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Newspaper
Bega Budget
Location
Bega, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 25, 1906
Page
1
Local clubs across the South Coast plan matches and handicaps at Cobargo and Bega. South Coast teams seek challenges with Moruya and Candelo while a South African tour is considered after England plans falter. A packed programme includes Goulburn Spring Meeting, Candelo Union fixtures, and Southern Districts cricket opening October 8 at Sydney.
A fragmented report notes Countess Warwick cannot accept an invitation to visit her Australian worker friends. The text then shifts to various oddly connected anecdotes about dogs, a Nevada witch-tree, a Surrey brick factory kiln, and a Chicago contractor’s dog, followed by legal and political snippets and a distant earthquake reference mentioning Juan Fernandez and Belkirk.
Cooma Hospital reports no current patients. Muirlad Chiefhaw, a draught stallion, was bought by a Milton buyer from Mr. G. Boxuell of Central Tilba. Telegraph line Candela to Clarkson’s Crossing not yet started. Concert by John Lemmone and Miss Mabel Batchelor at Centenary Hall Sydney on the 28th. Alstonville Butter Co produced 43 tons last month with only six boxes sold on second class. Rainfall at Candela and Tilda around fifty points. Cobargo residents watered homes. rainfall improving conditions. Corona Pastures Protection Board cuts assistant rabbit inspector. salary reduced to £50 due to pest control success. Infant remains found at Mudgee. inquiry opened. Mary Ann Shearman charged in Sydney with concealing birth by burial. Reports from Mudgee Guardian with crayfish in chest story and other local lore. Telephonic wires to trees failed in Bungonia Goulburn district. trees eventually lopped under supervision. Wolgalata gold mines report continued ore supply, two reefs and Meakora shaft feeding battery. March run expected strong. Yambulla field payable returns persist. Haugh’s battery: 12 tons crushed for Diminish party and 12 tons for Hocking party yielding good per-ton values. Messrs. Power and MacKay resume operations. agate hoppers noted. Boiler repairs at Miradian’s battery completed. 400 tons of stone to be processed immediately.
William Allen a drover appealed against the Pastures Protection Act after taking stock to a Dyrabba run location with insufficient notice. The court dismissed the appeal, upheld the conviction, fined £5 and ordered £1038 damages to the occupier, with one month to pay or fourteen days imprisonment.
A letter to the editor from J C Philpot of Howbaack asserts that F Grant did not speak for Wyndham Football Club or reflect its views toward Bega. The author praises Bega visitors as manly and laments unauthorized remarks by a single team member that threaten the club's reputation and goodwill.
The passenger list shows arrivals by steamer Eden to Sydney yesterday and departures to Eden, Bermagui, and nearby towns. Names include Messia Rate Disher Pomery Summers and Misses Boardman, Laws and Master Laws, with several others such as Derau Tyne and Zarr Higgs Barwick O'Donnell.
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