Echoes of Wealth and Fire Across the Colony
The piece notes N Wales wealth at £270 million and public debt at £68 million, Australia’s pop 1.5 million, and rising marriage and death stats in Sydney. It reports bushfire damage to farmer Thompson’s properties, the immigration league placing youths on farms, and practical tips plus local trivia from Forbes to Trangie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wales
Forbes
Charles Boyle
Sydney
Keith Kennedy
Peak Hill
Cootamundra District
Johnny Vane
Hall
Cowra
Gontotetin
Immigration League
Crusoe
Hardington Q
Intelligence Department
Australia
First Issue of Woman’s Buncer Magazine Reaches Sydney
An aged tramp in Gungal Saturday afternoon received bread and meat after being asked for lore. He was found dead the next morning five miles away. Among his belongings £86 in cash was discovered, Muswellbrook Courier reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gungal
Mudgee
Muswellbrook Cunonroux
Local Farmers Urged to Report Animal Diseases to Experts
The newspaper partners with Mears John Pottie and Sons of Sydney to answer reader queries on cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and more. Enquiries should fully describe all symptoms for accurate guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mears
John Pottie
Post Office Order Rates Revised Here February First
The Post master-General revised inter-state post office order rates effective February 1. For orders not exceeding £2 a charge of 6d is applied over £2 and not exceeding £5, 9d, with each additional £6 or fraction up to £20, 8d.
Pithy Sermon on Life’s Course and Afterlife
A brief, pointed sermon declares life begins bare, travels through trouble, and ends unknown. It argues that living well here ensures well in the beyond, yet offers little beyond a year’s preaching. The speaker emphasizes moral conduct as the path through life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heer
Superstitions Persist In Belief In Divining Tools
The article notes that some people still rely on a forked stick or divining rod to locate water. It observes that even a stopped clock can show the correct time twice daily, highlighting lingering superstitions and occasional luck in improbable outcomes.
Purifying Water Tips Use of Copper Sulphate Warned
A correspondent warns against purifying drinking water with copper sulphate Bluestone. The compound is described as a poison with cumulative effects and can cause symptoms resembling appendicitis. Small quantities may still harm, though an ounce can clear a cask of turbid water without altering taste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anita
Partial Solar Eclipse Observed in 1943 Region
A sun eclipse will occur this afternoon in volraney '43 and be partly visible from Syd nes. Government Astronomer H. A. Lenoban says the eclipse begins at 6 hours 26 minutes 17 seconds with contact 0 degrees from the north sun point, setting at 6 hours 42 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Volraney
Sydnes
H. A. Lenoban
Aoting
Generous Assistance Aids Budgerebong Settler After Fires
The Tax Pastoral Finance Association of Bydney aided farmer Cotter struck hard by fires in Budgerebong Forbes district. Local agents Weaver and Co sent word of the disaster and received a £24 cheque to ease distress. A subscription list began in Forbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax Pastoral Finance Association
Bydney
Budgerebong
Forbes
Cotter
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Germany
Trangio Anvocarr
Trangie
Buenos Ayres
Thompson
Cootamundra
Merringreen
Wyalong
Carumbi
Buddigower
Agency
Robert Burns
A.stewart & Co
Court Street
Parkes
Marcus Clark & CO
Giza
Mereant
Twitch Box
Newtown
Sydney, N.S.W
IPERS
D. Mitchell & Co., Ltd
Newcastle
Wrers
Woman's Buncer
Sydne
Post Office
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