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Newspaper
Bacchus Marsh Express
Location
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia
Date
Feb 09, 1918
Page
2
L. A. Fairbairn and Co. under J J Barry announce a sale at Maddingley on Saturday at 1:30 pm. The auction lists ponies broken work horses harness gear, various wagons and timber, iron, and a large furniture stock including bedroom suites, dining sets, chairs, kitchen items, and sundries. Poultry is also included with a broad catalog of items.
L A Fairbairn & Co will sell in the Corporation Yard at Bacchus March starting 11 am featuring 250 cattle split between 40 milker and springer cows and fat cattle plus 1990 sheep including 200 wether sheep 2 tooth ewes and 105 fat wethers. sale includes 10 Lincoln rams 6th order Leicester rams 6 draught oxen and 4 bogey horses with sundries and farm equipment. Next Bacchus Marsh Sale planned for Lith March 101K.
L A Fairbairn and Co announce their next monthly sale at Bacchus Marsh on February 14 on account of Nagle Bros. The property includes 7 acres of lucerne land adjoining McFarland and Grieve farms with frontage to Lerderdeng and Mason Streets. Long terms with easy interest, full details available from the agent. Also advertised are ladies white work and household needlework from Mrs. Taylor at Lyodhorst Bacchus Marsh. Subscriptions to Express at 10s per year.
L A Fairbairn & Co. announces a bonafide auction at Greenfold Farm Cominald where property is to let. Items include 11 horses 4 draught mares 1 with foal by Lord Northcote two draught greblings two yearling draught fillies one light harness mare and foal 12 cattle four cows in milk Jersey heifers two Jersey heifers one year old one Jersey bull and associated stock. Farm implements include binder drill roller scaffier waggon lorry low jinker spring dray chatfrutter harness and sundries plus furniture from four rooms. Mr Cain funds departing district. Auction date Tuesday Feb 19 or Monday Feb 48th at 1 pm.
W S Keast auctioneer announces a full public sale for J T Smith of Spring Farm Rockbank. The lineup includes 13 draught horses, 9 light horses, a stallion by Lord Clarendon, 2 hay waggons, 4 muskets, tools, ploughs, drills, harvest gear, 50 new braw-bags, 200 corn sacks, household furniture, a piano, 400 tons hay, 100 bags seed wheat and 120 crossbred sheep. Special attention to horns and implements. Sale at Queen Street MeThourne with Launchheon provided.
Preliminary notice for a clearing sale on the Meadow Vale farm two miles from Rockbank and twenty four miles from Melton. L A Fairbairn and Co under Henry Missen instruction will offer cattle horses sheep farm implements and plant. Full particulars in later issues from L A Fairbairn & Co auctioneers Bacchus Marsh.
Auctioneers Dixon and Son list a Wednesday February 20 sale by John Thorneon at Couangalt Gisborne starting 10 am. Includes cattle horses pigs implements harness and sundries with cash no reserve and luncheon. Names several lot details and items from dray to churns among farm tools and equipment.
Knox Bros Sydenham sell by public auction a large farming plant and 12 draught horses plus 12 young draughts, 3 light harness horses and extensive machinery in Melbourne. Includes threshers, engines, chaffcatter, metalwork tools, hay, and farming implements. Auction 1 PM Wednesday Feb 20 at Knox Bros property, with luncheon.
A five pound reward is offered for information leading to the capture of anyone stealing sheep salt from Bell Paldock in Staughton Vale. Richard Edols issues the notice.
The Gippsland and Northern Co operative Trading and Insurance Co Limited advertises a no reserve sale on Thursday at 1 p.m. in Melbourne style auction for A Quake Estate stock and gear. Items include draught horses and mares, sheep, fowls, implements, harness, tanks, timber, machinery, furniture and more with luncheon provided. Local agent FE A Reither of Balhang handles details.
Friday February 22 at 12 o'clock the Victorian Producers' Co op Co Ltd offers horses cattle sheep machinery harness and tools at auction on Doherty's Road South Mount Cotterill. All stock and farm plant are in first class condition and the sale is without reserve. Further particulars through Victorian Producers Co Op Co Ltd Melbourne and J E Barrie Melton.
Property offers 34 acres of arable land for three years near Melton town with 90 acres fallow and 90 cropped in rotation. Features include a six room house with water, five stall stable and essential out-buildings. Apply to J E Barrie Fairbourne Vale Melton.
Tender notices from Shire Hall Bacchus Marsh invite bids for Contract No 14 forming 30 chains on Quake s road Balliang with plans available at the hall. Lowest tender not necessarily accepted. Also openings for Clerk of Works Korweingaboora with wage rate, and notices of lost items found and a private hospital opening by Nurse Campbell at Bacchus Marsh.
An eighteenth century advertisement promotes large land holdings in New South Wales for sale. H R McWilliam, a former Wagga dealer, lists properties across North Coast and North West including fertile river wheat farms and stations. Also advertised is Gnotuk Park at Melton for lease from March 1 for three years, with 760 acres, 12 paddocks, water via creeks and tanks, 480 acres cultivated, 120 acres bare fallow, and a substantial homestead and outbuildings.
The notice details retirements and required inquiries for a local council inspection. It notes duties, advisory roles, and responsibilities of the secretary and council, along with the expected training and assistance provided by the Ware Council. Salary and monthly fees are mentioned, alongside location and weather notes for the week.
Notices describe multiple sales and auctions by local firms and residents across Maddingley Bacchus Marsh including horses farming stock household items and plant clearing sales near Gisborne Rockhook and Meckhank. Also events include a trench night a mechanics hall programme and the Port Melbourne stevedores annual picnic with excursion notes and ticket concerns.
A large audience attended a memorial ceremony conducted by Rye FS Love of Melton for the late Mr B Minerau and Mr John Beaty at Tooleen Vale. The event followed a recent bequeathed or related tribute in memory of the two individuals.
The text appears to be a damaged OCR snippet mentioning a sale by W. Grant Monet and assorted unreadable words. It provides no clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond the seller’s name. The fragmentary nature prevents a solid summary of a specific incident or outcome.
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