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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
3
A brief, fragmented OCR snippet from a daily page with scattered capitalized letter groups. No coherent event, names, places, or dates are readable to establish a clear news item or outcome. The readable portion lacks identifiable subjects or actions to summarize into a proper card.
An aged OCR ad claims Pay Footwear priced well below par with stock at many points. It touts no inferior boot but offers good footwear priced lower than any other shoe store in the country.
A fragmented Australian market report shows potato supplies unsettled with river steamers delayed and prices rising. Dry grazing and dairy notes mix with wholesale quotations for wheat, bacon, and millet, highlighting uneven shipping and local demand across New South Wales stations and Sydney markets.
Auction at the Sniper Railway yard presented wide price declines across lucerne hay wheat and maize with some prime lots holding steadier values. Forty four bidders attended as consignors Ellie and Co Prescott and others offered goods while several names and firms appeared among buyers and registrants.
The Royal Commission on Sydney improvements toured Darling Harbor area on Wednesday afternoon. Sydney Harbor Trust president Mr. Hickson explained a resumed gasworks at £460,000 to route a low level road to Sussex, proposing a tunnel from Sussex to George streets. Nearby Day Street wharves were to be timber-blocked, and the new market site near Engine Street was examined.
Thomas Fountain, an ex tram conductor, faced the Magistrate charged with throwing a missile at a tram in Oxford Street Waverley during a strike. He admitted pressing a suspect but denied throwing an egg. Witnesses testified to the incident amid noise and insults. Fountain was fined £3 with a month’s gaol in default and possible perjury action.
Promoter plans private training quarters in an aristocratic Sydney suburb with a large tent and press viewing times. Burns has walked about 18 miles, seats for the bout selling fast in Sydney Auckland and Newcastle, with travel by special trains and steamer arranged. A crowd in Martin Place mobbed the champ’s car. police were called as Burns drew general attention during the visit to the American Consul-General.
The thirty annual Forbes Show opened with mild weather and steady crowds. Exhibits filled the Industrial Hall with farm produce and cattle displays. Notable participants included Reinherdt Bros Wellington Mindra A Rice and others, while Galwaby and Co and Scie Brothers showcased notable items. An excursion train operated, but foreign visitors were scarce this year.
Mr Moore outlined forest reserve revocations and periods of closure from 1905 to 1907. He noted acres affected, including 790 771 acres under review during peak periods. A railway league formed at Thyerell with A C Hoste as secretary to support a railway to Give lamas.
The notice instructs shopkeepers to follow the Early Closing Act during the upcoming holidays. Some will stay open later on Wednesday and Thursday, with altered hours for hairdressers and other shops. Weekly limits of fifty hours and a half holiday are enforced, and the policy applies the following week if Monday the 24th is observed.
At Lithgow judge Racker ordered the closure of several hotels including Railway House Wallerawang, Carriere Arms, Royal Hotel Lithgow, and others. Licences for each were set with varying cessation dates from 1906 to eight years later. The judge criticized local drinking habits among workers and urged spending on home improvement and family welfare.
The middle-aged man pleaded guilty to charges of valuable goods stolen from Mathew Moffett and Matilda Barnes. Police traced the items including towels aprons sheets and tablecloths to Johnson and associates. Evidence showed about six pounds recovered with forty five charges listed and several items identified as property of Finlayson Moffatt and Chinnery. The lower court evidenced the theft from clothiers remains for sentence.
A court session this morning featured speculation on timing as Acinie Rogers and Curt Bistness appeared without the plaintiff. The judge declined to delay, noting no prior notice and urging avoidance of premature conjecture while the case proceeded.
Pilliga Scrub blocks near Narrarri were leased under conditional purchase to 16 applicants from Turkes Wyong Caotamandra Wages Aran ge Bullswa Wee Waa Gnanedah and Carroll. Blocks varied up to 421 acres with rents from £6 to £8 yearly. The board prioritized applicants with known wheat growing plans and allocated blocks 6 22 and 3 accordingly. Demand for heat and wheat irrigation from South Australia Queensland and New South Wales was noted for bridging farmers to the Paxsi families of Pulliam Serb.
Hearing failed in Condobolin equity suit over land sale in Bonth Oat ey parish. Plaintiff Kerr claimed balance and interest, defendants Wheatly and Smith Wheatly argued instalments and pending payments. court addressed possession, transfer timing, and pending sums.
In Arulingen Thurelur the steamer Rowedale from Sydney sits two and a half weeks out, disrupting Coft Harbor visitors and irregular Sydney Fleet work. Travel by coach covers 100 miles to Armidale then rail, while railway deviation debates delay the deputation amid Sydney Tom Gay concerns. Southern mail runs suffer delays of one to eight hours nightly as an inquiry into Richard Blackford’s death at Vale of Clwyd Colliery proceeds with a coroner’s inquest concluding accidental death.
The personal recommendations of people who have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy have spread the product widely across the world. Word of mouth, friend to friend, spreads its reputation in the Commonwealth and even to Australia. The makers do not claim it as a cure-all but say it contains many ingredients money can buy used in domestic medicine.
A traveler in Wellington reports prolonged wet weather led to a severe cold. After staying at the Royal, a friend urged Chamberlains Cough Remedy. A few doses cured the illness fully, and the writer recommends the remedy to others with similar throat or lung troubles.
An ad promises a guaranteed peneficia result after two thirds of a bottle, asserting strong outcomes from consumption. The fragment suggests marketing copy for a health or wellness product with a confidence claim.
A dubious cough remedy notice circulates urging to return the product to the dealer for a refund. The text mocks TL for his alleged cures and cites cowEhs, volds, and croup in a garbled style. The item appears as a damaged consumer alert with unclear provenance and no verifiable claims.
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