The Register July 24 1866

 Advertisements & Notices

Wanted, a SURGEON to attend the Members of the Loyal Reynella Lodge of Oddfellows. The Lodge numbers about one hundred Members. A good opening for a Medical Man in the neighbourhood, on account of the recent death of a Surgeon. Application to be addressed to the N.G. Reynella Lodge, Reynella.

MEDICAL – STRATHALBYN – Applications will be received by the Strathalbyn District Council up to Thursday July  5 from duly qualified MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS for Attendance on the Destitute Poor of the District, at the rate allowed by Government, viz, £13 per annum. By order of Council, S.R. Bosisto, Clerk. June 23 1866.

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[The following has been extracted from the July 1866 Register and is not the complete article, but simply the names appearing therein.]

Pound Keepers (1866)

Clarendon (nearest Post Office Clarendon – James Williams

Bull’s Creek (Section3286 nearest post office Bull’s Creek) – William Wills

Happy Valley (nearest post office O’Halloran Hill) – John Strong

Strathalbyn (nearest post office Strathalbyn) – John Phillips

Langhorne Creek – Section 3550 – Robert Clifford

The Register -  24 July 1855

DOG ACT

DISTRICT OF MORPHETT VALE NO 26

Proclaiming revoking the appointment of Mr Joseph Peck as Registrar, and appointing in his place Mr Conrad N. Wornum, and the District Council Office to the place of registration.

The Register July 24 1866

Real Property Act Notices

Whereas the Persons named at foot hereof have each respectively for himself made application to have the Lands set forth and described before his name at foot hereof brought under the operation of “The Real Property Act”.

LITTLEHAMPTON – Lot 33 of Section 5008 Hundred of Macclesfield- GEORGE RATTEW, near Clarendon.

YANKALILLA – Lots 8 and 16 of Section 1131, Hundred of Yankalilla – THOMAS WILSON, Kangaroo Island.

HUNDRED OF KUITPO – Section 766 – HENRY TRELOAR, near Clare.

HUNDREDS OF KUITPO AND MACCLESFIELD – Sections 3322 and 3321 – HENRY TRELOAR, near Clair.

HUNDREDS OF KONDOPARINGA AND MACCLESFIELD – Section 3317  HENRY TRELOAR, near Clare.

Date up to an inclusive of which caveat may be lodged, July 14 1866.

HUNDRED OF KUITPO – Section 3604 – RICHARD WILLIAMS, Willunga

HUNDRED OF STRATHALBYN – Blocks 6, 7 and 19A of Section 1816 – JOHANN GOTTLIEB NITSCHKE, near Mount Torrens.

TOWNSHIP OF PORT ELLIOT – Sections 103 and 177 – ALFRED HEATH, Adelaide.

GOOLWA UPPER, Township of  - Lots 2, 17 and 18 of Section 2394, Hundred of Goolwa – WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Goolwa.

MYPONGA, Hundred of – Section 446 and 477 – JAMES MARTIN, Yankalilla.

MACCLESFIELD, Hundred of – section 2863 and 2864 – MARY MILLER RANKINE.

PORT ELLIOT, Township of – Section 15 – JOHN CHERRY and SAMUEL TOMKINSON

The Register - Saturday July 7 1866

REMINISCENCES OF EARLY SETTLEMENT
IN THE SOUTH

Mr Y.B. Hutchison sends the following interesting communication to the Southern Argus:-

“Sir:- As you are misinformed in stating that the remains of Sir John Jeffcott rest in the vicinity of Victor Harbor, perhaps it may amuse some of your readers to be furnished with a correct account.

