Notable Items From The News Bulletin
A compiled list notes 2000 sheep boiled daily at Narrandera and NSW mining funds of £148,120 held for miners' accident relief. It cites a first England Australia test in Sydney on 13 December, barbed wire plans in Sydney, a memorial for Father Hanley at Molong, misused arsenic, gold totals for NSW, boxing matches, school closures, and varied local incidents and curiosities.
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Narrandera
Bathurst
N.8. W
England
Australia
Sydney
Albury
Father Hanley
Molong
Chisholm Ross
Society For Child Study
Michigan
Baxter
N.S.W
W. Furney
Smith
Weat Dubbo
Ward
Moree
Jones
London
The
Express
Richmond
Tweed
Casino Exmyss
McKinley
New York
Czulger
Bishop Moorhouse
Victoria
Teachers Wanted for Small Country Schools
Positions open for male and female teachers in the smallest country schools. Salary £84 first year. Requires passing a competitive exam for a third class certificate. Exam date 17 December. Applications due 24 November. Age range 18 to 34.
Bushells Tea Promises Freshness and Value
The text touts Bushells Tea as a blend of Fine Ceylona delivering economy and satisfaction. It claims after trying Bushells you will tell others of the pleased experience. Local agents are Messrs. A. W. Taylor & Co Peak Hill and J. W Lees Tomingley.
Pity the Poor Leper on Remote Island Quarantine
A leper on a harbor island quarantine station near Lyttleton New Zealand is isolated behind a fence with meals, firewood, and care provided by a longtime caretaker. A benevolent medically trained man volunteered to tend him when the situation became dire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyttleton
N. Z
Health Department
Flies and Sheep Tail Length Trial Report
A Queensland border station manager reports that keeping long lamb tails reduces blowfly damage and chafing while short tails leave sheep vulnerable. He notes failures on south bought ewes with close tails and says he will not cut tails short again. Crutching and dips remain costly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australasian
Queensland
How Typhoid is Spread
Several typhoid cases appeared at a Brisbane boarding house. Despite clean premises the outbreak puzzled the proprietor. Drains were sanitary and milk tests showed six quarts of impure water in twelve quarts. The dairy keeper and proprietor traced the issue to a cart boy diluting pure milk with unfit water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brisbane
Carter
Digestive Tabs Claim Panacea for Stomach Ailments
A promotional note touts Sheldon's Digestive Tablets as a cure all for stomach troubles. Claiming quick digestion of meals, it markets mood relief for the weary stomach in a brief tale by Elios Maud Peak Hilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Reat
Elios
Maud
Peak
Petition seeks Royal Commission into lunatic asylums
J A H Poulton of Molong presents a minister's petition alleging imprisonment for hymn singing, followed by gaol medical exams and transfer to multiple lunatic asylums where demoniacal patients harmed his fitness. He seeks a royal commission to address abuses in the state's lunatic asylums. The petition was received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prizparuton
Legislative Assembly
J. A. H. Poulton
Molong
Anthrax Outbreak Hits Condobolin Shearing Shed
Several cases of anthrax were admitted to Condobolin hospital in recent weeks. Henry McGillivray Timothy Vans and another man from the same shed are recovering. Jeremiah O Keefe lost a leg after infection from a dead sheep at Vermont Hill. A correspondent warns against opening dead animals and urges burning carcases and containment of all discharges to prevent spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Condobolin Hospital
Henry McGillivray
Timothy Vans
Jeremiah O'Keefe
Vermont Hill
New Rabbit Destroyer Demonstrated at Crookwell
Field trials of the Tyree automatic rabbit destroyer at Crookwell showed three tests. In test No 1 a marked rabbit was placed in a burrow. after digging out the burrow showed the mark and 15 other rabbits dead. The report notes that if burrows are not disturbed after fumigation no rabbit can escape and recommends up to ten machines for large burrows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyree
Crookwell
Der Sheldon’s Now Liquid Cough Remedy
A historical ad promotes a cough remedy claimed to cure for colds consumption and throat trouble. It vows perfect security from serious effects of a cold and notes small pleasant doses with a guaranteed bottle, sold by local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Thea
Mare Board Terms at Secure Paddocks Begin September
Sing le mare price listed with three guineas and three shillings, stamps of care noted while disclaiming responsibility. Season runs from September 1 to December with mares to be paid for and removed at season end.
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Rome
Huon Juur
Greta
Huon
Luvilia
van Cleve
Newington
Dubbo
Sydney
Saxn S. Dooksan
Rock Huon
Narromine
Parkes
Peak Hill
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Bushell
Rabbit Destroyer
Priow
McCudden
Tominglay
Forbes
Globee
Lucilla
M. Blue Bell
Knight Errant
Queen Bell
Messenger
Globe IL
Korea
Globe
Huon Junr
Knight Berant
Blue Bell
Maovi
Stormy
Lord Viceroy
Occidental
Globe Echo
New South Wales
Buck Mark
Globe III
E. Mullampy
Perfection
Messenger Childe Harold
Imp
Miss Riley
Childe Harold
Gipsy
Jack
New Warrior
Newington Impt
Escape
Young Whisker
Cumberland
Orange Show
W. Barnett
C.F. Stepsens
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