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Newspaper
Colac Herald
Location
Colac, Victoria, Australia
Date
Sep 02, 1912
Page
2
Fragmentary price list shows commodities like flour maize wheat and sugar quoted in mixed currencies. Names such as Harley-Aspe and Ballarat appear with unclear units and several garbled terms.
A cryptic OCR fragment mentions Won and Cremer with unclear context. No verifiable event, date, or entities to summarize into a coherent news item.
Fragmentary OCR mentions unions cereals crops and vast land, with price hints and private running terms. Specific places and names are unreadable.
A crowded for sale notice lists several ready houses and sites: Reomed Cottage on Pol lack Street with £200 terms and other cottages with deposits. Moore bateoc and Queen Aupest land plots. additional properties on Corrangamite Sieget and Moore Street with cash prices from £25 to £140 and rents or weekly payments. multiple building blocks and holding sites described as central or well located.
Fragmentary text describes trade or sale listings with locations and dates. details are damaged and partially unreadable. Names, addresses, and items are inconsistent, offering limited but scattered clues to a local market notice.
Funeral arrangements report interment to Ballarat after tram arrival, with undertaker T. W. Bharrrow noted. The section covers political meetings at Windsor and Colac, a Colac Town Band recital, a Wardle gathering, and a large public display of moving pictures interrupted by transfer issues. Races at Waldown Park feature several winners and significant winnings, with golf and shooting matches and a Colac versus Gelbrand club encounter, plus community fundraising and donations details.
TheSportsman reports the weight champion Eranst Barry faced challengers including Harry Pearow from Auptenlia and R. Arnat of New Zealand with FE Trumham of Canada asserting Arpet Fins secured the Kogtish championship and remains the legitimate challenger as described by the Sportsman.
A jumble of notices covers a theater program with performers and patrons, and an electrician’s monthly update from Camperdown. It details concerts and stage acts, the Empress tea promotion, and electrical installations with figures on units sold and costs.
A local event at the Larpent State School proceeds support the England hospital bazaar fund. Mre Underwood leads the committee with help from What Gest ver hold and Dialing Wishng Mba teams organizing a chess tournament and related activities.
The report covers cricket matches South Africa versus Gloucestershire at Bristol and Australia in flat conditions with wickets, plus Australian football league notes from Melbourne roundups. It includes scores, key dismissals, and team outcomes, highlighting Colac defeating Cororooke to win the premiership and upcoming local matches.
A lengthy account details the August wedding of Parker and Miss Bisie Pierce at Beear Methodist Church, with attire descriptions, guests, and a reception. It lists gifts, a wedding shower, and health wishes, followed by a schedule of local shooting events and trophies through December 1914 hosted by the Wesel club and related committees.
Widespread regret marks the death of Mr Charles Forrest at Colac. A respected colonist born in Dunder Scotland he built a career as a merchant and public servant. He served as Ripon Shire President and Polwarth representative in Parliament contributing to railway expansion and local governance. His death ends a long era of community leadership spanning Colac Ballarat and Gippsland districts.
A grand funeral cortege for a Salvation Army benefactor featured forty brigades with reps from across the work. The Acting Lord Mayor of London saluted as the procession passed the General Booth house. Property valued at £487 passes to the Army, with heirs including Shik, Head, crite, Marien, Herbert, Eva, Lucy. A settled sum of £5295 funds the late donor’s private tie, enabling him to forgo Army remuneration. Mr Bramull Booth becomes the new General.
Reuters reports in London that aviator Cody won the top prize of 400 for a machine of his own invention in a world wide competition at Salighury Flain run by the War Office. A Deperdussin monoplane took the second prize of 200 while Cody also claimed 100 for a third prize. Bristel monoplanes captured two third prizes of 50 each.
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