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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 17, 1933
Page
4
A brief author profile notes Aidan De Brune known for The Dagger and Cord and The Shadow Crook plus other titles such as The Little Grey Woman. The entry emphasizes his gothic and detective influenced bibliography.
Dr Night, a master thief, twists Hardy into a captive game. The journalist plots escape as Night offers tea and a grim promise. Night warns Hardy the police cannot reach him here, and implies Hardy’s ally, the young woman who saved him, could be pressed into service.
A journalist Hardy, held by Dr Night in Forest Home, plans escape via coded harbor signals. He studies his captors and waits for Frost’s return, using a lamp and lantern to flash a message to a destroyer. The plan hinges on outside help and decoded signals.
Reminiscences of Tom Cahill who left the Union Hotel Gosford to chase cattle in northern Australia. He recalls buying horses at Townsville, driving bulls to Dalgonally, long treks across Mc Arthur River and Limmen Bight, and delivering cattle to Nat Buchanan and Glencoe Station. He praises Nat Buchanan as a foremost natural stockman.
An advertisement urging local businesses to advertise in the Gloucester Advocate notes the district has about 5 000 residents needing food clothing transport and sustenance. It emphasizes the paper as the only published news source in the Gloucester district and invites inquiries for advertising rates at P O Box 12 Gloucester.
Rations ran low forcing Buchanan and Walter Gordon toward Daly Waters with Hugh Gordon to abandon cattle and bring men to civilisation if Buchanan failed to return by a set date. He did not, another day granted, and about 100 extra cattle calves born en route were added. While Buchanan is away, Bill Travers, cook and nephew of an owner, breaches orders by allowing natives inside. A native attacks Travers with a tomahawk, nearly killing him, then steals usable gear and retreats with others before the cattle herd returns. Travers is buried along the Limmen Bight River bank.
A folded verse style piece in Gloucestershire Advocate by F A Fitzpatrick laments drought and rising costs in Wingham. It mocks past prosperity, praises land settlement, and urges opening land near Big Run Creek to aid dairymen and farmers with roads and bridges spared from rain damage.
A fragmented December 1922 note from Wingham expresses wish for joy and to leave behind the ills of mantelnd and nation, with unclear references to beauty, duty, and a Jewish piiry fir.
Immense ore showings surface as Hamdorf discovers magnesite schist veins rich in gold. Prospectors gather around the hole in hopes of a fortune, while Hamdorf laments the loss of his son Wesley who disappeared about a year ago near Hall's Cell.
Optometrists from DoT and FSALC London will attend and may be consulted at Commercial Hotel on Friday 20 January. Hours are 9 am to 5 pm. Appointments may be booked at A. T. Cavanough's Chemist.
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