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Newspaper
Melton Express
Location
Melton, Victoria, Australia
Date
Oct 02, 1915
Page
2
Bacchus Marsh Market in LA will auction on the above date from 1am with 4 head of cattle including uprising milkers and springers fat store and young cattle. Sheep include 60 fat ewes and wethers 90 prime fat wethers 55 fat lambs and odds. Pigs and sundries along with miscellaneous properties as advertised per Mr Geo Muis Circular Law Spindle and Bearing.
L A Fairbairn and Co offer an auction at the Corporation Yards Bacchus Marsh on Thursday October 7 at noon. The sale includes 350 acres at Pyrete Cresk four miles north of Bacchus Marsh. The land is described as suitable for grazing and some cultivated portions.
L A Fairbairn and Co act for Michael Shanahan to auction Fairfield estate at the Corporation Yards Bacchus Marsh. On sale day at 12 noon 50 acres of land with frontage to Korobeit road and Kurubeitreek, including 20 acres of growing crop Algerian Chats. Property features a laid out subdivision, a good dwelling house, stabling and other outbuildings.
L A FAIRBAIRN & Co. on behalf of Mrs W J Lind announce a public sale at the Corporation Yards Bacchus Marsh on sale day at 12 noon. Property includes Allotment 1 Section 1 Township Maddingley Parish Parwan with a W B dwelling house, three 400 gal iron tanks, land half acre, lucerne, water, orchard, garden and poultry yards. Further particulars available from the undersigned.
Tenders for Ingliston Estate 640 acres to be received at Ballan Shire Hall by 11 a.m. October 4 1915 for three contracts under the Country Roads Act 1912. Contracts cover clearing and culverts on Ballan Daylesford road and supplying spalls for Mt. Wallace lana with details at Melbourne offices and Ballan Shire Office. Preliminary deposit 2 percent. Lowest tender not necessarily accepted. John V. Porter acting secretary.
McPhail Bros 2 Co announce auction starting 12:30 pm at Mac's Hotel yard selling fat dairy cattle pigs sundries with A Burbidge as agent.
Tenders close noon October 16 for purchase of H. A. Wohler’s 175 acres Wheat and 10 acres Oats on Greystones Estate Lots 6 and 17. Tenders addressed to L. A. Fairbairn & Co., Bacchus Murray, details available. Also tender invites for a two story iron building next Mechanics Hall Bacchus Marsh. closes October 4. P. Murphy, Lord Street Bacchus Marsh.
Full supply of irrigation calico available by the yard or made into hose ready for use at the Hall of Commerce. J A Johns advertises in a concise catalog style, highlighting ready availability and customization to hose form. The note emphasizes practical use for irrigation setups and local commerce.
The Melton Express reports on political debates about Parliament, tax policy, and national finances. It covers late market results from McPhail Bros, a successful clearing sale at Toolern Vale, and rain benefits for crops. Local notices include a gun club shoot, Park Trustees improvements, road works, and a found dead man in Brooklyn with a post mortem identifying James Butler.
The Werribee Agricultural Society hosts its ninth annual show on Thursday the 21st with good prizes. Entries close on Tuesday the 12th. Secretary is Mr A D Rowan. A special Melbourne train departs at 9.10 am returning at 6.20 pm, Bacchus Marsh passengers can return the same evening via Footscray. Probate action ongoing for Alexander Smith valued at £101,078 19s.
Bacchus Marsh market notices announce sales of 350 acres on Pyrote Creek and a 40 acre farm at Myrmiong for bidders on Thursday 7 October along with Mrs W J Lindsay’s house. Races and Red Cross fund events set for Bacchus Marsh with two sale days, race entries closing soon, and church services listed. Council notes cover governance, road works, water frontage petitions, tree protection, and administrative matters with multiple notices and tender calls.
Auction ads list estate properties at Myrmiong Pyreta Creek Maddingley and other sites for L A Fairbairn Co and mcPhail Isroe Co with sales at Bacchus Marsh Melton and a horse sale scheduled for early November by Campbell 4 Sons and McPhail Bros Co.
An old advertorial notice promotes Chamber laine Tablets as a gentle reliable medicine for aged people with weak digestion and liver issues. It claims preference over others and highlights soothing action and whole-system benefits. Published by W. Greet Movion in Bae chet on March 7.
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