Levelling Spoil and Embankment Works Notice
Public notice invites tenderers to submit particulars and forms of tenders to the clerk for levelling spoil and making an embankment. No tender necessarily accepted.
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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 04, 1899
Page
4
Public notice invites tenderers to submit particulars and forms of tenders to the clerk for levelling spoil and making an embankment. No tender necessarily accepted.
Wooland Markeat reports a smaller yarding of 558 fat cattle with 440 from the North and 118 local, demand up for prime classes, prices rising slightly. Prime bullocks 6 10s to 8 8, cows 2 4 10s to 5 10s, sale total 256 cattle. Sheep 10,126 with brisker competition for good merinos. graziers bought about 3,600, market firm with upward tendency. Lambs 2,243 in lamb section, prime 8s to 9s, good 6s 6d to 7s 6d, sale 627 lambs. Calves 134 yarded, prime veal 5s to 40s, demand active. Pigs 430 penned, heavy baconers scarce, prices near last week. Dairy cows short supply, prices in favor of sellers.
Millicent Caledonian Society held a January 28 meeting at Tantrum's hotel to plan Easter Monday gatherings with a revised program including pipe music reels and strathspeys. A Millicent Bicycle Club race from railway crossing to mile-post and back drew five riders, won by Latham. Public notices cover hospital funding votes, missing person scare resolved, and upcoming concerts and institute events.
Cable from the pay office dated 20th mat notes firm sales with some openings up to 24 percent. Americans buying modestly. Next sale set for February 1. Sheepskins again firm with price advances for merinos and fine crossbreds, catalog of 12,000 skins cleared at varied rates including butchers pelts, spring lambs, merino pelts, and damaged skins.
The Millicent cricket team will meet Beachport on Wednesday next, February Sth. Potato prices quoted in Adelaide at 24 10s and in Mount Gambier at £2 10s. Melbourne price listed as £850. Millicent Preserving received about 7000 rabbits on Wraylesh, and Mount Gambier Factory over 8000 on the Rama day. Rabbits said to be more plentiful across the district this season. Arrival meeting Narraocorte noted, none material.
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