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  2. INTERCOLLEGIATE FOOTBALL.

    The most popular event in the athletic calendar of St. Peter's and Prince Alfred Colleges is the annual football match. It is awaited with keen interest, not only by ...

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  3. IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

    Some of the leading journalists of the United Kingdom are promoting an Imperial Press Conference, to be held in London next year. Lord Burnham is the ...

    Article : 92 words
  4. TRIANGULAR CRICKET.

    Efforts are being made to smoothe over the difficulty regarding the triangular cricket scheme. The Lancashire Club has initiated a movement with the object of ...

    Article : 217 words
  5. COMMERCE AND FINANCE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 231 words
  6. NOMENCLATURE OF SOOTH AUSTRALIA.

    Strathalbyn may be regarded as Scotia's first settlement in South Australia. Mr. J. W. Elliott (Editor of The Southern Argus) has courteously ...

    Article : 2,841 words
  7. BEEVES PLAINS.

    Sir—I have been reading with much interest your articles on the names of the various places and towns in South Australia, and am pleased to help you in regard ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. BOOKABIE.

    Sir-Bookabie was omitted in your Nomenclature. It is a native word for "bad water," and was applied to a brackish waterhole. Since then good water has been ...

    Article : 50 words
  9. RAILWAY MEN'S DEMANDS.

    As the result of the threatened strike in 1907 of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants an agreement was made providing that each company affected was to ...

    Article : 167 words
  10. HIGHERCOMBE.

    Sir—You did not deal with Highercombe in Nomenclature. It was named by the late Mr. G. A. Anstey, and means "higher valley" (from the Devonshire). ...

    Article : 112 words
  11. OLYMPIC GAMES.

    The Canadian House of Commons has voted £3,000 to defray the expenses of the Dominion's athletes who are competing in the international Olympic Games at the ...

    Article : 109 words
  12. RATE OF DISCOUNT.

    The open market rate of discount for best three months' bi[?]1s ruled on Thursday afternoon at 1½ per cent., compared with 1 [?] per cent, a week ago. The bank ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. A WORD PROM TARCOOLA.

    Sir—Re the first elephant in South Australia seen ploughing at Gepp's Cross. Mr. Gerald William Tolmer, of Tareoola, now an aged man lived near Unley when a boy, ...

    Article : 236 words
  14. GOVERNMENT STOCKS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 225 words
  15. SOUTH AFRICAN FODDER.

    The action of the Victorian Government in prohibiting the importation of fodder from South Africa has caused bitter feeling in the exporting colonies. Dr. Viljoen has ...

    Article : 119 words
  16. GENERAL GABLE NEWS.

    A doctor named Walker has been arrested at Huddersfield upon a charge of having unlawfully married 11 different women. ...

    Article : 133 words
  17. OWEN.

    Sir—Among the missing derivations in a recent chapter of Nomenclature was Owen, a township on the Ba.aklava Railway. I am able to tell you that it takes its name ...

    Article : 50 words
  18. AUSTRALIAN MINING SHARES.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 words
  19. PRESERVE THE NATIVE NAMES.

    Sir—All patriotic Australians possessed of common sense and appreciation for the fitness of things cannot but regret that aboriginal names were not adopted or ...

    Article : 154 words
  20. AMERICA FLEET.

    The American Fleet of battleships in Command of Admiral Sperry, which will call at Sydney and Melbourne, has been sighted at Molokai, one of the Sandwich ...

    Article : 38 words
  21. AMPLIFICATION.

    Sir—Perhaps it is not generally that the original township at Port Pirie was surveyed by, I believe, Messrs. Solomon Moss, & Beck, and all the land ...

    Article : 281 words
  22. COMPANIES.

    Zinc Corporation.—At a meeting of shareholders of the Zinc Corporation the Chairman of the London Board (Mr. F. A. Govett) stated that the plant at Broken ...

    Article : 45 words
  23. OVERSEA SHIPPING.

    For Sydney—Clackmannanshire, ship, 1,482 tons, from London. For Melbourne and Sydney—Apolda, steamer (German-Australian), 4,950 tons, from Scandinavia. ...

    Article : 61 words
  24. METALS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 133 words
  25. SERVANT GIRLS AND THE FLEET.

    A rumour of much alarm for Melbourne housewives is being circulated. There is said to be reason for belief that domestic servants are exchanging views on the idea ...

    Article : 116 words
  26. FEDERAL SERVICE ORGANIZATONS.

    In a statement to-day before the royal commission on postal affairs Mr. H. B. Templeton, the Acting Deputy Postmaster- General at Brisbane said many of the ...

    Article : 252 words
  27. OVERLAND MOTORISTS.

    We felt Charlotte waters on Thursday at 9.30, and camped during the night at the Finke River, near Crown Point. The day's run was 50 miles. The track was ...

    Article : 106 words
  28. DEARTH OF FUNDS.

    At to-day's meeting of the citizens' committee in connection with the welcome to the American Fleet some straight talking was done by the Lord Mayor, who said ...

    Article : 94 words
  29. MERCHANDISE.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 307 words
  30. INGLEWOOD.

    Sir—I see that one of your correspondents gives facts about the name Inglewood. Now, I would like him to tell us who lives in the township of Inglewood, ...

    Article : 142 words
  31. THE DAILY RUNS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 words
  32. THE VISIT TO ALBANY.

    The Premier has again telegraphed to the Prime Minister asking what funds would be available for the purpose of celebrating the visit of the American Fleet to ...

    Article : 102 words
  33. MELROSE.

    Sir—Despite what "An Australian" says. I maintain that the Scottish origin of the name Melrose, as originally published in Nomenclature, is correct. The facts are ...

    Article : 146 words
  34. TOORAK TRAGEDY.

    The Coroner (Dr. Cole) opened an enquiry to-day into the deaths of Charles Alfred Groves and Mary Walkington, the victims of the tragedy at Toorak on ...

    Article : 97 words
  35. OVERLAND MOTOR PARTY.

    A proposal is on foot that the motorists of Brisbane should form a motor party to proceed overland to Sydney, and arrive there just before the visit of the American ...

    Article : 93 words
  36. MINING FATALITY.

    Thomas Stevens, aged 38 years, was killed at the Associated Mine this morning. Stevens and a mate named Butler were engaged charging bring holes. Butler left ...

    Article : 75 words
  37. UNDYING BALHANNAH.

    Sir—Reading in The Register of Saturday morning "The Nomenclature of South Australia" I thought it would be interesting to tell the real origin of the name of ...

    Article : 125 words
  38. Advertising

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    Advertising : 569 words
  39. MURDER AND SUICIDE.

    A farmer named Mason, residing 14 miles from Teawamutu, shot his infant daughter to-day, and then committed suicide. ...

    Article : 27 words
  40. O.B. FLAT.

    Sir—I see that in your very interesting articles on the Nomenclature of South Australia you have omitted O.B. Flat, a lovely and fertile flat extending from four ...

    Article : 96 words
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