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Newspaper
Manilla Express
Location
Manilla, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 28, 1911
Page
4
Regret and disappointment follow the failure of Manilla to become a compulsory training centre. About 120 local youths, eager for the program, are left outside the new order, raising concerns over wider implementation across Australia and prompting calls for urgent amendments to the act. Public sentiment expresses hope that a remedy will soon be found.
In the district there are 120 youths between the ages prescribed by the act, a body of fine growing lads compelled to Stand at Ease, Stand Easy, while they would rather be in full drilling orders.
News and Notes report the Minister for Home Affairs will drop the phrases I have the honour to be and I am your obedient servant from future correspondence, calling it mere crawling funkeyism. The Wongo Creek Fox Association met at Bannockburn, reporting 54 foxes destroyed that year, including 34 large and the rest pups, with 72 landholders and 39 financial members. C. E. B. Parsons was re-elected President, T. Garland secretary, and T. B. Rodd treasurer, notes show a £8 10s credit.
After Sunday service at Holy Trinity Church Miss Hardcastle, a longtime choir member, was given a wedding gift a box of silver fruit knives and forks. Rev W P Best presented the gift and Miss Hardcastle acknowledged it on her own behalf.
A Catholic ball is planned for Tuesday night with many fancy costumes expected. Ladies are busy finalizing arrangements including a liberal suppers provision, making this edition one of the brightest events in memory.
A public meeting will convene to discuss entertaining the Ministerial party during the inspection of the Manila Boggabri railway route. It will be held on Saturday July 8 at 12 o’clock, not on the following Saturday.
This afternoon the men who drive like rifle shots and when they left it is like a swallow on the wing will be in full force with mashie and pilotie and driver on the golf links. The opening of the season is fixed for this afternoon when foursomes will be played. The ladies will provide afternoon tea.
Sporting notes announce an Imperial versus Standards rugby clash this afternoon. Standards selections include Gorton Forster Miller Mulliard A Hall Jackson Munro Coote Stuckley Charles Montgomerie Daniels Ravneciiie Kicksham M Grata M Namara WH McDonald Cole. Imperial lineups list Back WH Callier three-quarters W McDonald Hynes Hardcastle Byrnes Martin OD Coote and forwards Young Stone Scott Byrnes Foley Joneson McDonald Galbraith plus backups Daly Lawther Stewart Dreper Blumer.
At a Union meeting on Friday night officers and players were listed and Standards and Imperials registrations noted. A team will travel to Tamworth to face Half-Holiday on July 12 with Lane as manager. Refund request denied. £3 voted for travel. Selection committee named. referee Hudson chosen for Wednesday match. Second round fixtures set for July 12 Standards versus Mexico and July 26 Imperials versus Mexico, all at respective venues Manilla and New Mexico. Rules amendments approved with minor changes. 100 new rule books to be printed.
Large nightly crowds attend Coronation Rink as a half mile handicap event opens. Heats list many riders with various lap allowances and onlookers watch as racers like Coote, Nelson, Veness and Hobinson compete in a dense roster of handicaps.
Anticipatory handicap list for the Melbourne Cup by H. St. Vincent of Glen Innes. Adjustments include numerous horses with weights ranging from 6.7 to 10.0 plus many names and spellings across a long catalog of entries.
Hurdles winners Dingah and Loughrea lead a fast card with times listed. Welter and Trial Handicaps see Nelgra Curry and Brown Cave prevail, while Rog hil rewards Loyal Blue. Nursery and Carlingford events race to finish with Malt Bin and Pomfrey victorious. Sale news notes Magas sold for about 250 guineas to an Inverell sportsman. Rumors tie G L Jessop or R H Spooner to Marylebone captaincy for Australia trip. C B Fry eyeing visit, Hayward and Hirst unlikely. Irishman and Sandbath trained in Sydney, Sedgebull leased and staying for Narrabri races.
Seventeen members attended the Keepit branch meeting on Saturday 24. The president J H Fitzgerald was elected unanimously as delegate to the Sydney conference on July 10 with full voting discretion. Correspondence included a cheque for head office annual subscriptions and notes on Rural Workers claims before Arbitration Court. Road repairs updates from Liverpool Plains Shire were reported. Next meeting set for Saturday August 5 at 2 30. Heavy rain and frosts have unsettled farming conditions.
John Bridge and Co reports June 23 market shifts for Rabbit Skins up to 1s 9d per dozen gains especially on best sorts and strong prices for Hides with improvements on light lots. Opossum skins show steady rises while Wallaby and Swamp values vary with demand for densely furred lots. Tallow market recovers with about 6d per ton rise. Sheepkins ease with wool trends.
Market report from Sydney notes extra prime bullocks selling between £8 and £9 with top bids £10 10s to £11 7s, prime cows £4 10s to £5 10s, merino wethers and ewes with varied prices, and cattle waggons and sheep vans counts for upcoming market days.
A brief notice describes a cough remedy offered by Woods cited as a great peppermint cure for nighttime hacking. The item emphasizes a quick relief claim and local availability.
Rev W C Moulton of Walde conducted anniversary services at Manilla Presbyterian Church with a morning sermon and an afternoon session at Namoi River. Evening service at St Andrews featured music by J Paterson and organist R Cowie. Sermon centered on Philippians iv 8 9 urging truth, purity and virtue over wealth while noting life’s beginnings and endings and the need for genuine Christianity.
The King and Queen rode in a festive procession through London with sixty thousand troops under Lord Kitchener along a decorated route. The Lord Mayor and sheriffs admitted the city at Temple Bar. Buckingham Palace welcomed the couple at 1.30 p.m. and the crowd cheered on the balcony. Across India unofficial celebrations were held, a naval review at Portsmouth saw the fleet inspected, and Canada won the Empire sports by a single point at the Festival of Empire.
The Labour party in the State Parliament faces a fragile bare majority as internal dissent grows. Leagues demand a full conference to address opponents of referendum proposals, with plans and rumours of a remade party forming among Labourites.
Mr A G C Veness president of the local league and Mr A Blanch depart for Sydney tomorrow night to attend the Liberal and Reform Association conference. Also advertisement for Woods Imperial Peppermint Cure priced 1s 6d for bronchial coughs.
West wind and rain accompany the Shire Council on a Monday week inspection of A rid ing area. Councillors tour through Brabri and Upper Manilla, review road proposals, crossings, and station access, and discuss costs and practicability while meeting landowners and local officials. The journey highlights potential new routes, improvements, and the value of firsthand site knowledge for future decisions.
Fire at Fuerth and Nall's printers and cardboard box works on Pitt Castlereagh streets caused £50,000 damage. Building contents at Fuerth and Nalls totaled £35,000 with five adjoining structures totaling £15,000. Firemen escaped injury amid crowds watching the blaze.
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