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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
10
A reader warns editors that using a full thimbleful of strychnine per pound of jam is excessive for rabbit bait. Half a thimble mixed with flour and jam is suggested to kill rabbits while posing less risk to sheep, horses, and cattle and saving money. The letter urges safer, cheaper dosing.
In the Assembly questions were raised about reducing the deposit for applications to the Advances to Settlers Board. Mr Caruthers said deposits are retained when a loan is granted or refused after inspection, and refunded as grace when refused without inspection. He noted inspection costs scale with loan size and that costs for a £25 advance are similar to a £100 loan.
A Narromixe correspondent calls picking blanky grass seed from blanky jumbucks’ eyes the worst up-country occupation. He laments thirst head splitting flies and confinement, vowing to expose writers who praise the soil and its cookie’s noble tail.
Mr Morton pressed for an immediate government decision on restoring subsidies to agricultural societies. Carruthers announced a 2s 6d in the pound subsidy increase under new conditions from the Agricultural Department, to apply in districts hosting educational shows.
A telegram from Wanaaring says Noccoleche station is abandoned with only a caretaker kept. Tinapagee station sends sheep to Bourke for grass. The river is very dry and a travelling mob lost 1100 sheep en route to Bourke.
Maud Webby, a servant in Mudgee, was fined 10 shillings and 68 costs for leaving employment without notice. In default, seven days imprisonment with light labor. Police Magistrate Mr Edwards warned that the law allows harsher penalties for this offence.
Two neighboring farmers each owned a bull and fought over grazing rights for 12 months. The crowd judged the battle a dead heat when one bull toppled the other into a mining digger's hole tail first, and the victor followed head first. They lie together in the hole, now dubbed Bull's House.
JonaTHAN Reep known as the hermit of Evergreens Cemetery New York is dead age 75. He kept a vow to never leave his wife's side entombed beside her for 12 years in a marble tomb. After her death bed pledge he waited for release to death but suffered an apoplexy and died in a sanatorium. Reed, a retired contractor, left nearly £40 000 to nephews.
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