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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Feb 10, 1900
Page
2
The Lord Bishop of Adelaide will perform a confirmation service on Monday at 7:08 pm in Saint Adelaide Church. Attendees are invited to attend the confirmation ceremony.
A scrambled OCR style note mentions February market activity at Miljicest Markets and Rot ewe. It references price levels for beans and wheat and notes bids and offers at several points. Names and places are unreadable, but the fragment suggests routine commodity trading and exchange quotes.
A large sale at Nawa Market featured buyers from the South East and Victorix. Prices ranged from £12 to £215 for cattle and calves, with 48 head sold under Be Tammer and overall turnover reflecting strong demand for fat cattle and store stock, including high yielding heifers and mixed lots.
A political reform proposal argues abolishing about two thirds of the current parliament to avoid excess power and cost. It calls for a people chosen body outside Parliament to draft a new constitution, elected by South Australians, with a single focused mandate and adult suffrage.
Fragmented OCR text shows a disrupted report from a local periodical about indictments related to the Mailway Department. It mentions the Brurerving Company and an individual named Vonlead Vike, plus a Tatler site and references to railway matters and district actions.
The piece discusses rail and factory siding costs, railway department impact, and private freight advantages. It shifts to a coming comedy and then to British war sentiment, noting Liberal and Conservative figures, Chamberlain Milner tensions, and predicted political fallout and public reaction amid the antiwar mood.
In a fragmentary report the text covers Britain’s nonintervention principle under Canning, responses to the Holy Alliance, and debates at Constantinople. It notes Britain’s stance against interference and references 1876 actions regarding Turkey. Also mentions a local meeting of the A H and BP Society at Mayura Suutell Chamber and factory developments at Miljivons Preserving Co with planned capital and a public inquiry about railway connections.
Trappers in Mount Gambier district met with Mr Gr 1 Witte and Wilcox to discuss the rabbit business and a proposed monopoly by George Wilcox and Co. A new factory purchase was approved for £1500 with a schedule of payments for rabbits and freezing. Separate notes cover farmer meetings on unions, potato sales, and the Murrinom Chieexo Company vote and stock changes, plus church plans by the Adelaide bishop and local sports events for a war fund.
The notice reports Barrett of the Maltings in Kent Town arranging to arrest fromer of malting barley in Bancay Bowes for quality and pricing, and mentions J J Lee contractor for Adelaide cathedral, a red truck of tine-stone from Mouse, and a shipment affecting Millicent trade. Also notes a Volunteer company expansion discussion in Millicent and a typhoid fever case in Teatonanta region with a seventeen year old patient improving.
District Prec. Messrs E E Stuckey and J Nunke went to Adelaida for inspection of the Buahrn Contingent. Stuckey was not accepted, while the inquiry has passed. Also mentions teachers from Millicent Presbyterian Sunday Senior annual picnic to Fenohport. a large attendance and pleasant day.
The text records a serious accident during a snering of the stax lite oat with a winch failure causing debris but no injuries except Captain Wair who received a forehead cut. It mentions repairs, the Marine Board, lighthouse details, and various local reminiscences and notes about community events and individuals in a late 19th or early 20th century tonal style.
The article discusses local affairs including the Bowker Society and the loss of a hospital position, remarks on Anglican visitation by Dr. Marnur, and reports on the Mount Gambier Meat and Rabbit Preserving Works being acquired by Wilcox and Co. The piece analyzes impacts on trappers, landowners, and community figures while noting a charitable concert and regional agricultural shows.
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