SUNSET EXTRAORDINARY.—An Irish emigrant, hearing the sunset gun at Portsmouth, asked a sailor, "What's that?" "Why[?] that's sunset," was the reply. "Sunset!" exclaimed Pat; "an[?] does the ...
Article : 1,142 wordsHenry Bull Travers Strangways was admitted a practitioner of the Supreme Court in this colony. APPLICATIONS. The only application made this morning was one by Mr. ...
Article : 76 wordsQuotations unchanged. The Great Britain, with 500 passengers, has arrived. ...
Article : 20 wordsHour. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. [?]. J. R. Goodiar, adjourned final hearing. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. ...
Article : 23 wordsFlour is firmer. Californian sold at £17 10s.; Adelaide, £18. ...
Article : 14 wordsDRUNKEN ASSAULT.—John Ramstrom, seaman of the Ann and Jane, was charged with being drunk and assaulting Police-Constable Gardner, at the station, on Friday evening. The constabls deposed that when taken, he appeared ...
Article : 69 wordsFlour, £16 to £17. The Assembly have passed a resolution deploring the reproach cast upon the Supreme Court by the decision in Home v. Gilles. ...
Article : 27 wordsFurther from Taranki. Some of the Maori fortifications are reported as being so strong that they are impervious to shell or other artillery. They are admirably contrived, combining ...
Article : 86 wordsA special meeting of the Council, convened by circular, to consider the case of the late Clerk, was held on Wednesday last Present—All the members. Mr. P. Battler, in the chair. The opinion of Messrs. Andrews and Bonnin read to ...
Article : 237 wordsThe expenses of the Chinese war are to be met by an augmented spirit duty. Ah! this is as it should be. After plunging the nation in despondency by increasing the Income Tax, the Chancellor of the ...
Article : 49 wordsTwenty-five years ago a busy merchant in Cheapside had in his warehouse two young men, whom he had educated and brought up, both of whom had a taste for mechanics. In the course of their studies ...
Article : 700 wordsIt is fortunate that rapping spirits, which seem very tricksy beings, do not seem to be able to move street-knockers. Otherwise we should continually be going to answer a rap at the door, and coming back, ...
Article : 46 wordsThanks to Mr. Justice Willes, this process is now easy to anybody, who can raise the preliminary five pounds. The journals say— "It has been laid down by Mr. Justice Willes, that ...
Article : 145 wordsPresent—Messrs. Nottage, Hall, and Stone. The Council to support memorial to Central Road Board to open the road through the sands to Clarendon; and would oppose the cutting up of the district by the Strathalbyn Council. Clerk to ...
Article : 131 wordsSir—I have no fear that our Government will entertain for a moment the ridiculous recommendations of the Committee appointed to decide on volunteer uniforms. ...
Article : 71 wordsORDERS OF THE DAY:— 1. Volunteer Amendment Bill of 1860: third reading. 2. Savings' Bank Amendment Bill: third reading. 3. Real Property Laws Amendment Bill: in Committee. ...
Article : 1,364 words"There have been considerable disturbances among the Irish papal recruits at Macereta, in which shillelaghs were freely used, and the police who Interfered were severely beaten."—Our own correspondent from Rome. ...
Article : 254 wordsSir—In your leading article of to-day, in reference to the Volunteers' Committee appointed by the Government to consider the article of clothing, or, I should say, uniform, I observe that they recommend ...
Article : 123 wordsOh, lady dear, Do come and hear Your Volunteer; Who does declare ...
Article : 30 wordsThe boys of Palermo are naturally amusing themselves by disfiguring and demolishing the statues of the Bourbon Kings. According to the Special Correspondence of the Times— ...
Article : 123 wordsThe Sydney Herald, reviewing the statistics of New Zealand for the year 1859, supplies the following interesting information:— The population at the end of 1859 was 71,508, ...
Article : 479 wordsThe wheat crops, in some instances, in this neighbourhood begin to assume a rather unhealthy aspect from the want of sufficient moisture. We have been favoured with very little rain lately, although there ...
Article : 606 wordsOur position being settled as that of the first scientific journal of the day, of course we felt desirous, for our own interest as well as that of all our readers, to obtain the fullest, truest, and the most particular ...
Article : 905 wordsROUGE.—The Court Circular complains that rouge has become shamefully fashionable at Her Majesty's Drawing Booms. CONVICTS.—The total number of convicts sent out ...
Article : 2,950 wordsVICTORIA THEATRE.—On Saturday evening Mr. Brooke made his first appearance,at this Theatre in the character of Louis XIth, a part in which he has played with unusual success in the Theatre Royal ...
Article : 854 wordsIt is too common a practice among the majority of our agriculturists to throw every thing on the dungheap, and nothing can be more injudicious. Composts may be described of three varieties—vegetable, ...
Article : 847 wordsI long to hear thee speak again As in those days of old; But still I know my wish is vain, For thou art dead and cold. ...
Article : 111 wordsSUNDAY LECTURES AT THE THEATEE.—The concluding lectured was delivered yesterday by the Rev. T. Q. Stow. The subect of his discourse was taken from the 53rd chapter of Isaiah, 16th verse. The ...
Article : 240 wordsOn Saturday evening[?]a public meeting, convened by the Chairman of the District Council of West Torrens (Mr. George Dew), by advertisement and placards, was held at the Hilton Hotel, Hilton, to take into ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Mon 24 Sep 1860, Page 3
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