WAGGA WAGGA & DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

Murrumbidgee Ancestor  - October 2006

  Further Notes From Wagga Wagga

Compiled by Leanne Diessel

LADIES COLLEGE

THE DUTIES of this Seminary will be resumed on MONDAY the 16^th of JANUARY.
MRS. And MISSES. LARGE can now receive a few young Ladies in addition to their present number of Boarders.
Boys that are too young to enter upon the routine of Classical and Grammar Schools are received.
All fees are payable Quarterly IN ADVANCE.
Wagga Wagga, January 7, 1871

Source: Wagga Wagga Advertiser January 11, 1871.

LAKE ALBERT PUBLIC SCHOOL

This school was duly opened on Monday last. It is a neat, compact structure, consisting of one large school room 25 ft. 6in. by 17 ft 6in., and a teacher’s residence of three rooms. The building, for which the Lake Albert people are greatly indebted to the exertions of the present teacher, Mr. Carpenter, was erected at a cost of £365 and is altogether a credit to that part of the district. About forty children are on the roll.

Source: Wagga Wagga Advertiser Saturday May 1, 1869

PERSONAL

Last evening a man named John Doughty Coppack expired suddenly at Mrs. Purcell’s Golden Fleece Hotel. The deceased who appeared to have been drinking heavily but had only come to Mrs. Purcell’s on the previous day, was, we understand, closely related to the Tichborne family. He was the recipient of an income of £300 per annum from his friends at home. An inquest will be held today.

Source: Wagga Wagga Advertiser Saturday October 18, 1884

THE MURRUMBIDGEE MURDER

The inquiry in connection with the Jellingro murder was concluded on Monday morning. No further light has been thrown on the mystery. Sergeant Vaughan said that he had been engaged with black trackers and others since the 20^th October last, and had failed to discover any trace of the head of deceased or any clue that would lead to the identity of the headless body, nor could he find that any person had been missing in the district. R. Whitaker, the proprietor of Jellingro station, William Patson, and T. J. Adams, residents of the locality, gave evidence, but nothing of importance was elicited from them. The police magistrate’s findings was as follows: - “That the headless body of a man was found in the Murrumbidgee River on the 15^th October last, but how or by what means the deceased came to his death there is no evidence to show.”

Source: Wagga Wagga Advertiser Thursday November 15, 1888

EXCHANGE HOTEL

BAYLIS STREET
MICHAEL MAHER
BEGS to acquaint his Friends and the Public generally that he has OPENED the EXCHANGE HOTEL, in Baylis-street, where all who favour him with their Patronage may depend upon obtaining a GLASS OF GOOD LIQUOR combined with civility and attention.
N.B. – Good STABLING at low rate.

Source: Wagga Wagga Advertiser January 11, 1871

ATTENTION! PUBLIC OF WAGGA

WILLIAM J. GRAHAM, an old resident of Wagga, wishes to notify the Public of Wagga and District that he has taken over the Bakery Business of “Bullivant’s Bakery,” 235 Edward-street, Wagga, and will conduct same in up-to-date methods as from January 1, 1941.  He hopes to retain the patronage of all existing customers of this old established Bakery and to merit the custom of new customers in the New Year by making high-class goods, and service his first consideration.
WILLIAM J. GRAHAM
“Bullivant’s Bakery
235 Edward-st., Wagga.

Source: Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser January 1, 1941

WISE’S New South Wales Post Office Directory – 1948

COUNTRY TOWNS SECTION

TURVEY PARK, KYEAMBA SHIRE, 326 miles south from Sydney, rail Wagga, th mtr 4 miles. Population – 138