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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 12, 1902
Page
7
The scene follows two men planning a staged crime to mislead authorities. They discuss manipulating a dead body, stealing valuables, and delaying discovery while a doctor’s ruse is crafted. Bil is groomed to act out a cover story for an alibi.
A South Western Sanitary Laundry delivery is intercepted and moved fast away. Bil hides the loot after a late night haul with Long Harry. Back home Bil lies to his wife while planning a bigger fortune and rests after breakfast.
Letters to the Evening News from John Ashton urge authorities to address heavy dust and odor on Bridge Road Glebe. Residents complain of health concerns and neglect by local representatives, noting salt water watering and requests for urgent redress. They plan to petition if needed.
An 1860s style ad copy touts Cadbury's Cocoa as possessing valuable flesh forming qualities and strength enhancing powers. It also mentions Woods Great Peppermint Cure as a cough and cold remedy from 1964, highlighting health claims and invincible cure language.
At Baker's Creek Mine fifteen stampers crush ore full time while an extra line samples unworked stopes. E Symington and partners open 4 blocks above No 1 level on Big Reef with first crushings yielding 16 dwt gold from 2–3 tons. Crosscuts advance on No 14 and No 10 levels reveal new payable reef with solid quartz and visible fine gold. No 6 and No 11 levels prepare for further reef exploitation. Garibaldi Mine workers bag antimony ore for shipment to Sydney. No 2 shaft and plant upgrades planned. At Elephora Mine details follow.
Over fifty men arrested in the Walker Street raid on April 20 appeared before the North Sydney Court again yesterday to answer charges of being found in a common gambling house. Arthur Waterhouse, 27, boatbuilder, faced a charge of conducting the gambling house on the occasion. Previously they had been in court three times over the same charges, with a remand granted on May 29 pending an appeal.
Letter to the editor denounces Edgeclife Woollahra telephone exchange for poor housing and high costs. Notes revenue near £23,000 yearly, 21 attendants on contracts, and a wooden 12 by 12 shack in a back yard. Calls residents to protest before summer heat worsens conditions. Also reports Darlinghurst Sessions verdicts and Pennant Hills progress.
The Evening News reports a large jewellery theft on Mowbray Road Chatswood with rings bracelets watches and brooches valued at £100. The thief allegedly remorseful returned the items the next night wrapped in a newspaper at the residence. A junior domestic servant was arrested but discharged after the owner refused to prosecute.
A Drummoyne ratepayer commends council for pressing Mr O Sullivan on water and sewerage costs but warns of delays since a years old sewerage survey. He urges Parliament to push drainage projects and railway questions while noting rising population and future health risks. August 1 A Baxter-Watt.
Mr E. J. Vautio and Mr J. Osborne met the Attorney General to raise issues about public servants. They questioned the legality of new regulations canceling increments for tested officers and proposed an Amending Bill to grant railway staff a gratuity if they stopped contributing. The group noted 2200 circulars, 674 replies, 200 willing to withdraw, and 1654 to be refunds, affecting £21,500. Wise will draft the bill and discuss with the Premier.
Details show the Coronation carnival at Exhibition Building Melbourne expected to realise 1400 pounds net. A Tamworth engineer Mr Pridham urged a pumping scheme near Paradise Garden. In Sydney, Bell sued Foster and Company for 50 pounds for cedar pieces. court awarded Bell 1196 4? over payments and costs.
Herbert M Mahon the youth who fell from a Bligh Street upper window is recovering at Sydney Hospital. He regained consciousness and gave depositions with Police Subinspector Mitchell present. Police detained another young man amid statements suggesting intentional removal, but M Mahon's account does not support a foul play theory.
In Lithgow and Hermitage last week the coal trade improved after a slack period. One Eskbank sheet mill ran five shifts, the big mill five shifts, and the merchant mill six shifts. Several miners remain idle but openings are hoped to reduce the minimum.
The annual ball organized by Liverpool residents raised £75 3s 6d for St Anne's Orphanage. A Darlinghurst court heard a young man confess to robbing a hotelkeeper and others, while Liverpool Council declined water board costs for a stand-pipe at Green Valley. Public Service Association election results listed multiple department representatives. Office and Bulk Stores of Helidon Space advertised sleep-related products in Bulletin-lane listings.
Sydney readers are told dealers may sell Chamberlain's Cough Remedy with a two thirds bottle guarantee refund if not as represented. The remedy targets acute throat and lung disease including colds influenza croup and whooping cough and is said to prevent pneumonia. It is suitable for adults and children and has a 30 year guarantee. Sold at 1s 6d by doctors and chemists.
An Australian native argues that the Tramway Employees Union seeks control over tramway management. He notes they have gained 96 hours per fortnight and urges government arbitration, contrasts with Melbourne’s 60 hour week, uniforms, and passes, and calls for the Commissioners to run railways without government interference.
A letter to city aldermen questions Major Carnew's report on electrical tender by J G White and Co Ltd of London. It argues the plant is mostly British with some German parts and warns against isolation harming imperial trade, citing Britain Germany and Australia trade figures.
A correspondent defends Sir Edward Hutton against a critical article by "Q" in a contemporary paper. The letter argues the commander’s staff is not personal, supports compulsory retirement to refresh promotions, and dismisses decentralisation as nonsense, urging reasoned military understanding.
The report notes progress on a weir project across the Nepean with expectations of success. Funding is stated as 550 pounds rather than 25. Port authorities forward vague telegrams about Tokyo Yokohama Osaka routes and disrupted messages. A Queensland Premier proposal for a landgrant railway from Barnoque NSW to Port Darwin faces no consideration from Midlterer for Railways as relayed by Mr Phip.
Warner’s Safe Cure claimed to treat all kidney and liver ailments by removing poisons from the blood. The ad linked kidney and liver failure to rheumatism gout neuralgia headaches anemia and other conditions and asserted the medicine targeted the source to restore health.
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