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Melbourne Cup winds and local notes in brief
Port Jackson Company ferries collide again amid misfortune. Blue Speo wins £15000 from Melbourne Cup success. Syndicate profited £3000 from Burbutte sale. Thaw kerosene healing wounds noted. Merriwa court fines for ring lottery. Record land price at Singleton £47 per acre. Rabbits in Mudgee area tied to Cox 1848. Quirindi residents return from Queensland. Political chat and labor talk continue. Other items cover clergy pay rise, school closures, a Camperdown accident, Wollongong blood poisoning, Crown land critique, land scandal leniency, Muswellbrook poultry betting hints, and a Melbourne Cup egg horse teaser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Jackson
Blue Speo
Lave
Harvestore
Merriwa
Shearer
Grison Bros
Lucerne
Singleton
King-street
Mudgee
Broombe
G. H. Cox
Queensland
Scone Hospital
Bathurst
Drake
Camperdown
Victoria
Michaelin
Wollongong
W. P. Crick
Muswellbrook