In response to an invitation from the Right Hon. F. A. Stanley, Secretary of State for the Colonies, the AgentsGeneral met and conferred with him this ...
Article : 72 wordsThe address given yesterday by His Excellency Sir Wm. Robinson at the University commemoration is one worthy of more than a passing notice. Its aim ...
Article : 8,311 wordsThe R.M.S. Massilia, Holland, commander, arrived from Colombo at 9.30 p.m. last night. The following is a list of the passengers in the saloon:— ...
Article : 260 wordsSo soon as the hot weather commences the citizens of Adelaide begin to have appro[?]ensions of outbreaks of fire, but since the capture of the individual who is supposed to ...
Article : 1,081 wordsWilliam Missell, a traveller, was arrested to-day on a charge of embezzling moneys from Messrs. Goulston & Co. and others. At the Criminal Court to-day Sarah ...
Article : 153 wordsThe remains of the late General Sir Peter Scratchley, High Commissioner for New Guinea, were interred this morning in the St. Kilda Cemetery with military honors. ...
Article : 771 wordsThe Secretary of State for the Colonies informed the Agents-General at their interview with him to-day that a successor to the late Sir Peter Scratchley ...
Article : 37 wordsAt the inquest held to-day on the body of the man Bradshaw, who was killed through falling from scaffolding on the post-office tower, the jury returned a verdict of accidental ...
Article : 508 wordsThe demand of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the payment of income tax on the interest of sums deposited in London in the colonial banks doing ...
Article : 79 wordsMr. Gladstone delivered on the 9th inst, his first speech at Edinburgh, where he was received with great enthusiasm. The speech dwelt particularly upon the necessity of the ...
Article : 692 wordsThe market rate of discount is 3 per cent. Tin is worth £94. New South Wales 3½ are quoted at £93 ...
Article : 57 wordsThe Messageries steamer Yarra arrived to-day, three days in advance of her time. ...
Article : 17 wordsPrince Alexander of Bulgaria has, in reply to the announcement that the Porte is about to dispatch an envoy to Sofia, declared that the dispatch of any such ...
Article : 65 wordsThe aboriginal Jackey was tried on Monday for the murder of Mr. Houschildt, but the jury disagreed. On Tuesday a fresh jury found the prisoner guilty and he was sentenced ...
Article : 45 wordsThe annual inspection of the licensed vehicles in the city was made yesterday and to-day by the traffic board, who expressed the opinon that the cabs, cars, and waggonettes ...
Article : 131 wordsA sad accident occurred near Burrowa yesterday, when a farmer named Wilson, living at Rye Park, while out shooting wallabies descried in the bush what he took to ...
Article : 72 wordsJoseph Dugmore, a man in the employ of Mr. Rehn, of Houghton, was run over by a waggon loaded with hay near here this evening and killed. He leaves a widow and ...
Article : 60 wordsA prisoner has been released from the gaol in order to go into the Adelaide Hospital. The poor woman had to be carried into the train this morning. She is utterly helpless, and in ...
Article : 93 wordsThe following telegram was received to-day from the quarantine station:—"Have wired to Colonial Secretary reporting one fresh case of a married man, who has been removed to ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Commissioner of Police recently received information from Victoria of the discovery of the dead body of a man in the River Yarra on November 8. It is supposed that ...
Article : 310 wordsOne of our reporters arrived at the spot on making enquiries found that the flames were first seen in the south-west corner of Coombe's timber-yard, dose against the sto[?] ...
Article : 1,243 wordsAn important meeting of ratepayers was held in the town hall on Monday night, Mr. Herbert Adcock (chairman of the district council), presiding. It was decided that the railway ...
Article : 115 wordsJohn Flanagan appeared at the Police Court to-day before the stipendiary magistrate, charged with wilfully and feloniously killing John Reardon. The prisoner was ...
Article : 132 wordsAt the Local Court to-day before Messrs. W. G. McGullagh, S.M., S. Stanton, and W. D. Stephenson, an important action for ejectment was tried. It was the case of J. ...
Article : 101 wordsBoth Houses of Parliament cleared off a quantity of arrears of work both yesterday and to-night, many minor Bills being finally disposed of. In the Council the most important ...
Article : 270 wordsA melancholy accident happened here yesterday afternoon to a fisherman named O'Connell, who accompanied by a youth named Bell, went for a [?] down Lake George in a small ...
Article : 149 wordsWhen the Assembly met this afternoon Mr. Dibbs said that since the House met last night the Government bad taken into consideration the position of affairs. When he made his ...
Article : 291 wordsThe first of a series of three matches arranged between the Quorn and Port Augusta companies, R.V.F., was fired to-day at the Port Augusta range. The conditions ...
Article : 103 wordsSir—Thanks to kind friends, I obtained work to-day, and we are relieved from our severe distress; and I must again thank you for your efforts towards the class to which I belong. ...
Article : 48 wordsOn Sunday and Monday the weather was very hot and oppressive, but a thunderstorm threatened yesterday, and again at noon today. About 2 o'clock rain commenced, and ...
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Advertising : 283 wordsA number of men here expect to get work at Beetaloo. The general feeling here is that local men should hare the preference over the town unemployed, and that it is unfair to ...
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The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1889), Thu 17 Dec 1885, Page 5
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