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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 22, 1912
Page
2
The report covers Coore Rola and Wolong live stock markets with fat cattle sheep and cattle prices, noting firm trade later and judgeable rates. It lists bullocks cows and sheep prices, late sale trends, and regional quotes. Also includes Ballarat produce market figures and a cheap Melbourne excursion offer with schedules and fares.
The State Savings Bank announces transfer of savings bank agencies from post offices and other premises on a Saturday in June. Newly appointed agents were announced in the May 1 newspapers and will be circulated by circular. Inspector-General confirms head offices in Melbourne.
At Colac Shire Council meeting sympathy was offered for the death of Mr Hearn a former long time councillor. Colac Turf Club and Caledonian Society also chaired tributes and plans discussed for memorials and events. A reception for American visitors and local parades and May events were outlined with several committees reporting progress.
The Colac area prepares for a Saturday day celebration with shopkeepers asked to illuminate premises. A Colac rogeeita committee plans a £25 sea wall on the foreshore, while exporters eye the German market amid Victorian apple trade data and 1930s shipping notes.
Dr Bottomley of the ANA warns against undesired immigrants entering the state claiming many arrive with diseases or mental defects. He argues only fit people should enter and fears unskilled labor will be swelled by unfit entrants. The board of directors plans inquiries and may take the issue to the government.
Colac council discussed a proposed 44600 loan to fund an impervious concrete drainage scheme with 22 culverts on iron crossings. Debentures for 29500 would be issued at 4 percent, with remainder financed from revenue. matter to stand until next meeting for public notices and gazette proclamation.
The Rev Father Carr of Galway and Father O Mechanan touring Australia raised funds at St Peters Birregurra last Sunday for a new Galway Cathedral. An evening devotional featured remarks on Ireland’s revival, universities establishing Irish chairs, landlord abolition effects, and emigration trends. Empire Day events and a children’s picnic were planned at the local State school with frost reports noted.
Reuters reports London Monday night as the Australigo elevens began the fifth match of their tour at Lord's against a Marylebone Cricket Club side. The article lists players for both teams and outlines innings results and notable performances, including Kelleway and Hazlitt in the MCC innings and Brown and Pegler for South Africa. A separate note covers Oxford University hosting South Africa with a 278 run score by Oxford and Pegler’s bowling for South Africa, plus other early cricket tallies. Also brief legal news notes sentence reductions for Tom Mann and journalist Guy Bowman.
Reports say unrest grows among Lonion dockers with lightermen and bargemen at Victoria and Albert docks possibly joining. An appeal in Warsaw reduced Count Bogdan Ponikier's murder sentence to five years, while Miss Mualecka waits custody awaiting her appeal on a four year term.
The Daily Express reports Britain will speed up naval armament to counter Germany’s rising programme. Admiralty aims to advance battleship construction by at least half a year during the current year.
In Ballarat the Thcesan Bynod opened with Bishop Green denouncing raffles and lotteries as moral evils. He cited a Synod resolution banning games of chance and urged remonstrance against transgressors while noting Victoria’s gambling temptations and fundraising pressures.
The Titanic inquiry continued in London under Lord Mersey with witnesses including Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and Lady Duff-Gordon. They deny urging crew or passengers to abandon the ship and describe the famous rescue scene while officials estimate arrival in the danger zone.
London reports the case over Blackwood's Magazine and Churchill settled with a paid sum and apology. Churchill denied giving or being asked for parole. In Seattle another tragedy occurred at Colman Dock as a gangway collapsed, causing one woman and a child to drown while several others were rescued. A bootblack aided multiple survivors.
A sensational Chicago report states German nobleman Henry Von Armenthal, owner of extensive Western State properties, shot himself after losing his fiancée Rose nblatt, a romance linked to Inter Nelson Morris and a Anpelea meeting.
A meeting of delegates for the Corangamite Challenge Football Shield was held at Camperdown last Friday. Clubs represented included Gantgordown Pom Barnell Teranga Pom Barnell H. Armstrong and T Morris. Mr Jas Moore elected president and Mr Garnet McLeodson secretary. Mortlake club abstained from attendance. meeting adjourned to await their arrival.
Entries for Colac Turf Club winter meeting include Trial Stakes and Handicap events with horses such as Bally, Castille, Dugotta, Nat Kirk, Zouslhan, Robbery, Gwenda, Lord Fyans, Golden Charm, Drysdale, Nymphe, Maid Marton, Goldsmith, and more. Regional election notes report J Manifold’s Liberal nomination for Corangamite seat and Bourke hotel balcony death of C Palmer. Geelong Labor candidate Sargent endorsed for Western Province Council.
Mr H. W. Osborne urged Western District and nearby districts to form a large centralized bacon curing company near Melbourne. He argued co operative principles, better byproducts use, and nearer city markets would raise profits while protecting farmers from inland price volatility. Amalgamation with Western and Kyneton districts was supported.
The London correspondent notes rising alcohol use in hard times and warmth, with the Drink Bill showing total expenditure on alcohol at £102,707,239 for 1911. Spirits and beer rise while wine falls, per-head spending reaches £9 10s 0d.
Report from Liberal circles says when the bill reaches committee stage the government will likely wave the Welsh Church in possession of all endowments and tithes, amid expected amendments during the process.
An advertisement touts Wilhly gin pills as a prompt treatment for early diabetes. It plugs price 1/6 and claims the New Zealand Customs Department will require manufacturers to add pyreidine before release from bond, aimed at making the spirit unpalatable to certain readers.
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