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Newspaper
Millicent Times
Location
Millicent, South Australia, Australia
Date
Sep 16, 1899
Page
2
A romance by Robt. P. Whitworth, author of several works, including Rowrd the Camp Fire and The White Woman of Muntarrah. The text presents an evocative tale set in a desolate region, exploring love, hardship, and resilience through its central characters.
The 1855 voyage of the Cadyow Castle from Australia to England devolved into a crisis as a calm became a gale. The ship drifted toward a rocky coast with mutiny aboard and a captain’s gunshot wound fatal to the ringleader. Passengers, many miners, faced fear, prayer, and the loss of the mizzen. The vessel struck, the jibboom broke, and the crew faced a cavernous sea fate.
A collection of scattered snippets covers ancient practices from stone throwing by Greek infantry to pigeons on carrier messages. It notes Rome’s early drama, Santo Domingo as an old settlement, fashion plates, and a Louis XIV era fashion quirk. It cites a Mormon colony in Mexico, publishing data on fiction vs total books, and oddities about a bandit named Tilburai. It mentions Brooklyn churches, a 1000-year oak, reforms in New York female drinkers, and cautions on confinement for intoxication. It oddly reports on Baraboo telegraphs, an autopsy with a 4-foot iron chain in a large elephant, and gas burner wool filters. It describes plumage growth in Windom Castle lines, feather color, and commercial value. It notes obituaries of Friends, German social insurance funds, and rising lifespans, plus owls’ hatching strategy.
Weather raged for a week driving residents from low ground villages and flooding a flat where shanties, tents, and drays stood. Levees failed as the river breached banks and water poured over the landscape, carrying away shelters and goods while residents fought to secure belongings and await relief.
In Ballarat and Geelong the duo faces rising lawlessness as diggings fill with loafers. To reach Melbourne they join a armed group of fifteen, survive a night raid by real and drawn desperadoes, capture two prisoners, and later sail home after a brief return to the city’s height.
Fragments describe a catastrophic flood scene with destroyed structures and buried holes filled by mud. Survivors recall a harsh, miserable period, then a determined push to repair damages and restore normal life despite widespread ruin and lingering mud in the aftermath.
A fragmentary report notes a Paris quill toothpick industry once converting from pena making to toothpick production. It mentions the Thakor of Gondal funding an athletic field and details a British gun in service, with distances and heights described in a telegraphic style.
The article describes a massive bell cast in 1730 weighing 178 tones with metal valued at £300,000. It cites remarks by Mr. Sam Montagu and references to synagogues, lunar calendars, hashish laws, and press activity in Manitoba with ten newspapers published by emigrants.
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