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Newspaper
Bega Budget
Location
Bega, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
5
The Saturday half holiday movement gains public support with tradesmen and shopkeepers signaling approval. Letters note court cases on pricing slips, while government staff counts show a large civil service and total salaries near £1,867,000. Debate shifts to pensions, birth-rate incentives, and political leadership in Sydney.
Fragmentary OCR note names W A Wllbun as proprietor with unclear context. No date or location readable. Rest follows from visible fragment.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Daisy Bank Wyshallam and various names. It reads like an old public notice with scattered individuals such as Hector and Prince but is mostly garbled. No clear event, date, or action is extractable for a precise summary.
The report highlights Nuon Prince and SME Hugs, featuring a notable performance as the first sire in America to sire three horses under two minutes. Dam Lilla G. is noted as imported, with Hambletonian Prince praised among twenty horses with records pushing below thirty.
A compact note records lineage for Grand Childe with Sire Rebel Childe and dam Stanhope bred by NM Hkonaine.
TROTYLNG STALLION WINN ALTO stood in Dixiu Alty jimp. Champion trotter and first prize winner at two racing events in Sydney 1A.5. Blow, 1008. Dam Winansling imported from California cost 2000 dollars. Winn Alto foaled October 1st Hog Mentwodd Loday shows strong bone and temper. Won several prizes in Sydney and has Royal commendation for good conformation. More details available on breeding and service terms.
ISHMAEL, imported in Bombay and bred from Souahwi lines, stands at Begat season with Sheik AI Bin Curtle credited with bringing him. A noted event notes he measures 14 hands 2 inches and is described as a sure fondler with a pedigree and price terms listed, mares to be paid for and removed by a stated deadline.
Timetable listing MAITS arrivals from Bega to Sydney via Cooma and Bemboka with daily and Sunday-excepted services. Additional routes include Goulburn Cooma Monare district Wintoria South-Western district and coastal towns with varied evening times. Mails close details and office hours for Peel, delivery, telegraph, money order and savings bank services are provided with Sunday exceptions.
In Sydney discussions, Mr Griffith defends Speaker M’Court as fair minded while criticizing rulings that limit private member functions. Other figures like Mr Reid share reform goals, and Sir William Lyne defends the Deakin party’s stance. A Labor section in Sydney hosts a tense roll call criticizing Wade, M’Gowen, and Holman amid party divides.
The article describes white scour or septiemmia in young calves caused by infection at birth through the navel. Symptoms include loss of appetite, frothy white discharge with a foul odor, abdominal pain, and rapid decline. A separate “black lung” can follow, with severe weakness and coughing. Preventive measures focus on disinfection of the birth area, clean calving surroundings, early navel cord disinfection and ligature, moving calves to uncontaminated pens, thorough cleaning of old or new yards, and liberal lime on floors. calves should be kept navel-dried and ligated cords applied to curb spread, with rearing possible in properly prepared areas.
The Produce Market reports weekly conditions at the Costal Farmers' Cooperative Society Limited. Butter prices steady but receded on Monday. local sales fair for rape and bacon. Melbourne cheese prices slump due to imports. eggs in Queensland heavy supply and weak. pigs market improved with Parker and boar prices. calves lower with heavy supply and mixed lots. overall market instability and price swings noted across dairy, meat, and eggs.
A wide array of historical notes covers finance, industry, and public life. Topics include John D. Rockefeller on oil dividends totaling £1218,000,000 and profits of £216,000,000, a distant miner turned road-repairer, and a record Longside gun throw of 12 miles 298 yards at Shoeburyness. Canadian Premier Laurier hints at major canal and railway plans, with other items on royal visits, wages talks in Broken Hill, and a quirky legal tale about a monastery will dispute funded by clever interpretation.
A fragmentary comic exchange portrays a wife lamenting fashion fuss and expense while quarreling with her husband over legitimacy and plans. A daughter’s engagement prompts parental tests and ironic quips about marriage. A funeral scene adds a bystander joke about debt.
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