Old Times from Sydney Papers of Fifty Years Ago
A condensed chronicle from August 1852 items: church notices at Darlinghurst, St John the Evangelist foundation at Parramatta, notes on local frauds, a ship vessel loss, tariff revenue summaries, theatre benefits, auctions, robberies, births marriages and deaths. The piece captures social, civic, and biographical snippets across Sydney and Port Jackson during colonial days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bseemly House of Worship
William Louis Hutton
University College
Herald
King-street
St. John the Evangelist
Parramatta
Watkins
Victoria
Great Britain
Charles Augustus Fits Roy
K.C.H
Henry Hodgkinson
Hobart
Francis Watkins
Edward Liscombe Rowling
Jamesa M‘manua
James Houlson
Bell
Sydney
Park-street
Nag's Head
Pitt-street
Market
Park Streets
Mort
Chinnery
H.M
Pandora
Drury
Auckland
Wynyard
Hokianga
Kaipara
Endeavour
Port Riephens
Bens
Neutral Bay
Port Stephens
Leichardti
Colonial Secretary
Legislative Council
Hovendon Hely
Dr. Leichhardt
Hely
H. Dixson
Pever
Chas. A. Fite Roy
N.B.W
Territorial Revenue
Department of Customs
Department of Colonial Distilleries
University of Sydney
Wentworth
London
Boyd
Darke
Carden
Weynten
Miss Hack
Bates
Mise Crighton
Banbury
Templeton
Fenan
Messrs. Robinson
Randall
Francis King
Stars
Gillett
Holland
Rees
Scardon
Payne
Hall
Rives
Drinkwater
Jeffries
Warren
Son
bin Farm
Baulkham Hills
Nash
Woolpack Hotel
James Pye
John Rossell
P. N. Russell and Company
P. N. Russell
Mra
Keith Stewart
Mme
Carandini
Royal Victoria Theatre
Broomfield
11Th Regiment
Aldis
George Champion
A.S.N. Company
Vice-Admiralty Court
Amazon
Henry Moore
Botany
John Benson
BR. Sheriff
John Seath
Clarendon
Windsor
Farmer
John Hockisson, Esq
Clifton
Major's Creek
Henry Manning
Messrs
Parkes and
Lambert
Brick and
Egan Streets
O'Connell Town
Newtown-road
William-street
Woolloomooloo
Smart's Terrace
Dowling Estate
George-street
Duke of Cornwall
J. Croft
Hay
England
Croft
Garsed and Morkin
Gareed
Brush and Macdonnell
Jewellers
Melbourne
Sir Montague Chapman
Montague Feather
Thomas Douglass
Cook
Stent? Cuff
George Munron
P. Davis
Eae
Thomas Hedrington
Bonard
Benjamin Darley
Port Jackson
Fort Jackson
Cauy
Wehinading
Dues Gemareau
Vaucluse
Lighthouse Hotel
William Long
Parrametts
Juliane Hellman
Newtown
W. C. Rush
Victoria Street
John Newton
Shoalhaven River
Lachlan M’tageart
Joaquin Cottage
Balmain
M. I. So
Archdeacon Cowper
J. B. B&b Griffin
Isabella
Wm. Joyner
Trinity
Thomas A. Drysdale
Prince-street
Ann Susanth Chapman
Lower George Street
Kaiser on Beer Drinking
Berlin telegram reports the Kaiser scolding Bonn students for heavy beer consumption. He warned the habit harms health and criticized forced drinking as absurd. Crown Prince recently returned to Potsdam after jaundice linked to compulsory beer drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Kaiser
Bonn
Potsdam
Sporting Actresses Win Grand Prix at Auteuil
French actress Mme Ricotti of Sper, famed for personal charm, won the Grand Prix at Auteuil worth 120,000s. She began her racing stable in 1897 buying Gratio, who captured the Grand Byceple de Paris and the Grand Steep of Nice, with earnings totaling about half a million francs over four years. This marks the second time a sportswoman has won the blue riband of French steeplechasing, after Mme Louise Marcy of the Comedie Francaise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Ricotti
Sper
Auteuil
Mme. Ricott
Gratio
Paris
Nice
France
Mme
Louise Marcy
Comedie Francaise
Dusky Potentates in English Paper Report
An English paper describes a scene of royal pageantry and pomp with a coachman in royal livery overheard asking a colleague a jocular question about his hat or something similar. The fragment hints at colonial or imperial imagery within a ceremonial setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harthur
Southsea fortifications eyed with new splinter nets and guns
An extended naval defense discussion notes Southsea Castle and adjacent forts at Spithead as weakly armed but potentially formidable with 0.2 inch Vic kers-Maxim guns and hidden batteries. The author questions nighttime attack tactics, suggests Scilly Islands and Portland as test arenas for torpedo flotillas, and comments on new splinter nets and fitting trials aboard Belleisle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southsea Castle
