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Newspaper
Melbourne Courier
Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 17, 1845
Page
1
Public notice for job printing at Melbourne Courier Office with emphasis on new type for book-work. Includes reference to memoranda, licenses, bricks, timber, import forms, export forms, bills of lading, petitions, bank books, lemon syrup labels, dog registration forms, and sale of waste paper.
A notice lists prices for legal acts and publications including The Original and Amended Corporation Acts and related works. It announces the appointment of E. M. L. N Sucrn as Reporter for Courier Office dated 16th June 1845.
A prospectus proclaims Siamond's Central Magazine will compile authentic statistical tables of trade navigation and population for Great Britain and colonies. It pledges access to colonial newspapers, legislative records, almanacs, and meteorological data to provide synopses of colonial occurrences, with correspondents across possessions to inform on improvements and colonization efforts.
L Simmonds announces a new partnership with Francis Crowes creating Simmonds and Crowes General Agents and Commission Merchants. They invite merchants and colonial public to consign goods of first rate quality at low prices on liberal terms, offering three month drafts and postpaid letters due to extensive correspondence.
The Superintendent's Office Melbourne September 24 1845 invites tenders by 3 November 1845 for twelve months supply of rations and forage for emigrants prisoners gaol officers surveying parties mounted police and other colonial services. Specifications cover bread beef tea sugar salt vegetables flour maize meal and other staples with quality controls and arbitration. Districts include Melbourne Geelong Normanby and Port Fairy with security of £2000.
Government Gazette from Morang dated 8 September 1845 lists cattle for sale if not released by 31 October. Descriptions include a red cow with ear slits and markings JHR, a red bull with none, an old yellow cow with hoop horns and white rump, and a milking heifer with M on thigh. Also details of an unpounded straw cow at Melbourne with PH marked calf and a working bullock with wart noted WH. All items to be sold under Council Act. further notice in Pound Yard by G Scarborough Poundkeeper.
By His Excellency Sir George Gipps Governor proclaims a public auction of town and country lots in Melbourne on Wednesday the 22nd of October. Upset prices range to £300 per acre with 10 percent deposit. Land parcels include sections 24 26 and 36 with multiple allotments and sizes described in old survey terms.
A long list of allotments and estates with upset prices in various parishes including Bourke Boorondara Jika Jika Doutta Galla and South Melbourne. Detailed lot numbers acreage boundaries and prices per acre are given along with boundary references and neighboring allotments. The notice closes with authentication by the Governor and references to publication in the Australian Government Gazette and sailing directions for Gulf St Vincent.
Government notice dated 25 July informs the public that from this date children will be vaccinated at the Colonial Hospital or under Dr Cansen. Vaccination hours are specified as Tuesday between ten and a stated closing time. By order of His Honor the Superintendent, P. Cussen M.D. October 1845.
The Court of Requests for this County to be held in Melbourne at the Court-House on Monday the 3rd and following November days at nine in the forenoon. Plaints due October 16. Defences or set-off due October 30. Each filing must show names and residence in writing. In defended cases pleadings must follow late Rules of Court. Griffin Registrar.
Prisoners may receive visitors on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in winter and until 4 p.m. in summer. No visitors without an order from the Deputy to Sheriff or Visiting officer. Only certain categories may be admitted.
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