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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jul 26, 1907
Page
19
Reads like a mixed column of local council finances and events, sport results, and human interest notes. Highlights include Beattigais council arrears, hospital ball, legal and government notices, New Zealand cricket win, boxing bouts, and Australian trades and rail developments.
A meeting at Coradgery sees the Parkes Railway League form with J L Whit mill as chairman W Tanswell as treasurer and H N Marriott as secretary. A plan seeks a trial survey of a Parkes to Narromine railway starting west of Parkes via Coradgery and Goonumbla Cookapie Gensnagie and Peak Hill, to begin at both ends.
Mr. Canning returns from a Northwest stock route exploration in West Australia. He reports plentiful natives in small families, generally not hostile though capable of spearing individuals. He describes native guides, a six year old boy taken along, a limestone tunnel bath, and miniature non marsupial dogs the size of rats living on lizards and vermin.
The document outlines interim authority to enter private land for defining areas, 5s deposits with applications, and use of deposits for compensation or forfeiture to the Crown. It notes extended prospecting areas, leases on cultivated land with limited surface access, and compensation rules. Gold lease area extended to 25 acres with 20s per acre rent. Royalty set at 1 percent of output, deductible by rent paid in the year.
A period advert touting Bonnington's Irish Mess as a pleasant reliable remedy for coughs and colds. Claims one trial will prove it the medicine that suits you.
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