District Report Praises Trundle Bullock Creek Wheat Districts
Mrs N B McKay representative of Bunabino Machinery travels 200 miles through Trundle Bullock Creek and Fifield praising first-class wheat and sheep land. She says rainfall 22 inches, rich soil, cheap clearing, and notes lack of railway hampers development. She argues a railway would boost cultivation tenfold and raise traffic revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. B. McKay
Trundle
Bullock Creek
Australia
Commonwealth
Fifield
N.S.W
Postal Regulation Allows Untamped Letters for Speed
The secretary of the postal administration says no machine can detect stamps scattered on a card or envelope. The rule is needed to speed delivery, and telegram records remain at the dispatching office if undelivered after six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Postal Administration
Obliging A Customer in Melbourne Government Office
A Melbourne firm recounts a costly government telegraph interaction. They paid about £50 for a cable and faced delays as clerks demanded self drawn receipts and stamps, then repeatedly rejected the payment as the clerk insisted "Just stick the stand on."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MeLbourne
Weo
Brevities on Health, Politics, and Trade from NSW
A collage of notes and quips mentions Wor Chronic Chest Complaints and Woods great Peppermint Cure. It notes high eyelid activity, Mr H Fitzgeralds dangerous health, honey scarcity with higher wholesale price, and W O nBeckett contesting Castlereagh. Also reports a Muswellbrook land board claim on a long lasting iron bark fence and royal horse tail dye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Fitzgerald
Dubbo
New South Wales
Warren
n’Beckett
Caatleraagh
Muswellbrook
Persia
New Zealand
Seddon
Poisoned jam kills rabbits and spurs local trotting talk
Reports warn of widespread rabbit poisoning using strychnine laced jam, with a matchbox lid delivering a lethal dose. The practice makes £2 a week for an amateur and £4 to £5 for a professional in fertile districts, while local hunters discuss trotters for the Peak Till Show amid dwindling rabbit populations and lineages from notable sires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thouands
von Junior
King Harold
Chieftain
Torpedo
Globe
Messenger
Victor
Don Cleve
Supreme Court grants prohibition in maintenance case
In a Friday hearing Mr. Boyce urged to make absolute a rule nisi to stop further action on a magistrate’s order against William Francis Ampleby. Mary Ann Umpleby contested a deed of separation claimed to release her husband from Deserted Wives Act liability after £100 was paid. The court ruled absolute for a prohibition with costs, noting the February 1898 separation deed released liability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Boyce
Messrs
Messrs. Sly and Russell
Ralph E. B. Reymond
Forbes
Mary Ann Umpleby
Mre. Umpleby
Ampleby
Costa
Ingenious land clearing roller cuts scrub on South Coast estate
Mr Hf W Horrizeng, manager of Francis Poy's Toolii jooa estate, unveils a two ton wooden roller with six steel knives for clearing light scrub. Drawn by sixteen bullocks, it can clear up to ten acres daily, with 200 acres already cleared at a cost of 5s per acre, saving 30s per acre versus manual labor.
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Hf. W. Horrizéng
Francis Poy
Toolijooa
Parkes
Hollibone
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J. W. Lees
Tomingley
Club House
Caswell Street
Peak Hill
AVING
Jas. Freeman
S.A.P
Co. F. Stephens
Sayers, Allport Pty. Ltd
O'Connell Street
Sydney
Sidney Wildie
Peak Hill Parkes
Narromine
Baker
H. Schmidt
Euchie Streft
Kable
Peak Lill
Peak Hill Express
Mn. M. P. Hartas, Tobaccommt
Newsagent
Caswell Strtreet
Coradgery
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