12 Mar 1853
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Newspaper
Adelaide Times
Location
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Mar 12, 1853
Page
1
An advertisement seeks investors for a gentlemanly mercantile business venture in Adelaide. It promises yearly net profits from 1000 to 1400 pounds and invites letters with real names and signatures to the payors office by March 9 1858.
Caution notes that Menry Joy will not be answerable for his wife SAR All Toy who left her home clandestinely on March 8 1853 prompting local concern and inquiry.
A dense scan of contents lists diverse topics from Galvaniee to local notices. Readable items cover mining, port deliveries, and wage trends at the Burra Burra, alongside family reading, household hints, gardening maxims, and sews notes. Also reported are foreign and colonial items, law and court notices, and local matters including the Wellington murder and Australian Mint liberalities.
The Dispatch is praised as the best weekly paper for Adelaide readers offering rural, mercantile, shipping, government, and general news. It urges husbands farmers merchants publicans politicians and all readers to subscribe with quarterly payments and delivery across the colony.
New goods listed at Platts to include baskets, plate powder, Conran’s razor strops, drawing books, Chinese cement tracing paper, valentines, Cramb brushes, work boxes, camel’s hair pencils, vellum cloth, flutes, bottle wax, Penkuite hones, metallic memorandum books, Indian Cine parallel rulers, music paper.
A varied list of dance tunes and songs including popular polkas and schottisches. It references titles like Red Riding Hood Princess Helena and La Belle Dame with a mix of named composers or performers and festive arrangements. The item reads as a catalog of music offerings rather than a narrative event.
G F Spakes on Hindley street announces his renewed effort to provide first rate wines spirits ale port and cordial stock at The Genuine Old Black Bull. He thanks patrons for summer support and notes the largest stock of cordials in South Australia with 18 years in the colony. George Wick cordial manufacturer offers his best thanks to keepers and shopkeepers.
A testimonial fund is organized to honor George Tinling Esquire for his services during the Bullion Act crisis. Subscriptions are invited, with George Elder Jr and John Brown as signatories, to be collected at Grenfell Street and Bank Street Adelaide. The list will close on an early date with notices to follow.
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