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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
9
Wool auction by Goldsborough Mort & Co on Wednesday cleared a large catalogue with strong American demand lifting prices. Kangaroobie cross bred ewes from Dalton Estate near Orange sold 29 bales at a top 144d per lb. Other lots under 14d per lb. New Hogland wools also performed well.
Second hand printing machinery and ink supplies offered by The Imperial Printers Furnishing Co. at 197 Cuamencng Street Stower. Includes Minerva platen, Crown Folio, Denny Columbian hand press, Chandler and Price cutter, Royal imposing surface, and News Ink 1 cwt lots at 3d per pound. Sixty line of imperialine inks praised for quality and price. titles cards and samples available.
On August 6 1900 Mark All aged twenty seven began a self imposed 60 000 mile walking tour planned to finish by December 1907. He has already logged 46 407 miles returning to London after six circuits of the British Isles and travels through France Switzerland Germany and other European countries. He impressed King Edward VII near Newmarket and received sovereigns. He plans to continue through Russia and Siberia after the Russo Japanese War.
The death of Mr John Sawers former Provost of Stirling at an advanced age recalls a Scottish banking collapse. In 1857 the Western Bank of Scotland and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank failed after a reckless discounting system. Within days five English banks and 116 private firms collapsed, with liabilities over 270 million.
The Courier Journal notes a shift in English dining customs where wine service has shrunk from an abundance of glassware to just three visible glasses for white, red, and champagne. It laments the decline of the old English gentleman who boasted of port intoxication and claret moderation as a social merit.
Japanese fishermen use octopuses to haul lost treasure from ocean depths. Ropes from fishing vessels drop the creatures into the water and they bring up large quantities of valuable cargo.
G B Shaw argues that Eton and Oxford with Harrow and Cambridge shape social ease and equal conduct among men across ages and statuses, from sailors to wranglers and even billionaires, through shared experiences.
At a September Tasmanian Amateur Horticultural Society meeting, Mr J H Hinsly presented an intriguing paper on daffodils. He emphasized cross fertilisation and raising seedlings as a practice for amateurs. He stated that creating new varieties is not a lifelong task and noted seeds from compact cultivars like Triandus Inucifolius Corbularias and Polyanthus can yield progress.
Instructions explain timing and technique for cross fertilization among narcissus varieties. It covers pollination with a camel hair brush, preventing self fertilization by removing anthers, collecting pods before bursting, and sowing seeds in rich soil with parent and pollen labels. It notes traits like Scarlet Cup and Madam de Graff and discusses polyanthus openness and seed production.
A keeper recounts an elephant calf taunting its mother during timber work in Gurmah. The youngster trips a log-hauling chain, provoking a dramatic chase as the mother regains control, while the calf seeks safety behind timber stacks and later receives a stern trunk-smack before reconciliation at mealtime.
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