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  2. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION.

    Present—The Worshipful the Mayor, Alderman Glandfield, Councillors Thomas, Hugall, Osborne, Clark, Cox, Baldwin, Goode, Sabben, and Wyatt. EXPLANATION. ...

    Article : 3,935 words
  3. PROPOSED TERRITORIAL EXTENSION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    While the fair dimensions of New South wales are threatened with speedy contraction on the north side, a slice of its territory is also coveted by our neighbours to the west. New ...

    Article : 1,306 words
  4. INSOLVENCY COURT.

    Of Port Adelaide. A first meeting. The insolvent was present, attended by Mr. Wearing. Mr. Gabriel Bennett was elected Trade Assignee; Mr. Wigley was appointed solicitor to the estate, and the petitioning creditor was represented by ...

    Article : 1,111 words
  5. CENTRAL BOARD OF MAIN ROADS VERSUS PROPOSED BOARD OF WORKS.

    Oh! Mr. Editor, what fearful times we do live in! Only think of the present Ministry going and getting leave to bring in a Bill to abolish that nice, popular Road Board, and making it a Government Office! I wonder the hon. ...

    Article : 889 words
  6. BRIDGE BUILDING.

    Sir—The question of bridge building [?]aving lately received considerable attention from the demands made in several localities for extensive bridges, I am induced to suggest to you the use of a steam floating bridge ...

    Article : 587 words
  7. IMMIGRATION.

    Sir—A correspondent in the Register recently expressed surprise that the above subject had not attracted more poublic attention; to this also I must add my regret, and especially that the subject has been so little noticed ...

    Article : 1,599 words
  8. THE NORTH RAILWAY.

    Sir—Will you oblige a north subscriber by publishing the following in your daily issue. Again we are to have hasty legislation on a serious national question—the North Railway. How is it possible for the Select Committee to ...

    Article : 355 words
  9. POLICE COURT—ADELAIDE.

    DRUNKARDS.—John Cope and james Cra[?] were respectively fined 5s. for being drunk. ASSAULT. Robert Sinton was charged with assaulting Henry Moseley, on the 21st instant, at Glenelg. Henry ...

    Article : 858 words
  10. MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

    ADMISSION OF JEWS INTO PARLIAMENT.—In the House of Lords on the 1st July, the Earl of Derby salled attention to the position in which the House now [?]tood in reference to the question of the admission of ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  11. NOTICES OF MOTION AND ORDERS OF THE DAY.

    GOVERNMENT BUSINESS: ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Execution Regulations Bill: second reading. 2. Divorces Matrimonial Causes Bill: third reading. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. ...

    Article : 216 words
  12. THE FLIGHT OF ICARUS.

    Dear Old Boy—It was Sisyphus and not Ixion Whom Pluto compelled to keep trundling a stone, And the other, if Lempriere we can rely on, Like Jim Crow was always kept wheeling alone[?] ...

    Article : 125 words
  13. DISTRICT COUNCILS.

    Meeting held at Woodside. Present—Messrs. F. Duffield (Chairman), S. Pugh, C. Lauterbach, and W. Priess. Copies of the proposed cemetery regulations were received. Mr. Smallacombe applied for a deviation of the road in the ...

    Article : 401 words
  14. PENWORTHAM.

    This is the oldest and first established village north of Gawler, situated in a delightful valley, ornamented by[?] stately gums, abounding in excellent water and stone for building purposes unrivalled in the colony. We have the ...

    Article : 280 words
  15. PORT ADELAIDE—LOCAL COURT.

    DRUNKENNESS.—One offence of this nature was met by the infliction of the usual fine 5s. ...

    Article : 26 words
  16. THE HORSE-TAMING SECRET.

    The following expose in reference to Mr. Rarey's horse-taming secret appears in the London Bell's Life of 4th July last:— "[?]The Horse-Taming Humbug[?]'—Never was the ...

    Article : 2,032 words
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    SUPREME COURT.—The Civil Sittings will be resumed to-day, when the following causes will be tried:—Thrupp and Anothe[?] v. Thomson and Another; Coleman v. Webb; and Elliott v. M'Carthy. ...

    Article : 328 words
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    BIBLE CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.— A numerously attended meeting of this Society was held on the 21st inst., in the Bible Christian Chapel, Bowden, Mr. Pickering in the chair. The meeting was addressed ...

    Article : 292 words
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    CENTRAL HEAT OF THE EARTH.—The fact that the temperature of the earth gradually increases towards the centre has attracted the attention of philosophers for more than a century. Evidences of a central heat are to ...

    Article : 241 words
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