The 
Times
25 January 1843
For Adelaide, SouthAustralia.
THE well-known, unrivalled fast sailing ship brig DORSET, D. Walsh, master, having the principal part of her cargo engaged, will sail for the above port on 31 January.
The facilities afforded to shippers and passengers by this superior, fast sailing vessel render further comment unnecessary.
For freight or passage, apply to Messrs. V. and E. Solomon, South Australian Packet Office, LiverpoolWharf, Sydney.
Sydney, 23 January 1902
For the Bay of Islands and Auckland.
WITH IMMEDIATE DISPATCH.
THE FINE SCHOONER, THOMAS LORD,Captain Brown. For freightor passage, apply to the Captain on board to
CAMPBELL AND CO., or to
J. B. METCALFE
Lower George Street.
13 January 748
FOR LONDON DIRECT.
WITH IMMEDIATE DISPATCH
THE FINE BRIG BRISTOLIAN,
At 150 tons, Captain Thomas.
For freight and passage, havingsuperior accommodations apply to the matter,on board, to
W DRAKE AND CO.,or to
J. B. METCALFE,
Lower George Street
23 January 1178
COUNTYOF CAMDEN.
THE friends of Mr Charles Cowper, and allsuch as are disposed to request his servicesas the future representative for the county ofCamden in the Legislative Council, are requestedto meet the undersigned, at the Surveyor-General an Inn, Berrima, on Monday, the30th instant, at twelveo’clock, for the purpose of choosing a Committee, and taking such otherstepsas may be necessary to secure that gentle man’s election.
CHARLIE THROSBY
M. NICHOLSON
G. M. BOWERS
HENRY BADGERY
M. NICHOLSON, Jr
Berrima, 13 January 1142
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MARKETS-30 JAN.
Bread, 2lb loaf, 4d. Flour per lb 2d to 2 1/2 d
BUTCHERS’ MEAT, &C.-Beef, per lb.3d to 4½d; ditto, per carcase 2½d to 2¾d; mutton, per lb, 3d to 4d; ditto, per carcase 2 ½d to 3d; lamb, per lb. 3d to 4d; ditto, per carcase 2 ½d to 3d; veal, per lb, 5d to 8d; ditto, per carcase 41/2d to 5d; pork, per lb, 6d to 8d; ditto, per carcase 5d to 6d; kangaroo, per lb, 10d to 1s; emu, per lb, 10d to 1s.
FARM PRODUCE.-Butter, fresh, per lb. 10d to 1s; salt, 10d to 1s;
cheese, per lb. 8d to1ls; Milk, per quart, 3dto 4d; eggs, per dozen, 1s 3d to 1s 6d; hay, per ton, £4 to £6; Potatoes, per cwt, 7s to 10s, fowls, per pair,2s to 3s; ducks, per pair 3s to 5s; geese, 8s to 10s; turkeys, 12s to 15s; wild ducks, per pair, 10d to 1s; quail, per brace, 6d to 8d.
radishes per bunch, 2d; onions, per lb, 2d; lettuces, per dozen 4d,1 to 6d; French beans, per lb. 4d; cucumbers, each, 1d to 4d; vegetable marrows, 6d each.
STOCK.-Horses, each, £18 to £60; working I bullocks, £7 to £10; dairy cows, £6 to £7; fat cattle, £4 to £8; goats, 10s to 30s; ewes, 14s to 20s; lambs, 5s to 7s; pigs, 12s to 60s; roosters, 6s to 10s.
SHIPPING REPORT.
ARRIVED
23 JANUARY – The barque Arab, Dalgarno, from London, 1 October, with a general cargo. Cabin passengers;-John Stephen«, Esq., Mrs Stephens and family, Messrs H. S. Hukes, A. P. Horon, R Dennis, and P. Badcock, Miss Lidon, and Miss Harrison. Steerage-Mr and Mrs Wood, Mr and Mrs Harvey, Messrs John Watson, Geo. Knight, and Charles Knight.
