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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 09, 1911
Page
2
Morrison reports a local market list including carrots at 2 per dozen, potatoes 24 per pack, lettuce 5/6 per bag, redishes 4 per dozen, and other produce such as turnips onions plums and biscuits currants. The note appears as a fragment of a weekly produce section with assorted prices and items.
A garbled notice lists various goods and brands with scattered place names and incomplete phrases. The fragment mentions cameras, bowls, salts, shoes, medicines, and household items interspersed with unclear references to places and events.
A detailed program lists a Wednesday meeting with officers led by President J G Goat and secretary J Darcy. It includes nominations for horse races and trot events, weights, handicaps, amateur riders, and timing, with entries closing Monday and weights published in local papers.
The notice describes an upcoming Turf first annual meeting with pony races and handicaps. It lists nomination fees weights and entries due by February 20 at 8 pm local time. Certificates of weight must be shown. noncertified ponies must be measured. bookmakers may bet under supervision of Mr J Mphail.
Municipal notices list many road and paving contracts in Colac including gravelling metalling and forming from Levers Hill to Balintore read with 1100 to 600 cubic yards of spalls and 26 chains of road work. Plans may be inspected at Colac Shire Office with notices at Port Beach Forest and Laver's Hill. bids opening soon. Also a Turf Club meeting on Monday January 20 1911 with trials and stakes, nominations and acceptances due by January 16, 1911 and special train service from Spencer Street and Hamilton.
Lüdbrook's advertises manufacturing and import of all kinds of window blinds. It lists inside and outside spring roller blinds cream linen and lace duchess blinds fenced blinds skylight and conservatory blinds. Free estimates provided.
Mr Vincent and Patrick Mooney express thanks for the letters visits and floral tributes received after their recent sad bereavement.
A Colac Dairying Company meeting chaired by Armatronz discussed December milk price at 104d per lb butter fat and a >£13,000 cheque payout. Fisheries talks on trout stocking for Lake Culac, possible hatchery, and visit plans with officials. Weather turmoil includes a dust storm in Colac, heavy rain, and storm damage nearby along with school class openings and a cattle theft summons in Betac.
An immigrant reported in Rochester district selection remarks that the land impressed him and he aimed to secure it. He noted many discontented “knockers.” In Canada locals actively praised and advertised their areas. The piece also covers a funeral in Murranna, Nellie Stewart’s New Zealand tour and Hobart performances, and local business notices.
A freight train narrowly avoids disaster near Buckley Road Waichelsea when a mob of about four thousand sheep cross the line just as the train nears the crossing. The driver applies the Westinghouse brakes in time. about a dozen sheep are injured but none killed, and the crew proceeds to Winchelsea after a brief halt.
Reuters reports investigators tying the Houndsditch killings to a Tuesday Whitechapel raid and the Beran murder in Clapham. The Daily Mail identifies a second fugitive, Jacob Fogel, 22, a native ofKovno, once a tailor’s apprentice, who joined a 24‑member gang.
Ailli Willord with Detmoea Gene and Rue ward Digehe led the action at Alsielwester in a night of billiards key plays. Gray extended the rally with a late encore as the session shaped toward a decisive finish, while lingering uncertainties hovered over the top standout’s next moves.
Twelve hundred Haggued School children were entertained at a Sunbeam Society of South Australia dinner in London. Attending were Lord Mayor Sir Vesey Strong and Sir Richard Beachcroft among others. George Reid, Australian High Commissioner, sent a compliment, noting Britain’s towns would welcome children to Australia, the land of sunshine and prosperity.
The Victoria trade issue reports a scarcity of joiners and skilled tradesmen, with employers offering low wages in return for work until skilled labor is scarce. It notes others in Victoria also face shortages and calls for government action. Speedwell Cycles advertises a large stock and repairs with prices from £12 10s to £29, offered cash or on easy terms.
A turbulent report details PauTisHI-PO Home Rule rhetoric and a manifesto by Me Jopu Boinond leader of the Irish Notiotentiste, favoring a national approach under Home Rule. It also covers a Labor party pledge debate and a summary of a Papal decree debate in the Westminster scene, with references to the British political friction and Catholic loyalty.
Fragmentary dispatch describes a pursuit for a missing aviator amid siege and Kentish evacuation efforts. Reported efforts cover the North Sea shoreline and Ostend as authorities search coastal routes and nearby towns.
Reuters reports that in the past year 3500 emigrants left the United Kingdom for New South Wales. Of these, 2100 were farm laborers and domestics, with the rest mainly wives and children of the new settlers.
George James of Calan writes to expose harsh telephone access problems in the For reat and Murrean areas. He notes two recent cases where residents had to travel 25 to 26 miles to deliver messages due to nonfunctional lines. He urges the editor to publish more on local communications injustices affecting Worrest and Mar toon districts.
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