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Newspaper
Melbourne Courier
Location
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 31, 1845
Page
1
The Melbourne Courier announces superior printing for Bookwork with improved gear, inviting attention to its quality. Also notes manifests, petitions, bank forms, permits, and waste paper for sale, plus building allotments in a Colling area healthy site.
The text lists prices for legal and government publications in the colony of New South Wales and Port Phillip Almanac for 1845. Items include the Original and Amended Corporation Acts at two shillings sixpence, the Corporation Act Amendment Act at one shilling, and the New Forms of Practice and Proceedings for the Courts of Bequests of NSW at one shilling. It also mentions Lang's letter to Lord Sterley in the Governor's Speech on proroguing the dageistixe Council at one shilling and Kerr's Melbourne Almanac and Directory at seven shillings sixpence.
The piece outlines a bold vision for Simmond's Colonial Magazine to publish comprehensive, authentic statistics on trade, navigation, resources, and population of Great Britain and its colonies. It emphasizes extensive access to colonial news, legislative records, and meteorological data, with active correspondents and a commitment to advocacy of colonization and imperial commerce.
Forei and Colonial Agency and Commission Office announces partnership of Simmons and Crowns to handle colonial trade. They offer full agency services, prompt shipments, liberal terms, and acceptance of drafts, with post paid letters and continued consignments for sale on commission. They urge patrons to continue support and note extensive London and Liverpool ties.
ENDERS will be received at this Office until four o'clock on Friday the 31st instant from persons willing to contract for the erection of a Police Office in Melbourne. Plans and Specifications may be seen by applying at the office between ten and four. No Tender will be entertained without two respectable persons as sureties for due performance. By order of His Honor the Superintendent. James Rattenbury, Clerk of Works.
Colonial Secretary's Office in Sydney notes a writ certifying the return of Evwano Duns to serve as a Member of the Legislative Council for Port Phillip Electoral District. Boyd resigns, and Duns fills the seat for the remainder of the term under His Excellency's command.
A tender notice from C J La Trobe, Superintendent, Melbourne, outlines contracts for provisions in Port Phillip districts including Melbourne Bourke county and Geelong Normanby county. It specifies tender security of £2000, monthly or quarterly accounts, and separate envelopes with security certificates due within ten days of tender acceptance.
Tenders are invited at Port Phillip for twelve months starting 1 January 1846 to supply daily rations for emigrants and various government personnel. Detailed ration scales cover men women children prisoners surveyors mounted police gaol inmates and hospital needs with quality and substitution rules and dispute resolution by board of survey or arbitrator.
An aged Shipping Notice reproduces sailing directions for Gulf St Vincent from the South Australian Gazette. It warns mariners to avoid Troubridge Shoal, to navigate by Flinders's chart, and to use careful soundings and anchors near Cape Jervis and the Light Vessel. It outlines entry, anchorage, and tide guidance for vessels entering and traversing Backstairs Passage.
The Melbourne Post Office seeks tenders for mail conveyance routes from Melbourne to Portland via Bunnenysng and the Grange, Mount Macedon, Port Fairy and Fiery Creek, and Hobson's Bay. Offers must be written by November 3, detailing fastest and cost effective routes, with penalties for delays or misdelivery and postmaster approval requirements.
The Court of Requests for this County will be held in Melbourne at the Court House on Monday the 3rd and following November days 1845 at nine in the forenoon. Plaints must be filed by October 16. Defence or set-off by October 30. Each filing must include names and residences of both parties.
The notice states that the land portion advertised for sale in Melbourne has been selected by Gen Campbell Curlewis at an upset price of 20u per note. Parcel details include Thirty-nine two acres with two roads and sixteen perches in the Parish of Moolap portion No 23. Dated Melbourne October 20 1845 under J La Trobe.
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