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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 09, 1935
Page
4
Readable fragments indicate a community or organizational meeting set for Tuesday June 4 at 6 p.m. in Brock, Me Matrix. The notice mentions participants Knitting Canpeeen and Mewrs Roberts and a music or artistic entry.
A regional sale reports strong demand for prime cattle and lambs, with prices up about 10 shillings. Sheep and lambs show general firmness, ewes weaker, hoggets and suckers varying by description, and yarding total around 2,782 mixed lots from Queensland and local districts.
A tale recalls Payne, once a London resident, driven by poverty yet inspired by a haunting melody that crystallized into a timeless song. Sir William Cullen, ex-Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, dies at Leura. The Royal Show features vast displays of horses, cattle, and international competitions, with the Australian team and overseas entrants highlighted.
A fragmented Crookwell ledger lists numerous bale transactions with varying weights and prices. Entries show buyers including Horace Webster Nightingale Bros Rockley and J M Evans Crockwell, with multiple bale counts from 5 to 27 and prices around 133d to 194d. Other towns referenced include Cooma Bombala Bongendore and Bukalong, indicating a regional trade spread.
The guidance covers bulb placement with tips on burying bulbs just below the surface with tips showing, and draining excess moisture by tilting bowls. It advises selecting single varieties per bowl for uniform display and matching tones to room color. It also notes the Double Flowering Dwarf Pomegranate as edging, and cautions on manure exposure and proper fertiliser use for autumn color with Rhus Saccedanea foliage.
A brown crow, unusual in Australia, was donated by E J Pike to the Brisbane Museum. Director H A Longman calls it a vera avis, noting its nigger brown plumage with lighter wings and tail and counting only a few similar records in the country. The note concludes with a mention of the Pearling fleet death toll from the recent cyclone, revised from earlier figures.
The article extols autumn color in hardy shrubs, praising a row along a dividing fence as a landscape feature. It lists crops like cabbages, cauliflowers, Brusses sprouts and lettuce for planting in groups and notes fertilization with sulfate of ammonia or nitrate of soda. It also advises earth up potatoes as they approach flowering and to harvest early plantings that have died back.
A display highlights Ranunculus and Anemone bulbs ready now with varied colors including crimson scarlet lilac rose and blue. Plant now for three months of bloom. arrange in groups one kind per group about 1 inch deep and 5 inches apart. Avoid fresh manure. Advertises two parcel options: Ranunculus parcel 50 bulbs for 2 shillings 6 pence and Anemone parcel 50 bulbs for 3 pence.
Police report a man arrested at Rosehall racecourse for carrying a portable directional wireless transmitting set. Four others were later arrested. another wireless set outside the course was confiscated. An explosion at a Bombay fireworks factory left sixteen dead and many injured.
A diaried reminiscence recalls a Lyre bird pair in Glenbrook near the railway and garden, shyly appearing at dawn for years before bushfires and changing times altered the scene. The observer notes the birds’ friendliness, their silent presence, and a valley long kept as a sanctuary with no camera flashes. An aside mentions concerns over disease spread by air travel from the East.
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