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Newspaper
Northam Courier
Location
Northam, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
4
The week’s items cover Channel skirmishes and salvage talks for the F Pluviose wreck off Calais with divers noting a hatch half open. Reports discuss revolutionary threats, global politics, naval affairs, South African defence plans, trials in Sydney and Brisbane, and various world events from battles to aviation milestones and economic moves.
In a rain soaked night Mrs Munn hosts a failed musicale as Miss Merrill cancels and the Dix family withdraws. A touring duo from New York steps in saving the event, turning it into a triumph that elevates Mrs Munn to Westmore society’s leading hostess and cements her husband Dick Munns rising status.
On the Royal Blue Limited near Wilmington two men die in a pistol duel in an eastern express. Bethea, a South Carolina traveler, shoots a guard and a Pullman porter before being shot and killed after a long standoff in the lavatory. Fifty cartridges fired, passengers fled as authorities bombarded the car.
London’s feather market set a record with £280 000 of ostrich plumes sold at the Commercial Sale Rooms in Mincing Lane. The consignments, mainly from South Africa, will supply spring demand in the United States and Canada. The 22 ton cargo was loaded at Euston and sent to Liverpool for onward transshipment to New York, with world-wide attendance and fierce bidding.
The Border Leicester is praised as a long-wool breed evolving from the old English Leicester and Lincoln. Breeders emphasize carcass shape, flesh quality, and finer wool to improve flesh character while avoiding overfeeding wool quantity. White faces and legs with occasional beauty spots mark true type, and lengthened head aids lambing. The breed thrives in varied pasture and crosses well with merino ewes, offering profitable wool and meat.
Dairy notes emphasize clean milking, waste removal, and keeping Jersey stock pure to minimize variation. Practical farmers find first Jersey crosses superior, with good feed and housing securing high profits. New Zealand butter, Danish methods, and Australian products compete for top esteem noted by a British consul.
Mr. R. W. Peacock reports an investigation into shallow lateral and downward wheat root growth. Exposed crown stubble roots show wheat roots down to depths of Mt din with dense rooting along cracks in stiff clay. Overlapping roots in the plot hinder full lateral development assessment.
A Brazilian grass Melinus minuti flora tested at Hawkesbury College and Grafton Farm NSW shows drought tolerance and tall growth. Experimentalist A J Pinn notes three feet high blades with hairy, pale green leaves suited for dry Victoria. Seed of Tristegis glutinoza Fat Grass also cited as fodder. Melinus minutifiora sown Feb 4, 1909 at Grafton Farm grew well and yielded soft velvety bulky regrowth.
The Department of Culture reports tests on complete and incomplete manures across Saddleworth and Wilmington. Over five years no manure plots with mineral superphosphate and other salts show yield gains not covering extra costs, while bone superphosphate offers higher gains but varies from other regions.
A papal encyclical marking the St Bormeneo canonisation tercentenary denounces Protestant Reformers and their modern influence. Berlin Evangelicals plan a protest rally next Monday while Prussia discusses interpellations and controversies swirl.
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