Siegfried Sohn

• 1863 August. Leaving Sydney for New Caledonia on board of the schooner Martha Ellen
• Présent en 1867 en Nouvelle Caledonie
• En mars 1867 , Higginson s'embarque sur le Kenilworth , destination Auckland , où il se rend , dit - il , afin d'y arranger des échanges commerciaux avec la maison Cruickshank et Smart . Ces deux jeunes Ecossais pleins d'énergie , lancés dans le commerce du bois en 1857 , par l'entremise de John Israël Montefiore , alors directeur d'une importante maison de commerce à Auckland , ont déjà un agent à Nouméa , Sigfried Sohn . Higginson a sans doute discuté avec cet autre résident d'origine allemande des prospects offerts par l'île voisine . J. Higginson: Spéculateur-aventurier à l'assaut du Pacifique - Nouvelle-Calédonie / Nouvelles-Hébrides - Anne Gabrielle Thompson Editions L'Harmattan, Nov 1, 2000
• 1867 Membre de la Société de Secours Mutuels "La Fraternelle"
• .1868 Cofondateur de la Loge Maçonique "Union Calédonienne" à Nouméa (read Contribution à l'histoire de la franc-maçonnerie en Océanie. La loge Union Calédonienne, 1868-1940)

(Note: In the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser Sep 1 1868, we read:TRADE WITH NEW CALEDONIA.-I see we are gradually opening a trade with New Caledonia. Such will, no doubt, materially benefit the river.The farmers are beginning to find out that sending their produce to Sydney will not always be the beste the best plan, so necessity compels them to look out for the best market. From that periode one can follow many shipping movements between Nouméa and Richmond River)

• 1869 Selling timber, boards,planks etc in Nouméa.
• In Nouméa in 1870, willing to import "birds to destroy Grasshoppers" (Common myna)

Sur la demande de M. Sohn, négociant à Nouméa, membre de la Société d introduction des oiseaux insectivores, M. le Gouverneur a chargé MM. les Commandants des bâtiments de
la station, qui se rendront à Sydney, de recevoir dans cette localité et apporter dans la colonie les oiseaux insectivores qui leur seront remis.

• Nouméa 1870 selling construction wood, rum, cedar wood
• 22 Mar 1871 Australian Naturalization in NSW number INX-30-8165
• Merchant in Nouméa (New Caledonia) at the time of his wedding with Doris in 1871 Selling fence post.
• 1872 October Receiving Timber from Richmond River Goélette anglaise Alpha de 82 t., cap. G. Gallienne, consigné à M. Sohn, venant de Richmond-River en 44 jours. Chargement : 55,743 pieds de bois.
• 1872 November Openning of a steam sawmill SCIERIE A VAPEUR Mercredi dernier, 27 novembre, nous avons assisté, sur la gracieuse invitation de M. Sohn, à l’inauguration de la scierie mécanique qu’il vient d’installer rue Palestro. Cette industrie nouvelle manquait à Nouméa et elle arrive à point, au moment où la construction va forcément prendre un développement nouveau, par suite de l’accroissement extraordinaire de notre population.
• Owner of Sawing mills in Nouméa in 1873 and selling all sorts of items.
• 1873 May Importing timber from Richmond-River Trois-mats goélette anglais Ceara de 472 t., cap. J. Criflin. consignataire Sohn, venant de Richmond-River en 46 jours.Chargement : 405,000 pieds de bois et 2 chevaux. Valeur :50,000 fr.
• 1873 October Importing timber from Richmond-River Brick-goélette anglais Kate Monagham, de 4 02 t., cap. R. Whit, consignataire Sohn, venant de Richemond-river en 12 jours. Chargement : bois de construction. Valeur : 33,000 fr.
• 1874 Travelling to New Caledonia with Dora and one child (Betty)
• 1874 Owner of two pieces of land for rent in Nouméa.
• 1875 Timber merchant in Nouméa. For having employed Achille Ballière as an accountant he was Expelled from New Caledonia after the closure of the “Union Calédonienne” Masonic Lodge. (Read About Achille Ballière on Wikipedia)

