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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
11
Sculling champion Granoe Towns has challenged London rowers to a Thames contest for the English championship at £200 a side. He also proposes a world championship bout against his brother Charles for £500 a side. The brothers offer to double any Thames crew to race for £500.
At Moliagul on Friday excitement rose as miner Peters unearthed a nugget weighing 48 ounces near Baker's Gully at a sapling by a dry dam. He began work that morning after returning about 10 days ago following a 12 month absence. The nugget is nearly pure gold.
A schoolmaster with red hair conducts a nut object-lesson to distinguish hazel nuts from others. He holds a nut up and asks the class to identify it. A witty student instantly replies, “A ginger nut sir.”
A Curacao lawyer noted for divorce work instructed his office boy to check morning marriage notices and mail his “Divorce Made Easy” circulars to each engaged couple in sealed envelopes. The step aims to solicit clients from recent nuptials.
The eldest son of James Harvey of Mundooran narrowly escaped serious harm in a pea rifle accident. While rabbit hunting with a companion named Manusu, Harvey picked up a loaded rifle, it discharged after brushing a stone, the bullet narrowly missing his heart and lodging in his left arm. He recovered quickly, and the family learned of the incident days later.
A simple rabbit control method is described by W M Robertson manager of Rockdale Old Junee. Saturate bagging or a small bough with coal tar and place at the burrow entrance then close it. Rabbits avoid treated burrows and a kerosene tin of tar can treat about 300 acres. Experiments by Robertson and a neighbour were successful and a Murrumburrah landholder using wire netting freed his land from rabbits.
A brief note highlights Woods' Great Peppermint, a remedy claimed to ease children's hacking coughs at night. The advertisement emphasizes soothing, nonmedical relief and urges parents to try the peppermint salve.
The act introduces rolling registration by police initially, then self registration. Electors gain voting rights only after registration, with two forms of application claims and transfers allowed until writ issue. Nomination closes at midday. voting is confined to polling areas with cross location voting allowed, but no post voting rights, and marriage name changes do not disqualify female voters.
The inspector toured Collie Curban Gilgandra Balladoran and Eumangerie noting near universal netting of land and expect no unnetted acreage within two years. He saw fewer rabbits but drought jeopardizes lambs with only about half surviving without rain. Crop plantings are down with hard ground limiting ploughing and a third of last year’s acreage unlikely in many districts.
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