Old Times from the Papers of Fifty Years Ago 1854
A collection of brief notices from mid February 1854 includes ship movements with the Croesus bound for England via Cape Horn, the Sydney barque returning from London after a long voyage, local police actions, Harmonie soirées at Sonic Hall, and various notices about banking, rewards, employment of indentured servants, a dissolved partnership, a desertion charge against surgeon John Smith of the Semarang, and related city items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angland
Cape Horn
General Gerew
Croesus
Joan Vine Hall
England
Candideon and Company
Sydney News
Empire
Walter 3
Mason
William Hosse
Ae Eee
Pahner-street
Woollogmoloo
Yorkmreet
William Ross
Sydney
London
Eard
Spring Cove
Iso
Harm Ony
Bank of Australasia
Pen & Bratch
Newcastle
Purose
A.A. Company
Government of South Australia
M‘lerie
Metropolitan Police
Holmes
Waller
Fleetwood
Warted
Charles H. Robertson
G.P.O
Harmonie
Masonic Hall
York Street
Stoll
Coal Hole
N.B
Sydney Railway Company
David Miler
Maidstone
Herefordshire
T. L. Ebs
Raporin
Song
Asbestos covering touted for energy and labor savings
Fragments claim an asbestos covering called Ada Is promises 35 percent fuel savings and labor reduction while preventing condensation on boiler plates and beam casings. The text is partial and unclear but emphasizes efficiency benefits and moisture control.
Marriages and deaths in Sydney area notices
The list records several marriages on the 15th instant at various churches including Pitt Street Congregational, St Pauls Narellan, St Johns Ashfield and Renfrew Park and mentions John Gordon J P Murrumbidgee to Elizabeth Peter Harriet Jane Hassall to John W Oxley and Edward Nortom to Alice Ann Wilkinson The death notices note Samuel Langham aged 40 at Newcastle John Norris storemason aged 84 in Parramatta Frances Sewell aged 56 and Jane Olive at Redfern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colin Stewart
Charles Shiey
Fay
Allison Isabella Walker
Congregational Church
Pitt-street
Dr. Ross
John Gordon
J.P. Murrumbidgee
Elizabeth Peter
St. Paul's Narellan
Thomas Hassall
A.M
John W. Oxley
Kirkham
Harriet Jane Hassall
Denbigh
N.E.W
Mary Elizabeth
Gierald Fitzgerald
Lave
Elm
87Th Regiment
Newcastle
Samuel Langham
Parramatta
John Norris
Parramatta-street
Frances Sewell
Redfern
Jane Olive
Obstinate desertion case and Sydney notices in 1850s column
A court rejects a plea that desertion as a common seaman is not punishable. a doctor is sentenced to 12 weeks with no hard labour. The page also includes poetry on the late Colonial Secretary Deas Thomson, economic notes, club cricket scores, bank balances, property sales, births, marriages, and a long travel sketch on Korea detailing customs, living conditions, gender norms, and religious practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. M. Herald
Edward Deas- Thomson
Flood
Rowley
Hilliard
Vaughan
Lewis
Marylebone Club
Weedon
Marylebone
Herald
Moreton Bay
Brisbane
China
Savings Bank
Melbourne Corporation
N.S.W. De“Térlebt
Barrack Street
Colonial Treasury
Bank of Australasia
Union Bank Bank of
N.S.W
Commercial Bank Joint Stock Bank
George C. Allen
Charles A. Fiteroy
G. Miller
Ing
Sydney Street Watering Company
Harry 87Ucrdale
Korea
Far East
Seoul
Im Man
Eck
Tsrelipex
Artnet
Pind Geltes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cemntry
Jrrr
ADA
Wki. Adams & Co., Lnd
Clarence Street
Idzumo
Iwate
Shirishima
Hatsuse
Mirasa
Yaakumo
Toriwa
Azuma
Puil
Yushima
K. Abama
Asahl
Russia
Gromoboi
Fobieda
Poltava
Askold
DIANA
Cesarevitch
Petropavlovsk
BATAN
Sevastopol
Vartag
Navarln
Nakhimoff
Economist
Australia
G. Gerry
Prince of Wales
George-Street
J. B. Butter
Francis Lord
T. R. Teely
R. Machattie
Bathurst Free Press
Frederick Waller
Charles Fleetwood
George Rees
Central Police Court
Adelaide
John M'Lerie
J.P
Port Arthur
van Diemen’s Land
Melbourne
Ftrain
South Australia
Messrs. Mort and Company
William Tucker
White Horse Inn
King and Market Streets
Barnelouth
John Brown
Woolloomooloo
Thomas Barker
M‘leay
Elizabeth Ay
David James
Darling Downs
Royal Theatre
Street
Charles IL
Weilburn
Mies Graham
Mies M. & Fawcett
Miss Howard
Axtelle
Songs of
Scotland
Paxton
School of Arts
York-street
Panorama
Goulburn
D. Davis
Bald Hills
Lachina
T. Boland
Nertumibla
Templer
Lower Fort-street
Cove
R. Archbold
William Robson
Gomee
J. Sawyer
Gt. James's
J. C. Grylls
Estey
Vermont
Adirondack Mountains
Esteys
Paling’s
George St
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