Local scratch cricket match yields close dual innings
In Micelago Currempeat CRICERE, a Saturday scratch match between two local CoC side selections saw Kyrie’s XI win the series 5 and 1 in a high scoring day. W. Ryrie led the first innings with several wickets as De Salis and Hayes top scored in a 42 run second innings declared.
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FL de Salis
Sen
de Salis
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Q We Salis
Jun. Itade Yo
M. Hayes
W. Kyrie
W. Kerie
Queanbeyan Race Club Sees Annual Meeting Vote
The Queanbeyan Race Club held its annual meeting at McPhersons Hotel on Thursday evening the 26th with officers elected and finances reviewed. The balance sheet showed a profit of £22 4s 9d and plans approved for a two day meeting on March 3 and 4 with grassfed hack races added each day.
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H. J. S. Hungerford
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Hawes
Hungerfort
H.C. Hincksiman
Mesars
Atkinson Coll
C. Hincksman
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J. T. Collett
A. W. Moriarty
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Harrison
AL McPherson
J. H. Hincksman
O'Hanlon
Stewart
Dunlop
Hudson
Atkinson
Troulburn
Messrs, Anderson
Hayes
Collett
Irrigation Plant Installed at Rivers Farm Near Tumut
A dairy farm owner near Tumut has installed a 4 hp irrigation plant with a cen trifuger pump on Gilmore Creek bank at £130. Water is lifted softly through galvanised pipes 20 yards to a wooden trough then led to paddock drains. An initial 10 acre trial may expand to 26 acres. The engine costs one pint of kerosene per hour and can move 600 gallons per hour.
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Tumut
Gilmore Creek
Rivers
Use of paspalum dilatatum to curb railway bush fires
A Sydney correspondent suggests the Railway Commissioners plant paspalum dilatatum along land beside railway lines. The grass resists heat and drought, stays green when couch and other grasses brown, and could help prevent fire outbreaks from sparks. The writer, with years of experience, urges farmers to plant this grass.
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Sydney
Snys
Wheat Growing in Nova Scotia: A Farmer's Ten Year Report
A Sydney press feature quotes a Nova Scotia farmer detailing ten years of wheat yields from 1894 to 1904. He notes starting with 41 63 per acre costs, land cleared by himself, yields ranging up to 16 bushels per acre, and variable rainfall averaging 18 inches with several years recording lower rain. The farmer claims he can cultivate 300 acres alone on easy plough ground and that with adequate rain, good living is possible using modern machinery.
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Sydney
West
Igor
Phosphorus Fires Reported in Tumut District
In the Tumut district, camerase proofs are forthcoming as boshages are said to be caused by phosphorus baits for rabbits. A landholder reports a fire burning in a streak of poisoned pollard. Another saw logs burning after phosphorus was applied nearby.
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Tumut
Pollard Fires Stir Controversy In Grass Paddocks Case
Testimony describes use of pollard as a stick to mix and set grass ablaze. A witness says he extinguished fires started during the action while another claims phosphorus burning risk when grain remains undissolved.
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Wealthy Richmond on Butter Industry Growth and Co operatives
The Brisbane Cownick notes a shift since 1879 to cooperative butter firms led by North Coast Co operative with factories at Lismore and Byron Bay, each 300 tons monthly. Other co ops include Halling Alstonville Coraki Lismore Casino Kyogle Murwillumbah, with Grafton and Lismore houses. Last year North Coast produced 3400 tons and turnover reached 280000. district milk cows numbered 40202, up 31495 in ten years.
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North Coast Co-operative
Dominionwealth
Lismore
Byron Bay
Halling
Alstonville
Coraki
Casino
Kyogle
Murwillumbah Cooperative
Grafton
North Coast Cooperative Butter Company
Crafton
Rous
Brooklet
Hoongalow
Newrybar
Southgate
Woodburn
Richmond River District
Salmagundi notes on local politics and rides in 1905
The column reflects on starting a Democratic newspaper in the district, hints at Aldermanic races and mayoral hopes for 1905, comments on disciplined racing clubs and cycling hazards in metropolis venues, laments dull business, and notes a Braidwood case where Grace Greenwood was fined for absence from service.
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Grace Greenwood
G.R. Williams
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