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Advertising : 1,376 wordsBathurst has been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. There is a general holiday and a review of 2,000 volunteers amidst incessant rain. ...
Article : 70 wordsSir—Respecting your report of the Municipal Council's proceedings, allow me to offer a few remarks on that part of it in which my name appears; not to take up your valuable space in rebutting accusations, ...
Article : 304 wordsThe importation, manufacture, and sale of tobacco in Prance constitute a strict Government monopoly. About half the leaf or unmanufactured tobacco required for consumption is imported from abroad; ...
Article : 1,072 wordsOn Friday afternoon, November 30, about 3 o'clock, the township of Brighton and its vicinity was visited by a severe thunderstorm, which, though of short duration, did considerable damage, and alarmed the ...
Article : 200 wordsSir—I am loth to trouble you or the public with another long letter on this subject, as I have already fully expressed my views. Your correspondent, "A Marksman in Posse," however, seems determined to ...
Article : 846 wordsSir—I beg to inform a correspondent at Redruth that I have never refused to receive Bibles from the Bible Society, and a visit to Redruth Gaol would have satisfied your correspondent that the prisoners have ...
Article : 139 wordsFirst hearing. Mr. Wigley appeared for Mr. E. McEllister, an opposing creditor. The insolvent was examined by Mr. Wigley at ...
Article : 83 wordsUnlike most of your correspondents, I have no volunteers to write about. However, the other two universal subjects are open to me, namely, the weather and the crops. ...
Article : 158 wordsWitnesses to character were taken this morning on behalf of this prisoner, convicted of forgery. Dr. Frankis stated that some time ago the prisoner had a fall from his horse, which resulted in concussion of the ...
Article : 2,491 wordsVIOLENT CONDUCT.—Edward Egan was brought up, charged on the information of Dr. Moore with being drunk and riotous in Rundle-street, and also with violently assaulting him, at his dwelling, on Monday, December 3. The ...
Article : 1,336 wordsSir—There is no use in blinking the fact that the volunteer movement in South Australia is on the decline; and[?]remembering the enthusiasm with which it begun, one is naturally led to inquire into the cause ...
Article : 992 wordsSir—In your issue of this morning, it is stated that I, John Richmond, was sent to the Lunatic Asylum yesterday, by order of the Colonial Surgeon. As such a statement in the public prints is ...
Article : 125 wordsTh[?] event commenced on Friday, the 30th November. The number of spectators assembled to witness the sport was far beneath what might have been expected ...
Article : 777 wordsERRORS ABOUT SLEEP.—Dr. Hall, in his Journal of Health, says:—"One of the very worst economics of time is that filched from necessary sleep. Multitudes of business men in large cities count it a saving of time ...
Article : 211 wordsSir—In your Kooringa correspondent's letter which appeared in last Thursday's paper, there are a number of erroneous remarks, which, if uncontradicted, might prove detrimental to the interests of the above ...
Article : 551 wordsBREACH OF CUSTOMS ACT.—Thomas Smith, master of the Aun and Jaue, appeared to an information by the Collector of Customs, for a breach of the Customs Act in landing three tons of bacon wi[?]hout the presence or authority of the ...
Article : 319 wordsFATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternoon, at about half-past 3 o'clock, a man named John Twelves, a farmer, residing at Bull's Creek, left the Flagstaff Hotel, Sturt, for Adelaide, with his bullock-dray laden ...
Article : 374 wordsBURTON'S CIRCUS.—We have received a letter from a gentleman, acquainted with Mr. Burton, who iuforms us that that most indefatigable and successful caterer to public gratification intends spending his ...
Article : 150 wordsSir—Under this heading appeared a letter in the Advertiser, November 30th, from one of the five challengers, throughout nearly the whole of which there is displayed a spirit of dogmatism and injured ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Wed 5 Dec 1860, Page 3
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