A very distressing calamity had befallen a reinforcement to the 62nd Regiment, which had just arrived at Calcutta from England, and was embarked in boats on the Hoogly proceeding to the Regiment. The Englishman of 15 September details a whirlwind that overwhelmed all the boats and caused the deaths of two hundred and sixty-two-two officers, seven sergeants, five corporals, seventy-eight privates, seven women, and one hundred and fifty natives.
Lieutenant and Mrs Evatt were miraculously saved when on the point of perishing. All the medical stores, baggage, mess-plate, &c, were lost. The distress occasioned by this calamity has been very great. The 50th Regt also experienced a heavy loss during the water transit to Singapore, where it has succeeded the 21st-one officer, and twenty-eight men were drowned.
On other Indian affairs, the oldest established and most eminent mercantile house in India, Messrs Fergusson & Co., have failed for an immense sum. The Friend of China speaks of this unfortunate event with its accustomed liberality, as follows:
Their commercial transactions with other establishments have been marked by great liberality: and the head of the house, who unhappily has now the world to begin a third time, has a large debt of gratitude due to him, for his generosity to the hour of prosperity.The failure of the three houses, Fergussonand Co. to Calcutta, Briggs, and Co. of London, and Akaman and Co. of Bristol, all more or less talked together,has famished a new and striking illustration of the mutability of what the world calls fortune.In the third named firm, two individuals, well known in Calcutta, who relinquished lucrative public appointments, have lost the fortunes they had already acquired. The fall of the second has brought about the insolvency of the one,who retired from India not long since with large resources, and
embarked them Again in trade at home, while the Bristol house beggars one who is seven years is reputed to have realized almost as many lakhs in Calcutta; and who is also a third time thrown upon his ” wits.” How literally is Dr Johnson’s remark corroborated by these and other mutations which nave passed under our observation since the Calcutta houses began to fall; ” No merchant, sir can retire I to rest with the certainty that he shall not wake a beggar.” We see it is proposed to wind up the concern of Fergusson Co. under trustees.
Debts of the House are.. 28,670,000
Assets…………………….12.400,000
Rupees. …………………..16,270,000
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AND MAYBE HAD AT THE
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GEELONG, No. 1 OF THE
PORT PHILLIP MAGAZINE.
CONTENTS:
Address; Colonisation; on the Union of Intellectuals with Business Habits by Montgomery, Jon; Lithography, Zeta; the Loujah of Seville, by the Honourable Dundas Murray; Velella Scaphildra; with engraving Autumn, a Dirge, by Shelley; the Landing; a Mid-winter Song, E.L.M.; Depression in the Monetary Affairs in Melbourne, P.; Remarks and Observations on the Habits and Customs of the Aborigines of the Western Port District in the Province of Australia Felix, by a resident among them; Review of Colonial Publications; Customs Register.
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WILLIAM KER, JUN.
Collins Street.
WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
On Tuesday evening last, in public meetings of the Friends of the Missionary cause was held in the temporary Wesleyan Chapel. The meeting, which was a highly respectable one, was addressed by the Rev. Mr. Love, the Rev. Schofield, and other gentlemen, and the claims of the Aborigines were placed in a strong light before the eye of their civilized supplanters. The number of subscriptions collected at and previous to the meeting amounted to £32.
Five Pounds Reward.
Whereas a quantity of potatoes has been stolen at different times from the ground cultivated by Mr Griffin at Fyans Ford, the above reward will
be given to anybody upon supplying information leading to the conviction of the guilty parties on application to:
JOSEPH GRIFFIN.Geelong Retreat Inn19 January 1843.
Slavery –
‘We tell the American, when he boasts of his free country, that it is the land of slavery, but it seems to be forgotten by the British, that we have:not-got rid of ‘that foul spot ourselves. Inonegem of the ocean under British away, the local government gazette of 5 March 1842 contains the draft of a proposed ordinance, to be brought before the Legislative Council,
“For making further provision for the registration in those parts of the Island formerly termedtheMaritime Provinces.”–That island is Ceylon.
IN PORT AFTER ACTION
From the United Service Magazine for July.
