 wordsThe Australian Eleven began a match at Canterbury to day, their opponents being the county of Kent. Walters and Trumble were omitted from the colonial ...
Article : 366 wordsA meeting of the shareholders of Cleland and Co., Limited, was held at the Tanunda Hotel this evening, where there was a large attendance, over which Sir Samuel Davenport ...
Article : 108 wordsHer majesty the Queen met with a somewhat alarming experience at Cowes yesterday. She was returning from the annual contest of the Royal Yacht ...
Article : 129 wordsA meeting of the executive committee of the Farmers' Association was held in the Institute to-day. Amongst other business the president read papers on payments for pastoral ...
Article : 62 wordsThe church parade to-day was an unqualified success. Punctually at 2 o'clock the members of the various lodges fell in line, being headed by the Jamestown Band. The following lodges ...
Article : 191 wordsThe Sheriff's report for the year 1889 shows that on December 31 last there were 339 male and 60 female prisoners in the various gaols of the colony. The ...
Article : 278 wordsBishop Kennion preached to a large congregation in St. Alban's Church to-night, and the address, which was very eloquent, was listened to with the greatest attention. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe sculling contest for the Searle memorial cup took place on the Thames on Saturday, the course being over the champion distance from Putney to Mortlake. ...
Article : 64 wordsThis is the first fine day for the post three weeks. The crops in the neighborhood are very backward, owing to continual cold and wet. but a week's fine weather would alter the ...
Article : 39 wordsTelegrams from Constantinople state that the Greek Patriarch has resigned owing to the Porte having in deference to the demands of the Bulgarian ...
Article : 228 wordsThe river is within a few inches of last year's flood level, but is stationary. The work of raising the main street was commenced on Monday, but operations are at a ...
Article : 81 wordsIntelligence has been received from Russia that new conspiracies against the life of the Czar have been discovered in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and that ...
Article : 43 wordsThe funeral of the late Mr. Gosling, who died at an early hour on Saturday, took place to-day. The deceased had been living in the district for some considerable time, and was a ...
Article : 48 wordsA large number of farmers met in the Town Hall on Saturday afternoon to consider the disabilities under which they labored as compared with credit selectors. The meeting was ...
Article : 204 wordsAdvices from Central America report that much discontent prevails among the troops in San Salvador. The populace in the capital rose in rebellion against the ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Gray, the contractor for reticulating the town, commenced work this morning with a gang of about 60 men, and the work is expected to be done in about two months. Some ...
Article : 63 wordsAt a meeting of the employes at the Eveleigh railway shops to-day resolutions were carried asking the Chief Railway Commissioner to delay the introduction of ...
Article : 1,018 wordsA nine-year old son of Mr. J. C. Fergusson, of Mount Barker, was thrown off his horse near Dalmaney Park on Saturday afternoon, and lay unconscious till this morning. It is ...
Article : 44 wordsTelegrams have been received from Buenos Ayres stating that the bombardment of the capital by the squadron under the direction of President Calman lasted ...
Article : 423 wordsThe land board held a special meeting to-night to consider the complaint made as to the evidence given by Thos. O'Connor, who was allotted one of the Minebool blocks, being ...
Article : 141 wordsCaptain William Heslop, formerly in command of the barque Raven, died at the Pier Hotel, Fremantle, last Sunday eight. The deceased was engaged in ...
Article : 135 wordsFour pieces of wreckage have just been handed over to the harbormaster by Captain Henderson, who obtained them from the native camp just outside the township of Edithburgh. ...
Article : 220 wordsRobert Fitzsimmons, the Australian middleweight, who has just defeated Upham, the American, in a fight at New Orleans, has received a challenge from ...
Article : 42 wordsThe sentence passed by the Correctional Tribunal of the Seine on M. Secretan, managing director of the Society des Metaux, who was convicted on May 27 of ...
Article : 87 wordsA supplementary meeting of the land board was held to-day, The stone reserve, Narracoorte, was allotted to D. Bickford. Land to the south-west of block B. hundred of Glenroy, ...
Article : 150 wordsExperts have furnished M. Monchicourt, the judicial liquidator of the Panama Canal Company, with a report showing that by the adoption of the loch ...
Article : 63 wordsThe quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kindom is 2,029,000 quarters, being 81,000 quarters more than a week ago. The wheat market is firm and ...
Article : 250 wordsThe weather is intensely cold here. The thermometer showed a maximum in the shade of 46.2 degrees and at 3 p.m. It stood at 44.3 degrees. ...
Article : 199 wordsA farewell banquet was tendered last night at Jones's Hotel to Mr. W. C. Barton, who is leaving shortly for Sydney. About 70 were present, and the mayor read apologies from ...
Article : 151 wordsThe Hamburger Nachrichten, one of the newspapers devoted to the Interests of Prince Bismarck, asserts that Count Waldersee, chief of the general staff of ...
Article : 75 wordsConsiderable indignation prevails here and at Dawson at the decision of the Railway Commissioners in reference to the Dawson-road station, the whole of the residents are ...
Article : 128 wordsThe cholera which broke out in Spain a few weeks ago, having originated in a cemetery in Valencia where the bodies of victims of the disease were buried in 1885, ...
Article : 149 wordsMessrss. Swan and Taplin, the Finke Enquiry Commissioners, arrived here yesterday evening, accompanied by Inspector Besley. They propose going 80 miles further on before starting ...
Article : 38 wordsVery heavy rains have fallen in the Flinders Range, and the Wilmington mailman reports that Horrocks Pass-road is in a very bad state, some portions being washed away. The mail ...
Article : 62 wordsA public meeting was held at Pekina on Saturday evening, attended by about a hundred electors, over which Mr. McKenney presided. It was proposed by Mr. John Daly, ...
Article : 71 wordsThe Stirling and Saltia schools celebrated Arbor Day to day at Stirling, when 100 trees were planted in the cemetery by the children in the presence of Mr. Calder (teacher) and ...
Article : 87 wordsMr. Johnstone, the general manager of the South British Insurance Company, has resigned. The miners of Brunnerton have ...
Article : 270 wordsAn influential meeting was held here this evening with a view to gaining the Wednesday half-holiday for the assistants employed in the different shops. As Messrs. Hamlyn Brothers ...
Article : 70 wordsEustace Shoppie, manager of Dr. Lawrence's station at Coalville, Gippsland, has been arrested on a charge of embezzling his employer's moneys. ...
Article : 717 wordsA serious incident is reported from Mozambique, the Portuguese seaport in East Africa. The Portuguese officials on the Shire River have seized a steamer ...
Article : 296 wordsThe barques Onyx and Victoria have arrived from Brisbane, and both are berthed at Gray's wharf with cargoes of coke and coal. During the part few days we have had ...
Article : 71 wordsA mutiny has occurred in the British North American squadron, which is under the command of Vice-Admiral G. W. Watson. The mutineers seized the boats ...
Article : 92 wordsTo-day the Osman Pacha, barque, Mellis master. sailed for Port Elizabeth with 6,400 bags wheat valued at £4,650, and 17 stud sheep valued at £1,500. The barque Sussex, Malcolm ...
Article : 95 wordsThe ploughing match to-day in connection with the agricultural society was not a very great success, owing to the unfavorable weather. The matches commenced at 9 a.m., but owing ...
Article : 140 wordsPublic regret is expressed at the defeat of the Progressive Land. Tax Bill, and the division list in being eagerly [?] The defeat is considered the work of the Adelaide ...
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South Australian Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1895), Sat 9 Aug 1890, Page 10
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