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Article : 1,934 wordsBEFORE the Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates. In the estate of Francis Grant, a single meeting. Three debts were proved, insolvent was examined, and was allowed to retain his tools of trade. ...
Article : 462 wordsAUGUST 27TH.—Adelaide flour, £27 to £28 per ton; other brands, fine, £21 to £27 ditto; bran, £8 ditto; maize, 8s 6d per bushel; ditto cracked, 10s 6d; hay, lucerne, £14 to £16 per ton; ditto,, oates, £18 to £20 ditto; potatoes, £11 to £14 ditto. Fowls, 4s per ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 116 wordsTHE wools sold at auction, this day, were principally secured, for which, however, the demand appears active, judging by the prices realized. A lot of 18 bales Clarence River fleece wool brought 2s. per lb. ...
Article : 1,438 wordsTHE backwater was going down steadily but slowly during Tuesday. Chimney tops, roofs of houses, tops of fences, &c., are now gradually to be seen showing out of the water. The voyage to East Maitland and back is attended with greater danger than ...
Article : 2,021 wordsNOTWITHSTANDING the interference to travelling by the late floods in so many districts, our orders for country labour have been numerous during the week. The selection has been somewhat limited the new arrivals per Monica having been pretty well ...
Article : 450 wordsEleven persons, found guilty of drunkenness, were severally [?]entenced to pay 10s., or to be imprisoned twenty-four hours. James Connolly was brought before the Bench by constable Keogh, who deposed that yesterday he found defendant lying ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 380 wordsHenry Binnington, for drunkenness, was fined 10s. Arthur Bristol was summoned by John Murray Bates for neglecting to complete a contract to finish a room and do some shingling, at the house of complainant, Middle Harbour, the work ...
Article : 296 words[UNLESS otherwise expressed, the prices quoted in this article are those in transactions between the producer and the first purchaser; not as between one dealer and another, much less the retail prices.] ...
Article : 630 wordsSIR,—Under Mr. Donaldson's proposed Assessment Act, the charge on, or rent of a run carrying 4000 head of cattle would be £300 a-year. A rent of £300 implies ' that the value of the land rented is at least £6000— ...
Article : 288 wordsTHE Western Escort arrived yesterday from the respective gold-fields, and delivered at the Sydney bran[?] of the Royal Mint the following quantities of gold-dust:— August 18th.—From Bathurst, 25 oz. 12 dwts. 6 grs.; Stoney ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 437 wordsA Meeting of the Municipal Council of Sydney, will be held at the Town Hall, King-street, on Monday, the 31st August, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for considering the following NOTICES OF MOTION. ...
Article : 421 wordsSIR,—I beg to contradict a letter from your correspondent with respect to a portion of the Penrith Nepean bridge having sustained further injury. Such is not the case; it now stands in the same position as ...
Article : 70 wordsThe amount of gold-dust imported into the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint, during the week ended (to-day) August 28th, for the purpose of coinage has been 1864 ounces. ...
Article : 1,053 wordsSIR,—A letter appeared in your issue of the 18th, from Mr. W. E. Larmer, disclaiming having given his assurance to the petitioners claiming the Jembaicumbene Swamp as Government ground. We, the petitioners, ...
Article : 117 wordsAUGUST 24.—A letter received yesterday by a mercantile house in the city, from a friend residing in the above township, gives a sad account of loss of life. He says: "We had the highest flood on Wednesday last, that has been known here for 25 years. To ...
Article : 127 wordsAUGUST 27TH.—Since my last there has been nothing but reports of distress on all sides. Sunday was fine, and the postmaster of Wilberforce being informed that a boat was going to Windsor, embraced the opportunity of sending the mail, and also getting ...
Article : 302 wordsSIR,—I beg to draw the attention of the Postmaster-General to the fact that the last Herald that came to hand was that of the 18th, and our English letters and papers, now more than a week in the colony, have not ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 29 Aug 1857, Page 5
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