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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Sep 22, 1905
Page
19
Canomat Moran celebrated his 75th birthday on Sunday at Redfern. Dr Doyle noted Cardinal Moran, when compared with relatives, was comparatively young, mentioning one relative living to 117 years.
Mr. James Coomber suffered severe burns to the foot after stepping into a rabbit burrow filled with burning debris in a paddock recently burnt off at Balderodgery. He remains laid up as a result of the injury.
A married woman named Mary Reece was found dead in a bath at Paddington Sydney on Sunday. The drowned woman left a note to her husband saying she could not endure her worsening nerves and illness and asking forgiveness for her act. She mentioned money under the pillow.
In a Supreme Court session before the Chief Justice and a four member jury, a life assurance claim was heard. The jury delivered a verdict for the defendant, and the foreman declined to comment on evidence. Duncan M Killop was called but did not answer, and His Honor warned he would authorize prosecution if steps are taken.
The Bathurst Police Magistrate condemned deliberate perjury heard in the morning sessions. Witnesses allegedly lied under oath, with some preferring whisky to water over truth. The remark urged police action against oath violations.
A confectioner gave two gilt wrapped confections that looked like sovereigns to a young customer. A country man offered a chilling exchange believing the sweets were real coins. The child accepted, exchanging the lollies for cash before the fraud was stopped.
Our correspondent reports Suzanne in full swing with wool laden carriers en route to Trangie. Landowners show promising crop areas with potential for an enormous yield if timing is right. The cricket season opens with Dandaloo shearers beating Derribong shearers, and locals defeating the minors. a return match is set for next Saturday.
Ishpool and Sons at Mount Royal drive a level at 200 ft along the east line of lode, reporting splendid sulphide ore. A Burraga company, four miles east, under Mr Elwin, explores a large surface formation with copper-bearing rock. The shaft reaches 50 ft and crosscuts north, awaiting the main lode about 50 ft north of the shaft.
In Adelaide a legal muddle erupts over the phrase three to one as police fail to prove its meaning to a magistrate. The article notes the High Court’s reversals of state judgments, highlighting a volatile legal landscape across New South Wales Victoria Queensland Tasmania and Western Australia while quipping on the uncertain nature of law.
The South Australian Minister for Agriculture Mr L O Loughlin recalled the past at the Agriculture Bureau congress describing how, forty three years ago, he drove six bullocks with a single furrow plough to cultivate an acre a day. He contrasted old methods of sowing by hand and reaping with a sickle to modern mechanised progress including drilled seed, manure application, and a complete harvester for faster planting, weeding, and harvesting.
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