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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 26, 1907
Page
13
A Convent School at Hunter's Hill built of weatherboards was destroyed by fire early Saturday. An alarm from a pupil saved everyone in night clothes as the building collapsed to ruins with rapid flames. The cause remains a mystery.
Wellington mourns the late Archdeacon D Arcy who died last week after a life in mission service begun in 1882. He toured Ireland and England a decade ago and spent his leave among London’s poor, receiving a grand welcome on return to Wellington. He was noted as a good speaker clever writer and gentle scholar.
Me E Baosin of Spring Plain reports that in six cases of missed sowing rows in corn or wheat a relative died within the year. He cites his mother and father among the deaths, the latest being a grandchild who died in Sydney last week. Mr Bagwell also missed a row in sowing corn a couple of months ago.
Peculiar poisoning case in Eugowra described a jam tin treated with strychnine by accident. Mr Small tasted the jam after the tin was opened and symptoms appeared before he realized danger. Remedies were applied and he recovered as investigation showed poison on the hammer had contaminated the jam.
Over recent weeks a large number of starving stock mainly sheep has been transported by rail from the southern district to the far west for grant with more imminent. On Saturday 127 trucks carrying twelve thousand seven hundred sheep moved to Bourke and Browarrina. Stock is also being moved from Parkes and Forbes. Despite optimistic political talk of a bountiful season the stock owner faces a poor outlook.
The Lone Hand will be a patriotic magazine with a global circulation of 50 000 aimed at influencing immigration to Australia. It promises quality content over quantity with The Bulletin Memoirs by J F Archibald in the first issue and many Victorias era pictures. The public release is set for May 1 for judgment.
A mother who keeps Chamberlains Cough Remedy on hand explains it eases anaemia like coughs in children and helps prevent attacks when taken at the onset. The remedy is free from poison and sold by J. W. Favorite and A. W. Taylor and Pack.
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