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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 08, 1906
Page
4
Legal notices and religious announcements reference G A V Hawdon, attorney, solicitor and conveyancer based in Stroud and Gloucester. The item notes weekly publication on Saturdays with a dated reference to September 806 and mentions religious notices amid the content.
A fragment from a Presbyterian Church of Australia notice lists service details at Curtiey’s Hall Barrington with Mr G Farley and a 7:40 start. The text shifts to a rumor about a well known actor praising his sixteen year old son Bob and references a distant figure entertaining glory for country, mentioning Washington and Lord Ball in a misread anecdote.
Local and general notices show the Shire elections fixed for Saturday November twenty fourth. Mrs. Riddle and her mother arrived in Gloucester on Wednesday. The Right Rev John Kemp Bruce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church NSW, will visit Gloucester and district arriving September twentieth and preaching in outlying places. A Bishop of Newcastle visit was almost simultaneous but rearrangements threaten widespread engagement disruption.
English capitalists paid £775000 as final settlement for mines owned by the Great Cobar Copper syndicate. Deposit £25000. iid £800000. The transaction, the largest mining deal in Australia. A parcel from Homeward Bound mine at 300 ft level yielded 17 oz per ton from eleven and a half tons. The ore body is sizable, previously unworked for six years until the current buyers took over.
From Talmalino on the Upper versy two men Ernest Martin and John Johansen fell into a cave. Johansen sustained a fractured thigh and was imprisoned in the cave for a considerable time. A search party was set to rescue and a dog named Funny assisted. A separate note mentions a wanted man photographed at six rel ations and six merchants captured. the sixth remains under observation and will be secured soon.
In a sporting note, Awvoh is set to meet Dungog in a football game. The event follows a schedule with players listed and a tentative lineup mentioned amid a lively local edition.
Amafi staying at a motel was not entitled to drink Sunday in the hotel if he stood in a passage outside the bar where the liquor was served. Mr Justice Pring reversed a Broken Hill magistrate, who had dismissed the licensee’s informatio n about three men drinking through an open slide. The slide was down, but the court ruled the men were at the bar within the meaning of the law.
District news notes the marriage of Mr. O Penfold of Prekeeper to Miss Scott of Monkerai on Wednesday last.
Government notices from August 27 1906 list tenders by the Deputy Postmaster General Sydney for a mail service run and public notices in the Gazette. It also notes road marking and proposed road closings in the Cobark Gloucester Road area and Berrico County of Gloucester with Crown Lands details. Acting Under Secretary Robert M Donald signs.
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