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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 10, 1905
Page
15
A collection of aphorisms and playful maxims on honesty, self improvement, and gender relations. The notes compare temper and reform methods, urge present action over future plans, and humorously reflect on men understanding women before and after marriage.
Registrar rules the court may withhold release of a bankrupt estate even when all debts appear paid. The decision centers on discretionary power and requires circumstances linked to the bankrupt’s conduct. The act grants leeway to refuse the order if proper grounds exist.
A reporter recalls a rival’s rage at a wedding where the bride wore lavender silk and orange wreath, gloves burst at the thumb, while the groom appeared flushed in a black cloth suit. The scene ends with a restraining device saving him from strangulation as chaos erupts.
The act clarifies penalties for fraudulent misappropriation of funds collected under authority, prescribing penal servitude for years. Critics deride the law as obviously necessary yet previously absent, calling the legal system inadequate and absurd. An exchange mocks judges and barristers with a metaphor of wearing long hairy ears.
In summer parents should watch for signs of illness in infants and, at the first tummy trouble, give Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Sold by Gibson Bros, Pearl Hill, and J W Law, Terningles.
The article argues that sheep and cattle theft cases are rarely punished, with about ninety in a hundred acquittals. It urges summary punishment by police magistrates to deter crime, increase certainty of guilt, and protect the public, noting jurors fear convicting and the guilty go free. It stresses consistency over severity to reduce theft.
Tut Express reports the Goodrich mine at Yeoval, once gold driven, now copper valued. A 12 ton ore crush yielded about 20 percent copper with gold traces, historic surface yields up to 14oz and 70 percent in floats. Owner Oswald of Melbourne and Pearce of Parkes run nine workers, with mining advancing 200 feet to strike an air shaft from the lower level drive.
In a hot summer scene beyond Bourke alway and his dog visit a small village post office after shopping. A quirky exchange unfolds as Wire-whiskers sends a thee mom meter to Sydney, to prove his claim of heat, joking the device will prove the weather to his brother Bill.
An advertisement touts Dr. Sheldon’s Digestive Tabules as a panacea for stomach troubles. It claims the tablets digest what you eat and provide relief, presented in a brief promotional tone attributed to P. Stephene.
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