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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 22, 1904
Page
3
A tennis match on Saturday at McPhail ground saw Peak Hill beat McPhail by 12 games with totals 42 to 30. Afternoon refreshments were kindly supplied by the ladies.
Peak Hill defeated Tomingley in a recent friendly on the Parkes Courts by 84 games to 36 after a over four year hiatus. Notable pairs McAskill McKeown beat Bub Commins and Steward Mullins, Potts Stephens beat Babba Commins, with tea served to players and spectators.
A compact moral reflection on financial missteps and poor planning. It cites failing to track expenses, prioritizing pleasure over duty, seeking costly amusements, avoiding written agreements, incurring debt, overreliance on risky ventures, and postponing saving until trouble arises. It argues for prudent, informed investing and debt caution.
In Molong East, Mr J. B. Taylor set traps to catch a nocturnal poultry thief. A spring trap failed to restrain the thief. A box trap drew in a full grown water rat, shot by Taylor, which was found missing its two front paws, presumably eaten by the trap eight days earlier.
The article notes Joseph Aarons kept cheque book butts for 60 years weighing 282 pounds in total. It lists banking amounts among the records including 165000, 145000, and 42000 pounds. Also mentions Deering's Harvester arrival and praise, with Jackson's as agent.
During show week many men of doubtful appearance visited Peak Hill but were watched by the sergeant and officers. Other items record a 940lb cow killed at Narro mine, noting rabbit poisoning efforts, rising fox pest warnings, polling day fee changes for Returning Officers and poll clerks, Mrs. Houghton’s return from the Dandaloo area, show holidays, an indefinitely postponed tennis match, Peak Hill’s August visit to Narromine, over 700 show entries, band improvements, Paddy's Flat mining progress, and a Mingelo road incident where Mr A Yeo narrowly escaped.
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