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Bacchus Marsh Express (Newspaper) - January 22, 1881, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria National Library of Australia r. I m ining Board election 1881.-mining District of Ballarat. Whereas pursuant to the provisions of the v mining statute 1856, four members of the mining Board have retired by rotation from their seats at the said Board. Now therefore i John Bisson Cooper returning officer for the said District do hereby give notice that i shall on Satur Day the 26th Day of february next proceed to the election of one member for the Bun Inyong Divi Sion two members for the Ballarat division and one member for the Blackwood division in the room and place of the members who have retired. And i require that the names of All candidates and their proposers be forwarded to me at my office City police court Ballarat in manner and form directed by Law on or before 4 o clock of the afternoon of monday the 31st Day of january now instant. Given under my hand this 10th Day of january 1881. John Sisson Cooper returning officer. Forage. Tenders will be received until ten o clock . On tuesday the set february next for the Supply of forage in such quantities As May be required for the various police and other stations As per list from the set March 1881, to the 28th february 1882. List of stations printed forms of tender and conditions of contract May be obtained from the Secretary tender Board Treasury Melbourne or from the officer in charge of police at any station by whom also information or explanation will he afforded to persons tendering. Tenders must be enclosed in an envelope and deposited in the tender Box pay office Treasury Melbourne or if sent by Post they must be addressed to the chairman of the tender Board Treasury Melbourne. The envelope must in every Case have the words tender for forage written thereon. Graham Berry treasurer. Treasury Melbourne 16th dec., 1880. Shire of Bacchus Marsh. Notice is hereby Given that it is the intention i of the Shire Council of Bacchus Marsh under the authority of the local government act 1874, to open a new Road through m Leod s preemptive right in the Parish of co Madai such new Road to be in lieu of the present three Chain Road intersecting the said right which itis hereby proposed to close. A plan and specification of the proposed new Road showing the exact site and measurements thereof and All other particulars required by the act Are deposited and will be open for inspection at the Shire office Bacchus Marsh by All persons interested therein for forty Days from the Date of publication of this notice in the government Gazette within which time All persons affected by the proposed work Are hereby required to set Forth in writing addressed to the Council or Shire Secretary All objections they May have to the said work. Dated this 13th Day of january 1881. W. E. Standfield Secretary. Shire of braybr00k. Renders invited by the Braybrook Shire in Council for 1,500 cubic Yards 2s Inch maintenance Metal for the Ballarat Road Between John s Creek Bridge and the West end of Thomson s contract at the Melton Boun Dary Road. Specifications to be seen at the Koro Roit Creek hotel where tenders Are to be delivered by 11 am. On monday 7th february next. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted 2s w. Pullar Secretary. Maidstone 21st january 1881. Bacchus Marsh Ballan and Pentland Hills agricultural and pastoral society. Annual show at my Niong february 24, 1881. Tenders addressed to the president at Myr Niong will be received until 11 . On Friday the 4th february 1881, for 1 refreshment Booth site at my Nonig Yards 2 supplying luncheon 40 guaranteed 3 supplying dinner. The committee do not bind themselves to accept any tender. Particulars from the undersigned. W. E. Standfield Secretary. Bacchus Marsh Ballan and Pentland Hills agricultural and pastoral society. Tihe annual show of Stock produce &c., will be held in the society s Yards at Myr Niong,.on thursday the 24th february 1881. Prize lists can be obtained from the members of committee at the offices of the Bacchus Marah of press and the Gordon advertiser and from the undersigned. W. E. Standfield Secretary. Easter sports Bacchus Marsh. On monday,18th april. Full particulars in. Due course. E. G. Jones. Border inn Bacchues Marsh. Ballan jockey club annual races. Monthly Sale Day. Miu Walsh wiil sell by Public auction at his Yards on saturday 29th inst., at 1 o clock . Sharp two publicans Booths also Gates &c., with right of printing cards of the races. Thomas Flack Hen. Sec. Bacchus Marsh monthly Sale. Saturday 5th ,1p.m. At his yar2ds. W Anderson instructed by the owners v will sell by Public auction on above Date valuable farms in the parishes of parian and Korkue Primul lately owned by or. Colin Todd. Lot 1. -103a. 2r. 32p. Of Good agricultural land adjoining the property of messes. Ward and Morton being lots 4, 8, and 9., in the Parish of parian county of Grant. Lot 2.-85a. 2r. 17p., with dwelling House Dairy milking Yards and other erections. Part of this Block consists of a Rich Fiat adapted for the growth of Lucerne. These Are allotments 2 and 3, Parish of parian county of Grant. Lot 3.