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At the residence of the bride's father, Ash Island, Hexham. (the usual place of worship
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Marriage of Edward Forde Esq., third son of the late Henry Forde and Helena, younger daughter of Alexander Walker Scott Esq., on 5th April. Minister Rev. T.L. Dodd assisted by Rev. William Allworth
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Margaret Gordon killed by lightening at Ash Island
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Ash Island (Indigenous)
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Lieutenant Henry Zouch went to Ash Island to try to restore calm after a native was shot by a constable
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Ash Island (Indigenous)
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The tribes of Aboriginal natives, in and about the district of Newcastle, are estimated, as we are informed, at, nearly one thousand strong. If these were to act in concert, it may easily be seen that they would be rather awkward customers to deal with, in a fight where even muskets were opposed only to waddies and spears. They never, we believe, assemble in greater numbers than two or three hundred at a time if even so strongly as that. There are six tribes under the chiefs McGill, Wolungal, Jemmy, Chagc, Cockee, and Mullet. Each tribe contains from one hundred and fifty to two hundred. Then respective stations, from which they receive their names, are at the Coal River, Ash island, Reid s Mistake, Tugarah Beach, Sugar Loaf, and Kangaroo. They are pretty quiet just now. The dressings they lately got has tamed their spirits a little and may eventually render them either good subjects or peaceable allies
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Ash Island (Indigenous)
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SINCE the publication of our last number, we have heard from good authority that that part of Mr. HALL S letter to the Attorney General, respecting the shooting of the Aboriginal Natives on Baker s Island, near Newcastle, is erroneous. Our authority is one of the jury who sat on the inquest; and he informs us that the evidence adduced was to this effect: petty pilfering had been carried on to a considerable extent, for a long time, by some of the natives on Ash Island, and Baker s Island. Some of the servants of the settlers there were set to watch for, and apprehend the aggressors; one of whom, accidentally meeting with the servant of a Mr. PLATT, who was armed with a gun, watched his opportunity, and attempted to take it from him; in the struggle the gun went off and the native was killed, but there was not a tittle of evidence to show that the death was other than accidental. With respect to the indiscriminate shooting the natives which has been alleged to have subsequently taken place; we are assured that the report originated in their circumstance that some seamen belonging to the brig Craigevar, remained on Baker s Island during the night after the native was shot, for the protection of the family on whose premises the accident took place, and discharged fire-arms at intervals, in order to deter other natives from approaching the neighbourhood, to take revenge for the death of one of their brethren. Mr. BROOKES, though present at the inquest, took no part whatever in the examination of the witnesses, but merely gave evidence, as a surgeon, respecting the cause of the death of the deceased native. This transaction is altogether distinct from what is alleged to have taken place at Port Stephens; though, from its being mixed up with the latter affair, in Mr. HALL S letter to the Attorney General, it would appear to be merely a part of a regularly organized system to destroy the aborigines..
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Ash Island (or Greville Island)
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From Newcastle, on the right, is a Government Cottage, lately purchased by Mr. Weller; here you cross a small stream. Cross another stream. Enter Platt's farm ; the road approaches the banks of the Hunter, opposite Ash or Greville Island, on which a grant has been recently selected by Mr. Scott.
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Ash Island Estate
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Ash Island estate offered for sale. 2841 acres with many miles river frontage to the Hunter River . Homestead, with gardens, orangery, extensive cultivation, grass and other lands and a large number of farms, many of which are enclosed, cleared and have convenient buildings on them. Recently surveyed and subdivided and will be sold in farms to suit all classes of purchasers
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Ash Island School
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Tenders for the erection of a new public school at Ash Island. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the Dept. of Public INstruction and on application to the teach Ash Island Public School
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Scott (obit.,) (Ash Island)
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Alexander Walker
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DEATH OF Mr, A. W. SCOTT-The death is recorded (says the Newcastle Herald of yesterday), of Mr. Alexander Walker Scott, at the age of eighty three years, Mr. Scott was a colonist of more than fifty years' standing, and for a long time a resident of Ash Island, Hunter River, where he was well and deservedly respected by all classes. For the last seventeen years he had filled the position of a Commissioner of Titles under the Real Property Act, and had also been a trustee of the Museum, in which institution he took a lively interest. The remains of the deceased gentleman were interred in the Waverley Cemetery, on Friday afternoon. The funeral was strictly private; the only persons present beside his relatives and family connections being Dr. J. C. Cox, Mr Richard Jones, one of the Lands Title Commissioners, and Mr. E. G. Ward, chairman of the Board of Commissioners.
