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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 25, 1921
Page
3
Executive approval allows reduced railway rates for livestock bought at Flemington for restocking. The new bylaw, to be gazetted soon, covers sheep and cattle for restocking beyond 100 miles from Flemington. Carrying costs drop to half ordinary mileage rates for eligible stock.
Reginald Be Smith faced a riotous behaviour charge in Woy Woy railway waiting room where an official heard the accused strike his wife who insisted she was his wife and belonged to him. He was fined 10 shillings on the light charge and 10 shillings for the second breach.
Miami police seized fifty five cases of liquor in the private railcar of H S Black chairman of United States Realty and Improvement Company. Black, a New York business figure, had just arrived for a winter holiday. Bail was posted and two servants were arrested. one testified he supplied the liquor. The charge against Black was dismissed in court.
In Burma wild elephants, protected since 1852, have increased and roam in great herds destroying crops in rice fields and sugar plantations. The Indian Government faces urgent steps as villagers abandon farms and villages after nightly elephant incursions. Protection is costly when it harms native livelihoods.
A bellicose note in Blue Mountain Echo invites Alderman Rumble or Belton to a boxing challenge at the King's Theatre. The challenger names Councilor Wilson, Mr. Lazarus, ex Mayor Smythe, and referee Jack William with proceeds going to Crown or Benevolent Society.
The text references pensions for 1.7 million war cripples in Britain and London hand spinning wheels for export to the East. It notes New York car hotels with attached bathrooms, and British railway passenger receipts just over 1 shilling 14 pence per journey. A fragmentary poetic passage about winter and trains follows, with garbled lines and stray phrases about Meath and cold weather.
Nave instructed by Mrs A Ruggert Stratford to sell a fine lot of furniture including 1 double bed and bedding 2 single beds 1 dressing table 2 dressing tables and looking glasses 1 cedar wardrobe 2 cedar chests 4 washstands and setters 1 round dining table 1 couch 2 safes 2 large kitchen tables 1 dresser 1 small kitchen table 2 churns and utensils 2 kitchen lines and carpets crockery mixer machines and other sundries Buyers can attend with confidence
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