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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 11, 1907
Page
3
O. F. Srzrnzas will test your eyes and supply glasses that relieve head strain and make reading easier. Headache relief and clearer vision are promised through professional eye examinations and prescription spectacles.
Two Sydney tremors recorded last week with the first on January 2 and a second on January 4. A Melbourne quake on January 3 lasted about two hours, the final half hour being the most severe.
A timid Ballina telephone boy reported an attempted burglary at the post office. A constable found the burglar to be a dog scratching beside the door, not a human thief.
A Qurmnstanp exchange notes that at the Government Savings Bank the depositor must fight to reach the counters amid gold cheques and notes. Withdrawal counters see little business as people do not withdraw money. The writer calls it a sign of extraordinary thrift or prosperity.
Rennie has been committed at Sydney for trial on charges of selling six bottles of a supposed consumption cure at one pound each. Medical testimony says the medicine is merely a sugar water glycerine solution with potash and bromide of iron, not worth more than sixpence per bottle.
A new society named the Right to Live Council has formed in England. Its aims are to secure every man's right to live, prove the value of labor, and urge local bodies to create workshops and cultivate land, press boards of guardians to open work opportunities, and mobilize the unemployed to work.
An offender charged with being drunk on April 15 1904 appeared by default after a long delay. Arrest and bail were posted, but he failed to answer. A warrant issued for his arrest and on return to Adelaide the usual penalty was imposed a fine of ten shillings and costs.
In Mudgee last week a christening featured a family heirloom robe with 100 years of English provenance. The garment has swaddled numerous children in the colony and is set to pass to a family member with a strong birth-rate record.
John Croft allegedly shot a resident's horse and tried to burn Black Swamp school before fleeing to the bush. Police pursued through days of rain, exchanged shots, and captured him. Ovolt appeared in police court and was remanded for a week.
A Georgia hotel outlines quirky rules and mottos for guests including odd prohibitions and humorous instructions. The list references three departments upstairs downstairs and outdoors, broken bells, no fruit, driving nails in the woodshed, harness for nightmares, thirteen at table means no supper, honesty as police, spooning ban for newlyweds, and paying bills only if preferred.
Reports detail rich gold deposits on Madagascar near Fanovana, with a new vein by a prospector near Bofarona yielding about six ounces per ton and an estimated four million pounds in sight. Government land involvement raises hopes for increased annuities for the ex queen.
C. and V. Richards announce visits every second Thursday from 4 October at Wildie's Commercial Hotel with next visits listed as January 2 and January 22.
An Indian fakir at a Berlin circus astonished spectators by lifting a boy with eyelid cups attached to the eye sockets. The boy slid into a net with cups on each end, the fakir pressed them over his eyes and hoisted the boy, then lowered him. The explanation suggests the cups gripped the eye edges, a feat unlikely to be repeated by imitators.
Rabbits are dying in large numbers north and north-east of Condobolin with no known cause yet. Officials suggest the deaths are not due to ordinary poison operations and investigations continue.
Ballina blacksmith J. R. Smith, famed for horse shoeing skill, shod 32 racehorses in one day after the recent Ballina races, aided by one assistant. The feat is described as a regional record for a single day’s work in the North.
Catarryany Company Limited reports wool sales resumed after holidays with 9000 bales offered to a large attendance of buyers. Nearly the entire catalog was cleared at prices equal to December close, market strong and seller favored. Auctions now set for Monday to Thursday weekly until early March.
A summary notes a total bene factions amounting to £4 600 000 associated with Rockefeller. It also mentions large cargo figures for vessels between Japan and London, a bush fire near Condobolin destroying about 10 000 tons of grass and 200 sheep, a hair restorer scam exposing water and sage extract, and upcoming Trangie amateur races on March 13–14 with £150 prize money plus subscription handicaps.
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