Eurythmic the Great Racehorse Dies in Guildford Stud
Eurythmic, once Australia’s top turf idol and sire of 47 starts with 1 win and six seconds, died suddenly at Dunreath in Guildford while doing stud duty. Bred from Eudorus and foaled in 1916, he won major events including the Karra katt a Plate Western Australian Derby Perth Cup Memsie Stakes Caulfield Cup and Sydney Cup after moving from Western Australia to Melbourne. His earnings totaled £46,800 from a long and storied career spanning five furlongs to two miles.
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Eurythmc
Eudorus
Bob Cherry
Bobadl
Arden
Wallace
Wos
Lee Steere
Eurythmic
Western Australia
Rivone
Melbourne
Caulfield
Dunreath
Guildford
Grave Robbery Plagues Bathurat Cemetery
Reports from Bathurat describe widespread grave robbing with wreaths and vases moved and headstones smashed by thieves using catapults or pebbles. Mrs. H. Gillespie of Russell Street found valuables stripped from a relative’s grave, highlighting the audacious thefts and vandalism.
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Bathurat
H. Gillespie
Russell Street
Entertainments tax partly abolished and other items noted
The proclamation fixes October 16 as the start date for abolishing the federal entertainments tax on tickets under 2 shillings 6 pence, with an expected revenue loss of about £350,000 but continued Tiv tax on higher priced tickets. A note on a prolific crossbred sheep rearing eight twins and two singles by D. Southwell at Oolong Station is included, along with a town council bill proposal involving overtime and horn feeding costs for a dismissed employee.
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Commonwealth
D. Southwell
Oolong Station
Dalton
Darwin
Tale of a Lachlan town and its lone car owner
The piece recalls a Lachlan district town where the last farmer to patronize Henry Ford has bought a car. Farmers gathered at the Farmers Heat to celebrate the lone joiner to the gasoline brigade as land owners and families total 175 and 525 children. Victorian farming changed with fallowing and cultivation proving wheat and sheep yields and population growth. A Burrangong Shire Council lease conversion was before the Young Land Board but the shire clerk was absent, the case struck out, and a rebuke followed for missing a hearing.
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Lachlan
Henry Ford
Chrieten
Burrangong
Rumble
Irish
Shira Council
Hospital ward and charges at Elmo Maternity Hospital
Forenight private ward costs £2 8s with £38 8s per fortnight. Laundry 10s extra. Waiting fee 27s 6d per week. Outdoor attendance £4 4s. Matron B Stokes, ATA.
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Stokes
Ata
Quandialla Weather and Community News Brief
The town remains quiet after the Show with rain forecasts uncertain and crops needing rain in the next fortnight. A severe windstorm on Monday dried dust with little rain, minor damage. Donations for the next Quandialla show total about £80 with seven donors pledging £10 10s each if eight more join. The new station master Mr Clarke has arrived and Quandialla will be classed as a station from November 1. The railway facilities are strong for stock, motor rail travel increases demand for better accommodations, and recent Wool deliveries resume after embargo lift. Caragabal visited for cricket, Quandialla’s team fielded thinly but won. a local boy is recovering after illness. Bishop of Goulburn to confirm at St Bartholomew’s Bimbi and dedicate the Bribbarry rectory on Wednesday.
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Quandialia
Seue
Quandialla Station
Mr. Clarke
Quantinlla
New South Wales
Narromine
Wool
The
Caragabal
Bunty
Quandialla
Caragabel
Carngabal
Allan Pearse
Tarleton
Goulburn
St. Bartholomew's
Goolagong Race Meeting and Social at Marysville
A Wednesday race meeting at Goolagong went smoothly with good nominations. The C of BE committee hosted a successful evening dance with Martin's Cowra Orchestra and supper. Winners included Mrs D O'Reilly and Mr R Wright in old-time and jazz waltz contests. A juvenile dance followed. Dr Barry will administer confirmation on Sunday the 25th. An appeal for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum raised close to £40. Local residents and visitors enjoyed the holiday period and planned a hall fund day of sport and ball with orchestral music.
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C. of BE
Martin
Cowra
D. O'Reilly
R. Wright
Wall
Barry
R.C
Goulburn
McEvoy
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Lawson
Mudgee
Hall Fund
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Ournville
Soker
Fay-Pascall L' and
Bea
John
the Baltic Separator Co. Ltd
Day Street
Sydney
Sporting
Eur
Meagher
Hawke’s Shoe Store
Rankin Street
Hawke
Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd
Ford
Renean
Australia
Mearest
80 Motor Company OF Australia
FTT, Ltd
Lachlan Story
Wombat Street
Forbes
Goolagong
R. G. Stone
Graziers
the Commonwealth Wool & Produce Co. Ltd
Co-operative Wool and Produce Co. Ltd
Wool Department
George and
W. Maiden
Frank Young
George Maiden
Bent Street
Otr Woolbuyers
Iike
Winchcombe, Carson, Jd
Widehecombe Home
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Darling Hargor
Colgate’s
Colgate
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