It was on the forenoon of a clear, beautiful day (29 March 1814)that accompanied by a large French frigate, we ran up the harbour of Hamoaze, in His Majesty’s ship Hebrus, saluted by thousands of spectators from the shore, and also by the crew of every man-of-war in the port which we passed in our progress. It was truly a gratifying spectacle to every loyal British heart. The Frenchman had been captured only two days preceding, after a gallant yard arm conflict of two and a quarter hours, in which they had suffered most severely; her hull was terribly shattered, a mast had been shot away by the board and, altogether, as it sailed into this beautiful haven with the British ensign waving proudly over the revolutionary tricolour of France, l’Etoile (for such was her name) presented a glorious and interesting object for Old England.
Whilst the dismantled appearance of our own gallant little frigate attested to the bravery and skill evinced by the crew of our antagonist before they had surrendered; for our tottering masts, roughly secured by fish to the deck-our jury foresail and topsail-the tattered state of our canvas-the splintered and battered, condition of our upper works-all showed how we had been riddled by the enemy’s shot in every direction.
Our prize was quickly surrounded by a countless number of boats filled with well-dressed people, all anxious to gratify their curiosity by inspecting this interesting trophy of their countrymen’s valour, thus triumphantly brought into port. Indeed such was the eagerness evinced by various parties, who crowded around the ship to get on board at any hazard, that it was, with considerable difficulty, her wounded seamen could be hoisted out and placed in the boats, in order to be conveyed to the hospital, whilst in our saucy little frigate, immediately we had let go the anchor, our gallant tars ascended the rigging and gave three hearty cheers in acknowledgement of the welcome and enthusiastic congratulations they had received from all classes of their countrymen.
Were I to live a hundred years, never could I forget this most delightful moment of my existence? This had been my first action. I was a little more than 14years of age. Under these circumstances, need I state, then, how picturesque and animated did everything appear on this triumphant occasion. I still vividly see the various groups of officers standing on our decks, surveying with surprise and admiration the shattered state of all around, and earnestly striving to glean the slightest particulars relative to our arduous conflict, whilst our ship, surrounded by jews,
bum-boat women and others, all anxious to batten on the proceeds of the first of the expected advance that would necessarily be made on poor Jack’s prize-money, complete the outlines of a picture whose glowing features are engraved in my memory.
PROGRESS OF TEETOTALISM
From the Sydney Teetotaller.
At the start of another year, it may be profitable to review the past and consider what has been affected during the past year.1842 has been a dark one in regard to commerce, but it has been a bright one for the total Abstinence cause in this colony.
New societies have been formed, and an increased impetus has been given to those already in existence; their efforts have secured the approval of the highest of the land, while the conviction of the truth of principles has been produced in the minds of many who were once bitterly opposed to us.
During the past year, a society was formed in Windsor that has already produced great and lasting good; this place which was considered the stronghold of intemperance has been visited by the light of teetotalism, the blessings which follow in its train have been experienced by many whose reformation has the cause of rejoicing to many. The society at Parramatta, likewise, established during the past year, promises to be the most important one; the people of
Parramatta has begun well, and we have no doubt that great and beneficial results will be produced in that locality by the operations of the society. Already the pledge has been administered to 360women. Who that has the feelings of humanity, and knows how large share intemperance has had in bringing them to that place, can but rejoice when he finds that a remedy has been provided for the evils from which many of them have so deeply-suffered?
The society at BrisbaneWater, established by MrDevlin, although small, is distinguished by the patronage of the PoliceMagistrate, who is the president of the society. If the example of this gentleman is imitated by those in high situations throughout the colony, it is highly probable that at the close of the coming year, the majority of its inhabitants will be teetotallers. A society was likewise established at Newcastle, with every prospect of success, but in consequence of some disputes among its members, its efficiency has been impaired, and its usefulness injured; itis to be hoped that, at the beginning of a new year, members will be inspired with life, and ‘that they will re-common exertions with renewed energy.
In the neighboring colonies, great progress has been made. In the town of Launceston, the cause is flourishing a manner altogether unprecedented. The Teetotallers have purchased one of the papers and are spreading with diligence and Hobart and Melbourne, societieshave been sthere canbe no doubt.
