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1843

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Shipwrights begin to build clipper ships making the voyage from England faster  
 

 

 

Invention of the 'Stripper' a labour saving harvesting machine that revolutionized the wheat industry  
Wool auctions introduced in Sydney by Thomas Sutcliffe Mort  

Vines planted at Henry Lindeman's Cawarra in the Hunter Valley

 

 
 

 

 

 

Canadian rebels receive pardons

 
 

JANUARY

 

 

Boiling down sheep for tallow begins as monetary confusion deepens

 
 

JANUARY

 

Rainfall from Moreton Bay to Maitland - luxuriant crops expected

 
 

JANUARY

 

Benevolent asylum in East Maitland situated in former immigrant's home

 
 
 

JANUARY 7

 

Maitland Mercury newspaper first published ( New South Wales)

 
 
 

JANUARY 11

 

Auction - Bowthorne Estate on the Paterson River  

Bushranger Long Tom Forrester captured by Chief constable Shields of Scone at Belltrees.

 
Constable William Moss captured bushrangers Keating & Crow at Bishop's Bridge, 6 miles from Maitland.  
 

FEBRUARY 14

 

Foundation stone of Australian Library laid by Alexander McLeay in Bent Street Sydney  
 

FEBRUARY

 

Heavy rain Hunter River district

 
 

FEBRUARY 27

 

Bushranger John Quigley captured by Henry  Smith near Harper's Hill, Maitland district  

Striking comet observed in Europe and Australia.

 
 

MARCH 9

 

 

Rev. Dr. John Bede Polding returned to Sydney bringing with him other clergymen

 
 

MARCH

 

Robert Keddie advertising regular supply of coal from his pit, Coal Hill, East Maitland

 
 

MARCH

 

Hunter River in Flood

 
 

MARCH

 

Rinoplasty surgery performed by Dr. Liddell at Bolwarra

 
 

MARCH

 

Hundreds of dead and dying fish seen floating down Wallis Creek

 
 

APRIL

 

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.

 
 

APRIL

 

Whooping cough prevalent in Maitland

 
 

MAY

 

The City Theatre, in Market Street Sydney, opened by Messrs. Simmons and Belmore.

 
 

MAY

 

Limestone bed discovered at Black Creek

 
 

JUNE

 

Emigration on bounty to NSW to the extent of 5000 persons to be resumed

 
 

JUNE 7

 

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)  
 

JUNE 28

 

Duncan McGillvrey killed in election riots at Paterson  
 

JULY

 

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  
 

JULY 27

 

New Legislative Council to meet for the first time. Speaker to be elected

 
 

AUGUST

 

Alexander McLeay Esq., member for Gloucester, Macquarie and Stanley elected Speaker at the first meeting of the Legislative Council  
 

SEPTEMBER 15

 

Government enacted insolvency legislation. Imprisonment for debt abolished.

 
 

SEPTEMBER 15

 

A Lien on Wool Act passed to fight depression

 
 

 

 

Several paid police magistrate positions terminated after the office abolished by Legislative council.  

New Church at St. Albans, Lower Hawkesbury opened for divine service. Rev. Simpson

Hawkesbury on the Net

 
 

NOVEMBER

 

Departure of Sir John Franklin from Tasmania

 
 

NOVEMBER 6

 

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

 
 

DECEMBER 14

 

Six prisoners assisted by three soldiers escape from Norfolk Island in a whale boat  
 

DECEMBER 22

 

Death of King's Commissioner John Thomas Bigge  
 

DECEMBER 28

 

Maiden Session of the Legislative Council of New South Wales closed  

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