POLITICS.—A meeting was held at the principal township of the Manning River (Candletown), on Tuesday, the 18th instant, pursuant to notice circulated some time previous, calling on the member for the Hastings, Mr. ...
Article : 1,355 wordsA supplement to the Government Gazette, issued on Saturday last, contains the following appointments in the police, under the Police Reguration Act of 1862. The police districts are not yet, we believe, defined, but ...
Article : 192 wordsWe received a lengthy communication from our correspondent by Thursday evening's mail, which we have had to postpone till next week. The following is an outline of its contents. On Monday evening Mr. Zuill ...
Article : 2,463 wordsACCIDENT.—Yesterday a poor man named John Graham, in the service of P. W. Wright, Esq., of Bickham, met with a serious accident. Graham and another man were in charge of a dray and team in a field on the estate; by some means Graham ...
Article : 498 wordsINQUEST.—A coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday, on the body of the boy named Ford, aged five years, whose death, by drowning in an open well, wa noticed in our last. It appeared that the premises where the well was situated were ...
Article : 894 wordsFEBRUARY 25.—The Bishop of Newcastle arrived here at the Church of England parsouage, on Thursday evening last, about 8 p.m., and early next morning, proceeded with the Rev. W. Carr, the incumbent, to Bendalla, about eight miles hence, and ...
Article : 170 wordsESCAPE FROM DARLINGHURST GAOL.—Some workmen were yesterday employed repairing a drain, about 150 yards from the gaol at Darlinghurst. At eleven o'clock they were somewhat startled by the appearance of two ...
Article : 3,300 wordsArrivals during the post week have been fair, and prices of most articles have somewhat receded. Wheat is a shade lower, but the demand is fair. Adelaide 6s. 9d., and Californian and New South Wales 5s. 6d. ...
Article : 189 wordsWool.—There was a better disposition to purchase manifested at our auction sales this day than fur several weeks past, and, with the exception of one lot of six bales, the whole of that offered was quitted at rates fully up to those lately obtained ...
Article : 3,510 wordsDENILIQUIN STOCK MARKET.— Thursday, February 20th.— The store caltle market, so far as this locality is concerned, may be looked upon as at a dead lock. There is no business whatever doing. Inquiry appears to have ceased entirely, and the ...
Article : 243 wordsARRIVALS.—February 27. Grafton (s.), from Sydney; New Moon (s.), from Sydney; Notion, schooner, 109 tons, Croft, from Melbourne. DEPARTURES.—February 26. Colchester, brig, Prescott, for ...
Article : 149 wordsARRIVALS.—February 27. Urara (s.), 240 tons, Captain Wiseman, from Clarence River 26th instant, with 23 passengers; Vistula, schooner, 132 tons, Captain Souter, from Otago 12th instant, with 24 passengers; William Gifford, American ship, ...
Article : 618 wordsIt is rumoured that serious charges have been made against the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Gold Fields, of supplying forage grown by himself, to the Government, for the police horses. An ...
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893), Tue 4 Mar 1862, Page 3
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