Read also La franc-maçonnerie et l’évasion d’Henri Rochefort.
And NEW CALEDONIA. EXPULSION OF RESIDENTS.
and also ESCAPE OF FRENCH PRISONERS FROM NEW CALEDONIA.
And in French from the news paper La Marseillaise

• 1875 July Owner of S. Sohn and CO, 48 hamilton st Sydney WANTED, a VESSEL of light draught, to take timber from tho Richmond to Noumea, New Caledonia. S. SOHN and CO., 48, Hamilton-street.
• 1876 Commission Agent S.Sohn & Co, Georges Street in 1876 then Pitt Street 1877(Sands Directories: Sydney and New South Wales, Australia, 1876 and 1877)
• 1876 January Death of his daugther Betty at the Ackland’s Hotel, Woollahra, Sydney
• 1876 August Arrived at Richmond River from Sydney on board of the Platypus
• 1877 licence granted by The Treasury NSW for keeping and sale of explosives (North Wardell)
• 1877 November Postmaster and Shopkeeper at Wardell ART UNION. Our readers will notice that a gigantic Art Union is projected at Wardell, by Mr. S. Sohn, Storekeeper, in return for the liberal support accorded to him since he has been in business, by which every cash purchaser of goods to the value of £1 and upwards, will be entitled to a prize, a large number of which are very valuable. As the affair is really bona fide, under the liberal inducements offered,there will no doubt be a large demand for the tickets to the benefit both of the projects, and purchasers.
• 1878 Wardell Accepted for the supply of Forage to the Police, during the year from 1st April, 1878, to 31st March, 1879.
• 1879January Selling "pure colonial wines" in his Wardel, Post Office General Store". Also agent for the South Australian Insurance Compagny.

COLONIAL WINES We have received four samples of the Colonial Wines now on sale at the
Stores of Mr. S. Sohn, Wardell, and upon tasting, find them to be exceedingly palatable,
and once the taste is acquired, they will no doubt meet with a ready sale. To our ideas a great
drawback to the use of Colonial Wines, in all seasons, is their acidity, which acts injuriously
on some constitutions, and if some means could be devised of sweetening them like the Continental Wines, they would meet with an immense sale,- especially if sold at the low prices quoted
by Mr. Sohn. In a climate like ours, we believe that light beers and wines are much better for
general use than spirituous liquors, which impair the intellect, and we are glad to notice
that while drinking has been pretty freely indulged in at this season, the liquor has to a
great extent been much lighter and more wholesome than formerly.

• ...1881 Member of the Wardell Hope Lodge
• 1884 Mr. Edwin Bartlett, a saddle and harness maker, purchased Siegfried Sohn's store.
• 1884 Mr. S. Sohn sold his store keeping business to Mr. Edwin Bartlett, and went to live on his farm property at Meerschaum Vale. His tenants grew sugar cane, he being a great advocate at all times to encourage sugar growing.
• 1884 Candidate of the 1894 New South Wales colonial election (Ballina) - Ind. Protectionist - 6.8%

Mr. Sohn's Candidature.On Thursday night, 5th instant, Mr. Sohn addressed a large and orderly meeting at Woodburn in Carmichael's hall. Not withstanding that rain fell at the time advertised for the meeting, over 70 madetheir appearance. At this meeting he had to reply to more questions than at any previous one, and his
replies evidently gave satisfaction. On Friday night last Mr. Sohn addressed the electors at Wardell in the Victoria Hall. Spacious as the premise are they could not provide sufficient room for those who attended. Mr. Sohn's appearance was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm, and the meeting was a great success. On Saturday: night, notwithstanding that another candidate had advertised to meet the electors at Rous, he addressed the largest meeting ever held there. When arriving at the hall he was greeted with ringing cheers. The attendance was no great that the large hall was uncomfortably crowded, and any could not gain admittance. Mr. Patrick M'Hugh occupied the chair.

