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Newspaper
Queenscliff Sentinel
Location
Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1885
Page
3
The Queenscliffe Sentinel notes General Printing in first class style with quick despatch and moderate price. The Advertising Department guarantees careful work and special inducements for large advertisements and low rates.
In June 1874 the narrator receives a London commission to back a horse, Lily Agnes, to win £1000. He publicly bets £20 to £200 on the filly, wins the Northumberland Plate at 6 to 4, and faces repayment pressure from bookmakers as his London partner repays him. He settles £200 with the bookmaker and gains a ring gift from the man, noting the moral balance of gambling and personal gratitude.
The account centers on a local race meeting where Byzantium faced strong opposition and Heirloom was seen as a cook. A gambler recounts laying heavy bets with Benwell and other operators, predicting the outcome and noting Flatcatcher won after strategic moves. The piece also touches on a frontier settlement near Minnesota during a time of Indian threat and a rescuer delivering news of danger.
Satirical column pokes fun at war causes and European conflicts with mock seriousness. It includes jokes about German sausages, a spoof betting scene, and absurd plans like a Porpoise Sausage Company and an International Protectorate proposal for New Guinea.
A township resident recalls a tame parrot that provoked a dog to strike. While both men sat on the porch last summer a pointer leapt at the bird, the dog leaped back, and after a three minute standoff the parrot taunted him and the dog fled. Since then the dog will not point at a bird.
A young man arrested for stealing a watch tells the court he was raised in Ballarat with honest habits. The magistrate interrupts, suggesting he could regain lost opportunities by getting drunk, then discharges him.
A humorous report from the Soudan describes a New South Wales contingent in a mock advance. Soldiers march in, misfire with a joke about drinks, and the unit rests after a long day, promising more news when they wake.
A sister is in danger at Ava and a boy named Robert vows to warn them. He floats downriver hidden in a tree-top at dusk, passing Indian sentries and river watchers as the besieged fight back, hoping to reach Ava with warning.
Poem fragment contrasts cruel gaze and social mockery with tender care for a girl shamed by her oversized feet. It laments prying eyes and pity for a life marked by judgment, family strain, and inherited stigma. A separate line notes a child swallowing a sovereign and a stomach pump procedure with coins returned.
In the barracks Dennis patrols for lights after a night of drinking. He shouts out lights to No 7, but the window opens and a voice reveals the moonlight. Dennis relents to the prank as others mock him, promising a long memory of the incident.
The excerpt traces a humorous sequence of courtship steps from glances to a wedding. It humorously counts pairings of actions leading to a marriage, ending with two weddings producing four happy or repentant people.
A terse exchange contrasts a Ratibid Radical with a quiet gentleman on class and birth. The radical claims all men are equal regardless of birth, while the gentleman retorts that equality is an accidental difference never affecting him.
The passage riffs on a life in drink from first resolve to final oblivion. It chronicles seven stages of intoxication with playful rhymes and vivid, if imperfect, phrasing, tracing a man through steadiness to staggered decline and eventual childish oblivion.
At a mayoral dinner Mel bourne cites Julius Caesars Veni Vidi Vici as the shortest despatch on record. Sir Charles Napier allegedly sent a briefer note, with the cabinet puzzled by its meaning until a dictionary reveals Pec cavi I have sinned in Scinde.
Collage of quirky notes from a bustling town with tales of fashion, mischief, and odd sayings. References to a Gippsland lake shooting, a six month term for stealing a pin, and a Chinese editor fuel humor about editors and journalists. A lighthearted tour through local life and banter.
A collage of humorous lines and quips about editors, balloonists, poets, lovers, and everyday mishaps. Snippets mention editors stockpiling lies, a balloon ascent, eggs and lectures, a clerk's rail journey, and a Melbourne romance with satire on temperament and language.
The passage notes strategy resembles ideas and cites Feane and Zulficar seized by the retrograde movement. It suggests Mr. Gladstone and Lord Granville would view it as resembling Back-Gammon in approach and outcome.
The text depicts a small island described as snug and tight with reference to a person named Madhi who lives in a warm Nile land. It emphasizes the island’s charm and a sense of tardiness in catching something or someone.
A reported tale says a farmer's wife gave birth to four baby girls on the 10th. Contemporary intelligence adds the father now shows insanity symptoms, prompting worry in the neighborhood.
An ex commercial traveller in the city fell four stories from an elevator. He struggled to rise, muttered confused lines about travelling with Jack Woodbrake, then appeared ecstatic before fading again. Details are sparse and fragmentary.
A curious exchange in a Tun shows a thirteen year old teasing the editor about tooth size. The girl Missie recounts a visitor who boasted about his teeth and claimed to “take a 1” and drank nearly half a tumbler without spilling.
Henry Martini hired a horse from a Geelong livery keeper and rode it over seven miles in just over eleven minutes. The incident sparked talk of cruelty to horses and a possible Melbourne Cup warning. The fine is expected to deter others from similar reckless speed on others' mounts.
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