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Shipwrights begin to build clipper ships making the voyage from England
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Invention of the 'Stripper' a labour saving
harvesting machine that revolutionized the wheat industry |
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Wool auctions introduced in
Sydney by Thomas Sutcliffe Mort |
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Vines planted at Henry
Lindeman's Cawarra in the Hunter Valley
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Canadian rebels receive
pardons
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Boiling down sheep for tallow begins as
monetary confusion deepens
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Rainfall from Moreton Bay to Maitland - luxuriant crops expected
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Benevolent asylum in
East Maitland situated in former immigrant's home
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Maitland
Mercury newspaper first published ( New South Wales)
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Auction - Bowthorne Estate on the Paterson River |
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Bushranger Long Tom Forrester captured by Chief constable Shields of Scone
at Belltrees.
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Constable William Moss captured bushrangers Keating & Crow at
Bishop's Bridge, 6 miles from Maitland. |
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Foundation stone of Australian Library laid
by Alexander McLeay in Bent Street Sydney |
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Heavy rain Hunter River district
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Bushranger John
Quigley captured by Henry Smith near Harper's Hill, Maitland district |
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Striking comet observed in
Europe and
Australia.
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Rev. Dr. John Bede Polding returned to Sydney bringing with him other
clergymen |
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Robert Keddie advertising regular supply of coal from his pit, Coal
Hill, East Maitland |
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Hunter River in Flood
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Rinoplasty surgery performed by Dr. Liddell at Bolwarra
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Hundreds of dead and dying fish seen floating down Wallis Creek
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Thomas R. Johnson,
editor of the Satirist newspaper convicted of a series of obscene libels
sentenced to 2 years in Newcastle gaol. Printer W. Brown sentenced to 1 yr
in Berrima gaol.
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Whooping cough
prevalent in Maitland
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The City Theatre, in Market Street Sydney, opened by Messrs. Simmons and Belmore.
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Limestone bed discovered
at Black Creek
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Emigration on bounty to
NSW to the extent of 5000 persons to be resumed
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Debtors removed from Carter's
Barracks to Darlinghurst Gaol, Sydney. 'Yesterday being the day appointed for the
whole paraphernalia connected with the Old Gaol, prisoners, officers, etc.,
to remove to the New prison at Darlinghurst, the interior of the old
building presented busy scene the whole day. At an early hour 119 of
the prisoners were marched out of the Gaol, the redoubtable Curran heavily
ironed taking precedence of his brother culprits. They were strongly guarded
all the way to their new abode by a detachment of 50 policemen, 4
inspectors, and chief constable Mitchell under command of Capt. Innes. The
second batch of prisoners consisted of 50 females who were escorted to the
New Gaol by a smaller detachment of the police'.(SG) |
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Duncan McGillvrey killed in election riots at Paterson |
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The Hexham Hotel on the road to Newcastle
opened for business. Thomas Prentice proprietor. The Hexham Hotel was
previously run by William Sparke. The location of Spark's land can be seen
on this map. (Click to enlarge). More information can be found at
Inns & Hotels |
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New
Legislative Council to meet for the first time. Speaker to be elected
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Alexander McLeay Esq., member for Gloucester,
Macquarie and Stanley elected Speaker at the first meeting of the
Legislative Council |
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Government enacted
insolvency legislation. Imprisonment for debt abolished.
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A Lien on Wool Act passed to fight depression
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Several paid police
magistrate positions terminated after the office abolished by Legislative
council. |
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New Church at St.
Albans, Lower Hawkesbury opened for divine service. Rev. Simpson
Hawkesbury on
the Net
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Departure of
Sir John Franklin
from Tasmania
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Thomas Tute and Thomas Blakeney, two private soldiers of the 99th
Regiment, indicted for an assault
on John Rinker, a constable in the
Newcastle police at Newcastle
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Six prisoners assisted by three soldiers escape from Norfolk
Island in a whale boat |
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Death of King's
Commissioner John Thomas Bigge |
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Maiden Session
of the Legislative Council of New South Wales closed |
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