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Newspaper
Geraldton Guardian
Location
Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Aug 27, 1907
Page
5
Sybil comments on Geraldton Agricultural Society delegations to the Perth conference selecting an undertaker and a fishmonger, critiques lunch and tea service at events, forecasts crowd turnout for the Bread and Butter Dance, condemns tariff proposals, praises Melba and Nellie, and notes WA Parliament salary hikes amid austerity.
Mr McManaway hotel proprietor of Sandstone, popular in the mining centre, returned from Perth to Geraldton on Sunday and won a local event. He backs the Black Range Railway and Geraldton as central port for the Murchison fields, noting £40,000 already spent on Sandstone buildings. A Wallace's Hotel Walkaway gathering presented Constable J T Brodie with a dressing case and silver pipe before he and Mrs Brodie left for Bridgetown, with G E Sewell presiding and a pleasant evening.
The State school cadets held a Monday picnic by the Chapman River with ample provisions left for the Old Men's Home. Prizes will be publicly awarded September 6 at the school as results list Corp. Milla Sergt. Carwardine and Priv. Meadowcroft among top finishers across multiple events.
Havergack reports at a Rifle Club meeting held in the Drill Hall that a handicap match for members will be held on September 9 and 11 at 500 yards with seven shots each and two fighters allowed for the independent only. Entrance fee is 1s and prizes range from 10s to 2s 6d. The secretary is to arrange a home and home match with another club for September 21. Last Saturday the recruits completed their annual course. the next Saturday remaining trainees finish the first portion of the trained men’s course, then range time opens for members. The Burges Cup shoot-off will occur soon. Interest in rifle shooting has grown since the club’s formation, and some members may go to Perth for the NRA meeting later this year to contest well.
An application in Sydney to the High Court for an interim injunction to return seized wire netting was refused ex parte. Mr Bent denounces Commonwealth efforts to belittle the States in London. Western Australia reports a £1092 duty on wheels and axles shipment, opposed by public opinion in New South Wales. Bombay records 89.2 F as the world’s hottest large city.
Medical examination of Ming Fouracre’s remains at Waroom indicates she was shot from behind with an explosive bullet. Death was instantaneous as she fell, coughing up blood that stained the grass, and the wound is described as jagged and entrance from behind.
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