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Newspaper
Adelaide Times
Location
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 24, 1850
Page
4
OCR fragment collects prose, verse, divorce humor, lighthouse joke, and social notices. It riffs on English life with satire about taxes, love letters, and courtship, plus brief local items about a lighthouse keeper and Connecticut divorces.
Proceedings of the Legislative Council session discuss glazing a farm for 4000 pounds to fund boats of 2000 pounds each for steamers with at least four horsepower. Goal to navigate waters from Goolwa to the mouth, enabling river transport and harbor function. Clerk W. L. OFALLORAN records the motions.
An official notice outlines a government grant and conditions for two first vessels navigating from Goolwa to the Darling, detailing channel lengths, depths, currents, and potential goods transport via the Murray. It cites the 1850 ordinance and provides distances from Goolwa to Moorundi and to the Darling, with notes on flood effects and navigation challenges.
Ya Printers and Bookbinders of the British Colonies invite attention to their establishment supplying cases chases inking tables furniture brass rule and lithography presses and all bookbinding tools. Price-lists and specimen books available free of carriage to the colonies.
The Government Gazette records orders confirming road construction in the Onkaparinga district and a new Adelaide Main Road alignment. It lists survey plans, land passages, and objections handled, plus district census bindings and annual supply requisitions. It also details weekly export returns and impounded stock notices with buyers warned for sale if unclaimed.
Numerous livestock descriptions list bulls cows and heifers with marks brands and distinctive features. Impounded at public pound Barossa Gawier Town and other districts with sale announcements set for October 1850 and late dates. Details include colors horns legible brands and rib spots, with notes on nonclaim and sale procedures.
Notice notes charge details and quarterly payments of 15s per quarter with 17s oil prestitial. It mentions September and December dates, and references criteria for appeal communications and penalties for late or incorrect payments.
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