Wheat Policy and Pastoral Industry in Colonial Australia
A letter argues that since 1861 Crown land restrictions bias land use toward pastoralism, displacing wheat growers. It criticizes rail freight subsidies as masking market realities and urges backing expanding non wheat industries over continued wheat subsidies. The author claims pastoralism yields higher profits and broader community benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sia
Pii
South Wales
Ilistrieta
Iulturista
Australia
London
Victoria
New South Wales
Macarthur
Bush Fires Cause Debate on Shooting as a Trigger
A government circular to municipalities prompts opinions on bush fire causes. An alderman cites gun-shooting as a common trigger, suggesting cartridge wads ignite dry leaves and grass. He calls for stricter supervision of careless shooters to prevent fires.
Peak Hill Warden and Mining Registrar Office Returns
Mr J Campty furnishes Peak Hill office figures for the year ending. Warden's Court complaints filed. Applications for suspension of labor conditions. Gold lease applications. Mineral lease applications. Leases received for execution. Totals include four gold lease applications and sixteen mineral lease applications with ten leases executed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Campty
Warden's
Peak Hill
Where We Live The Land Of High Mountains And Taxes
A reflective piece critiques state power and society, noting high taxes and crooked leaders. It contrasts grand natural features with political corruption, social ills, and rapid modern life through vivid, often hyperbolic phrasing.
Record UK trade hits new high in year
The United Kingdom’s trade last year reached a record value of £895,302,869. An accident on a wool wagon upset on a hill near Guullura killed two horses. Mrs Marion Gale, wife of the Inspector of Nuisances, died in Wellington after tar she was heating caught fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Kingdom
Guullura
Marion Gale
Wellington
Hepatitis Cured in Camperdown by Clements Tonic
A Sydney man Mr Thomas Edgar Fisher of 30 Parramatta Road Camperdown recounts a year of illness including torpid liver rheumatic pains and digestive trouble. He credits Clements Tonic with restoring appetite nerves and digestion and condemns prior ineffective medicines. He says rheumatism vanished and health improved significantly. He offers to publish his endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Thomas Edgar Fisher
Parramatte Road
Camperdown
Gympie
Maryborough
Warwick
Queensland
Fisher
Clements
Mr. Fisher
Clements Tonic
Clemente Tonic
Statutory Declaration by Thomas Fisher NSW
Thomas Edgar Fisher of Camperdown NSW declares he read a three folio annexed document and that it contains true and faithful accounts of his filings. He consents to publication of his statements, made voluntarily without payment, under the Statutory Declarations Act provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Edgar Fisher
Parramatta Road
Camperdown
Poison Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets Ad
The advertisement claims the Poison Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets will clear and expel all stored intestinal waste from constipation and irregularities, promising painless relief. It lists Gibson Bros Peak fi W Lees Tomingley as sellers and notes there are five white, one Chinese, and six Dago storekeepers in Wellington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Gibson Bros
Peak Fi
W. Lees
Tomingley
Piebald Wellington
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The
Exress
Local Statistics
Mr. T. &. Fisher
Glac Peeten Babe
Alfred L. Levy
J.P
Carrington Hotel
Mrs. McAtamney
of McPhail
North End
Caswell Street
Martin O’brien
Royal Hotel
J.P. Reilly
Limus
Val
David Rodger & Coy
Darling Harbour
Peak Bill Express
Ma. M. P. Hartas, Tobacconist and Newsagent
Coomber & Baler
Rerio OY
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