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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1905
Page
3
Wool auction conducted by GOLDSBROUGH, MORT & CO. cleared a large catalogue with strong American demand boosting prices. The Dalton Estate Kengaroobie clip led with 29 bales of cross bred ewes selling at 144d per lb, others from 14d and down. New England wools also performed well.
Mark All aged seventy seven began an ambitious self imposed walk of sixty thousand miles on August 6 1900. He has covered forty five thousand miles and aims to complete the trek by December nineteen hundred seven. He has circled Britain six times and visited France Switzerland Germany Holland Belgium Spain and Portugal.
The death at Gothenburg of Mr John Sawers former Provost of Stirling recalls Scotland’s banking collapse era. Sawers was Stirling agent for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank. In 1857 the Western Bank of Scotland and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank failed on Black Monday November 9.
A Courier Journal quotation notes the shift in English gentlemanly wine customs. It contrasts past abundance of wine glasses at table with modern restraint, where great houses show at most three glasses for white, red, and champagne.
Japanese fishermen have trained octopuses to dive from vessels and retrieve sunken treasure off Japan. The creatures, with powerful suckers and beak, are lowered into the depths to haul up significant quantities of valuables.
G B Shaw critiques Eton Oxford Harrow Cambridge for shaping social habits and easy manners across social strata. He argues education by elite institutions creates a shared code among sailors wranglers bag men and billionaires who mingle as equals.
At the September Tasmanian Amateur Horticultural Society meeting Mr J H Hinsly presented a paper on daffodils focusing on cross fertilisation and seedling propagation. He urged amateurs to pursue this work more broadly. He noted that raising new varieties is not necessarily a life long task and discussed seeds from smaller growing kinds such as Triandus Innerfolus Corbutarlus and Polyanthus varieties.
The author outlines year by year expectations for Narcissus flowering, with seed collection starting in year three and continued breeding through years four to seven. Practical steps include careful pollen transfer with a camel-hair brush, avoiding self fertilization, labeling parent and pollen, and sowing seeds in rich soil to sprout in spring. Crosses aim to combine color and form, noting Scarlet Cup and Madam de Graff as specific targets, while polyanthog varieties readily seed but require anthers removal.
An Indian Exchange tale describes a calf elephant in Burmah pranking its mother during timber work. The youngster halts a heavy log, then weakens the chain and triggers a dramatic chase ending with the mother scolding and a tearful, penitent calf.
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