Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), Saturday 10 March 1917, page 8


FIFTY YEARS AGO

Saturday, March 9, 1867.— The reported find of mid at. the Barrier is -believed to be a hoax.-Mr. Moses Firth's offer for tie building of the orphanage at Magill has been accepted — Complaints made that the children at -t*e Grace Darling Home, Brighton. -were halfstarved on the current rations (which were totally unfit for children of such a tenderage) age) have been well founded.— Four innocent men. Moses Simmons, James Hamilton, Patrick Kennedy, and Henry Allen nave been released from the Stockade, where they were undergoing sentences for highway robbery. ' The Kerney brothers iave confessed that they and not the men mentioned were .the perpetrators of the crimes.