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Newspaper
Adelaide Times
Location
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1850
Page
5
Auction and sale notices for good agricultural sections in North Riine Angaston and Flaxman’s Valley with adjoining township allotments. Also an Extraordinary General Meeting adjourned to July 18 to confirm a previous resolution. Copper ingots and mining products offered by South Australian Mining Association.
The Patent Copper Company invites tenders for copper ore available at Portide or the mines. Payment by cash on delivery. Terms and conditions are the usual. Tenders may be addressed to their office in Adelaide.
A detailed list of vessels arriving and clearing on June 22 to June 28 including schooners, brigs, and cutters from Circular Head Fort Phillip Hobart Town Port Wakefield and Yorke’s Peninsula with passengers and cargo such as potatoes soap wool clothbeef and copper. Notable arrivals include Mindlothian from Lon Plymouth for Adelaide and Port Phillip and vessels like Pakenham Sea Queen and Hubert Syers making passages to Melbourne Sydney and Liverpool with extensive passenger lists and cargo manifests.
A ledger style report details cargo per Amicus-41 Sadak-1060 and other vessels including Alice-84 and Sea Queen. It lists copper ore ingots wool bags cement wheat and other goods from multiple companies and agents, plus notes on the Paxama ship launched in Hobart Town and a wreck of the Andes near Magellan Strait. Also mentions Louisa Baillizenia Port Phillip loading Hongkong to San Francisco and Juliana at Shanghai for Sydney.
A list of vessels including Alexander Hervey Antares and British Sovereign with masters and tonnage, loading or discharging cargo at Hobart Town, Plymouth, Liverpool, Sourabaya, and other ports. Agencies such as J. Smith, Beck & Co, Were Todd & Co, A L Elder & Co appear. Some ships report repairs and recent arrivals.
A long list of ships and barges with tonnages captains and destinations. Vessels from London and Plymouth including Altross Aurora Bank of England Bayne Bernicia British Empire Bengal Cundahar Ceylon Delta Duke of Portland Filiadan Princis Ridley Chargue Grentanuer Maid of Auckland Oriental Jane Morrison Standrrings Sinclair Sulfaura Tory FEO Liverpool Eat Digby Mellen Moffatt Thomas Fielder Maduouske From Bristol Eliza From Leith Motel Waterwitch Alfred Cesar Godefroy Dockenhuden Sophie Steinwarder From Sydney Phantom Wild Irish Girl
Markets and retail prices across Adelaide list commodities with per unit costs for flour, wheat, oats, barley, pollard, bran, bread, butter, fowls, pigeons, milk, turkeys, geese, bacon, quails, pork, and wildfowl. Prices shown in pounds, shillings, and pence, reflecting current market rates.
A list of prices for potatoes cabbages turnips pumpkins onions and other vegetables, plus fruits such as pomegranates figs apples grapes and oranges with notes on scarce items and unit prices. A commentary about a burnt child and a dispute over a courthouse contract follows, detailing attempted forcible possession and a locksmith intervention by Mr Davis the mechanist.
Exchange Colonnade reports varied share activity in June with numerous mines listed including Paringa Britannia Port Lincolns and Mount Remarkables. Credit sales and 160 share transactions noted, plus 15 to 30 percent money values and remarks on recently published colony share lists by J F Ross, with Observer criticism of nonressorted terms.
A critical letter covers the League's failure to note the Central Road Board's repeal move and a bruising row over leadership. It questions the chairman’s focus, calls out missteps by Anderson and Lancelott, and urges decisive action on taxation and road powers amid a string of local notices and legal concerns.
Notice invites new subscribers to join the Daily Times and Weekly Country Edition. It announces Monday July 1 as the start of a new quarter and offers in person or written signups. Payment options include advance or credit terms with 15s per quarter for Daily Times and 6d or 7d for the country edition, with the latter also available in credit.
Mails will be dispatched as under for Great Britain Wythe Alexander Harvey to Swansea.
At Kensington on Saturday morning June 220d 1850 the lady of Lord Witton of Aurhtee Pearse ceree. On the 21st instant at Marryattville Miss Hallack of a daughter. On the 27th instant Hannah infant daughter of Mr J M Solomon Stephens place Adelaide aged 11 months.
South Australia witnesses a government contractor, Bowen, refuse admission to the New Court House until a clear, written settlement on erection costs is agreed. The piece warns against repeating the Borrow and Goodiar swindle and praises Bowen for guarding against tempting mischarges.
In this issue's domestic news advertisers list insolvent dealer James Gunes and others at Government Market Yards and Government Yards offering draught horses cattle harness gear and assorted goods. Items include barley oatmeal tea coffee and fabric. Affected premises include Mr Noanberry on Lindley Street.
The early shareholder meeting at Mir Neales's office confirmed minutes from recent meetings. Auditors reported a 15 percent dividend feasibility, with working capital concerns and substantial labor costs. Shipments to England were limited, with sizable ore on hand and potential expansion by purchasing nearby land from the South Australian Mining Company. Directors and trustees were reappointed or elected, and thanks were given to the visiting chairman for detailed mine reports.
Jeremiah Downing pleaded guilty to drunkenness at the Turf Hotel on the 24th and denied breaking a pane of glass. Landlord Matthew Faulkner testified Downing entered drunk and threatened damage, later elbowing a pane. constable Clark said Downing was taken into custody. He was fined five shillings or one week in jail with hard labour. William Jackson was charged with stealing two
On Friday June 28 in Port Adelaide Police Court Alexander McLean faced a charge of scuffling a quantity of tobacco from the schooner Andarey. He was fined £14 and in default committed to gaol until the fine is paid.
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