Colonial Secretary's Inwards Correspondence (S5253)

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Estimate of cost of

Laundry &c at

Gov^t house ~

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The Council advise that the necessary authority be given for the creation of the Offices within mentioned, at a Cost not Exceeding £10. 4. 0 St'g. They further advise that these buildings should not be ^ made fixtures - but removable at the expiration of the lease of the premises - a cause at which the proprietor has signified his acquiescence [?] [countenance?].[not acquiescence]

[signed, on right] A. Orpen Moriarty

[on right] Clerk Exec. Council

[on right] 27 Dec^r 1859

[in another hand] {Approved}

[initialled] {G.F.B.}

[on right] Brisbane Dec^r 19^th 1859

I hereby agree to allow the Government of Queensland to remove at the expiration of the lease of Government House a Laundry proposed to be erected there

[on right] Signed ... W. Hobbs.

[on left]

Witness ... Charles Tiffin

Sydney 2

Receipt may be acknowledged and the parties apprised that on [receipt?] the necessary [bonds?] being received from Sydney the transfer will receive due attention [Illegible Initials] 21 Decr. Yes. GFB. Decr. 23/59. Mr. Davis_ 27th. Dec. [Illegible]

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Sydney 17^th December 1859

Sir I have the honor to inform you that I have transferred all my right and interest in the following Runs or Blocks of Country in the District of Leichardt, namely, Blocks Numbers One, Two, Three, Four, Five and Six on [?] Block, and being numbers One, Two, Three, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten of October One thousand eight hundred and fifty four, to Mr Sydney Davis of Sydney, Squatter, and to request that the Leases of and Licences for the same respectively may be issued to him.

I have the honor to be Sir Your most obed^t serv^t [?].[?].[?]. [Wildash?]

Witness Fred. R, Hutchinson[?]

To The Under Secretary &c &c &c Queensland

59/2- 10[?] December 1859 Bridget BellFor [remittance?] of her husband's sentence

To His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen; Governor of H. M. Colony of Queensland, &c, &c, this petition of Bridget Bell humbly sheweth; that your petitioner's husband, who is at present a prisoner in Brisbane Gaol, is sufferring a punishment of two year's imprisonment with hard labour, simply for asking if a cheque was good. Your petitioner humbly craves your Excellency's patience, while she briefly states the facts of her husband's case. About the beginning of September in the year 1858, he found on the road, some two miles from where he lived in Ipswich, a cheque drawn by "James Ivory", in favour of Mess^rs Cribb and Foote, for the sum of £ 98:12:8, by date the month previous. The following morning he went to Mess^rs Cribb & Foote's store and asked Mr. Foote if he had taken any of James Ivory's cheques within the last month showing him the cheque at the same time. On referring to his books, Mr. Foote informed my husband "that the cheque had not passed his hands. He then told Mr. Foote

he would take it to the Bank and enquire if they knew the signature. On his way to the Bank he met one Anderson, an accountant in Ipswich, and asked him if he knew James Ivory's signature. Anderson said he knew it perfectly well, and that it was genuine. When opposite the "Queen's Arms", Anderson asked him in to have a glass. The master of the house called Anderson on some business, he being his bookkeeper, and on his return he said, as he was going to the Bank for Mr. Macdonald, he would take his cheque with him. My husband gave him the cheque, desiring him to ask at the Bank if it was good. On his return, he said that the cheque was detained, and that he was to call at the Bank in half an hour. Accordingly, in half an hour's time they both went to the Bank together; my husband asked Mr. Faircloth what was the matter with the cheque, stating that it was his, and that he had given it to Anderson to enquire if it was good. Mr. Faircloth told him "it was for him to deal with it now." My husband then went and brought up the chief Constable, telling him

the circumstances as they walked along. On their arriving at the Bank, the chief Constable went in, leaving him outside; he went into a house next door, and when he came out he saw the chief constable going down the street, he called to him, and on overtaking him he said "I have got the cheque and you are my prisoner." He was then conveyed to the Lock-up, and the following morning brought up before Col. Grey P.M. and was then remanded for a second hearing, when he was fully committed for trial at the forthcoming Assizes. He was arraigned for forgery of, disposing of and uttering a cheque as above particularized; the jury found him not guilty on the first two counts, but guilty of uttering the cheque, and he then received the sentence as above stated.

Your petitioner makes this application to your Excellency on the plea that her husband was, and still is not aware how the fact of a man who has found a cheque, and takes it to the parties whom it principally concerns, viz., the payee and the Bank, for the purpose

for the purpose of erecting a bridge over "Oakey Creek"-

As separation has taken place, I think the better way is to send the Petition to me for the purpose of bringing it under the notice of His Excellency the Governor, for his consideration with a strong recommendation from myself that in framing the estimates for 1860 the sum of £800 may be included for the purpose mentioned

From my knowledge of Gayndah, I am quite aware that the bridge is absolutely necessary, in consequence of the land through which the present line of road passes, being private property and nearly all enclosed so that in a short time there will be no road in that direction, and the only access to the town from Maryborough will be

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To His Excellency Sir William Thomas Denison, Knight, Governor General of the Australian Colonies, Vice Admiral of the same and Governor in Chief of New South Wales and its Dependences the Petition of the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Gayandah the Police District of Gayandah and the Burnett District

Humbly Sheweth That the Town of Gayandah is situated in the centre of the District names and through it at present passes most of the Produce of Sydney

That in consequence of the land being to a great extent sold, and in many instances fenced in, there is no road into the town except for a round of at least one mile (as shewn by the accompanying map)

That this round is caused by an impassa ble Creek known by the name of "Oakey Creek"

That the said detention to the drays in distance, as well as cutting off the town altogether, will seriously damage the value of property not only already sold, but of that now marked out for sale.

Your petitioners therefore pray that the sum of £800 eight hundred Pounds sterling may be placed on the Estimates for the ensuing year for the purpose of erecting a Bridge over the said Oakey Creek in a line and in continuation of the principal street (Capper Street)

And your Petitioners as in duty bound will [?] pray &c &c &c

[Mrs] [Stevenson] [Francis] Glynn Connolly Alexander [Waller] John [Suerback] Thomas Stanley [Ludlow]