-91 acres adjoining messes. Low and s Lyle a being allotment 5, of Section 3, in s the Parish of Korkue Primul. Lot 4.-338a. 2r. 39p., adjoining mrs. Morton s farm being allotment 4, of Section 9, and allotments 1 and 2, of Section 10, Parish of . Lots 2, 3, and 4, have frontages to the River Werribee. Also on account of or. John Dwyer about fourteen acres in merrium now in the occupation of or. Thomas Duggan. Terms most Liberal declared at Sale. Annual Sale at Springfield my Niong. L dug Pale begs to announce that his. Sale will be held As usual on priday. 25th february the Day after the Mynio Nossow. Faull particulars will be duly announced. .o.ondai, january 31. At Bald Hill farm near Bacchus Marsh. Clearing out Sale of Dairy attle a. Str Atford Strettle & co. Have received instructions from or. Jalass Wanson to sell by Aune Tion on his farm As above on january 31st, at twelve o clock the whole of his first class Dairy cattle and other effete consisting of 60 really first class cows in full milk. 24 springers near calving. 10 2-yr-old heifers 8 yearling Heiers 2 shorthorn Buli. 30 pigs 1 churn 1 wag Gonette set Spring cart harness Dairy utensils and. A Quantity of useful sundries. Luncheon provided. No Reserve Jcarter Hall of Colm merge Bacchus Marsh. I am showing new and seasonable goods to which i beg respectfully to Call attention being confident that my prices will compar with prices anywhere either in or out of Miel Bourne. The following will give some o my Stock to select from. Plain and fancy dress material Cashmere Black Lustres Black French Merino Black Cashmere winces Plain Cambric Pompadour prints crepe Pompadour White and Grey Calico Plain and willed sheeting. Linens Hollands drills ticking flannels Cotton and crimean shirting matting carpets hessian ladies fancy scarfs ribbons laces gloves hosiery hats Flowers feathers a. Millinery and dressmaking in All its branches. Men a youth Sand boys clothing. Hats ties collars men a youth Sand boys clothing to measure. Large assortment of tweeds. Men a women a and children s cloth ing boots and shoes. �-4--- furniture. I am showing chests of drawers round and Long tables safes Wash stands toilet tables dressing tables chairs rockers children s chairs sofas fenders fire Irons bedsteads mattresses Palli asses pillows Wall paper jewellery toys a. Agent Fer the South British fire insurance co., and Railton s Garden seeds. J. Carter shall of Commerce Bacchus m Marsh. Blackwood. Large Clearing out unreserved Sale. Preliminary advertisement. I r. E. Baber Blackwood has placed his l. Very Large Stock of store goods furniture and other effects in my hands for unreserved Sale by Public auction on the premises Blackwood on thursday the 3rd of february. Full particulars will appear in next week s press and by posters. I would beg to Call special attention to a very Superior piano by collard & collard nearly new Cost �584 Superior musical Box playing ten tunes Cost �18 covered express Waggon 1 Milner s Patent Safe 2 feet by 18 x 18 inches a. M. Walsh auctioneer. Ballan 21st january 1881. Melton annual races. Monday 14th february 1881. President a. , Esq., . Stewards messes. J. R. Fairchild j. O. Inglis j. Whittingham j. Hay h. W. Staughton to Grant r. M Grane a. R. Inglis r. Manning w. Bowie j. L. Robertson a. Blackwood and a. Cameron. Judges. T. Staughton Esq. . Handicapper i or. G. Vowles. Starte1 or. J. O. Inglis. Treasurer or. M. Hoare Jun. Clerk of course or. J. Mawson. Maiden plate of 15 sons. Entrance 1 Sovy one mile. Shire Handicap of 30 soes. Nomination i Sov. Acceptance 1 soy. One mile and Quarter. Handicap hurdle race of 30 Sove nomination 1.so. Acceptance 1 soy. Aboul two Miles. Exford plate of 20sovs. Nomination �1 acceptance 10s. One mile. Winner of Shire Handicap to carry 51b. Extra. Werribee hurdle race Handicap of 20 Sove. About two Miles. Nomination �1 acceptance 10s. Winner of Handicap Hurth race to carry 71b. Extra. Selling race of 15 sons. Three quarters 0i a mile. Weight for age. Winner to be sold Fol 15 sors. If for 10 sors., 51b. Allowed if. For i sors., 101b. Allowed. Nomination 1 Sov. . Rules. Nominations 31st january acceptances 9th february will be received by or. A Yuille 47 Bourke Street West Melbourne up til 4 ., or the Hen. Secretary at Melton up til 8 . George Graham Hen. See. W Strong Active boy about 1 years As apprentice to Blacksmith Trade. A. Blackwood Melton. William Adamson & co., Grain merchants and auctioneers Are now in a position to undertake sales of landed property household property farms Clearing out sales of farm Stock a upon these sales w. A. & co. Make Cash advances at Bank rates of interest. Full information can be had on application to William Adamson & co., 29 Little Collins Street West Melbourne. smart lads Between 1 and 14 years of age Light weights asap prentices in the racing stables at the Woolpack parents apply to j. H. Bowse., Trainer. New Ili Ems Leisure hour and sunday at Home for 1880o, s. Ant10s. 6d. The Schor Naster s Drill assistant 2as. Tile Price for ibo. Is. 6d and Sas. Family Herald vol. 45, 5s. Sheardy s annual of comic and sentimental songs 1880, 1s. Boys of England. 1050, 2e. Go. Band of Lope 1880, is. Britini Yorkman 1885, is. 6d. British work woman. 