Peak Hill Minings Report Shows Profit and Plans
A cable from J Hocking reports four weeks to 7 October 1910 saw Peak Hill mine yield 462 ounces from 2910 tons, with a profit of £99 at Peak Hill and a £14 loss at Myalls. Board orders four more vats at Peak Hill, no clear pest cause for rabbit deaths, No 2 level developments hopeful, and local notes on a herbalist ill near Peak Hill and newspaper borrowing vice.
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J. Hocking
Myalls and
Peak Hill
Hegre Percival
Millthorpe
Ezzy
R. Ezzy
Accident Injures George Evans During Fumigation
A young man named George Evans suffered a severe lip wound in a blasting accident while fumigating at Bulgan dramino. He received five stitches after being admitted to the local hospital on orders from Jr. MacCarthy.
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George Evans
Bulgandramino
Evans
Jr. MacCarthy
Civility and a Caulfield Cup Sweep
An elderly churchgoer bows at each mention of sata citing civility costs nothing. In Melbourne a Carlton public official’s wife won Tattersall’s Caulfield Cup sweep with Marvel Loch, securing £6000 after reportedly turning down a £300 ticket offer from a bookmaker.
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Sata
Tattersall
Carlton
Melbourne
Marvel Loch
Local Hospital Receipts October Totals
Treasurers record shows Peak Hill Hospital receipts for October including maintenance 1 pound J W Palmer bed 1 pound and a 6d Farmers meeting Aledown plus Frater 108 totaling 2 pounds 13s 6d.
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Peak Hill Hospital
W. J. Picken
J. W. Palmer
Farmers’ ‘Meeting Aledown
F. Frater
Improving the Breed of Parkes Rabbits for Fur Value
Messrs Pearce and Williams display a Parkes rabbit skin with fur two inches long, claimed to come from an animal shot nearby as part of a plan to improve the breed for its fur as a valuable commodity.
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Messrs. Pearce
Williams
Parkes
A Bull in Sheep Controversy About Breeding Strains
A sheep owner sold no lambs and described his flock as a Shropshire strain of Lincoln Merino ewes lambing in May. The journal editor appears to misstate stock terminology, inviting questions about what constitutes a 4 Shropshire strain of Lincoln Merino ewe.
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Lincoln
Australia Briefs and School of Art Revenue
Brevities note seven year protection for platypus and strong demand for young sheep. Mies Fitzgerald's daughter burned her foot, four top men named Close Crick Bath Willis. School of Art revenue in this state 44302 yearly. Miscellany on Ireland Home Rule and liquor bills. Quoted clergyman dispute at Orange over a dangerous dog. A shooting accident in Maitland district. Trafalgar Day remark by a Victorian alderman met with derision. Labour party attacks lawyers in arbitration courts. UK France vs Germany naval vignettes and New Zealand hills formed by earthquakes.
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Mies TW Fitzgerald
M. Fitzgerald
Australia
Close
Crick
Bath
Willis
France
Maitland
Verey Davis
Orange
T. Brown
M.H.R
Higgins
Ireland
House of Representatives
Carruthers
Trafalgar
Nelson
Waterloo
Labor Party
Britain
Germany
New Zealand
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Eden George
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