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Newspaper
Wallaroo Times And Mining Journal
Location
Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Date
Jan 20, 1869
Page
6
In the Legislative Council a petition was presented seeking amendment of clause 3 of the Licensed Vie tcallers Act. The Waste Lands Act Amendment Bill was read a second time and taken into Committee pro forma. The House adjourned at bell past 4 o clock to January 15.
January 18 before Mr J B Shepherdson. Woolley Cres claims £1 15s 8d by Elizabeth Crew wife of the defendant. Husband works at Wallaroo Mines earning 5 per day. They have three children and rent ds weekly. No other judgments. Bus away to Newcastle. seeks employment. Court orders 3s per month pending. Butler v Butler remanded as defendant has found work likely to stay in Wallaroo and support family.
Members present include Mesura J B Shepherdson S M J Harvey J P and Captain Hay. William Morgan seeks renewal of two rations for two weeks while Robert Crouch reports a wife and four children unable to earn and shows a doctor certificate of incipient paralysis. three rations for one week approved.
Melbourne reports note grasshoppers destroying feed in the Western District and tube wells tested successfully. A late January item says Archbishop Polding arrived from Sydney and a missing Essex passenger may have been washed overboard. Revenue shows a quarterly rise of £129,277 and annual decrease of £7,861.
Sydney reports a bushranger near Bourke identified as Pearson Rutherford. One Gympie robber was arrest in Brisbane. Mr Gray's Kiama residence burned in retaliation for Orange Lodge. Thunderbolts boy committed for trial. Mauritius OConnell, nephew of the acting governor, shot himself in Brisbane.
January 16 report from New Zealand describes a clash at Auckland where the How Haus sortie from Ngstepe ended with several killed including Inspector Brown and twelve friendlies. The force reportedly captured outer trenches, and the How Haus were accused of treachery in this engagement.
The Maori King issues a letter denouncing Te Kooti's massacres of friendly groups and urging restraint. He expresses a desire for peace and reconciliation amid ongoing conflict and unrest.
The Postmaster General of South Australia announces changes to the Adelaide Melbourne mails to reduce delays at Penola and Hamilton. One weekly mail will now complete the journey in about seventy seven hours and a half, with faster transit from Melbourne, though some services incur twenty four hour delays. The Mount Gambier route gains earlier arrivals, and two Melbourne outbound services face Ballarat delays, while others improve overall speed across the route. The report also recounts a curious local legal anecdote about a misnamed plaintiff in a court case and a storm that disrupted a passenger train near Runnymede.
Mr King of Burthong describes a novel device to trap wild hares on his run. A fenced plant and waterhole trap allows horses to drink before a gate is closed by men, trapping horses in a stockyard for repeat captures. Branded horses are then returned.
A muddled colonial clipping describes impounded horses sold at four shillings each, a pumpkine dodge over bags of maize ending in a fine, and a Queensland emigration debate. It notes squatters near Sydney, a Palmer’s Island maize sale, and calls for reform of land acts to encourage immigration and settlement.
Reports detail Melbourne troops bound for Wanganui and a chaotic departure at the Empire hotel. Recruits, mostly intoxicated, packed into cabs, with several uniform-related mishaps and a knife incident led by Major M Burnet. The Grey River Argus notes Parliament dissolution rumors, with little firm confirmation.
Opinion diverges between the Governor and ministers on using British troops to quell the native rebellion. Earl Belmore offered service of the imperial troops, but advisers favoring a self reliant policy block acceptance. Parliament likely to be recalled to legalise war expenditures and discuss constitutional changes granting imperial authorities military control.
Mr Bradshaw, once famed in Victorian goldfields, visits the Golden Crown and adjacent claims. Guided by manager Mr Farmer, he views adits, shafts, and drives through quartz and sulphide veins, noting 60 feet depth, rich ore, and a vein averaging 1.05 feet, with potential yield of 20 ounces per ton in current extraction and up to 2000 ounces per ton in ideal crushing.
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