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Newspaper
Melton Express
Location
Melton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 10, 1915
Page
2
McPhail Bros & Co will sell Fat Store and Dairy Cattle Pigs and Sundries at Mac's Hotel yard starting 12 30 pm April 10 with A Burbridge as agent.
Bacchus Marsh market sells Fat and Store cattle, milking stock, pigs and sheep at 12 30 p m sharp plus sundries by McPhail Bros and Co with A Burbidge as agent Tenders for two year lease of Mrs B Lynch’s farm 246 acres near Bullengarnok due by April 10 closing 17th inst for Mrs Lyle’s Farm 179 acres with good house and ploughable land. warrants from L A Fairbairn & Co and J A Fairbairn & Co.
Sealed tenders addressed to the President at the Shire Hall Werribee will be received until 12 noon on Saturday April 24 1915 for supplying 300 cords of spalls on Dohertys road 300 eyds of spalls on Williamstown road Laverton and 15 chains forming and draining on Beggs lane South Riding. Specifications may be seen at the Shire Hall Werribee. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.
The Shire invites tenders for metalling 6226 feet of the Melbourne Geelong Road through Werribee under the Country Roads Act. Tenders due before 12 noon Saturday 2 April 1913 at the Shire Office Werribee. Plans seen at Shire Office and Titles Office Melbourne. Deposit 24 50. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. D A Little Shire Secretary Werribee 9 April 1935.
The Shire Hall Bacchus Marsh invites tenders until 12 April for Contract No 5/15 Pattinsons Bridge construction and 7/15 supply of spalls with deposits. Specs available at Ballan Bacchus Marsh. Also invites lease offers for 2 or 3 acre land for a sanitary depot near Bacchus Marsh and about 1 acre for a rubbish tip within five miles.
A grand display features flowers fruit and vegetables plus preserves with singing and piano competitions in the evening. Show opens at 7 and competitions begin at 7 30 with member admissions 5 shillings for a family under 15 or a lady and gentleman and non members 1 shilling adults 1 shilling children six pence refreshments available. Friday April 16th a grand concert sale of gifts and ball for Belgian relief funds with admission 1 shilling 6 pence for the concert and 2 shillings 6 pence for the ball two shillings extra if desired. Proceeds by Jas H Cunningham honorary secretary.
Exford Hall hosts a grand euchre party on Saturday night under the Exford Young Men's Club. It also opens assemblies on Wednesday April 14 at Spa with admission 1/6 plus music. Grand social at Edols Woolshed Balliang Friday May 7 with evening sports, music, refreshments. gentlemen 3 shillings, ladies 2 shillings. Ballarat-area notices include Maddingley Football Club meeting Monday 12th at Bridge Inn. Also a traction engine wanted for two months road work at Bacchus Marsh and a horse impounded at the Bacchus Marsh Shire Pound needing claim before April 30 1915. Cottage for rent and a note about Mr Fox's Arenas Hood a Creek written notice needed.
Notice that the Riail and Bridge at Golden Point in Blackwood is shut to all traffic until further notice issued by PIERS KELLY Shire Secretary for the local authorities.
A plain and fancy dress ball under Bacchus Marsh Branch Women's National League will be held at the Mechanics Institute Bacchus Marsh on Wednesday May 6. Melbourne Band will perform. Double tickets five shillings, single three shillings sixpence. Mise Molesworth Greene presides and Irene Robertson is honorary secretary.
Fragmented OCR item notes the Tax Historical Society of Victoris h exists only in name with records sent to Victoria. The Titles Office supposedly has some misfiled data. McPhail Bros. to hold their monthly market at Melfun today and a concert on the 16th to aid the fund.
L A Fairbairn Co held their monthly sale in Bacchus Marsh yards drawing good attendance despite dry weather. 212 cattle 40 sheep 45 pigs and 7 horses yarded with land lots sold amid fair competition. Dairy cows and fat stock brought mixed prices, while pigs and vealers varied. Land and leases across Myrniong and Manor Street also disposed.
Bacchus Marsh hosts a Mechanics Institute show opening at 2 30 pm with Hon A B R Robertson MLA officiating. 784 cuttings received a record, evening singing and piano contests begin at 7 30. Local church services and town notices follow including shire council tenders, road safety warnings, school resumes, and moves toward Belgian relief fund events.
Our Bailliang correspondent reports the Progress Association plans an athletic programme on May 7 with entertainment in the form of a bull in Eduls wool shed to raise funds for Red Cross and Belgian Famine relief. Motor cars replace horse and buggy as two residents buy vehicles. Lieut Winstan resigns due to ill health. Mr. W Loates becomes acting secretary. Hope remains for Vanston to recover and resume duties.
The Treasurer Mr Thos Anderson sent a second instalment this week and acknowledged donations from L A Fairbairn Co for Bacchus Marsh market £50 and several others including Messrs J Wills Kinder twine 21/1265 Connor Bros pups 9/6 ANZA Sports Committee wood Easter Monday £1 18 Dr T B Ryan £7 AC 2nd instalment £1 Miss Watts £1 Braeside 10/6 Murri Howse 2nd instalment 10/ Hf Robins 6s donation from Myrmong list plus Drury 3) additional donation collected at social Easter Monday night £1 3/.
The Sunshine Bowling Club visited Bacchus Marsh last Saturday. Dry conditions due to water cuts made play difficult but Sunshine won by 21. Ladies served lunch. dignitaries praised players and noted friendly local spirit. Club singles titles went to Mrs Scott and Mr W D Hogan after closely contested matches.
The Bacchus Marsh Golf Club holds its opening day on Saturday 17th inst at the Millbank Links. A mixed invitation event will be staged with trophies presented by President Cr v. Grant Morton JP. Visitors and players are invited to afternoon tea hosted by Mrs Morton. Members and meeting guests urged to attend with a start around 2.30.
In Bacchus Marsh on Thursday April 8 Judge Lyle and two others presided. John Smith fined 10 shillings with 2 shillings 6 pence costs for letting a horse wander in Pilmer Street. John Vincent Tunbridge of Sturt Street Ballarat charged with speeding a meteor cycle down Main Street at 25 to 30 miles per hour. case adjourned from a prior session. Statements from Constable Daly cite dangerous speed and near-collision. defendant claimed a breakdown en route to Melbourne for a tennis match. William Horder estimated 40 mph. J S Camm and John Stephens each fined £5 10s and £5 or 14 days imprisonment for drunkenness. Albert Edward Tanser discharged. John Walter Beckwith of the Milk and Dairy Supervision Act prosecuted William Daly for operating a dairy without a license. T G Jones of Crown Law defended the public protection motive of the act. Fines: £2 2s 0d plus £1 18s 6d costs. Edgar Gordon Morris testified to Cain’s unlicensed dairy. Albert Edward Jones and E Erickson corroborated absence of license and unpaid fees. A prior 1914 conviction was introduced. Michael Martin faced three charges drunkenness while in charge of a horse and vehicle, causing hindrance to police. He failed to appear. extra narrative describes a scene at the Royal Hotel yard and a jinker with boys aboard, Martin resisting arrest and using indecent language. Bench fined him £5 5s or 14 days plus £15 costs. Remaining fines include 1 shilling for being drunk and £1 1s for resisting police.
A historical ad-style note promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to stop children from coughing. It claims quick relief from coughs colds and bronchial troubles and notes the product is easy to take tastes good and contains no narcotics. A Comben & Co advertises the remedy.
Tennis is scheduled to be played on the church court this term between He cubus pod tom in Ballning, reflecting a local friendly match in the community court scene.
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