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Local News Briefs From Parkes and Tomingley Circa July
Local notices report the Jockey Club races after Showon Friday July 26 led by RB Golding at Gromhurst’s battery Tomingley. Fletcher of Parkes Police Court jailed a month for assault. Molong Pastures Protection Board meets on the 17th. A local resident H McGifford of Happy Valley Tomingley dies aged 38. Four newlywed couples on the Western line last week. Sir Henry Parkes remembered twelve years on. Government wary of lotteries. Crown lands balloting criticized. Peak Hill railway report by Mr McDonald Stuart in 1888 noted. Miss Kate Brodie Peak Hill dies in Sydney. Brodie residence destroyed by fire last week. Parkes railway news hopeful. Teak Hill Belle Orome Ser drew crowds. Tomingley School visit notes a leak opposite a MP’s name. Public Instruction demand urged for better school funding.