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Newspaper
Adelaide Times
Location
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jul 01, 1850
Page
2
Samson Wicksteed Co offer sale at their mart on Tuesday 2 July after sheriff sale 40 bags damaged sugar and various small goods. Natitaniel Wailes auction of land at Newhaven and North Arm adjourned to July 4. extensive inventory of china glassware bedding and kitchen items offered with cash terms.
E Solomon & Co. to auction first-rate hatch consignments on Monday July 1 at eleven o'clock. Five cases of silks and drapery including Diesel Gala Plaids in various counts, Gros de Naples, Marceline, silk waistcoat pieces, silk handkerchiefs, woollen fringes, silk fringes and trimmings. Includes 21 Diesel Gala Plaids and 392 ditto woollen fringes.
A clipped notice offers two English education for girls aged ten to twelve in North Adelaide with a detached house, garden, and home comfort. It cites Mr Allen for references and terms, dating June 28, 1850, while other notices discuss Salis bury land sales and local auctions.
An 1847 Liverpool notice states the committee has appointed Messrs W Younghusband Jan and Co to act as their agents in Adelaide and urges insured or their representatives to use underwriters agents to ease loss settlement. Also seeks a farm staffed couple to run a dairy, with applications via this paper.
Sale on easy terms for one third portion of Wheal Agraman Sections Nos 623 and 624. Copper lodes are in work, a safe profitable investment. Apply to James Aird at Chauncey’s, King William Street. Mount Liverpool Mining Company calls ten shillings per share payable by September next at Exchange Buildings Adelaide per board order J Thain Just June 26 1850.
A Melbourne Geelong coal search plan offers 200 pounds reward to any surveyor or non officer who before October reports the best crown land coal field or seam near Melbourne to be used by a company. Communications go to Honorary Secretary W H Trip.
The brig Mary Clark 240 tons Q Bickersy, schoon Fernie 35 tons, and other vessels arrive from Circular Head Launceston and Hobart Town with passengers and cargo including timber potatoes copper and flour. Multiple ships and brigs report discharging or loading at Plymouth Liverpool and Sydney while several vessels are listed as expected from London and Plymouth with dates in late June and July.
Market list from Adelaide shows butter at 1s 3d per lb, eggs 1s 6d per dozen, milk 4d per quart, fowl 4s 6d a pair, pigeons 13 9d per ditto, cheese 7 to 10d, bacon 7d to 10d per lb, turkeys 72 to 108, pork 4 1/4d to 6d per ditto, potatoes 7d to 8d per barrel, onions 9d per lb, cabbage 6d to 8d each, turnips 2d to 4d, and other vegetables with varied prices.
A June 29 report from Adelaide details mining shares and prices across multiple mines and regions. It notes yields, credit terms, and dealer opinions, with references to Burras Grace, Mount Remarkables, Wheal Bartons, and several others, plus broker J F Ross and aLondon broker. The document highlights high values, depositor credits, and a recent share refusal of £110 per share amid strong holder confidence.
The list shows fruit and vegetable prices such as Seene Grapes per Ib, Tomatoca at 2d, Ghilies 6d, Quinces 5d each, Cocoa Nuts scarce, Sydney pears 6d each, sheep 64 to us per nas, oxen 98 to 31s per 100 Ths, calves 15s to 25s, pigs 5s 10d per scar, beef 3d per lb, veal 4d, and general meat prices per load. It records varying regional rates and notes Scarcity and unit measures across Barcelona and Sydney markets.
Shipping notice outlines mail dispatches to Great Britain and the United States with routes on ships Alexander Hermy Aryx and Elizabeth. Dates appear fragmented but reference to Tuesday and specific ports suggest intended sailing weeks. Names and places are garbled. core action is mail despatch to Britain New Zealand and the US.
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