This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Items of Interest From Australian Local Notes
The item lists varied local events and figures including Parkes hospital cost estimates around £3000, Gundagai price rises due to railway rates, a £200 bequest to Forbes Hospital from Miss Manson, and £16,000 in charities. Mentions maps for ninety electorates, a nugget found by E and G Davis, sports events in Towns and Treasider, a death at Mrs Phillips’ home, rain prayers, Condobolin funeral for Inter Brace well, Wyalong bike and motor events, property sales in Bathurst, Canowindra rabbit skins purchases, homestead ballot results at Dubbo, Major Taylor appearing at Wyalong, a quip by Mr Ferguson, London birth and death rates, artesian flow at Elliots Booka Booka, a girl killed by a chaff-cutter, Kanaka poisoning in Queensland, and Queen deaths and illnesses.