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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 04, 1907
Page
5
Loyal Peak Hill Lodge, M A I O F compiled by J Tuckwell shows a credit balance of £330 4s with £295 13s 8d in Government Savings Bank. The lodge lists 53 members totaling 1550 years, 25 admitted before June 1902 and 44 since, and a half year surplus of £38 15s 10d.
Frazer and Party crushed at the Public Battery with 12 loads for 15ore 12dwts the party will continue cyaniding next week. W Mead recovered 58 loads from Emu mine Mingelo for 18028 12dwte return. Patons Mine at Tomingley eyed by local syndicate for purchase. Poseidon nugget near Tarnagulla sold at £45 an ounce yielding £4080. Rand Gold 1905 dividends £5,565,970 a record. Wallaroo and Moonta contracts 1907 £105 per tonnet. Poseidon rush may extend south. largest Taragulla gold escort to Melbourne, carrying 2000 ozs including Poseidon nuggets. Tanner and Party sold gold lease near Belmore Trunkey to John Robertson. Alma battery crushings meet expectations. State mineral output for year likely higher than 1905 £7,085,890. Gympie field 214,782 tons crushed yielding 130,510 oz gold. dividends £977,439. calls £517,320. Returns below prior four years.
Population figures list includes Parxas 3181 Forbes 4294 Peak Hill 1107 Condobolia 1078 Orange including East Orange 6331 Wellington 2984 Dubbo 3409 Bathurst 9223 Sydney Metropolitan 481830 State 1359133 Commonwealth 3781537 Great Britain 42000000.
Millionaire John D Rockefeller has made a New Year gift of £600,000 to Ohio University. In Mabonge near Urana two men were struck by lightning on Tuesday, Edward Hopkin killed instantly and Dennis paralysed. Salvation Army head General Booth opens an anti death by own action bureau to aid despairing people. Edith Walker in England sends funds for Walker Hospital inmates Christmas gifts. Victorian Premier plans higher pension, new Pentridge building for prison wire netting, and prisoner work on food programs in unsettled districts.
A New Year hospital benefit concert at a well-filled hall featured Leo Reece as organizer and S A White as accompanist. Despite last minute absences, performers including E McAuliffe and J Campey drew strong encores. The promoter thanked helpers and patrons, with district news and race results closing the item.
Townspeople gathered at Council Chambers to recognize Mr. J. T. Campey for public service and charity work. He faces transfer to Burraga soon after 17 years as post and telegraph master. A illuminated address, sovereign purse, and a conversazione at the Masonic Hall were arranged with officers named for roles.
A Goulburn publican is prosecuted for allegedly fraudulently converting £153 of an elderly pensioner’s money to his own use. The case centers on the transfer of funds and the accused's handling of the pensioner’s assets.
A sale listing items including Massey Harris harvester and ploughs, cultivators, stumps, chaff cutters, a 10 ton wagon, drays, bellows, anvil, harness sets, 32 draught horses and light harness horses, 800 mixed sheep with rising four teeth, 120 fat wethers, and 10 head mixed cattle. Reads like a rural auction inventory from Massey Harris and associated farm implements.
Luncheon provided and sale to commence at 1 o clock sharp. Auctioneers urge bidders to note the opportunity and that everything will be knocked down to the highest bidder.
The advertisement lists sprained ankle shoulder and stiff neck as common ailments and touts Chamberlain's Pain Balm as especially valuable when promptly applied. It notes sales by A. W. a & Co Peak Hill and J. W. Lees Tomingley.
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