1880, is. 6d. Sunol s almanac d. Sunday for 1mso. Christmas number of the queenslander containing numerous tales by the Best writers 9d. Valentines. Crisp & Lane wheat purchased t current rates. Terms Cash. A. Grant. January 6, 1881. Australian Grain and produce warehouses 82 Bourke Street West Melbourne dec. 2nd, 1880.j hereby give notice that i and the whole o1the clerical staff have this Day severed out connection with the firm of William Adamson & co., 20 Little Collins Street West Melbourne and that for the future i request All consignments of Grain and Dairy produce be made to Mcgregor Gordon & co., Grain and produce merchants 82 Bourke Street West Melbourne for which firm i am now manager and auctioneer. Grain and Dairy sales will be held twice a week As usual. Harry c. Elderton late general manager and auctioneer to we. Adamson & co., produce merchants. Australian Grain & produce stores. 82 Burke Street West Melbourne. 11fcgregor Gordon & co. Are prepared to 11 make advances upon Grain and Dairy pro Duce consigned to them for Sale. Mcgregor Gordon & co. Have engaged the services of or. Hart c. Elderton late manager and auctioneer to William Adamson & co., to act in the same capacity with them and have also secured the services of the whole of the clerical staff of William Adamson & co. The Grain Sale is held every tuesday at the Corn Exchange. Dairy sales held every wednesday and Friday at their rooms. Account sales rendered promptly. Traded into my paddock a red cow with White flanks branded like up. If not claimed to be sold on the 5th of february. Mary Greson Goodman s Creek. A memorandum from Craig Williamson & Thomas importers and warehousemen 14 and 1i Eliza Sietins Street Melbourne. E beg to intimate that we have no Branch establishments whatever in the colonies nor have we any travellers representing us either for our wholesale or family Trade in town or country. We will be glad if the Public will note the above. As we have been informed that some persons have solicited orders in our name and others have stated that their places of business Are branches of ours. It is necessary to add that we Are the Only Wyllo resale and importing soft goods firm in the Colony which sup plies the Public direct with drapery woollens and clothing or retail and family parcels at actual wholesale prices. And our Only places of business an at 14 and 16 Elizabeth Street Melbourne and Coleman Street London. Purchasers at our warehouse avoid paying the retail pro fit and consequently save fully 30 per cent. Our terms Are Stai try Caso As Thile prices we sell at will not admit of credit being Given. Post orders Moet be accompanied by Bank draft Cheque or Money order to ensure despatch. The hours of business Are from 9 . To 5 ., excepting saturdays when our warehouse is closed at one o clock. Craig Williamson & Thomas. A magnificent lot of Job lines purchased expressly for january 1881. Several Clearing lines have been secured from various importing firms at a larg 3 disco let to close accounts for the season. A. Crawford Mitchell s buildings Sturt Street Ballarat Irving secured As above several important Clearing lines from a number of Large importing fir her at a Large discount off English Cost. To close accounts for the season and prior to their half yearly balance the whole of these lines will be offered to the Public at prices which will prove to be astonishing bargains. The goods been purchased late in thle season and is enormous quantities will be cleared out at a no Linal Price kindly to give life to business during the doll season that is just subs quest to the Chris Mas and new year holidays. Several arge Job ots of prints l Ompa Dours and Stineo Are Worth Suc Cial attention. The goods Are of thie very beat Quality tile newest colours Ald patterns alld make thie nost stylish of All costumes. The prices will Range from 32d and upwards. All Tell goods will be found to be much under thie regular prices. In fact amongst the Job Linesman extraordinary bargains will be Given. Job lines in towels sleeting White and Grey Cali Coes flannels by. A grand line o1 toilet covers and anti macassar at half the regular prices. Tinl ret and furnishings there is now on Rhand a very Superior St cd of Bruscas land tapestry Carilus. Al Morel other linoleum. A Kidderminster carpets. A tastings or alld scrip Lions Hearth rugs door Mats Wint Dow poles curtains table covers curtain reps curtain tassels Blu sets quilts counterpane a. It tapestry carpets the Stock it a very extensive one the prices Range from 2s de per Yard and upwards. Brus Sels carpets is All the newest designs and colours the prices Range front 4s lid per Yard. A Large Stock of Nottingham lace window curtains front 40 6d per Paris a Pirretti pair of Cote curtail for 10s i and 15s, which will Wear equal to thie most expensive Beauty if Dora Wing room Cler rills 4 arts Long and Superior Patt crus and Quality 25s per pair. Drav i a Root curtains of thie bluest Quality 4 Yards Long 40s. And 50s. Per pair. A Job lot of Swiss curtains 5s tier pair. A grand Job line of haltness Book 6d per Yard. Five Bales manufacturers samples of the Best Quality of Brussels carpets 3s sed per Yard Cost tile manufacturer 4s. 2 t. Per Yard. Tie Stock Olin Locums is thie largest and most Choice in the City Price