History of the First Bushmen's Club in the Australian Colonies, Established at Adelaide, South Australia: Compiled from Various Sources, and Furnishing in Detail Its Origin and Progress Up to the Present Year, 1872; Also Miscellaneous Readings, Letters, EtcSuperintendent of Club, 1872 - 408 pages |
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Page 198 - That the best thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby tendered to the members of the Smoke Abatement Committee, to the Executive Committee, to ihe Jurors, and officers of the recent Smoke Abatement Exhibition.
Page 376 - Take away education, and what are your means ? Military force, prisons, solitary cells, penal colonies, gibbets — all the other apparatus of penal laws. If, then, there be an end to which Government is bound to attain — if there are two ways only of attaining it — if one of those ways is by elevating the moral and intellectual character of the people, and if the other way is by inflicting pain, who can doubt which way every Government ought to take...
Page 320 - Those present resolved to form themselves into a committee, with power to add to their number, in order to collect a fund for the benefit of Mrs.
Page 357 - A vote of thanks having been accorded to the chairman, the proceedings concluded. 276 The Songs and Singers of Ireland. ' I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not iny heart moved more than with a trumpet.
Page 332 - As the profits arising from the sale of this work will be devoted to the interests of the Club, the prices will be as follows : — Stiff covers, 4s.
Page 296 - Morley acknowledged the resolution and moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was seconded by Mr.
Page 310 - Society. 45.—So much of the funds of the Society as may not be wanted for immediate use, or to meet the usual accruing liabilities, shall, with the consent of the...
Page 101 - ... undertaken, by the teachers and members of that congregation. The proceedings were of a highly interesting character ; and it being the general wish that such meetings should be held regularly and their influence extended, it was resolved, that a District Sunday-School Association should be formed. A Committee was appointed to make the necessary arrangements, Consisting of the following gentlemen : Messrs. JO Curtis, EP Lamport, Travers Madge, lirittain, Palmer, Winstanley and Rev.
Page 309 - ... 13th, and 42nd Law. APPLICATION OF FUNDS. III. — That all monies received on account of entrance fees, subscriptions, fines, donations, and interest, on capital, shall be applied in carrying out the objects of the society, and in paying the expenses of management according to the rules thereof.
Page 326 - His gin is yet some viler mixture — a minimum of pure spirit seasoned with white vitriol and oil of cinnamon and cayenne. Drunk, and with empty pockets, he staggers home at last to his wife, who must feed and clothe herself and him and his miserable family with the few shillings which she can rescue out of his weekly wages.