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Newspaper
Bowral Free Press
Location
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Mar 01, 1902
Page
2
An assorted fragment from a Bowral area page outlines price rises for bread due to flour costs and notes church and social events. It mentions a grand Military Social, billiards club matters, and entries for an arts festival with prizes and admission details.
A pleasant gathering of parents children and friends of the Ministering Children's League was held at St Jade Hall on Friday. Due to illness and other circumstances attendance was lower than planned but many secretaries and members attended. Exhibits showed handiwork and ship-sawing displays with praise for Miss Adkins and Mrs George. Awards were given for attendance and good work with trophies and future competitions promised. Rev W F Harcie Walker opened with hymn and prayer. Miss Caldve spoke delivering an instructive address on charity, fair play and kindness among girls and boys.
The Robertson twenty second agricultural show opened on Thursday with fine but windy weather. Attendance reached about 1000 on day one and 850 cattle entries were shown. Alex Campbell officially opened the show, with large crowds on Friday and robust judging results across pony, hunter, and horse classes.
A long OCR damaged list names prizewinners and attendees from a community event. It includes numerous individuals and organizations such as Marshall, Sze W Tndzamrab, Mine Browning, Mrs Heaity, J Gilroy, W Vandenberg, and Fanny Work Alie FTndamurah, with references to Minton Creamery Takis Waiter Hobart Creamery and Davers to mark local participants and sponsors.
Bowral Council and Mittagong Council discuss deviation on Shieppwaah to Yurenuge Bondy with Law Department referral, works and finance items debated. A deputation to the Minister for Works on the Gib Road improvement is reported as favorably received and a future inspection planned.
A drought relief service was held at the Bowsal School of Arts at 11 a.m. on Wednesday to seek rain. Rev A Gordon led the proceedings with Ben Short F B Kyngdon and S Russell among others. He urged seriousness, recalling Amos 4 7 and stressing national calamity, repentance, and gratitude while noting the drought’s impact on farmers and stock routes. The service concluded with a hymn and benediction.
A private letter from Ensign Teabelle Duffell, last stationed at Nowraly, from Queenstown, Tartinnia, describes a harvest festival highlight and a grim port town scene. She recalls a recent fire that destroyed most of a mining town except the Salvation Army officer’s quarters, preserved by divine intervention, as residents speak of miraculous endurance amid ruin.
A garbled OCR passage from a historical page yields a mosaic of names, places, and terms. It mentions Albury Bradland Cay Pest and Chacobarla Calli and Hilton End, with scattered references to people and events, but the text remains largely indecipherable.
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