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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 28, 1869
Page
7
Reports describe a mysterious stone tested as possibly a diamond or a topax. A company offered £1000 to finders plus £4000 if proven diamond, while Melbourne investors and bank officials debated testing. Rev W B Clarke suspects a white topax. general belief leans to hoax.
An Australasian report from Lower Bohemia on Bohemian vagabonds and the utterly homeless near the Immigrants' Home by the Yarra. It describes a rain soaked, night scene along Flinders Street, with roving families, old criminals, broken homes, and the stark squalor of shelterless living beneath bridges and wharves. The piece paints a grim portrait of poverty and crime among displaced men, women, and children in Melbourne’s riverfront fringe.
On 18 July in Hutchinson street Sydney died Mrs Sarah Sollitt eighty three, reputed to be older. She lived alone, wore one dress for years, kept a barricaded verandah, and never lit a fire. After death, a wealth of curiosities and valuables were found, including £1109 6 4, cash, gold and silver, costumes, furs, and a skin of a cat. Executors named in two wills, with real estate and bonds to fund survivor relatives in England. The case is described as a remarkable eccentricity and curiosity shop.
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