The Archive · 1904

Disloyal Dowie

Elijah Dowie has had his wings clipped by the Municipal authorities at Adelaide. They have refused him the uso of any public building under their control and returned him his money already deposited. "Dowie uttered some shockingly disloyal remarks about the King in one of his speeches in the Town Hall. Hence the indignation. Dowie is just now at Mount Lofty, the fashionable summer resort of Adelaide people, living in great style. He wanted to have the use of the City Baths to baptist 70 converts whom his amazing utterances have influenced, but the Zionites will have to be dipped in Private as the Council's lessee refused the use of the Baths.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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