Weathered Echoes From Far NSW and Queensland News
Storms sweep parts of the state with hot weather and open-air services. Inspectors visit Peak Hill and nearby towns as debates over land, rail, and water tighten. Reports note infant death from soothing powders in Sydney, lightning injuries at Mudgee, and rabbit pest concerns. A Wellington trial for rape of a 12 year old is recorded. Pacific- and domestic-travel costs and local secretaries’ salaries show in notices.
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Sydney
Mudgee
Bobby Burns
Bundaberg
Queensland
Parkes
Forbes
Narromine
Peak Hill
Tuseday Lat
New South Wales
Civil Service
P. and C. Day
Australia
Forbes P. A. & H. Association
Parkes Secret Peak Hill
Natromine
Yar Coast
Albert Walker
Sydney Eye Hospital
J. Eden George
Mila
Japan
Taveon & Co
Messrs
Jackson
Yoo, Harras
J. Farvoy
Wynn
Porty
E. Phillipe
Tadies
B.T. Bradley
Wigor
Titan
Daltieathu
Posttive
Siuipiv
Correspondents Question Wages and Plant Mortgages
A reader asks about liability for wages when a dated note is invalid and a plant has been sold. It discusses naturalization of debt, plant sale effects, and half wages. An Enquirer warns of danger from poisoning cases and notes the Advances to Settlers Act offers up to £1500 with forms obtainable from Crown Lands offices or the Board.
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Towivanny Ashe
Empha Neke Omic
Enquirer
Corona
Crown Tanda
A Gimple Trap for Rabbits in Cultivation Fences
Wurres proposes landholders in infected districts build rabbit proof fences around cultivated areas and install trap yards inside. Each yard uses hollow logs with hinged grills to lure rabbits then trap them, offering months of control without poison or driving costs.
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Wurres
Apavo
Brevities from a turbulent moral globe
A collage of quirky claims and social tidbits from distant lands and local scenes. Notes on age, commerce, typhoid, reform, politics, sleep remedies, and peculiar crimes mingle with oddities about tea prices, peppermints, and a Sydney fruit hawker case. A joke on counting, a London solicitor's six year sentence, and a rabbit’s fate loom amid chaotic vignettes.
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America
Templars
Tilbaway
Hinealf
Sydney
London
Blackfellow
Loyal Australians defend motherland in letter to editor
In a correspondence dated February 20 1906 from Bulgandramine H Brewster argues metropolitan dailies mislabel loyal Australians. He asserts strong allegiance to mother country and to the land of birth while praising familial duty and national pride.
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Ian
Capa York
Adelaide
Wight
Ged, H. Brewster
Bulgandramine
Riverina Squatter Replies On Mortgaged Estate
A Riverina squatter, facing a large mortgage from a major finance company, responds to a request for full particulars of property on Stoney-broke Station with a comic list of items. He claims personal property only includes a single Alderney cow, two horned cooks and a hen, and jokes about cock and garlic of the other. The mortgagors seize the property.
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Riverina
NSW land estates shrink countywide in early 1900s data
In the year ending March 1904 New South Wales counted 730 estates over 10 000 acres totaling 22 761 637 acres. A year later 722 estates covered 22 830 261 acres while non residents were barred from Sunday hotel meals. Drought era livestock losses echoed from 1902 with sheep and cattle dying on rabbit carcasses newsrooms note. Grenfell reports a farmer losing over a hundred sheep in two days.
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New South Wales
Marsh Sint
Sydney
Grenfell
Nervous Weakness a Cure in Balmain Tale
Sydney reporter recounts a patient named Edwardh in Low Sith Wales who suffers severe nervous symptoms yet finds relief after Clem ents Towle Tonik. The narrative shows dramatic improvement after several doses, detailing headaches, constipation, sleeplessness, and anxiety before the tonic restores cheer and vitality.
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Low Sith
Wales
Australia
Clemenia
Unclear medical advice cited in fragmented notice
A garbled entry references liver health and routine, mentioning pre retirement, a savings bank, and loans. The text is inconsistent and unreadable, with stray numbers and unrelated names, making extraction of a coherent event or person impossible.
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Expurss
Balmain
J. Edwards
Sydney Reporter
Jayroy
Howe
Dole Hdwards
Fenrutryert
Halmutin
Alul Jence
Clements Tonle
Alwaya
Lepox
China
Clements
Sijksrrven Uw
Meimatn
Santermbar
Tour
Jain
Forsale Beon Bros
Peak Hills
Lied
Bontoglay
The
Savings Bank of New South Wales
Oumwent
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