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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 13, 1905
Page
9
A chapter of accidents at Bogan Gate left Walter Long with a broken collar bone after being pulled over by a calf. An elderly man dislocated his hip while saving a baby from a cradle. At Buchanan’s near Bogan Gate an employee dislocated a shoulder lifting pine logs. All three injured were brought to Parkes for treatment.
A tribute praising Australia as a vast unrealised asset of the British Empire. It notes Australia's immense size and resource wealth from gold to wool, butter and mutton, suggesting it could outscale India and even tiny Tasmania in comparison. The passage frames Australia as pivotal in future political contests.
A movement in Sydney aims to form a poultrymen's cooperative, challenging middlemen who boycott the effort. Mr. Cummins of Wagga exposes widespread fraud by middlemen who mark alive fowls as dead, underpayments on consignments, and false egg returns. A friend verifies broken eggs and complains that such “custom of the trade” cheats persist.
Dr Russell of New York Post Graduate Hospital touts a diet of unboiled fruit and vegetable juice plus milk and bread and butter as a cure for consumption. He reports eleven severe cases cured in six months and says several eminent doctors endorse the claims.
An 19th century remedy claim promotes Dr Sheldon’s new miscovery for coughs and consumpins. The advertisement notes a preventative root cure and permanent relief, with sale by G F sovp.
Two shearers J Maxwell and A Psrmont rode 243 miles from Bourke to Peak Hill in 23 hours then took a coach to Parkes. They reached Peak Hill at 6 am Saturday after leaving at 7 am Friday and then attended roll-call Monday morning in a shed in the Orange district.
A Maitland couple, I and Mrs. King, are credited with a record family of 25 from one union. They are hale and honored by local residents, with the family originally numbering 28 children, most alive. The Kings are hailed as champion family-raisers of the State.
Mr Asutox acknowledges merit in inviting applications from state residents by advertisements in the country press. Applicants would specify preferred districts, alternative districts, land purpose, requested area, capital, tools or stock, experience, and marital status. Mr Ashton aims to include this in the forthcoming bill.
Goul bury stock inspector Mr Coresan cites a manager with 27 years in rabbit control and 4000 acres enclosed by wire netting who saw rabbits jump 3ft 2in high at overlaps. He notes tracks inside fences and urges outward leaning netting and higher thin mesh fencing. He also proposes government land payments for 2 to 3 years to fund clearing.
Edith Townsend a 16 year old from Bogan Gate was charged at Parkes Police Court with unsound mind after multiple attempts to set fire to clothing drown herself and kill herself with a wattock. Her father was away in South Africa and the mother at Peak Hill leaving the elder brother 20 a laborer earning 1 pound weekly to care for the family. She was ordered to be sent to Darlinghurst for custodial care.
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