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Items of Interest From a Distant Shire Chronicle
A miscellany of notes on policing, land values, and local oddities across Australian towns. Items include Gambling Act enforcement in Bundurra, fines in Sydney for immigrant landings, land tax shifts, rail and Martian quips, Earthquakes in Jamaica districts, and spoof remarks about clergy and twins, plus local fires, ballots, and humorous anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bundurra
Sydney
Peel River Estate
Billjim
Rome
Marseilles
Cassels
Prussia
Jamaica
Cornwall
Middlesex
Sussex
Gore Hill
Dubbo
Parsons
Champion
Lea
Matthews
Cookaburragong
Condobolin
Thomas Waite
Moruya
Chapman
Longmuir
Warialda
Senate