until furher notice 4s it per Square Yard. Flour cloths front 3s 9d to is 51 per so rare Yard these quotations will rate irn til further notice. Door rats of All descriptions remarkably cheap. Kadder miniter carpets Good patterns. Excellent Quad lines and very dul Able 3s old per Yard. Best Quality All Wool made by hand loom 4s rid per Yard Worth to go per Yard rime qua Ity of goods re c charged 6sad per Yard in every Oti ror establishment in ally Tara. Napier matting is magnificent Wear of so 3s 3d. Sld As per or red for full Yard wide tire Best Quality will rear better than the beat Baltic Pine of tie same thickness. Dress department. Several grand Clearing lines have been secured for this department All Good useful materials which Are unlikely to go out of fashion at any time. The Slock of thie depart inert is so Well and Tilv durably know nit is sary Tolve arty particulars regard in it. It is however thie largest newest and most Fash Lonobile in tile City every indy in Liall Arat Sld thie District ought to pay it visit. The room in Wilh the de Parment is placed is tie boost Ilard some in thie Colony every visitor to thie City should see it. Bargains of thle nest tempting kind Are now Laid out there Are vast piles of Ollde fully cheap i goods Laid out for Sale thie result of grand purchases of Job teams. 2 cases striped Stit ,8 a Worth 18.3d. Ligh Lustres 4s 9d Ier dozen Ards Worth is 6d per dozen. 3 cases i or Drues stuff d i1dper Yard Worth is. 2 cases Tor Ltd Travill Elettis Well Worth is lid per Yard will be sold at 6s i id ill Dozeen. 3 cases at1raras, Superior Quality 6s lid per dozen Worth l10 cd Rall Shatles. In Black litres several first class lines have been secured at 4dd, upward ads to the very Best Quality a manc Milicent litre rat is tins was a special Purchase deep bar twin and highly Lustrous. Black Satin cloths is per Yard. 1 Case Black French Mneri noes is go per Yard Wotell 2s i old. A Large Stock of mourning goods including Bara theas Black Australia crapes Cashmere persian and Russell cords reps a. Silks. Silks. Silks. Fancy coloured Silks is0d per Yard Worth 4s d. Black Siks 2s Ard 2s lid. 3s so and 32 lid per Yard. Superior Quality Gros Grain Silks 3s lid per Yard Atad up wards. Hundreds of remnants of All kinds of dress goods at half tie regular Are Laid out in baskets cell at distinct prices Fror which Thrifty housewives can make first class selections. Millinery department. The season being Nowata a close the determination is to run Down Stock. Under tie present Able naut gement it i impossible for bad Stock so acc Mclatc because tire goods ase cleared out without regard to Cost the Trade being a very extensive one this practice can easily be understand by persons conversant with Siuch changeable Atticas Ashi ats and bonnets a Flowers feathers wreaths and plumes a. It is also quite essential to do so because tie goons Are perishable. Extence tire absolute clearance on apparent loss but a Certa Ain gain As the total los Only am sorts to a Small parter tags on tire turn Over for tire season Atad a Bastanes of Stock disposed o1 for Cash in this manner enables the business to be worked with less capital i.e., to have to dead Stock or goods which most be Laid aside Wischt Shiply Means Lou Ney locked up weit nout interest. Tins Princlee Lahs been Saint linked from the first Start of this business and is the grand secret of Hole growth of what Las become tire grandeur Trade in the Interior of Aust lira. Huts bonnets trimmed Arad Untrif Romedi Flowers feathers wreaths plumes &c., All at Job prices. Costume department. The Shols e of tie present Slock of costumes which is tire largest Tut of tire City of otvlbo1rne, will be Rcd aced it Price so As to Clear out tire Eria m Tocki. U Micir to Lens. Shawls squares i Lairean s Overall dust Coits aprons pm azores a. It dast Coats Schus several i re Job lines have Bear secured Wilich it b sold sat much less Tian Bot Glish Cost. Gentlemen s ready made clothing department. The Stock of get Clete s re indy Mande a noting is thie largest most fashionable and care Apost in tire District. All old Stock wars cleared sort or Arriag tie holidays at Job prices nothing re Nairns of common goods of Tny description. T her e Are Rousas drs of pairs of traced trousers and vests purchased at Clearing rates we Ricl will be sold remarkably cheap. Tweed Doeskin Diagonal anti fancy coaties manufactured into Paget Sac Beaufort Tommy Dods Ai d other fashion table la does to Remarkel a cheap. Boys suits of All descriptions from 4d lid each. Men s Arad boys hats Caps shirts ties belts braces portmanteau Hao Isery and gloves of All kinds. Tailoring department. This Dep ariment tras grown during the past year to be ene of the Moat Imp arrant in . Or. Wells cutting ass Given Universal satisfaction Iris Large experience a last been brought to Bear in every part of tire work such As cutting lilt rag making up &. A Grana Stock of new tweeds fancy vesling coatings a. Boys clothing is made a speciality with or. Wells a splendid fit guaranteed. Boots and shoes a Megno cent Stock of Lalle gentlemen a and child rens at the lowest Cash prices. A. Crawford Mitchell s Iii dings strut Street Ballarat. Sale of Booth Andi Gates at Melton races. The right to erect