• 1885 January. At the first "Lismore Show" presenting a "large Electric Battery" capable of sending shocks for 500 miles, and "the celebrated Lighting Cure" Only known Proventatlve from Lockjaw,and the most reliable remedy for preventing and removing Frond Flesh and Inflammation from new or old sores
• 1884 April Register "S. Sohn's Lightning Cure," as a TradeMark
• 1885 September. Plans to open a distillery.
• 1886 Register a Trade-Mark : "Berzeline" to be applied to a Cough Remedy.

Later in 1886 Another Trade Mark " "S. Sohn's self-acting soap."

• 1887 August Adressed at a meeting of gentlemen interested in reviving Wardell's Mechanic's Institute
• 1887 June. At the Lismore Show presenting his "Lighting Cure" and his " Self Acting Soap"
• 1887 December another trade mark "Trade-mark of the following description, viz.:—A basket of ferns, to which a butterfly is flying,—copies of which may be seen at this Office, and -which Trade-mark is intended by the said S. Sohn to be applied to drugs, chemicals, mixtures, compounds, extracts, oils, raw products
• 1889 March Mr. Siegfried Sohn has been appointed honorary captain of theWardell Reserve Riffle Company. (resigned in November)
• 1889 November. Had found a remedy for permanently curing the disease in stock known as the "Queensland mange."
• 1892 Reports about cultivating Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
• 1893 November About raw silk Calling attention of intending silk growers.
• 1897 November Except to those who are wilfully blind to unmistakable evidence, or to those whose mental vision is obscured by fads, it must be evident, not only that tho sugar industry in New South Wales is no more capable to withstand without protection the onslaught of bounty-fed sugar than are those other sugar-producing countries which produce it under more favorable labor conditions etc..
• 1897 December SUGAR INDUSTRY DEFENCE LEAGUE Propose to form a league and raise funds to fight on its behalf, und let the public not in the district,but in other parts of the colony, know what the sugar industry really was.
• 1899 February Saving the Sugar Industry.

Mr. S. Sohn, of Wardell, Richmond River,went to Sydney by the Kallatina on Wednesday for a change, he having been in indifferent health for some time past. He called at our office while in Maclean, and spoke of the work of retaining tho sugar duty, Mr. Sohn is much amused at tho misunderstanding between certain members of Parliament with regard to the vote of censure and their claims in regard to the saving of the industry. He points out that the movement for the retention of the duty which culminated in success was not in the hands of
the politicians, and that the latters'efforts did not meet with success in tho previous attempt to obtain a Royal Commission. Mr. Sohn claims that tho retention of the duty was the result of the big meeting at Coraki about 15 months ago,followed by the Sugar Defenco League's agitation, both of which he organised. To the work of the League the Clarence deputation to the Premier was the crowning effort,and this, Mr. Sohn points out, was also organised by the growers and not by politicians.In connection with the meeting referred to at Coraki, Mr. Sohn says he paid all tho expenses out of his own pocket, with the exception of the printing and advertising done gratis by Mr. Temperly, and the steamers, which were also given free of charge by the North Coast Co. and Mr. Fenwick.

• 1901 Furnished a report on a trial of the grass Paspalum Stoloniferum
• 1903 death:

- http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article130994980
A notable Frenchman; :who, became a British subject aud took a prominent part in various public concerns in .the'district, passed away at -Wardell on Sunday last, in Mr.. S. Sohn. --He was a man of strongly marked individuality, and fully appreciated living under the flag of a 'British community:
- http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121374334
Mr. S. Sohn, of Kianekane, near Wardell, died on Sunday. Deceased was an old resident of the Bichmond district, and took a 'prominent part in the sugar industry and the agitation connected with the duties a few years ago. He was a dispenser of a number of herbal remedies.