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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 18, 1907
Page
14
J C Young and Co report a bustling opening day with 52 000 sheep penned including lambs and a large share of shorn stock. Prime sheep and export candidates drew keen competition and late prices. Cattle yarded reached 1444 with Melbourne and Southern town buyers present and a firm start at strong week’s prices.
The Local Government Act 1906 imposes an express duty on every police constable to enforce offences against the Act and its 800 ordinances. Offenders must be named, arrested if they refuse to disclose, and case details reported to the council clerk. Larger city councils gain new support through municipal management collaborators.
A Bathurst correspondent notes a single residence housing five living generations headed by Mrs. William Ballard born in 1813 in England. The elderly matriarch, her daughter Mrs. William Flanagan, her son in law Mr. William Ballard, his son Mr. Harry Flanagan, and Harry's four month old baby comprise the generations. Ballard died in 1884 at age 70. Mrs. Ballard, 60 years in the same Bathurst block, has 60 living descendants.
It dazzles the world with Dr Sheldon s remedy for coughs colds and consumption. It has brought relief in hopeless cases when all else fails and is for sale by Thomas Mendy Powell Hill.
A collage of wry observations and old news jabs covers politics, inflation, and society. Notes on King Edward VII’s age, taxation jests about bachelors, wheat prices in 1902, and global contrasts mix with local quirks. References to Australia, cricket, drought, and odd sayings thread through the column.
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