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Newspaper
Bacchus Marsh Express
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Date
Aug 24, 1872
Page
2
A collection of 1872 public notices invites tenders for road works at WyN and Wyndham Shires, plus church rebuilding bids at Bernard’s Rowan and Alphington, with deposits, deadlines, and locations. Also a stray horse notice offers reward for a dark brown colt seen near Darley.
Committee announces addition of extensive modern literature to the library. The Heading Room now offers metropolitan and London newspapers. Melbourne Pune Sechanted Journal Tus trated London News featured. Subscription 2s 6d per quarter. Please return overdue Dooky belonging to the Library. A new catalogue is being prepared.
A bazaar will be held at the Macedanion Institute in Myrniong on September 14 1Wth and 20th with an AUCTION on the 20th plus a concert and dancing in the evening. Admission to the concert and dancing is free for Jay children. A walking show of Entira Horney will occur in Ballan on a Saturday in August. Ballan auctioneer Cooper acts as organizer.
M M'Daw Avanson Co produce brokers report for week ending August 21. Market for breadstuff and grain is dull with buyers hesitant to operate except for immediate requirements. Several prime lots had to be withdrawn.
The report covers August prices for wheat flour and dairy products with declines in butters and milks, lists quotations for prime and medium cattle, fat sheep and store stock, and notes strong demand for crosses and wall-grown bullocks. It records quantities moved by Melbourne firms, Ballarat markets, and significant price ranges for bullocks, cows, and lambs, with cautious trade and general price softness in several lines.
Allan Branch advertises intercut services including deposits, British and Colonial drafts tested, general banking business at current rates, and gold purchases. H. T. Ashton, Manager.
A historic clash is drawn between England’s Reform Bill fervor forty years prior and a colonial present where residents neglect to register to vote. The piece laments lost political zeal and urges citizens to claim electoral rights, noting democratic progress demanded by bloodshed and sacrifice. The tone contrasts past oppression with current indifference to suffrage and modern reforms.
The piece condemns provincial bias in colonial governance linking manhood suffrage to broader democracy. It urges eligible residents to obtain election rights, notes registrar procedures, critiques magistrate practices in warrants, and discusses shire council debates over timber reserves and access. It stresses voter participation and balanced public timber policy.
Sona attention is paid to a proposal for a Melbourne conference of journalists to discuss telegraph and postal charges government advertising and circulation schemes. The piece argues newspapers rely on cooperation with public and government, proposes halved postage for newspapers, free exchange copies, liberal government ads, and a press fund, and questions who will call the event and the Caxton Fund.
Melbourne Hospital benefit concert planned for Monday evening and civic committee meeting at Central Common School Bacchus Marsh regarding a teacher’s rule violation. Victoria Sugar Boat Company reports stoppage causes and sugar sample yields. EnglandItaly news telegraphs and legislative debates noted. A fatal assault occurred in Punobl’s Lane with arrest. Hopetoun Mill entertainment successes and school events cited.
The notice lists a gazetted school committee with members including Alexander Patterson David Wilson Walter J Leonard Hour Phipps Thomas M Gillyray Proucis Candle and Michael Sliunuen. It records licensing meetings at Bacelus Maral on September 17 and at Uinckwood September 27 and at Molro Trantham fylden and Pootscrty on September 18. It reports a death in the Goulburn district from a man burning charcoal in a bedroom. It notes complaints about support to a Roman Catholic School at Mount Egerton, and mentions Butchie the cage. A young man Phelan was tried and acquitted for theft of a lamb in Wyndham. M Caw's chorus show in Melbourne was reportedly poor. The Argus and Telegraph discuss Beattie and Cowan’s works. It notes Robert Burne sold to Harbigan Phillip Island for 266 and praises Rantin Robie. The Clolilngwood Advertiser reports Thomas Haynes becoming engineer and building surveyor for East Collingwood.
In Bacchus Marsh before Justices Shuter Ree and Cains, Robertson alleges assault by John Cain and Michael Cain after a dispute over fencing and cattle boundaries near Lyles Crook. Witnesses describe a nocturnal clash on a road, with Robertson injured and both defendants denying serious provocation. Bench finds bad language proven and assault proven, fining Cain 10s. separate proceedings involve a county court bailiff seizing five cattle.
In Blackwood a series of actions includes a detaining watch case with witness statements about a parcel, alleged watch repairs and charges, a remark on a miscalculation, and a note that a watch was not received. Separate Warden’s Court matter involves restricting a resident from accessing a water spring and adjacency issues, adjourned to arrange access and open the spring.
The Bacchus Marsh Shire Council discussed appointing Kerr, Calm Watts and others to committees to examine the Hiwigl report and propose amendments to Mr. Riddell MUA. The meeting approved licensing and financial arrangements, including a £20 license, with Cr Watts signalling concern and MLA Baylon updating on Wart Cy. The secretary was asked to forward the international briefing programme as part of cooperative planning.
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