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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
7
A cheerful season greeting travels from mouth to mouth across cot and hall from east to west and north to south. The verse blesses Christmas and the birth of Christ, wishing merriment and comfort to all who arrive to celebrate and share gifts.
A surreal catalog of requests seeks items from far flung realms. The speaker calls for suspenders for promise breeches a barber to share the earth a dentist to mend death the sea horses feeding and seeds from speech a pen to write inky darkness corsets for time nets for the ocean and cradle depths.
In 1865 at Forbes a group including LTody Ryan and Tom Ivory visited a country pub to watch racing. Gardiner and accomplices planned to bet on Dont You Know, while Traveller, ridden by Sam Holmes, beat Dont You Know by a half length. Police soon closed in, and the bushrangers fled the course.
Indigestion is caused by stomach disease and remedies like cathartics cannot cure it. Dr Sheldon’s Digestive Tables after meals provide natural digestants to restore stomach function, a common sense treatment. Sold by G. F. Stephenson.
John Robertson of Peak Hill sells by public auction at Peak Hill on Saturday at 2 30 pm Glen Coe a 6120 acre pastoral property with four paddocks five tanks sized 6700 5300 2000 1500 1500 yards capacity watered and grassed with sound fences and good wool returns inspection offered two blocks if unsold.
An Australian settler in California writes about comparing Australia with Canada and the United States. He praises perpetual sunshine in Australia and notes American methods of farm labor and road repair, contrasting them with Australian reliance on government aid and roads maintained by councils. He argues climate shapes industry and vigor.
A letter to the editor relays electors complaints of wrongful roll strikes. It cites guidance from the State Electoral office on correcting errors before Revision Court and steps to restore eligibility, including notifying officials and presenting rights at the next monthly Revision Court.
Robert Clements faced charges under the Pastures Protection Act for releasing a live rabbit at Gingio station. He had earlier destroyed rabbits under a Mr. Scott and reportedly released young, valueless kits while killing marketable full grown rabbits. The case drew wide interest as a district first. He was fined £25 with costs, default three months in jail.
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