a Booth and the right Sto collect Gate Money at the Melton races on the 14th february will be sold by auction at Melton on Satui Vay 5th february at 3 ., by messes. Crook & son. G. Graham Hon. Sec. To let in Bacchus Marsh 1he House known As Robertson a the late residence of or. Rae. Apply b. Bannino Melton. Green Hills steam saw Mills near Blackwood. R Obert Hall begs to inform the inhabitants , Bacchus Marsh Melton and the District generally that he is prepared to Supply Hardwood of All sizes also sawn shingles and palings of the Best Quality at the lowest current rates. Orders promptly attended to. Polson will be Laid on my paddocks at Wood lands on and after 24th january 1881. Isaac Evans. Pentland Hills january 12, 1881. A? at Glenfield farm East Ballan. Abundance of grass and water. Important fact for All to remember. R Ood spectacles prop la adapted will Aid the vision and strengthen the eyes whereas faulty glasses or even Good lenses if not correctly chosen will injure and May utterly destroy the sight. Kasner & Moss opticians 17 Collins St. West Melbourne. Established 1853. The National Bank of Austral Asia. Paid in capital .800,000 Reserve fund. 290,000 Bank premises Reserve. �80,000 Bacchus Marsh Branch. Current rates of interest allowed on Money deposited for fixed periods. British and colonial drafts issued. Gold bought. Henry Chadwick manager. Saturday january 22, 1881. Markets. William Adamson & co. Report january 19 we held our usual weekly Sale of Grain at our rooms to Day. Biddings for Good shipping parcels of wheat were brisk but inferior and medium lots attracted Little attention. Our catalogue of wheat comprises about 2,000 bags and we quilted nearly the whole at from 3s. 7d. To 3s. 9d. For inferior to medium and from 3s. 10d. To 4s. For fair to Good milling. We sold Barley at prices ranging from 2s. 4d. For inferior and mixed lots to 3s. 6d. For Good malting fair average samples realised 3s. 3d. Oats were in request 2s. 5d. To 2s 7d. Being obtained for medium lots and 2s. 8d. To 2s. 9d. For Stout feed. We quote Maize 4s. Of. To 4s. 6i-d., with a Short Supply. Flour is Dull. At �9. Our Sale of Dairy produce was Well attended to Day and prices in most cases maintained last week s rates. Below we give results of actual sales. Prime new potted butter in Good order 4d. To 5d. Off condition lots 2d1. To 3sd. We had a Large Supply Forward but biddings were Slack except for first Quality. A few Favourite lots of fresh butter regular Supply realised 8d. To 9id Ordinary private dairies 6d. To 8d. Collectors parcels 6d. To 72d. The immense Quantity of cheese coming to hand and disinclination of buyers to operate keep prices Low. We quote prime 34d. To 4d. Medium 2d. To 3d. The Quantity of eggs to hand was Large and prices firm at the following rates Duck eggs is. 6d. Guaranteed weekly lots of Hen eggs 14d. To 151d. Prices unaltered for Bacon. Sides 5d. To 7d. Middles 61d. To 7d. Glitches 5d. Hams guaranteed 6ad. To 8d. Inferior 3-d. Bush Honey 3d. To 4d. Garden 5d. To 5ad. Beeswax 8.1d. To 1ld. Turkeys 10s. 6d. To 12s. 6d. Fowls 2s. To 3s. Ducks 2s. 6d. To 3s. 6d. Melbourne produce . S. Taylor s report for the week ending january 19,1881 the Market for cheese was brisker although prices showed no alteration on late rates. Good brought from 3 d. To 41d. Medium 2-d. To 3d. Inferior almost unsaleable. Prices to Day were easier for potted butter. Good to prime realised from 4-1d. To 5d. Medium 3.d. To 4d. Inferior 24d. To 3d. The Market to Day for fresh butter was firmer. Best dairies in half Pound prints realised from 7d. To 91d. Medium 5d. To 6d. I sold a Quantity of collectors parcels in Good condition in l1b. Prints from 61.d. To 8-d. I had very brisk Competition and my suppy was unequal to the demand. Prices to Day for eggs showed a Large Advance. Well known supplies is. O0d. To is. 34d. Below i give details of actual sales cheese Good 3-d. To 4ad. Medium 2.d. To 3d. Prime potted butter 4d. To 5d. Inferior to Good 3d. To 44d. Fresh butter 7d. To 91d. Do. Medium to Good. 6d. To 81d. Eggs is. Of. To is. 3.jd. Honey 4d. To 5id., Bush 3d. To 3ad. Bacon sides5d. To 7d., town cured. Messes. Kinc & Cuni Nociar report january 19 fat Supply consisted of 1886 in All made up principally of Small lots. The Quality As a whole was not Good and this caused Competition to be Good for Choice pens which sold at an Advance of about 7s. 6d. Per head on last week s rates other descriptions remaining unaltered. The attendance of buyers was Large but the extreme heat of the weather was against the sales. We quote Primo pens of Bullocks �7 to �8 12s. 6d. Good do �5 to �6 10s. Middling do �3 10s. To �4 10s. Best pens of cows �4 to 5 Good do �3 to �3 10s. We sold-219 bul locks for or. James Robertson from gun Dabonka station River Darling to �5 12s. 6d. 34 Bullocks and cows for or. Macalister Gipp land 22 bul locks for or. W. J. Irwin Sale at from �3 12s. 6d. To �5 17s. 6d., averaging .4 14s. 9d. 22 bul locks for mrs. Bodman Trenton Valley Gipps land at from �5 5s. To �5 17s. Gd., averaging �6 13s. 10d. 15 cows for or. Malcolm Macfarlane Glen Maggie Gipp land at from �2 15s. To �3 5s., averaging �3 is. 8d. 15 Bullocks for or. John King Nam Brok Gipp land at from �6 10s. To �7 5s., averaging �6 15s. And 