Sir-The above Bill is now very much like a dilapidated house with all its windows broken: all the places that should give light are obscured by old clothes, props are stack all round, and ...
Article : 1,586 wordsThe weather has been very hot. Yesterday the thermometer registered 98[?] in the shade and to day 100°.-The crops are ripening very fast, and a few farmers have started reaping. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 221 wordsThe weather still continues very hot and dry, and matters are looking serious for the future as regards stock, which as a rule are in a low condition. Everything is so dry that ...
Article : 173 wordsThe weather of late has been most propitious for harvesting operations, which are now in full swing. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe First load of the new season's wheat was delivered here to day Mr. Jas. Crettenden to Messrs. Verco Brothers & co.The sample was good, weighing 65 lb, per bushel, and ...
Article : 42 wordsA successful concert was given in the public school here on Tuesday , November 20. The chairman of the local board of advice (Mr. Berry Smith) presided over a crowded audience ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 60 wordsSir-I have been watching and waiting anxiously to see what action the Upper House would take with the Mining on Private Property Bill, the passing of which into law as it left the Assembly would be the ...
Article : 557 wordsOn Sunday afternoon. November 18, a Slight thunderstorm passed over here, and just enough rain fell to cause the water to start running. -A start has been made by 40 men ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 77 wordsOn Wednesday evening, November 21, an entertainment was given in the local Anglican Church in aid of the funds of that building. An excellent programme was presented. After ...
Article : 98 wordsOn Saturday evening Mr. Bridges gave a lecture entitled "How to read character at eight." Mr. J. Rossiter presided, and there was a good attendance. Thirteen of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 251 wordsTHE cycle of low prices for wheat through which the world at large has recently passed has been severely felt in South Australia, for not only have our farmers ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 122 wordsOn Wednesday evening, November 21, an entertainment was given in the Institute Hall on behalf of the Institute. The farce, "Wanted a Young Lady," was presented, the ...
Article : 151 wordsThe weather ia still dry, in fact it has not been an unusual occurrence during the week to see the thermometer at 107° in the shade. As a matter of course the wheat has ripened ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 134 wordsThe weather is excessively hot, and everything is very dry. Haymaking is nearly finished, the average yield being very poor. Hand reaping has commenced, but the stripper ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 40 wordsReaping is now pretty general. The grain is not so bad considering the dryness of the season. A concert was held in the dining room of the Morchard Hotel on Tuesday ...
Article : 146 wordsSir-Will you allow me to suggest to the shareholders in Block 14 that instead of increasing the number of shares by 10,000 and reducing their present value and our future dividends by 10 per cent., a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 175 wordsSince last writing the fall in the river has been very rapid, amounting to about 2 inches daily. The population here is increasing every week.—A good deal of work is being done in ...
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Advertising : 923 wordsA successful demonstration in connection with the Dowlingville Band of Hope took place on Wednesday, November 21. SportS were held during the afternoon in a paddock ...
Article : 115 wordsWe have received from the publishers, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., through Messrs. E. S. Wigg & Son, Geo. Macdonald's "The Elect Lady." The novel, like most of this ...
Article : 663 wordsSir-Woman's suffrage was first brought before the attention of the House of Commons by Mr. John Stuart Mill in 1867 in a measure which he introduced for the enfranchisement ...
Article : 646 wordsHay cutting, carting, and stacking is going on all round, and is being hurried through to make way for reaping, which will become general in another week or ten days.—So far ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsAfter a long period of very hot weather we are enjoying a cool change. For a few days last week the heat was almost unbearable, the register in the shade being ...
Article : 173 wordsA fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Jas. Gant, of Finniss Point, about 6 miles from here, on Wednesday, November 14, by which was destroyed 80 acres of grass, beside fencing ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 81 wordsThe long continued dry weather is fast drying up the water in the tanks and dams; some farmers are already carting water. -Reaping has commenced, and the result is very ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsWe have had several scorching days lately, which have done a good deal of damage to the fruit crops, especially gooseberries, great quantities of which are being completely ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 166 wordsA Boy named Henry Watson had his leg broken on Sunday night, November 25, whilst on his way home from church, through the horse he was riding falling. It was feared at ...
Article : 112 wordsDuring the last two weeks we have experienced hot, dry, windy, and dusty weather, which has not done any good to the few remaining crops in this district: tonight, however, a ...
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Advertising : 196 wordsThe new Wesleyan Chapel was opened on Sunday, November 18, when the Rev. Wylie, of Yorke's Peninsula, preached three sermons to large congregations. On the following day ...
Article : 75 wordsSir-Permit me to trouble you again on the above important subject. I have beard it remarked that there is no difficulty in obtaining the wherewithal to develop promising country, and that prospectors do ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 69 wordsOn Sunday, November 18, the Episcopal Bishop of Ballarat preached in Nhill, and lectured on the following Tuesday. He has been paying his annual visit to the Wimmera ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 113 wordsThe long-continued drought broke up a little a week or two ago, when half an inch of rain fell in thunder showers. This will be of great benefit to the wheat, as it will help to fill the ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1881 - 1889), Sat 1 Dec 1888, Page 13
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