The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser Thursday 27th February 1879
This week we have to record the death of one of the oldest residents of the district, Mr. Morgan Poole, of Tinonee.
On Wednesday last he was walking about, chatting pleasantly with his neighbours, and, apparently in his usual good health.
During the evening he took suddenly ill, and though medical assistance was promptly procured, he did not rally,
but gradually sank, and expired before the evening closed.
He established the first steam flour mill on the river; and some years ago was very active in promoting the growth of sugar
cane here.
cane here.
Some four years ago, he paid a visit to his native land, England, to see his relatives, who are said to be in very good
circumstances, and returned to the colony about two years ago.
His remains were interred in Tinonee Cemetery on Thursday afternoon, and were followed to their resting
place by his friends, and the residents of the township and neighbourhoods, and several acquaintances from a distance.
He was well liked as a neighbour.
The deceased was seventy-five years of age.
He leaves a widow and large family to mourn their loss.
NSW Government Gazette Friday 25th April 1879
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION.
In the will of Morgan Poole, late of Tinonee, Manning River, in the Colony of New South Wales, miller and sugar
crusher, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, application will be made to
this Honorable Court, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that probate of the last will and testament of the abovenamed
Morgan Poole, deceased, may be granted to Joshua Cochrane, of Wingham, Manning River, in the said Colony, storekeeper,
the sole executor named in the said will.—Dated this 24th day of April, A.D. 1879.
ROBERT BURDETT SMITH,
Proctor for the said Executor,
153, King-street, Sydney.
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser Thursday 29th April 1869
MANNING RIVER SUGAR – We are favored by Mr William Boggs, of Lochinvar, who has just returned from the Manning River, with a
sample of Manning River Sugar.
This was handed to him by Mr Else, for us.
The sugar is a bright sparkling sugar, of good but slightly treacly flavour, about equal to the sugar usually
sold retail at 4½d per lb in the Maitland shops and of color, appearance and flavour that would readily command a good sale.
The cane from which this sugar was made was grown by Mr Taggart, a short distance below Tinonee. It was manufactured by
Mr Morgan Poole, who has erected an inexpensive but efficient sugar mill.
Mr Morgan Poole, who has erected an inexpensive but efficient sugar mill.
Mr Taggart had twelve acres of cane and Mr Boggs tells us that the total produce, when manufactured into sugar, will be
about £500 worth – about enough to pay for such a mill.
In this case Mr Taggart and Mr Poole will share the money proceeds equally, Mr Boggs understood.
He describes the sugar cultivation on the Manning as at present being carried on on detached farms, widely scattered;
and some of them placed so far from any probable public sugar mill that it is thought it will be more profitable for each of the
larger growers to provide his own £500 mill and manufacture himself, than to cart or raft his canes for several miles.
Mr Poole’s present plan is to purchase on the terms mentioned from the grower, the canes being delivered at his mill
stripped and ready for crushing.
We may mention that the case differs widely from that of wheat and flour.
Wheat may be stored in the barns or the mill for weeks or months, before grinding. But the sugar canes, after cutting,
must be crushed within a very limited period (either two days or three days at the outside, we think), or the juice is greatly diminished in
quantity, and injured in saccharine value.