10 head in Small lots for various owners. Fat he num Ber in to-Day-viz., 150-is smaller than it has been lately and prices advanced considerably. We quote Best 30s. To 40s. Good 20s. To 25s. We sold-53 for or. William Gunn Taranga Park 3 for or. James Burnside Koro Roit Creek 1 for or. M. Macalister Gipp land. Fat sheep. The total number carded to Day was 22,641, including a great Many middling and inferior lots sent off by the Scarcity of grass and water. The attendance of buyers was Large including meat preservers graziers and the town and country Trade. The demand for the Best lots was very Good and prices about the same As last week but for inferior sorts the demand was Slack and prices Low a great Many of the lots being ultimately sold by auction at Low prices. We quote prime Merino Wethers 8s. To 10s. 6d Good do 6s. 6d. To 7s. 6d. Others in proportion prime Merino ewes none in Good do 5s. To 6s. Middling do 4s. To 4s. 6d. Prime crossbred Wethers 9s. To 12s. We sold-557 Merino Wethers for or. R. B. Ridler Koro Roit Park 244 Merino Wethers for or. Louis Thomson Kyneton 130 Merino Wethers for messes. J. & t. Myers Montville 100 Merino Wethers for or. John Thomas Oakfield. Fat number actually penned was 3,033, including a great Many stores. The demand for the Best lots was better and prices up 6d. Per head. We quote prime shorn lambs 7s. To 8s. Good do 5s. To 6s. 6d. Inferior from 3s. Up. We sold-137 for or. R. B. Ridler scr orbit Park 51 for messes. J. & t. Myers Montville at 5s. 50 for or. Solomon Warhurst Ballan at 5s 9d. 50 for or. J. Rowett Ballan at 5s. 9d. 40 for or. J. Sutherland Ballan at 5s. 9d. 21 for mrs. O Connor Ballan at 7s. 3d. Store notice an improvement in the demand for sheep since the late Rains fell and prices should show an inclination to improve in riverine. In Victoria transactions in this class of Stock Are almost nominal. We have placed 18,000 ewes on the Varrego. Cattle unless of suitable Ages for fattening Are not much inquired for and sales Are briefly confined to lots through the Yards. Weave sold 148 head a mixed Herd by auction through the Yards for or. Win. Gann Taranga Park Bullocks to �4 5s., cows to �1 7s. Messes. Fisk & Gibson Ballarat report january 19 fat cattle-393 carded principally medium Quality. There was a Good attendance of s Muyers and the Market throughout showed an c no movement on last week s prices. We quote 1lest pens Bullocks in g�6 to �7 10s. Best pens own in �3 10s. To 6�4 l0s. Fat calves.-20 Here was a fair demand and Best in brought t 14s. Fat sheep.--i3,377 carded about one third t of the Supply being Good to prime Mutton and the balance medium Quality and stores. There was an average attendance of All classes of buyers and sales though not brisk were fully equal to last week s rates. We quote Best crossbred wether in 9s. To 10s. 6d. Second do. 7s. 6d. To 8s. 6d. Crossbred ewes Fis. To 6s. 6d. Best Merino Wethers 7s. 6d. To 8s. 6d. Fat lambs.-587 in. This being a Small Supply the demand was brisk for All descriptions at prices showing an Advance on late rates. The proceedings of the revision court held in Bacchus Marsh on tuesday proved once again that the electoral act is a complicated one to administer and that local magistrates cannot be relied upon to give its provisions due consideration. All the persons whose names were objected to upon various grounds were struck off the list but in no one instance did the magistrates ask for any evidence of the grounds of objection. They seemed to think the absence of the parties objected to relieved them of responsibility to defend the position of the claimants of votes. We do not think so. We think the magistrates Schuld have required a least a statement on oath from each objector of the grounds upon which he based his objection and if the statements so made seemed inadequate in any degree to justify striking off the names objected to the cases should have been postponed evidence. The act is defective in regard to not making any provision for announcing the Date and hour of holding a revision court. Most elaborate machinery is provided for objecting to names but not a word is said As to notifying time and place for hearing objections. The Law is also ambiguous in its provisions respecting registering notices of objection posted to persons objected to. In one clause provision is minutely made for and it is required As essential to constitute a valid notice that the notice of objection be treated As a registered letter but in another portion of the same clause the magistrates Are told that the production of a duplicate of the notice of objection stamped with a Post office Date stamp is sufficient evidence that the notice was duly posted on that Day and nothing is said about requiring proof of registration also although it is the evident meaning of the act that the person objected to shall have All the Protection which a registration of the notice of objection can give him. It seems Clear that the electoral act requires amendment by it being made essential that the registration of All notices of objection be proved in the usual Way by the production of the receipt of registration if not by a certified copy of the receipt for the letter itself from the person to whom it was addressed. And