Church Services Schedule for February by Denomination
Anglican services list Coradgery Burrill Peak Hill and children's service at Peak Hill with Rev J Marino and H G Wilmon Mission Chaplain. Roman Catholic Maas first Sunday. Methodist Peak Hill Aledown and Peak Hill times by A Young and J E Moulton. Presbyterian Obley Tomingley and onga services at 11 a.m. 4 p.m. 7.30 p.m. by Rev J C W McNeill.
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Anglican
Coradgery
Burrill
Peak Hill
J. Marino
Rose Vale
Methodist
A. Young
Aledown
J. E. Moulton
Local items and notices from The Peak Hill Express
A mix of town news and classifieds reports judge Docker's holiday plans local show dates and stalls two auctions and a new stock agent. mining finds foxes and a murder noted. hospital accounts and council ballots discussed. Also storms and a notable rifle invention.
Local and General News from Peak Hill District
Royal Hotel Tomingley transfers license from G H Crowhurst to F J Graham. Dr MacCarthy recovers fees in Small Debts Court. one case paid into court, another verdict for full amount. Two hospital operations performed by Dr Corfe on Ernest Maker and John Nelson. Peak Hill endures severe dust storm, vision obscured across streets. Fresh tenders invited for Showground Pavilion. details at Secretary’s Office and architect H B Pulver. Trangie Races paddock names listed. Bogan River Copper Co reports promising ore cap near surface. Athletic and bicycle sports planned for Peak Hill on 18 March with open events and grand ball. meeting next Friday to appoint officials. Alderman H N Gibson resigns from Peak Hill Council. appreciation noted. Tomingley sale as Hinder & Co retire. extensive clearance sale offered. Peak Hill firm Scourfield and Glashren expands into coach building and blacksmithing with sulkies from £10. Spectacles promoted by C F Stermens for print relief.
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Corfe
Ernest Maker
Tomingley
John Nelson
Peak Hill
Glenray
Cora Lynn
Settling Day
Atlantea
Fifield
Surprise
Pardon
Siren
Blarney
Staple
Sunray
Islander II
Golddust
Happy Jack
Suspension
Ila
Stanley
Selfish
Good Girl
Bona Petilla
Beneda
Swallow
Splinter
Cherish
Jolee
Bogan River Copper Co
Bogan River
Orange Plains
Father O'Donnell
G. Walker
McAtamney
H. N. Gibson
Gibson
Sale
Messrs. Hinder & Co
Icc
Mesars, Hinder and Co
Mesars, Scourfield and
Glashren
Court News Melon Theft Case in Barrabadeen
Reilly and Patrick Dwyer were sued for damages from an attempted melon theft at Weeden Bryant’s Barrabadeen orchard. They were fined 108 and ordered to pay 10s each for damages. Dwyer also owes 128 costs. W Michaelsohn’s similar charge was continued as summons not served.
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Reilly
Patrick Dwyer
Weeden Bryant
Barrabadeen
Dwyer
W. Michaelsohn
Everitt Dramatic Company to Visit Peak Hill
A Good Company visiting Peak Hill will perform at the Masonic Hall on February 15 16 and 18. The Everitt Company, allied with Wm Anderson Theatres Sydney Melbourne, presents A Girls Cross Roads Face at the Window and Thunderbolt with 16 Metropolitan artists. The company promises realistic drama, striking scenery and popular songs, aiming for a highly successful tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peak Hill
Everitt
Masonic Hall
Wm. Anderson
Theatres Royal
Sydney
Melbourne
Hoeritz
Peak Hill Council reports strong 1906 finances and clean accounts
The Peak Hill Municipal Council closes the 1906 year with £322 collected in rates and only £36 3s in arrears from 345 ratepayers. Expenditure on roads rose to £250 from £157 the prior year, and the credit balance sits at £274 with no outstanding liabilities. Retiring Mayor Alderman J Jackson is credited with stabilizing finances and delivering a successful year.
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Pxax Hill Municipal Council
J. Jackson
Peak Hill
Adulterated Bread Fined Five Bakers in Broken Hill Court
Five bakers were fined at the Broken Hill police court on Friday for selling adulterated bread. Alum up to 3 grains per pound found in the bread. Fine totaled £2 with three guineas costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lee
Queensland
Broken Hill
New South
Parkes Items and Local Notices
Parkes notes show Messrs BE and A Syres and BH heading the Hospital Committee ballot with 160 and 159 votes. John Westcott reports a plume circumference of nine inches one way and eight inches the other. Molong Express praises Parkes Band and bandmaster Mr Heraghty after a visit to Molong. A Farmers and Settlers Association resolution calls on the Member to protest leasing land from the Experimental Farm at Tichbourne and urges fencing and improvement to curb rabble breeding grounds.
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A. Syres
Job
John Westcott
Parkes
Molong
Tichbourne
Finds of Gold In the Early Days
In 1851 a boy at Louisa Creek Turon River unearthed a massive gold mass in three pieces. One piece weighed 70 pounds yielding 60 pounds gold, two pieces about 60 pounds each, totaling 160 pounds. A 301 pound nugget was found nearby in clay. In 1852 two nuggets totaling 157 ounces were found near No 4. A model of the first large nugget rests in Sydney Museum. In 1858 a four‑man party near Harrendon found a 120 pound block yielding £5000 value, melted at the Sydney Mint valued at £4395 8s 10d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa Creek
Turon River
Gaza
No 4
New South Wales
Sydney Museum
Ophir Creek
Orange
Harrendony
Sydney
Thunderstorm anniversary recalls Peak Hill flood event
A heavy thunderstorm swept the township yesterday with vivid lightning. It marks the 12th anniversary of Peak Hill's 7 inch rain in 20 minutes, during which the town flooded and Mrs. O'Brien drowned on Dugga Street. The Labor Conference proposed a rule to require Labor MPs with business interests to pay union wages or face expulsion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peak Hill
O’brien
Dugga Street
Labor Conference
Labor
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Church Services
Peak Hill Express
Docker
Essra
Lane and Fuller
Dubbo
Genanagio
Sanderson
G. Stanford
W. Garnsey
Anglesey Farm
Forbes
O. Kearney
Trangie
Adelaberg
Trieste
Herr Lander
Hubbard
J. Barber
Genanagie
Elizabeth Smith
South Clifton
J. J. Patterson
Mingelo
Engowra
Poseidon
Jackson
Hughes
Wood
South Shields
England
Alick Dawson
Eee
Dawson
Kes
Ashburnham
A. Bara. Clough
George St
Local & General News
Stermens
Court News
Municipal Affairs
Forbes District
W. K. Garnsey, Senr
TAS
Messrs
J. & W. Thomas
Vandenberg
W. K. Garnsey
N.S.W
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