“Mr Thos. Strangways, Mr A.F. Lindsay and myself had, in December, 1857, arrived in this neighbourhood on an exploring expedition, and having been joined by Captain Blenkinsop, then commanding a whaling establishment at Victor Harbour, he dispatched a whaleboat by the Murray-mouth to Goolwa, we proceeded thither by land with our dray. The boat entered the river with little difficulty but shipped some water. Having examined the named Currency Creek, Hindmarsh Island, and Points Sturt and Macleay, we were obliged by the heavy gale and rain to land under the lee of Point Sturt, where we rigged a small tent with the sail and oars, but the wind and rain were so violent that when we got up in the morning the only dry ground was that which was under our bodies, and the water ran out of my gun which was lying by my side. Driven out of this, we took refuge on the wet ground under the boat bottom upwards. Here we passed 24 hours more, not very comfortable, but made ourselves jolly under disadvantageous circumstances, with a biscuit each for each meal. Next morning the wind and rain had abated a little, but our stock of food was so short that we were obliged to think of retuning; so after sounding halfway across to Point Macleay, we pulled 5 hours against a head wind, and after an hour’s rest and five hours’ more hard work, we reached our dray at the head of Currency Creek, where an abundant supply of fried pork and kangaroo put us into merry spirits again. A day or two after this, we were joined by Sir John Jeffcott (whose ship had been wrecked at Rosetta Harbour) and Mr Hindmarsh, and Sir John expressed a wish to return to Victor Harbour in the boat by the Murray-mouth. I endeavoured to dissuade him by insisting that he would get a thorough drenching, for he was in a dress coat, with suitable continuations, while we were all in rough shooting jackets. However, he would go, and borrowed my gun, flask, and shot-belt; so the boat and dray started for Victor Harbour by different routes. About 8 p.m. we were startled and much shocked by the arrival of three of the sailors, who stated that the boat had been swamped in the surf, and all but themselves were drowned.  Accordingly, an hour before day-light next morning we started, and having waded naked with our clothes in our hands through the Hindmarsh, we walked all the way by the beach to the river mouth.  We then saw the boat lying on the beach on the other side, and hailing the natives, they held up an oar and launched the boat, but could not make anything of it.  Tow of our sailors having then gone a considerable way up the river, as it was running out very fast, managed by swimming and walking to reach the other side. The boat was then found to be so much knocked about that she had to be turned up, emptied, and caulked with clay, when the tow sailors and two natives crossed over in her; but she had leaked so much that the emptying and caulking had to be repeated. Four or five of us then crossed again, and, while my companions were talking to the natives, I hurried on in the hopes of being the first to make a discovery. About 200 years from the river I found the sand just above the water mark very much trampled, and, beginning to dig with my hands, I was joined by a sailor, and we soon came to the body of Capt. Blenkinsop, from which the natives who had buried him, had tried to remove his ring, but the stiffness of the joint had prevented them. Others having come up the body was carried to the boat, which, having reached the other side, was again a foot deep in water. To preserve it, it was buried in the wet sand and covered with the boat, and we returned, sending next day a dray for it. When it arrived in the evening the poor widow screamed, and vowed  it was not her husband, but a black-fellow, and the ring came off easily, flesh and all. Two men sat up with the coffin all night, but at 5 a.m. it was bulging so, by generation of gas, that we all got up, and I heading the funeral procession and reading the beautiful burial service of the Church of England, he was deposited five feet deep in his own garden. The body of Sir J. Jeffcott was never identified; but some time after a headless trunk, believed to be his, was seen by the natives many miles to the east of the river. Six months after this my shot-belt was recognised at Adelaide on a man who had bought it from the natives.

The Register Saturday July 28^th 1866

Number on Inter-colonial Arrivals & Departures of vessels at Port Adelaide from June 28 to July 26, both inclusive. Arrivals 21 Departures 23.

List of Extra-colonial arrivals & departures of Vessels at Pt Adelaide during same dates as above.

July Arrivals

3 SARAH – brig 232 tons, John Catts, mast from Port Louis. Cargo sugar etc.

11 DUSTY MILLER – barque, 596 tons John Parry master, from London – cargo general  merchandise.

11 CAROLINE – barque 575 tons, J.W. Wennerholm master from Gottenburg, Cargo – deals, battens & staves.

13  COONATTO – ship 633 tons William Begg master from London 16 passengers; cargo general.

13  JESSIE ISABEL – ship 721 Geo. Ochiltree master from London 29 passengers; cargo general merchandise.

14  BRITISH LION – ship 1162 tons Thomas P Reed master from London 3 paassengers 428 Govt & assisted immigrants – cargo general.

