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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 08, 1907
Page
9
Mr Jonny Leary of Orumnock sold 839 bags of wheat locally for £901 3s 0d last week. He had earlier negotiated a sale at 3s per bushel but influenza halted the deal, and meanwhile prices rose to about double that level.
A mob of about 635 cattle owned by Mr Cruickshank of Wee Waa and driven by Drover Smith passed through Gunnedah toward Walcha. They camped at Boggabri reserve, five miles from town, and next morning about 585 head lay dead. The loss was blamed on thistle poisoning after a light rain. Cattle were on the nee and £4 per head was placed on them.
Waite Mr. Jackson of Ponto near Wellington killed a two year old wether and found a half inch bot fly larva above the sheep's eyes. The grub entered through the nostrils. Stock Inspector Dulhunty confirmed the specimen as bot fly larva and noted recent inquiries show similar bot cases.
In a story from Sir Henry Parkes' era an office boy recounts how the great statesman learned to use first names. The tale ends with a caller seeking an audience, illustrating informality in the office culture.
A humorous parish exchange centers on a vicar and an old farmer. The farmer notes villagers’ awakening to sin after the vicar’s arrival, while the vicar expresses quiet satisfaction with his work.
An anxious parent asks a teacher for an easier nocturnal assignment about shifting gallons to pints and half bottles. The note includes a claim of self poisoning via constipation and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets as a remedy, with sales notes for several local stores.
Queensberry is a bay horse of high stature with strong bone and hair. His sire Kilbowie, active in 1892 93, earned top prizes at Bellas Maryborough Clanes Talbot showing circuits and in Donald Birchip St Arnaud. Grand sire The North won Perth show second prize and triumphed in Ballarat Geelong Sandhurst in early 1880s. Grand sire Topsman earned Buchan premium Stirling premiums and various Highlands Society honors. Queensberry, a reliable dam sire Hillston, is noted as a good foul-getter and has proven sound quality.
Locke won first prize and four at Maitland in LH and a yearling win in 1905. His sire Defiance by Bismark and Pride of Singleton produced multiple first prizes. Bismark earned seven prizes and was Maitland Champion in 1904.
The article notes Trish Moss of Bonnington enjoys strong backing from Mothers of Australia. It discusses a memorial and a medicine claimed to aid whooping cough, croup, and various illnesses.
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