that the Date time and place of holding a revision court be stated in the notice sent to the person objected to and also in the advertised notice. But the Best Reform of All would be to do away with the whole complicated mass of registration altogether and make rate receipts the electoral right for ratepayers and a form to be issued by constables in charge of police stations under certain regulations which we described once the electoral right for manhood suffrage voters. These documents could be stamped by returning officers when used at elections in much the same Way As a railway ticket is ear marked. Electoral Rolls Are really of no use for anything but canvassing purposes and that is a use which the Community at Large would be better off without than with. Piso Essio Aal politicians Are often hold up to scorn in Melbourne newspapers but has it Ever occurred to the writers of such condemnation that professional party journalists Are really More dangerous to the common weal i the phrase of " agreeing to differ has a new Reading in this Colony so far As the Melbourne dailies Are concerned. With tem Timthey agree to differ about anything which has a political bearing or origin before it is discussed at All. Truth which is synonymous with Fairplay and Wisdom Isa secondary matter party interests primary. We find the Argus declaring that party government is inseparable from parliamentary institutions. This is a half truth which is worse than a whole untruth. Party government in itself As meaning party allegiance is in no Way inseparable from parliamentary institutions. It is Only a very subsidiary Mode of motion facilitating pro Gress towards any Given end after All the Bear Ings of that end and the kind and time of Progress towards it have been settled. In no Case should party allegiance or party govern intent justify wrong doing. It can excuse it of course and unfortunately Many men allow this Small privilege which party allegiance has of excusing wrong doing to Lead them to re Gard it As justifying it and even making it meritorious. They and we distinctly accuse the Argus of doing so exalt party allegiance from its place of servant to Wisdom honesty. And statesmanship to the dignity of master of All those qualities. Such an Assumption is opposed to All ethical considerations and can Only be justified logically in such a Case As allegiance to the roman Catholic religion. There papal infallibility is logically Correct As party government inseparable from papal institutions and the Argus by laying Down the thesis it does that party government is inseparable Roythe working of parliamentary institutions simply imposes upon those institutions the doctrine of of party leaders. Such a doctrine is As barbarous in principle As Reliance upon a Guries incantations fetishes or anything else not capable of standing the test of examination by human reason. The True government in separable from the working of parliamentary institutions or any other institutions Small or Large individual or collective is contained in the words is it that brings the whole Battery of human reason to Bear upon any Given problem. Party allegiance is one ingredient of human reason but it is not a substitute for it As the arg s alleges and practices in common with the majority of Mankind. Perhaps human nature cannot Trust itself unless clothed in party allegiance just As the Soldier s Stock used to be considered one of the sources of strength of the British army but we at an rate shall not teach that such is the Case. Our Small modicum of influence in this world shall go to upholding the thesis that party allegiance is one of the greatest curses that Ever attached itself of parliamentary institutions to Tut ions be it remembered rank e for party allegiance. They i Perowi 05 for delegated authority but not pro in o authority. The highest Excelle ceo d in the working of parliament tile. Would be absolute unanimity y no Tittio h the people to the representative Proee Ding representatives to the exec i head of the government Asa or f joint or socket permitting the faecal chaotic working of the forces cute not e the production of the Saint rib t allegiance to these principles Wilde Ucb c we Hope be the sole adjunct t tile 1c of individual reason on the part to r members of parliament and Minisel Crown and newspapers. We Aroi All persons who really understand purity and highest excellence of Parlie institutions will agree with our set of that possible purity and , and if they grasp our meaning who Che sons take the trouble to do they Wil Prience a feeling of Surprise that the at ment of that excellence seems so Etherea Prospect. They Are so accustomed to Siagllo ing As truth the phrase that her if 111 opposition is As necessary a part of a ment As her majesty s ministry that the accept party quarrels allegiance Crie e dices and All the other departures for p reason As inseparable As the Aro Gyu from the working of parliamentary Tut ions whereas All these things Are re infirmities of those institutions and to i them As not Only inseparable but As 2ti of being exalted into a code of conduct f electors and representatives As the argued is to make them deformities. Parliament institutions worked on the party govern a system Are