15 PHILIP NELSON – barque 547 tons JE Nelson master from London cargo general.

23  REUBENS – ship Charles J Johansen master from Gottenburg – cargo deals, battens & staves

June Departures

30  CITY OF BANGOR barque 633 tons CHF Menges master to Callao in ballast no passengers

30  ELIZA CORRY brig 216 tons Peter Slater master for Guam no passengers cargo flour copper & coal

30 CHEVIOT barque 501 tons J Henderson master for Madras in ballast no passengers

July Departures

6  JANE BELL brig 194 tons W Osborne master for Mauritius no passengers cargo colonial produce

8  SOUTHERN CROSS barque 324 tons W Lulham master for Mauritius, no passengers cargo – bran, leather etc.

11 PERCY DOUGLAS – ship 781 tons JP Hamee master for Ceylon in ballast no passengers

12 SARAH – brig 232 tons John Catts master for Mauritius cargo bran & flour

31 EUROPA – brig 190 tons J McDonald master for Guam, no passengers, cargo of wheat flour & hay

The Register, Saturday July 28, 1866

Births, Deaths and Marriages

LAURIE – On the 17^th July, at Southcote, Port Elliot, Mrs Laurie, of a daughter.

BUCKHURST-STOCKWELL  - On the 2^nd July, by license, at the residence of the bride’s father, by the Rev T. Elmeades, Alfred, oly sone of Mr G. Buckhurst of Normanville, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr John Stockwell of Belvoir, Yankalilla.

DAVIES – CORNELIUS – On the 8^th July at the residence of the bride’s parents, by the Rev. H.T. Burgess, Mr William Davies to Emily, second daughter of Mr James Cornelius, both of Willunga.

BOUNDY – On the 5^th July, at Inman Valley, Kitty, the third daughter of the late John Boundy, aged 32 years.

BRYANT – On the 8^th July at Normanville, Mr George Bryant, aged 33 years.

MAIDMENT – On the the 18^th June at Strathalbyn, Esther Fanny, relict of the late Mr Charles Maidment, aged 66 years.

The Register July 9 1866

NOTICE – ALL PARTIES SHOOTING or TRESPASSING on my Property, known as Dalkeith Farm, near Noarlunga, Sections Nos.350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 357 and 347, will be PROSECUTED. Any CATTLE TRESPASSING on the above will be IMPOUNDED after this date.

Strathalbyn

[from our Correspondent]

Strathalbyn, July 4, 9p.m.

It is now raining, and should we get a heavy fall it will much please the plains farmers, whose land will absorb almost any amount of rain.

As an addendum to my last night’s report of the meeting held at Milang, in reference to the desirability of a daily mail, I would just say that in a week from this date one of the best pieces of new road south of Adelaide will be open for traffic from hence to Milang, between which places the distance is about 12 miles by the main line of road, and of which about 10 miles are made, or being made. This fact should, I think, be made known to the Postmaster-General and the Cabinet in connection with the arguments used in the report referred to in favour of a daily mail communication. The mails could be taken on from this place to Milang in an hour and a half. Of the three remaining miles of unmade road, about one and a half will, I understand, be made within about two months time.

The Register Saturday July 7 1866

Noarlunga

[from our Correspondent]

Noarlunga July 5

The annual meeting of the Southern Race-course Company was held last week. The Secretary, Mr. A. Birrell, produced a balance-sheet duly audited, which showed cash in hand about £90; and it was resolved to declare a dividend of 10s per share. Votes of thanks were given to the Committee and Chairman and Messrs. Birrell, Knipe, and Castle were re-elected as Committee.

The attempt to form a Reserve Volunteer Company has resulted in nothing definite. A number of names have been obtained of persons willing to be enrolled; but, as it is not quite clear whether recruits will be allowed to join or not, it is questionable if the minimum number can be got together. Many of the members of the late force are, however, very desirous of again joining and it is to be hoped that a company may yet be organized.

I am sorry to have to record several accidents during the last week or so. A little child of Mr. Draper’s fell from the bridge over the Onkaparinga a few days since and broke her thigh. Medical attendance was promptly procured, and the little sufferer is, I understand, progressing favourably. A similar accident occurred to Mr. Adams, builder, who was employed upon Mr. Clark’s new house. While working at one of the windows he lost his footing and fell on the flooring-joists, and from thence into a cellar beneath, receiving a severe shaking, and one or tow ribs being broken. Drs. Maurau and Smales were promptly in attendance, and no very serious result is anticipated.

Mr. W. Giles, of Morphett Vale, met with a severe fall, and the loss of a valuable hors a few evenings since. While riding in the dark after a runaway horse near Reynella he came across a heap of broken road metal, when horse and rider fell heavily – the horse breaking a leg, and had to be shot. Mr. Giles, fortunately, escaped without serious injury.

The weather has been hitherto all that could be desired, and the very acceptable and continuous rains we have had have caused great hopefulness to the farmers, and, indeed, all classes of residents.