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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 21, 1906
Page
5
Correspondent to the Express urges ratepayers to requisition a Saturday public meeting with the Mayor. He criticizes aldermen for seeking government power to borrow £1000 for Town Hall and street repairs, insisting no £500 pretence exists.
Wartes reports shearing expanding through Dubbo and surrounding districts after recent rains slowed progress. Labor is not scarce, with big sheds at Bullagreen Merrigal and Myall Park working for weeks. West of Dubbo stations show similar activity as warm weather returns. Middlefield near Dandaloo adds new sheds and first time use of machines.
A humorous note on farmers always late and never prompt in duties. It likens tardiness to missing divine timing, suggesting they will "miss the bus" when Gabriel sounds his trumpet.
In Parramatta a cyclist was fined £3 with witnesses’ expenses and costs for stealing six Lemona in default two months in gaol. In Parkes a man received 14 days for putting his hand in another’s pocket. There seems to be fault in law administration.
Narromine to host an annual horse sale by E Cahill and Co on Wednesday with 150 head yarded for sale. The auction starts at 2 p.m. and features many young draughts among the lot.
Nellie Ross, a Dubbo Hotel employee, was reported missing on Saturday morning. Police searched the Macquarie River and found her comatose in a dry billabong bed two miles from town. She had been taking sleeping drugs for insomnia and wandered off in a dazed state.
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