Weather and local notes mix with odd modern mentions
Remarkable weather for this time of year. Reports cover court costs and government subsidies, local harvesters, cricket and football records, sheep and snakes near Mingolo, and a charity bazaar with prizes. Mentions include politicians, Jockey Club decisions, opal finds, and a Ballarat land board anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Russia
Zungwill
White Cliffs
New South Wales
Patrick Collins
Ballarat Land Board
Hie
P. Collins
Buuterm
Religious Memoranda Schedule And Notices
Sunday worship times listed for Roman Catholic at Peak Hill and Kadina with morning Benediction and evening services. Methodist schedule shows Peak Hill and Kadina services in morning and evening slots. Clergy names abbreviated. location and times scattered in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peak Hill
Masa
Public School Concert For Xmas Vacation Fund
The local Public School holds a concert Friday evening at the Masonic Hall to raise funds for establishing a school library. J Whiting and the teaching staff organized the event to provide carefully selected books to aid scholars. Support is urged from the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Hall
Shjoes
S School
J. Whiting
Peak Hill Railway Survey Advances Toward Tomingley
Trial survey of the Nerromine to Tomingley rail line is complete. The Tomingley station will sit west of the township about 300 yards from the main street. Chief Railway Engineer Hutchinson and Mr Edwards are inspecting the route from Tomingley toward Peak Hill with potential extension to Parkes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Epwanps
Nerromine
Tomingley
Peak Hill Railway League
Eden
M.L.A
Hutchinson
Sydney
Edwards
Te Railway
Peak Hill
Parkes
Bishop of Newcastle Urges Temperance Action
The Bishop criticized churchgoers for not acting on temperance despite condemning intemperance. He cited declarations by statesmen and judges linking excess to madhouses and prisons, and urged Christians to lift their fingers for reform rather than self focus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Australia
A.J.C
B. Clifford
Forbes
Lemire
Parkes Jockey Club
Gibson Bros
Newcastle
Extraordinary Swindle Traced in Sydney Papers
A retired ship captain famed for investments dies after a romance with a married woman. The widow produced a fake will to claim the deceased's estate, claiming £40. The plot involved a New Zealand voyage on a steamer, but illness delayed plans. A young woman read to the ill party, then confessed after a Bible passage unsettled her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panticutans
Sydney
Imant
Dedeute
New Zealand
Pry
Peak Hill Core Subscription Rates Clarified
The notice states subscription to the Peak Hill core costs 4 par quarters prepaid at 8 dollars per fee. It notes charges will not be increased despite a depression that has expanded to 20 pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peak Hill
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indy
State Children’s Relief Department
J. Bates
Barnsdale
Acre
Mingolo
Barber
Department of Attorney-General and Justice
Police Department
W. McKeown
H. , Gibson
Taylor’s
Chrismas
A. W. Taylor & CO
Advance Gamingtey
Spring & Summer Wear
J. W. Lees
Poultry & Eggs
T. Sherringham
Norwich
Fromnock
Wea
W. T. Sherringham
Norwich Farm
George Stanford
Wrursas
Hooker
DowwEnt
Kadina
Harte
Peak Hill Railway
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