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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
10
A veteran jockey tells how Grendon, once trusted, betrayed Vyne Miner by fraud in accounts and by pursuing Vyne’s fiancée Christabel Ludworth. A string of anonymous letters and threats arrives on a day shadowed by a planned wedding and a looming scandal.
Vyne-Miller recounts a long partnership with Maurice Grendon built on years of friendship and shared business ventures. He reflects on how their once close ties now face a troubling rift that marks a turning point in their association and fortunes.
Driscoll, a noted turf degenerate, arrives to discuss important business with Vyne Miller. Once a gentleman, Driscoll sank into gambling and now drifts between high society and racing figures, trading in unstable leaks and warnings from the turf world.
The narrator recounts a plan to regulate horse racing outcomes through collusion with jockeys to fatten wagers. Grendon and a Jewish moneylender are named as leaders. Though the season ends, wagering on future events is already rife and ground-baiting is ongoing for a major haul next year. The only remedy is to crush the affair before it grows. (To Be Continued.)
Botanic Gardens director Mr J H Maiden notes Cape Chestnut near Government House stables and the bright scarlet Christmas tree from New Zealand. Jacaranda and Brunsfelsia americana bloom nearby, with other species like Malope trifida and Pargnetta natalensis in view. The drought stresses small plants but the native border and green-house collection remain active.
Ward Theatre hosted nearly 48 attendees for Holy Cross College Ryde centenary entertainments. Students performed Julius Caesar under W Shaw Montgomer y with scenery by W C Wall and costumes by Mrs Morrison. Music was provided by an orchestra conducted by W J Grieves.
Members of the British Medical Association urged the Minister for Public Instruction to raise the annual salary for qualified women to £200 for the full time position of refterant medical inspector in public schools. England offers higher wages with private practice. The minister declined to fix the salary but promised consideration of full-time service.
Testimonies show immigrants sent to Canada by the Salvation Army are above average. Gov Fraser of Nova Scotia commends the arrivals on Kensington Ionian and Southwark ships locating on farms for study before settlement. Colonel Hammond, Booth's rep, in Australia seeking to negotiate similar immigration programs for Australia.
George Alfred Haydon, who pleaded guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions to stealing seven packets of cigarettes and 2s from John Brettargh's shop in Kogarah, was sentenced to three months in gaol. Wing Sing Lee, 40, was fined 4s or 14 days in prison at the Water Police Court for ill treating a horse at Circular Quay. Henry John Eagledon, from Toowoomba, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 12 months hard labour at Darlinghurst for stealing from Mary Thesing. An appropriation meeting of the Burwood Starr Bowkett Building Society was held at Burwood on December 2 with ballot draws for Nos 179 and 280.
Advertisement notes it is cheaper to have clothing cleaned or dred than to buy new. Rogers Bros stores located at 161 Oxford Street D'Hurst and 175 Georgett opposite the Railway station.
The special Christmas number of the Town and Country Journal goes on sale December 7 priced six pence, featuring color plates, rare illustrations, and stories by English and Australian writers. It includes alpine scenes from Switzerland, Canadian lake studies, Maori life, and a double-page photograph of two girls with a tiger, with extensive literature and poems overall.
At Darlinghurst Sessions Judge Decker presided as Conrad De Belly pleaded guilty to four counts of obtaining money by false pretences and one of theft. David Boorer admitted stealing in a dwelling. Charles Smith and Walter Baker pleaded guilty to dwelling theft at William Norton's in Alexandria. Collins Fletcher admitted malicious damage to a plate glass window owned by Florence Sun and, with Agnes Fraser, to receiving stolen property.
Miss Grace Milburn nurse and Misa Cathe rinee Dusell sister at Coast Hospital have resigned. Miss Marie Narelle and company entertained at Condobolin Hall on Wednesday evening. attendance was among district’s largest and takings set a record.
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