This is part of a news story I came across a few years ago in the Illustrated Sydney News (while looking for pictures) and I shared the last sentence on Facebook because, well, it is such a fascinatingly constructed sentence. But I did wonder what it was the stirred the writer so. The answer is…
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(Launceston Advertiser, 6 April 1837) “Mr. Joseph Edward Wilson, eldest son of Mrs. Thomas, of this town, left his home last Saturday afternoon on horseback, on his way to Hobart Town, and had reached within a mile of Perth, when a man rushed suddenly out of the bush, and discharged a piece at him, the…
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Looking for something else, I came across this: Registers of Convicts’ Deaths (CON 63-1-1, B 2) That led to this… POSTSCRIPT – We stop the press to announce the melancholy intelligence of the loss of the Waterloo, on Sunday, the 28th August, at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope. By this fearful event 189 human…
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Israel Shaw, Abraham Crabtree, John Sinclair, and John Marshall were charged with having stolen on the 30th May, one horse value £8, and two mares value £14. the property of Joseph Terry, residing at Westbury. William Bates, resides with his uncle Joseph Terry, near Westbury. He recollected coming to Launceston in May last, with one…
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Tasmanian Newspapers to 1899, in MS Excel format (xls). Showing availability online, as of 8 August 2016 (last update). In an attempt to keep it simple, names changes are only noted when there’s a significant change. Changes to a title involving the place name are noted in brackets.
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Launceston Advertiser, 16 August 1838 LAUNCESTON: Thursday Morning, August 16, 1838 The Marriage Act was passed on Tuesday the 7th last., after much ineffectual opposition on the part of Chief Justice Pedder and Mr. Gregory. The latter put in the following protest against the measure : — Mr. Gregory’s reasons for dissenting from the resolution…
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