The financial statement presented by Mr. Berry in the Legislative Assembly of Victoria on Thursday evening exhibits many satisfactory ...
Article : 6,744 wordsSir—You have already called attention to the unsatisfactory method now adopted in Port Adelaide to determine the weight of silt ballast supplied to spins. Barges are measured and ...
Article : 228 wordsFrom Messrs. Helmuth Schwartze & Co., of London, per favour of Mr. W. R. McComas, Secretary of the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Company, Melbourne.] ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe schooner Bobtail Nag, from the South Seas, with labourers, was fired at by natives when leaving one island. Ten recruits becoming homesick jumped overboard and were drowned. ...
Article : 126 wordsThe captain of the barque Chasca, from Bristol, was lost overboard during a gale. A seaman belonging to the same vessel was also lost. The second reading of the Mining on Private ...
Article : 166 wordsGentlemen—In writing you now I particularly wish to call your attention to the scandalous way in which I was cheated out of my ballast in your port. I paid for 465 tons, and I ...
Article : 180 wordsThe Government steamer Enterprise, which grounded on coming through the Murray-mouth about ten weeks ago was floated off yesterday and towed to Goolwa to-day by the steamer ...
Article : 53 wordsSir—In reply to the statement made by Mr. Cowan in Parliament affirming that the returns forwarded to Government for Mr. Elder's sheep runs are incorrect, I, as the person responsible ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 121 wordsThe Treasurer, the Hon. Graham Berry, delivered his Budget Speech this evening in the Legislative Assembly. He stated that the revenue for the last year was £4,563,780, and the ...
Article : 673 wordsSir—As I have been twice victimized by the sharp practice of the booking clerks at the Adelaide Railway Station, and as I know I am but one of many others who have been similarly ...
Article : 704 wordsWe take the following items of news brought by the Californian mail from the summary telegraphed to the Argus from Auckland:— AMERICA. ...
Article : 197 wordsThe principal Scotland-yard detectives have been remanded charged with conspiring to defeat justice in the racing swindle on the Countess Jancourt. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe entertainment given on Thursday night in White's Rooms by the Simonsen Opera Company was devoted to fun and frolic. Lecocq's "Girofle-Girofla" appeals to our sense of the ...
Article : 622 wordsThe Assembly have passed the Supply Bill. It is reported on good authority that Boyd is willing to visit Sydney and row Trickett if he is paid £300 expenses and Trickett lays £1,500 to ...
Article : 219 wordsSir—I am surprised to see in public print such ungenerous remarks made respecting the scavengers of this city as being old and unfit for work, and their being employed as if to keep ...
Article : 199 wordsSir—I see by the report of the Council of Education's proceeding that the scholars of one of our public schools have, according to their teacher, passed a no-confidence vote against one ...
Article : 94 wordsThe Hawkesbury Race Meeting, Sydney, which commenced to-day, was well attended. The following are the results of the principal races:— ...
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South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), Fri 17 Aug 1877, Page 5
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