Only tolerable in such a place great Britain where the grades of approx to the highest positions of Parli Onienta authority Are so Well guarded by Consi detion and influences altogether apart from part allegiance that no incompetent or a North p men can Ever attain to those highest position and the bulk of the parliamentary institution there rescues them from the cortex fall the is intellectually abominable in which the seethe in this Colony owing to their Hin worked on too Small a scale and to their Lein inflamed by such a doctrine As that party allegiance is a Good in itself instead of ony very subsidiary expedient at Best and Alto Gether unnecessary and hurtful ethically can Side red which doctrine we have Here taken the Opportunity and believe refuting. The practical moral we would wih to attach to the above exposition of our in. Caption of what parliamentary institutions ought to be is that the victorian parliament will never be anything but an opprobrium to All connected with it until it is made to consist of at least two Hundred members All elected by single member constituencies both in lower and upper House and of whom one Hundred and fifty members should sit in the lower House and fifty in the upper. Party government would be comparatively harmless in such a parliament until it was eliminated altogether. Indeed the benefits from such a change would be innumerable and As solving the payment of members professional politician scare it would be invaluable Forin such a lower House with Small constituencies the pay could be fixed at �150 per annul. Tue Rabbit suppression act has received but Little Public notice and perhaps this is due to the fact that practically it does not com into operation until after 28th March next for there Are three agencies entrusted with the " suppression of rabbits namely the govern ment the municipal councils and the owners of private property and As Thesel last Lalni Are the most important Agency tile other two cannot be expected to commence operations until landowners do so and they Are allowed three months from the passing of the act by fore any Law but their own Sweet will Presse them to use " reasonable Means for the destruction of the rabbits upon their land and upon the adjacent half of All roads bounding such the seventh clause of the Bill is the principal one and it provides that if after the expiration of three months from the passing of the act the Council of any Muni Cipal District has reason to believe that there Are rabbits upon any land within such District and that the owner or occupier of such land refuses or neglects to use such reasonable Means for destroying the same As the Council shall deem necessary such Council May by notice in writing require such owner or occupier to use All such reasonable Means Andl if after the expiration of fourteen Days from the service of such notice its mandate shall have been neglected the Council May appoint and direct an inspector to do the work and by the tenth clause tile Cost of so doing is recover Able from the owner or occupier. By the ninth clause any inspector is to be allowed to destroy any Wall or Fence which he considers to in a Harbour for rabbits provided he first obtains the consent in writing of the Council of the municipal District and also gives the owner or occupier six months to make the Fence or Wall harmless As a Rabbit cover. The eleventh clause is an important but ambiguous one the ambiguity arising from a very common cause namely putting an important addition to a clause As drafted into the Middle of it so that the beginning and end do not take notice of the Middle portion. The clause in its begin Ning and in its ending deals with the responsibility of councils to destroy rabbits upon All commons or lands vested in the Council and upon half the roads adjacent and empowers two justices on the complaint of three rate payers to enforce this clause against the Cousa cil. So far it is Plain and reasonable enough but in the Middle the responsibility of the Council is extended to any lands in such District other than unoccupied Crown lands thus mating it appear that the real Moti Power of the act is not the Council of the municipality but any three ratepayers i is much As if the owner or occupier of any fail to destroy rabbits and the Council fat to require him to do so then three ratepayers can Appeal to two justices to Issue the nees sary order to a Crown lands Bailiff,1 hoi do the work and charge the my licit Euh with its Cost. The Only other clause Betori upon the duties of municipal councils is the twentieth which requires councils to Send reports to the. Chief Secretary in i a and november of each year setting Forth the Steof of the District in respect to the destry Lionard rabbits. The third clause empowers thle of of land and works to appoint Iliff of Crown lands to destroy rabbits on any re occupied Crown lands and this is the rea1 starting Point of the act As a working measure Eor no one will commence to enforce it in o District while the Crown lands Are untouched there is an immense hiatus we emay a it in the sweep of the act As All grown it occupied by pastoral tenants Aree get Erom its provisions so that in the worst

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