Spithead
Spit
Bembridge
Isle of Wight
Portsmouth
Scilly Islands
Portland
Vernon
South Africa
Army and Navy Gazette
Roberts
W.T.M
PuJl Mall
Social items mark Aug events and notable commemorations
The August events include the HB annual ball for the Bega Convent building fund with 170 pounds surplus, a dance at Cleveden Yass for Mrs. Roffe’s invitations, Kiama Large Oddfellows anniversary ball, Coronation celebrations at Five Dock and Drummoyne with Mayor Henley honored, and a St Pauls Guild supper and euchre night at Temora. Further notes mention the Richmond Benevolent Society annual ball and donations to the poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bega Convent
Alderman Henley
Richmond School
Moorish Envoy Leaves London After Coronation Postponement
The Moorish envoy and his suite departed London hastily when the Coronation postponement became known. They arrived on the platform at the last moment and, through an interpreter, the chief of the suite answered a reporter’s questions. He spoke of returning to civilisation and expressed sorrow for King Edward. Civilisation and Morocco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Edward
England
Morocco
A Remarkable Recovery After Clements Tonic Cure
William Henry Atkins of Pyrmont recounts years of illness marked by loss of appetite, chest pains, insomnia, and constitutional weakness. After trying many medicines, he credits Clements Tonic with restoring appetite, sleep, digestion, and strength, noting lasting recovery over 17 years in his Crown-road home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Atkins
Harris-street
Clements
Clements Tonic
Clements Tonic Statutory Declaration Missing Cure Claims
William Henry Atkins of 211 Crown road Pyrmont NSW declares the annexed four folios truthfully describe his illness and Clements Tonic. The document states the tonic is not a cure all and does not claim to cure plague or incurable diseases, emphasizing reliance on genuine care rather than impossible miracles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Henry Atkins
Crown-road
Pyrmont
New South Wales
Australia
Clements Tonic
Clements Tonio
Also Mentioned on This Page
Church of England
Surry Hille
Darlinghurst Court House
Georgestree
Alezunfree Gray
T‘ohurst
Sussex Street
Garbfield
Concord Watchhouse
Gwynne
Parramatta Road
Tofian Hughes
Caulfield
Hughes
Ashfield
Cheverells
Darlinghurst
Catherine
J. W. Gosling
To Raymond
Burton and
Palmer Streets
Henry Callander
Her Majesty's Customa
Dean
Westminster
the Kaiser
Sootek
Mesars
G. Cobcroft
Andrew Stewart
Thos. Smith
Surreyville
Mildred Emma Jones
William Jones
W. Smith
Carleon Station
Mudges
St. Jude's Church of England
Bowral
B. Stanley Wilkinson
E. Stanley Wikingon
St. Juie's School Hall
Mosman
F. B. Kyngdon
Wilkinson
Lodge Wentworth
Pardington
Thomas Palmer
G. F. Davies
C. E. Chandler
Carlton
Collins
Boden
Kersey
M' Anally
Nellie Roberts
Fletcher
G. M'Kinnon
L. G. Small
A. Hart
Lees
F. Malcolm
Butt
Hilda J. Harrie
Crockett
F. Casey
van Norten
L. Egerton
A. Nolan
E. White
J. Malcolm
May Frost
D. Rosa
R. James
M. Laird
Storey
Greig
Godfrey
A. Lea
F. Jones
Bowdler
Lila Mc Donald
Stella Doyle
F. Keane
D. Levy
Chas. Chandler
Colley
W. Hemming
J. Cameron
H. Lisyd
H. P. Scott
Watts
Pring
Walter Ives
A. G. Dent
J. Briscoe
G. H. Dent
T. Richardson
J. Lovelace
Tildesley
EK. Baker
A. H. Moore
Blunden
N. Finegan
Arthur Pearce
W. Kent
Whelan
H. T. Denman
Hexter
Howard
Grant
M'Ginley
A. W. Abbott
A. Crayden
W. H. Keene
T. Lynch
H. Landers
W. Brown
King
Stanwell
Griffin
T. Hook
F. W. Collins
Carrick
Martin
Howell
Moate
C. Phillips
K. A. Willis
B. W. Coates
H. Hart
J. Collins
E. Kersey
J. T. Collins
F. Gair
W. Lange
Gardiner
W. G. Yard
F. Lange
Butz
Nicholls
Nuree
Temora
Empire
W.L. Penrith
Temperance Hall
Penrith
3Rd Regiment
Walters
Walkiron
Vis
J. Perritt
C. Clissold
E. Barlow
A. Anderson
H. Sheens
A. M'Alpine
M. Slater
Africa
Austral Tennis Club
Mittagong
W. Middleton
Messrs. Chown Brothers and Mulholland, Limited
Street West
5. M'Kimley
Rupertswood Presbyteram
Mount Druitt
Ethel Walker
John Walker
Colyton
William H. Young
John Young
Eastborough
H. & Buntine
Davi Walker
Plumptom
Rooty Hill
Elsie Walker
Misa Sophia Young
Walter Munn
F. J. Young
Walkers Hall
Calytan
T-Sh Imperial Arcade
Pitt-rt
W. H. Atkins
No. 211
Rebraien
Teeaiid
C. Hallam