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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
May 12, 1869
Page
5
A fragmentary verse lists plans for a Moonta Ball with a committee and guards keeping order aboard a ship named Moonta. Characters Brance Hay and Marshall the Bold lead dancers and guests while questions arise about ladies, duty, and hosting as the crowd moves through the arena deck.
The text surveys ongoing Synod week clashes over ritualistic practices, detailing definitions, vestments, church layout symbolism, and heated debates. It notes a Presbyterian take, Bereft of consensus, with references to Bishop charges and resistance to ministerial censures amid broader disputes.
A heated diocesan discussion on ritualism ends with a milder resolution urged by Mr Pollit. Clergy largely deny ritualist excesses, while Mr Webb publicly asserts the St Albans creed causing tension among neutraliats. The alleged hunt collapses as the wolf reveals himself at Bishop's Court.
The Australian Medical Journal reports on Professor Salford's ammonia injection experiments challenging the belief that ammonia is fatal when circulated. The article also recounts chaos in the Victorian House of Parliament as Mr Fenzer misbehaved, insulted the Speaker, and nearly caused a scene with the Chief Secretary amid party theatrics.
In a speech to a public dinner the Queensland governor notes the ten year growth of the colony quadrupled population and revenue, exports surpassing imports, an impartial civil police, railways, coast steamers, telegraphs linking with the neighbouring colony, and an entirely free government empowering the people.
In a discussion on the colony's future the speaker urges avoidance of idle class jealousies and welcomes immigrants, arguing prosperity will benefit both Queensland and its Governor. The piece notes the Governor Blackall's dinners and reflects on Downing Street's reactions to colonial fortunes and misfortunes.
The St Kilda returns with diggers from Natal on March 9. Reports from D Urban and nearby fields describe meagre finds with several parties testing Umtwalumi Umblanga and Omzin fields. Quartz reefs yield little gold while some colour is reported in certain river districts.
In the interior a native reports diggers at work by night moving quartz in wagons. He says the diggers seek gold termed Kente and mentions a nearby copper mine. Specks found near Umzinto, another party under Captain Black advanced before Mattebele natives turned them back. Sir John Swinbourne leads a geological party as Victorian diggers are urged to stay.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports on Mr Welles’s congressional study of tariffs and duties. It argues the poor and working classes in America are worsening off despite higher wages, due to living costs outrunning income and heavy protective measures.
The New York Citizen prints a private letter from a wandering Yankee who stayed at Lord Tennyson’s residence in the Isle of Wight. He recounts dining at six, a visit to the study, discussions of Camelot and Gawain, and Tennyson’s joking challenge about reading Gawain aloud while a Magnum of swedeish sherry is produced.
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