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Article : 118 wordsThe Primitive Methodist District Delegates commenced their business on Friday last. On Sunday they held a camp meeting in Mr. Dunn's paddock. There were about 250 persons present in the morning, ...
Article : 266 wordsBrigand stories are always more or less interesting, especially when a woman is the heroine. Amongst the Neapolitan provinces which have to contend with the dreadful scourge of brigandage, there is that of a Tinnri whinh in l«d hv Maria Oliviflm. an nirwed- ...
Article : 580 wordsSir—It has been said of some who have risen from the ranks that the higher the position is to which they obtain the lower do they like to see the class from which they themselves have sprung. But ...
Article : 415 wordsSir—At the present juncture a quotation from the celebrated Edward Gibbon Wakefield on colonial land auctions may be significant. The Register and others having quoted this writer in their favor, I beg, ...
Article : 1,702 wordsSir—May I ask you the favor of publishing a few facts connected with the present strike at Wallaroo. I am surprised that some person connected with the smelting works has not let the public know the true ...
Article : 750 wordsSir—I think it is quite necessary for the public to look sharply after candidates that come forward at the next elections, and see that their object is not to serve themselves and a few others to the great ...
Article : 551 wordsJudge—Wm. Crane, Esq.; Starter—F. Pearce, Esq.; Stewards—Messrs. J. W. Dawes, G. Brooks. P. Brockmeyer, J. M. Tapley, and J. Frebairn; Clerk of the Course—Mr. Baily. ...
Article : 1,689 wordsThe Rev. John Tallack, Primitive Methodist minister, Strathalbyn, preached a funeral sermon in the Primitive Chapel, on Sunday last, to a very large and respectable congregation. The sermon was well ...
Article : 250 wordsSir—At the Woodside political meeting last Friday Mr. Duffield asked, "Why the wealthy classes, who had a greater stake in the colony than the majority of the electors, should not have an extra vote ; not ...
Article : 664 wordsA few months ago, we reported the exhumation, of a large number of stone coffins in the vicinity of the "Catstane," about six miles from Edinburgh, by Mr. Hutchinson of Carlowrie. We have now to ...
Article : 477 wordsI have just time enough to scratch a few lines to assure you that our political atmosphere is as serene as if nothing was going to happen. No stranger visitor would suppose that we are on the eve of a ...
Article : 218 wordsSir—Will you oblige some of your readers by stating—to decide a question that has been raised— the date of the reimposition of the ad valorem duties, whether Mr. Reynolds was a member of the Ministry ...
Article : 95 wordsSir—In a recent article your contemporary of the Register says, "For such a complete and equitable representation as the working man now enjoys he cannot justly refuse to pay a fair price. In other ...
Article : 819 wordsThe Hon. Mr. Morphett in his address to the electors says, that the squatters daring the leases about to expire have exported £6,600,000 worth of wool. This he gives to show the importance of the ...
Article : 137 wordsThe following is a statement of the recent proceedings at Wallaroo, condensed from the Wallaroo Times, with which we have been favored:— On Monday, about noon, a meeting took place at ...
Article : 886 wordsSir—Seeing in your issue of to-day a "Southern Farmer" asking the solution of an important question from the the Hon. Mr. Morphett, who is seeking re-election to future honors, induces me to enquire ...
Article : 95 wordsA most extraordinary and mysterious robbery has been committed in the city. The premises of Messrs. Baum & Son, bullion dealers and money changers, Lombard-street had been entered, and property to ...
Article : 736 wordsSir—Allow me to Bay that your "Southern Farmer" has tho failing of many other men; he only sees the above question from one point of view, and therefore I beg to refer him to the 7th and 8th ...
Article : 96 wordsSir—Had I any hope of "fair play," I should send this letter (in reply to one falsely so signed) to the paper in which it appeared, but as that paper systematically excludes all opinions which do not ...
Article : 506 wordsSir—Can you inform me how it is that we are continually reading in the papers about specimens brought by Dr. Ninnis from the Northern Territory, but never about any received from Dr. Goldsmith ? ...
Article : 207 wordsSir—In your paper of the 7th inst., in the reports of the Municipal Council meeting of the previous day, Mr. Carlin accuses me of Jesuitism. I should wish him to explain how he can construe the meaning of ...
Article : 382 wordsSir—As our Local Courts Act is very often severely commented on by magistrates and suitors attending our Local Courts, and in many instances I think without just cause, may I beg a small space in your ...
Article : 309 wordsSir—Mr. Rankine is reported to have said last week, at the Milang meeting, that he would rather see the Goolwa tramway let than left, as at present, in the hands of an incapable Government official, ...
Article : 270 wordsAnother large meeting of the smelters took place to-day near the smelting-house. Their wives crowded together not far from the spot. At the request of the smelters Captain Jones attended their ...
Article : 268 wordsSir—In your issue of February 4 there was a letter from your correspondent at Wallaroo, in which he referred to the Smelters' Strike. Your correspondent states that a meeting had ...
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South Australian Weekly Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1858 - 1867), Sat 18 Feb 1865, Page 3
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