Moonta notices and incidents from the copper district
The report details capital plans at a company raising £1750 by new shares to 1050 at £5 each, plus a serious railway accident in which Samuel Biggs, a wallaroo driver, suffered an arm injury and legible amputation after runaway wagons. It also covers Aboriginal teetotalteer tea event at Moonta Mines, plan revisions for the new Moonta Institute, wrestling cup results, and the Adelaide solicitor Mr W A Hughes being convicted of cheque fraud with eight years hard labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Biggs
Wallaroo and Kadina
Wallaroo
Kadina
Biggs
Dr Stone
Koreea
Moonta
Moonta Mine
Moonta Mines
Primitive Methodist
Deeble
Messrs
M'Cormack
Lloyd
Jarrett
Bimpoon
Goss
Advertiser
Howell
Gaskell
Pearce
Joseph Pearce
John H. Bray
W. A. Hughes
Adelaide
Supreme Court
Stow
Mesars Ingleby
Boucaut
Hughes
Justice Wearing
Ingleby
Burned ship and captured trader amid Pacific news
Telegraphic news from Adelaide reports the Blue Jacket burning in the New Zealand trade and Glover captured at Fiji. The Victorian Assembly plans appeal to the Privy Council on the Privilege case. The Light of the Age nears completion after five months at sea amid reports of a wheat market and a rush to alluvial diggings paying from £3 to £20 per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide
New Zealand
Glover
Fiji
Victorian Assembly
Privy Council
Queensland
Local Court Moon ta May 21 Peters v Andrewartha Pine dispute
In the case Peters v Andrewartha before Mr J B Shepherdson SM, Peters testifies he supplied 14 pine rafters to Andrewartha on April 1 and delivered them to the defendant’s house. The pine were claimed to be used or valueless, Moyle later supplied replacements. Moyle and Andrewartha deny ownership of the pines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moonta
J. B. Shepherdson
S.M
Peters
Hodge
Phillip Andrewartha
Thomas Stuart
Moyle
Plaintiff
Peter
Edward Moyle
Wit
Roofing Pine Shortage Leads to Court Verdict
Witness described pine delivered for roofing as short and unfit for use. Defendant claimed rafters must be returned after a verdict in an unsatisfied London v Furner case. In a separate matter William Sydney London sued for boots supplied in 1867. an order was made for immediate payment or fourteen days’ imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ness
Andrewartha
Henry Frisk
Moyle
London
Furner
William Sydney London
Adelaide
Queensland Gover nment edition planned for Queen's Birthday
Adelaide reports a government edition for the Queen's Birthday and a corroboree at the Police Court to purge the Licensing Bench. The Attorney General pushes for a reform to convert the Licensing Bench into a formal judicial tribunal with a fixed process and counsel led hearings. Also details the Hughes case trials with convictions for forged cheques and altered receipts, ending in an eight year sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide
Commission of the Peace
Beddome
Parker
Strathalbyn
Wigley
Strangways
J.P
J.p.’S
Pblic
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Parliament
Hare
Messrangleby
Townsend
Hill
Bundley
Luke Murphy
Stratton
Ehurcke
Corporation
Hyndman
Worsnop
Wicksteed
Worsuop
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