15 Apr 1851
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Newspaper
Adelaide Times
Location
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Apr 15, 1851
Page
1
An advertisement for the Daily Times Ge Bral Printing Office announces a large assortment of new hats and the printer offers newspaper printing, engraving, seas or oce apy pth description tier press work, claiming superior style and competitive terms. It notes the Adelaide Times Office over the door opposite the Adelaide Commercial Exchange.
General meeting of the committee appointed to forward Mr Anstey s Election to the Arepresentative Assembly will be held at Traveller s Rest Sloughtony on Tuesday the 22nd instant at 12 o clock noon and at Wright s Inn Salisbury at 12 o clock on Thursday the 24th instant Members of the Committee are particularly requested to attend The following names are added to the list of Mr Anstey s Committee including Philip Bunter Gray Mace Matthew Smith William Paxton W B Ont Thomas Wainwright John Bowden Robert Holdin John Harvey Thomas Battersby Gallop Ledyard John Robert Thomas William A McClean etc
Extracts from Nathanael Sharp’s unpublished epic Tere Moxon appear as The Monad. Poem references posterity power and truth with imagery of light atoms and crystal seas. A merchants and traders meeting at Cop pins in Adelaide adjourned to April 15 at the Exchange under J M Solomon as chairman.
D. and J. Delany invite ladies and the public to inspect their stock in Rundle Street and announce a large regular supply of goods for shore line and general drapery trades. They offer liberal terms, emphasize cash buying, and pledge fidelity, despatch, and careful attention to trade orders from their Apollo Place entrance near the Exchange. They claim extensive connections in English and Colonial markets and promise uniform rates.
At the Pier Hotel Port Milunga a major historical event will occur on Monday April 21 at noon the laying of the foundation of South Australia. Public auction of allotments in the North Arm sections promises a valuable opportunity never before advertised.
Merchants learn that South Australia lacks a proper harbour near the capital after fourteen years. The critique warns the current private port is costly and risky, urging a public harbour at the North Arm with deep water frontage ready for ships up to a thousand tons.
The proprietor of the town plans to market 300 allotments in Port Milunga under 99 year leases with a £5 premium and four quarterly payments. Tenants will share annual rentals for up to twelve years, receiving up to about £40,000 in bonuses, repayable with 10 percent interest for ten years, after which principal and interest lapse. The land is dry, enclosed by embankments, and this presents a rare chance to acquire affordable allotments in South Australia.
An advertisement argues that a central leasehold at a modest price beats a freehold. It outlines costs over ten years, comparing a freehold costing 11001 to a leasehold at 1500, with two thirds of the small outlay returned, and potential profits, urging buyers in the great maritime township of South Australia not to miss the chance.
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