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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 06, 1935
Page
3
A fragment reports a parable exchange where a diminutive youngster is asked to finish a proverb. The line about those who live in glass houses yields a puzzled child’s fleeting bravura before answering with a quirky twist. The text also mentions rising use of artificial straw hats in Germany.
Listings show Church of England services across Nabiac and surrounding parishes with times at Gloucester Stratford Coolongolook and more. Congregational Mission and Baptist churches in Stroud Ward's River Barrington and Craven Creek also schedule Sunday and weekday meetings led by Rev. L H Shakespeare Rev. H Johnston and Rev. R C Pereira.
The Foreign Bird Farm at Keston near Kent is described as the world’s only such facility. London birds travel to the open aviaries when weather allows, housing rare parakeets and a Central Australia species owned by the King. Builders Ponsey and Brooksbank organize the farm, showcasing hundreds of colorful parakeets and lovebirds amid tropical-forest like scenes and vivid plumage.
A Liverpool bookseller recalling Mr. Gladstone recounts a 1895 Hawarden visit. Gladstone bought books, wrote the cheque himself, later noted a ten shillings overpayment. The messenger delivered the repayment note. An American offered five pounds, then twenty five, but the bookseller kept the memento.
Rare bronzes vanish from several English museums in a scheme by a deranged collector. The thief uses exact replicas swapped for genuine pieces, baffling detectives and delaying recovery.
The death of the famed holder of the title Ruler of Pilots at Gravesend is noted. This 40 year old post, created to oversee through channel and river pilots, marked the pinnacle of Trinity House ranks with a supervisor from the pilot corps to settle professional questions.
A notice from Hon. Hugh Main and Hon. R. 8. Vincent explains that annual registration of dairies is under consideration for amendment in the Dairy Industry Bill. The department notes that annual renewal gives tighter control and licensing penalties, but current forms can be filed by post with no major difficulty.
Mr Inigo Jones cites sunspot observations as a basis for a general rain outlook. He notes a late southern group nearing full array and rain along the north coast excluding Townsville, praising Swiss scientist Gentile Teppinhauer for confirming his ideas at the Haiti observatory.
Coastal storms scour resources for profit as seas pile gravel at Fleetwood for rates relief, coal washes ashore at Buckhaven and Redcar Whitby, and timber from ancient submerged forests yields usable fuel and firelighters along the Welsh coast.
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