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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jan 18, 1907
Page
22
Harapina Takuji 20 ascended the Aso volcano with a guide and sat smoking for a while before leaping into the smoking fissure. He left a note attributing his death to anxiety about the future and poverty.
The Tu Labor Party argues that cohesion and unity strengthen political action while small balance of power parties weaken government. It criticizes the 60 percent nonvoting rate in the recent federal elections as a dangerous indifference to public affairs. The core aim is to instill a sense of obligation to the State beyond how to vote.
Mr R J Epwanos of Tomingley stock and station agent has been granted an auctioneer license and is ready to conduct sales throughout the district.
A Monday storm brought scattered downpours with 16 points at Peak Gill but over 150 points at Waterford and Bulgandra mine. Hail fell thick and large. Tomingley district saw good rain and Narro mine reported 2 inches.
Common coal tar shown by P Merrigan of Springbank Barnawartha to deter rabbits. A tarred stone blocks burrow entrances and confirms rabbits will not enter or exit. Burrows later dug up contained several dead rabbits, according to a Victorian exchange.
The well to do dairy farmer Robert Amos from the Clarence River vanished after arriving in Sydney in November. He left Erskineville friends to buy toys for children on the 18th and has not been seen since. Police are active and a £25 reward is offered for information.
Mr Peter A Accer asks if one man with a few dogs can exterminate rabbits on 1400 acres in three months. He argues the cure lies on land and urges Australians to act to end the blighting curse and save annual rabbit taxes.
British revenue cutter crew reports a new Arctic race living primitively in Prince Albert Land. Captain Klinkenberg and Eskimo companions traveled 250 miles inland and encountered 150 or more natives armed with copper knives and bows and arrows. A single confrontation ended with the captain slain before a friendly exchange was reached.
A Department of Navigation summary records four shipwrecks in New South Wales during the year with three lives lost. The Agnes collided with the Manly and foundered in Sydney Harbour with two deaths. Energy collided with Electra and foundered near Norah Head with all rescued. Guthrie collided with Warung at Watson's Bay. one life lost and the Warung later raised. Cule stranded near Norah Head and was total loss with all hands rescued.
An old Philadelphia advertisement offering land near the upper Lehigh River for five dollars an acre payable in timber beech nuts sugar and fish led to a Pennsyl vania coal and iron boom. Henry Drinker bought 25 000 acres and later mines were found beneath the land. The ad helped found Scranton and transform the valley into a booming region.
Relief instruction promises relief if continuous reading blurs print. Mentions Spectacles and local chemist Conault C Srxeputxzss. Context suggests an advertisement offering reading aid.
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