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Newspaper
Adelaide Times
Location
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Oct 07, 1850
Page
4
A column mixes home advice with reflective verse on women’s roles and virtue. It blends domestic guidance about avoiding drafts and cold, with meditations on womanly influence, memory, and moral strength, citing poetry and a Scottish tale of arranged marriage as contrasts.
Ellen Hall testified about an assault at Mr Bond's home by Mrs Bouch and Jane Tremaine with Bonnch denying the claims. Witnesses described biting a finger and scolding, with conflicting accounts from Parker and others as to credibility and motives. The bench heard cross information and considered whether both informations should stand.
A man named Stephenson faces a charge of possessing stolen property linked to a silver watch and chain taken from a witness at North Adelaide. Robert Harris and another man are charged with stealing watches in related incidents involving pawnshops and a Hindley Street money lender. Witnesses describe the thefts and the accused’s attempts to evade justice as officers investigate further.
In Port Adelaide Friday October 4 a session adjourned to Wednesday, cases include a wage dispute Baxenurr v Watn Kur W 68 and a verdict for plaintif in the Tobe William Jacobson case where the father acknowledged paternity but not marriage, an order set at 2s 6d weekly for child support. Letters detained for sea postage list numerous recipients across Melbourne Sydney and Hobart with many names and places.
A damaged OCR fragment shows items like deals beams battens palings and Singapore cedar with measurements and vendor notes. It mentions John Sartre and Captain Le Bair's Store, dating to 1850, in a Gren street area, but details are unclear due to text garbling.
The Adelaide era lists post office tenders for mail conveyance across multiple routes including Gawler Mount Gambier Port Adelaide and Wellington with schedules weekly to daily services. It calls for secured bidders two custodians and a ready vessel with crew to maintain mail delivery and embarka landings under Postmaster General approval.
The fragment references M William and Jose Post-master of Molen with intel collectors and an Ames Allen note. It appears to discuss agents of Lloyds and a reference journal, without clear event details or dates. The readable bits hint at names and roles but lack a coherent incident or outcome to expand into a fuller summary.
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