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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
May 29, 1903
Page
4
A garbled 1903 notice records a wedding ceremony where the clergyman pauses mid service amid unclear responses from the groom and the crowd. The reading shows the usual vows questioned and the service halted before completion.
In a painful Commons scene London Daily Mail reports William Hayes Fisher resigning as Financial Secretary to the Treasury over the Telescriptor Syndicate affair and Justice Buckley's critique of his conduct. Fisher's emotional departure drew sympathy as he explained private debts, an invention fund, and the syndicate's private nature.
A veteran recounts a tale of Angus Macaulay who bought "Jeanette" shares after a dreamlike warning about a Johannesburg mine. The London-Glasgow crowd, a shipboard chat, a skeptic narrator, and a Pretoria trip frame a curious account linking dream prophecy to a mining reef success.
The Munsey article argues German opera dominance, noting Verdi and Italian composers struggle to rival Wagner, as German tastes hold sway. It cites Mascagni Puccini Lerocavalle Giordano Franchetti, and dismisses Italian potential while praising German innovation led by Wagner.
A garbled OCR fragment presents a collage of aphorisms and quotes from writers such as Thackeray Addison Bacon Maeterlinck Carlyle and others. The text reflects on wisdom conscience prayer work and character with multiple misprints and unclear sequencing. It reads as a literary montage rather than a cohesive news item.
A Bengal native, whose daughter is to be married, asks the Civil and Military Gazette Lahore for permission to lend a military show to the wedding procession. He requests the rate charges for such a display and invites a convenient reply.
An American claimed to drive a blindfolded team through busy London streets using telepathy. ALondon observer joined a test from Cheyne Walk to Battersea, noting the driver followed the route with uncanny accuracy while under wire restraints, asserting mind power and scientific scrutiny.
The King approved a major shift in Armoury custody, placing the collection at the British Museum and the White Tower fabric under the Office of Works. Lord Dilton, longtime curator, remains involved as custodian with a plan to safely store and display items, including medieval armor, swords, and notable relics, while public access is managed by a warden.
The Dominion House of Commons adopted Mr Bickerdike's motion to prohibit import, manufacture, and sale of cigarettes, signaling twenty years of reform work by Canadian women. The bill, to follow after Easter, faces uncertain path. Strong opposition from tobacco interests is anticipated as reformers press for stricter measures nationwide. Daily Mail.
Mr Wyndham, secretary for Ireland, denies any Home Rule motive behind local government reform rumors. He states neither the Irish Government nor any officials have promised Home Rule, calling such statements unfounded and rubbish.
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