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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
May 24, 1907
Page
9
Pitt Son and Bavagry report large crop damage abroad causing market excitement. Prices for cargoes rose rapidly. In London and home markets the trend mirrored overseas and on Tuesday the 4th instant market rose 2d per bushel for choice gristing samples. Buyers remain cautious awaiting further developments.
Mr. Leeming recalls a former secretary tale as he accepts four sovereigns from the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society committee. He recounts aiding a butter prize winner by speaking to the judges, a moment that taught him caution in joking with exhibitors about influencing outcomes.
Mothers urged to try Pr Sheldon s New Discovery claimed to relieve croup instantly with no harmful drugs. Stated as safe for children with a small pleasant dose. Sold by Thomas Hand in Poak at a reduced old price.
Whit reports a thriving but brutal rabbit trade in Trangie area with wire-netting drives and mass slaughter. He notes 4000 rabbits killed in a single morning at Dandaloo, a skinning man earning 30s a day, and locals netting and skinning hundreds for profit as officers quit to join the rabbitting rush.
A Lason member visits Broken Hill to push free railways fares and freights funded by land tax. Backers, the Broken Hill mining companies, would gain a £1500 annual life pension and avoid land tax while shipping ore to Newcastle for nothing, yielding about £500,000 yearly in freights. The Bulletin calls the plan madly impracticable.
A compact moral reflection extols passion tamed by will and honest living. It warns that indolence paralyzes the soul and deceit incurs heavy penalty, urging love as the supreme gift while stressing self mastery and the mother’s role in shaping the child’s future.
An advertisement markets Bonnington's Irish Moss as a pleasant reliable remedy for coughs and colds. It claims a single trial proves it the medicine that suits the patient.
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