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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Apr 27, 1906
Page
13
Constable Kennedy has been informed he will stay at Forbes as his planned Peak Hill transfer was cancelled. The public, especially Forbes residents, acknowledge his longstanding competence. The Municipal Council opposed his removal, and Forbes Ties notes the outcome with satisfaction.
An American report notes farmers now sow less per acre and not too deep. Wisconsin trials show shallow surface sowing germinates quickly while deeper planting delays emergence. Seed sown at varied depths reached the surface at different times, with the shallowest depths sprouting first and shallower planting gaining lead by six weeks.
At the Royal Agricultural Society show in Sydney the Rabbit Poison exhibitors walked ground with two young street urchins in rabbit skin ads. The children cavorted for laughs until one stepped into a vehicle and toppled over. The boy quipped Hooray another kill for Slave, drawing further laughter from spectators.
An Afghan man at Raeburn Station in Goulburn district Friday asked for cooked food but received only raw meat. He declared he wanted to die, set a five to six ton wood pile afire, danced around it, and then leapt into the flames, perishing as his body roasted.
Miss Jxuaint, a renowned member of a pioneer district family, has been set apart as a fully accredited missionary at Randwick Methodist Church on March 21. A large crowd attended the ceremony as she departs for the Northern Rivers to begin her work among local aborigines.
A reader extols Cham‑Imrlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for infant diarrhoea during teething while noting a local salve advertisement. Separately, Randwick’s annual thoroughbred yearling sale set a record, with 217 horses auctioned for 31,968 guineas in the largest sale yet held in Australia.
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