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Newspaper
Meekatharra Miner
Location
Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
2
W C Smith’s Royal Hotel at Nannine promotes superior accommodation and top wines and spirits with good stabling. Sunday schedule lists Roman Catholic Mass at 7 30 and 10 am and evening devotions, plus Methodist Church services at 11 am and 7 40 pm led by Rev R D Livlop.
Saturday report covers local sportsmen at The Gap tallying 70 rabbits. Meekatharra hospital staff salaries cut pro rata saving £146 105 yearly. Geraldton Red Cross receives £218 1s 2d from Manfred races. Wally Beale writes from Cue about Germany's defeat. Death of David Williams at Claremont asylum. injury at Great Fingall mine. A J Gerick named sole Red Seal tobacconist agent in Meekatharra. Continuation classes drive note. Mrs Emily Grey’s Queen of the Hills home burned. fire brigade saved much content. Origin of fire unknown.
Fifty thousand Canadians aged 19 registered for service under the Conscription Act. The American Federation of Labor backs Home Rule for Ireland. Whim Creek Red Cross raises £220. Miss Phoebe Ellison Macartney dies at 20 after horse riding accident. Meekatharra events include a Snowball tea for charity and a big winter sale ad.
Adelaide Thursday reports from Messrs S C Wann Co listing assorted share bids and prices. Names such as Edna May and May Battlers appear with values in shillings and pence, along with entries like Consolidated and Zinc. The fragmentary item shows fluctuating prices and pending contributions, reflecting a lively but unclear market snapshot.
August 15 start at Boogardie Station for 22 000 to 24 000 sheep. Rainfall readings at Murgooan list 104 points on the 1st, with Boo gardy 100 and others. Train consignments include Kerr and M Don al d to Dalgety and Co and O Dea Bros to Fielding, plus Meekatharra I to Geraldton and Smith and Irving to Broad. Lincoln breeding prices in Buenos Aires cited, with Heath Cougal ram fetching £314 5s 0d. Wool store employees at Fre mantle aim to beat Australasian wool pressing records, Fremantle 160 bales in 7 1/2 hours, Sydney appraisals near 20 000 bales. Geraldton Dalgety yard wool bale priced at 19 4d per th. Clarkson brothers from Cue send 32 bogies to Vivash East Northam. 65 1/2 bogies head to the metropolis from Murc hison next week.
Mr. Henderson, attorney for the New Commodore G.M. Co. N.L., traveled to Meekatharra on business. The Gwalia shaft has water at depth but current operations continue sinking. A syndicate in Cue Hill’s back gully has drilled five bore holes with holes three to five reaching hard diorite and pag ironstone wash, but no gold indications yet.
West Australia's Alfred Carson editor of the Western Mail and associate editor of the West Australian is listed among Australian editors invited by the British Government to visit England and the Western front.
The Royal Hall last Friday hosted a euchre party and dance to aid the Anglican Church fonds. Seventeen euchre tables were active. Miss Florrie Marshall won the ladies prize, Mrs. Monke the booby. Mr. Alec Burford the gentlemen prize, Master Lovell Hansen the booby. Net entertainment profit reached £10. Dancing continued into the early hours.
Loyal Meckatharra Lodge No 97 hosted a euchre tournament and dance in the A W A Hall to raise funds for the Cottesloe Orphans Home. Miss D Head won first prize, W Johnston took the gents prize, with consolation prizes to Miss F Marshall and E Mickle. Dancing and supper followed, and planning begins for another event in about six weeks.
Mr Justice Rooth delivered a judgment in Perth yesterday in the Kaleoorlie Boulder Federated Miners Union case. He held that using union funds to alleviate distress among strikers wives and children is unlawful. The transaction served only as a cloak to aid and abet a strike, an offense under State Law.
Ireland and London react as newspapers read Lord Curzon's House of Lords remarks as signaling the government has abandoned Home Rule and conscription for Ireland, sparking fresh interpretations and political tension.
A garbled OCR fragment from a 19th or early 20th century page includes lines about being stopped midway to the end and dispersal with reminiscence, plus a stray shout for Bronchis and a peculiar peppermint cart reference. The text is fragmented and not clearly coherent.
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