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Newspaper
Sydney Evening News
Location
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
6
An Evening News reporter learns Mrs. Wade the Premier of New South Wales is seriously ill at her Wahroonga home. A trained nurse attends while the family endures ongoing illness and the Premier faces added strain from a son in a Sydney hospital with grave eye trouble. Abs Wade's condition remains anxious.
The Cont inental Rubber Company hosts a Motor Cycle Reliability Trial on Monday next from Goulburn to Sydney. Entries include riders and machine types such as Minerva, Triumph, Rex, F.N., Sarolea, and Motosocoche with varying horsepower and several Crookwell participants. Attendance at 77 Market Street is noted as evening close.
Announcements include a loving memory for Wille Eugene with uncles Jack and Michael Horigan, a funeral procession for Mrs. Richard Jurd from St. Vincent's Hospital to Waverley, and a string of property listings by Arthur Rickard and Co Ltd. plus ads for insecticides and building materials.
NSW wheat trade activity shows sales of old milling wheat at around 34s a bushel in Sydney and occasional December delivery wheat at similar rates, with Adelaide reporting higher prices for new wheat and Melbourne noting early delivery. Weathered crops in Temora reduce yield by about four bushels per acre. broad beans rise in demand while onions and potatoes adjust on shipments. prices for flour, bran, and other grains remain stiffened by market conditions and regional quotes.
Heavy supplies at the Sydney Railway Goods Shed produced weaker prices at the produce auction. Demand was dull as trucks of chaff to A M Dermott were booked low. Fresh lots yarded 47 truckloads, only 4 sold. lucerne hay and hay varieties sold slowly. Major consignors included Ellis and Company, H M Sutter, Prescott, J Bridge and Company, and A M Dermott among others.
The report lists FIRST ELEVEN players M A Noble A Cotter H Carter and E Gregory with teammates, SHOU D ELEVEN led by A Diamend and A Hubb, and METHOPOLITAN ELEVEN featuring J KK M Alakay plus Taylor Suk Wollies and others, plus BOLYHEEN DISTRI TS with J Loughnane and J Boyd among many players from Orange Lucknow Grange Higga and Sydney.
A readable OCR list names many athletes by district including LEICHHARDT MOSMAN NEWTOWN PETERSHAM REDFERN and UNIVERSITY groups. Entries include Coyle Cuckson Daley Hall Henderson Janes Lewis Moore Slocombe Walker O'Reilly Walker Sheath Phillips Win slow Anderson Stephane Cooper Leod MIDDLE HARBOR G C Calvert Cochrane Cropper Lough Lowe Dating Wein Wilkins Wool MOSMAN Hooker Chapman Parsons Bath Moore Bowden Harris Holt Weesi Auer NEWTOWN Langley Carroll Mills Saggers Nobinsem Wells Bran Weare Wilson Grown Shipway Foster E Weare F Wilson T Grown Shipway Foster Bran REDFERN Hume Hanigan Nell Hoberts Millan Riddell Riddell Grummell Doody Weeden Trethewey UNIVERSITY Clayton Williams Debenhamm Masse Pisher Watem Macintosh Giltinan Broughten
A fragment lists players for Balmain Burwood Gordon Widdle Harbor Mosman Newtown Petersham and University squads with abbreviations and managers omitted. Names include Beveridge Duncan Farnell Inglis Joyce Peterson and Jardine Hinwood Way Yuill Davenport Thompesn Wallace Somerville Lee Jardine Foster Almar Richart Robinson Hogdson Wright Herbert Read and others.
At Redfern Police Court engineer Cecil Aubrey Vernon aged 29 was committed for trial on alleged false representations connected to the Eden Wharf project. The case mentions a plan to expend over £700 on the wharf at Eden Twofold Bay including sheds a wharf tram and vertical fenders.
A detailed listing of horses and weights for the V. R. C. Carnival including the Spring Handicap at 1 mile, Fremington Stakes at 5 furlongs, and other events with entries such as Bobby, The Brewer, Vavasor, Pendil, Amut, Apple Pie, and many others across races like the Trafalgar and Mildymore cards.
Staff gathered for the annual reunion at Clifton Gardens on a fine day. Attendees included directors and managers from the North Coast Company and Illawarra Company, with tributes to loyalty. Races followed a luncheon program, naming winners in Boys under 18 and other events, and Captain Nelson led the 100 yards capture race.
Mr. Brodie chief inspector of fisheries visited the Goodradigbee on opening day November 1 to assess trout season flow and fishing. Anglers from Sydney and Yass reported fair catches with 1%4lb fish using claret quill and Hardy’s favorite. fishing improves upstream toward larger fish. The stream, stocked from Eripda bella stock above the junction, shows strong breeding and will yield bigger trout once Barren Jack reservoir is completed. Cautions were given to avoid spoon and illegal gear like the ereun flash. spawning cod waters are closed until December.
North Newtown Public School hosted a Thursday night concert at Oddfellows Hall Wilson Street Newtown. Principal W Jones directed with Miss B Julian Mrs Keough and others assisting. The program featured The Doll's Wedding operetta maypole dance songs and tableaux with the children performing skillfully under expert supervision.
About 20 shooters attended a £1 pigeon match at Bathurst Gun Club on Thursday. After rounds of eliminations prizes totaling £60 were shared by M. Crowhurst, W. Jaspreszo, R. Ford, J. Quinn, and others, with later £25 and £35 segments distributed among remaining competitors. Sweepstakes winners included J. Laughlin, E. Mintosh, A. McDonald, and L. M’Intosh among several others, across five events.
The schooner Eunice arrived in Sydney from Bavelock New Zealand carrying 130000 feet of timber. A rough voyage damaged its foretopmast. Timber is consigned to the Union Box Company.
A quirky note reports Wade may halt promotional sweeps while Mrs Maclurcan's cough cure remains active offering relief from coughs colds and influenza amid ongoing Tung and threat concerns. Chemists everywhere monitor developments as the market shift unfolds.
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