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Newspaper
Bega Budget
Location
Bega, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 18, 1908
Page
3
The document lists court attendance dates in January for Bermagui Bega Eden Wyndham and other towns, with an outdoor evidence session planned amidst dry weather. It also advertises a cattle dairy farm sale at Basin Creek Wyndham on January 25 including 43 milking cows and equipment, plus a livestock show race meeting program for March 6 1908 and a forthcoming annual meeting in March 1904 chaired by W A Singlel.
A local resident mailed a dressed turkey by parcel post for Christmas dinner. He checked the local office Christmas Eve and Christmas morning, but the turkey was not there. The bird reportedly wandered from under the counter until an official paid a boy to remove and end the strong smelling intruder.
Latest telegrams report Australian and British markets with items on oaten hay potatoes and butter, plus heat records in Victoria and NSW. A bushfire scourge in North Canterbury destroys 40,000 acres of grain as deaths rise from the Victoria heat wave. Police raided Chinese premises in Bendigo, a Crown Lands bailiff died at Tarra Gulba, and a NSW cathedral damage follows Newcastle creep.
W Rixon held special ent tle at the central cattle yards on Thursday. About 2000 head of all classes were yarded, with buyers from Gippsland Monaro and district. Prices were low versus prior specials, but large lines of store cattle moved. Fat bullocks to 49 7s 0d, store cows to 25s, forward cows £3 to £4, forward heifers £3 18s 6d, 2-year-old Shorthorn steers £2 1s 6d, Jersey calves to 25s, yearlings to £1 17s 6d, paddy steers 10s 6d to 16s 0d, yearling heifers £1 10s 8d to £2, paddy heifers £1 to 27s 6d, working bullocks £5 10s, bulls £2 to £3 11s. A special sale of horses followed on Friday with about 100 yarded including draughts, harness and ponies. prices ranged £11 10s to £45, ponies to £22 15s. The trotting mare Lorna passed in at £46 and racing mare Elouera at 70 guineas. A Masonic installation at Bombala near month’s end will see Bega brethren attend. La dies team to face St Johns on Wednesday led by Captain P Rixen and other named players.
A patchwork of local items from Tathra to Bombala and Bega. Marriage chatter, politics, weather, business boosts, and social events fill a lively page with names like Weed, Wood, and Melba cited among varied topics.
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